Chapter 10 Flashcards
What is a price?
The amount of money charged for a product or service. The price is the sum of all values that customers give up to gain benefits of having or using a product or service
What does ceiling mean?
A customer’s perceptions of a product’s value set the ceiling for prices. If customers perceive the price is greater than the product’s value, they will not buy the product
What does floor mean?
Product costs set the floor for prices. If a company prices a product below its costs, the company profits will suffer
What does effective customer-oriented pricing involve?
Understanding how much value consumers place on benefits they receive from a product and setting a price that captures this value
What are the steps involved in value-based pricing?
- Company first assesses customer needs and value perceptions
- Then sets target price based on customer perceptions of value
- Pricing begins with analyzing consumer needs and value perceptions, and the price is set to match consumers’ perceived value
What is good-value pricing?
Offering just the right combination of quality and good service at a fair price. It involves introducing less expensive versions of brand-name products
What is an important type of good-value pricing?
Everyday low pricing (EDLP)
What is everyday low pricing?
EDLP involves charging constant, everyday low-price with a few or no temporary discounts
What is high-low pricing?
Involves charging higher prices on an everyday basis but running frequent promotions to lower prices temporarily on selected items
What is value-added pricing?
Attaching value-added features and services to differentiate a company’s offers and charge higher prices
What is cost-based pricing?
Setting prices based on the cost for producing, distributing, and selling a product plus fair rate of return for effort and risk
What are fixed costs?
Costs that do not vary with production or sales level
What are variable costs?
Vary directly with level of production
What is total costs?
Sum of the fixed and variable costs for any given level of production
What is cost-plus pricing?
Adding standard mark-up to the cost of a product
What is break-even pricing?
Setting a price to break even on the costs of making and marketing a product, or setting a price to make a target return
What is competition based pricing?
Involves setting prices based on competitors’ strategies, costs, prices, and market offerings
What is target costing?
Pricing that starts with ideal selling price and then targets costs that will ensure the price is met
Who sets the prices in a small company?
Top management
Who sets the prices in a large company?
Divisional or product line managers
What is pure competition?
Market consists of many buyers and sellers trading in uniform commodity such as wheat, copper, or financial securities
What is monopolistic competition?
Market consists of many buyers and sellers who trade over a range of prices rather than a single market price
What is oligopolistic competition?
Market consists of a few sellers who are highly sensitive to each other’s pricing and marketing strategies