Chapter 7_Pricing Flashcards
What is the pricing?
Valued placed on that which is an exchange
What are the internal factors need to be considered as setting the price
- Marketing objective (survival, current profit max, market share, product quality
- Marketing mix strategy, the strategy must match your product
- Cost, including fixed variable(labour cost), total marginal (cost produce one unit)
- organization consideration
Cost Curve
Cumulative production goes up, cost per unit go down
What are the external factors that need to be considered as setting the price?
- Pricing in different markets
- Consumer perceptions of price and value.3
- Price e
what is the reference price?
The price you set based on these factors:
• Fair price (what consumers feel the product should cost)
• Typical price
• Lastpricepaid
• Upper bound price (max consumer would pay)
• Lower bound price (minimum consumer would pay)
• Historicalcompetitorprices
• Expected future price
• Usualdiscountedprice
inelastic demand and elastic demand
Inelastic demand: price down, revenue down (table salt)
Elastic demand: price down, revenue up.(black Friday stuff)
What thing can shift the demand curve?
Promotion and other non-price variables wil shift the demand curve
How to determine if a product is price elastic or inelastic demand?
calculate value of “e”:
P1 = $10, Q1 = 100 Units; P1 X Q 1 = $1000 (Revenue)
P2 = $5, Q2 = 150 Units; P2 X Q2 = $750 (Revenue)
if P1Q1 more than P2Q2, then the product is price inelastic.
What are the effects on total revenue of price for elasticity?
if e>-1, then inelastic, revenue will go down as total price go down.
if e
How to estimate elasticity of product?
Statistic method (check selling and profit data, conduct regression analysis)
Experimentation includes field and laboratory (manipulate the price, see the effect)(pay people to shop, see the effect)
Direct consumer questioning (survey)
Judgmental Estimates (ask experts)
If has few/no consumers, what is the elasticity of price?
Product becomes inelastic
If buyers do not readily notice higher price, what is the elasticity of price?
Product becomes inelastic
If buyers are slow to change buying habits & lower prices
Product becomes inelastic
Buyers think higher prices are justified by improvements, normal inflation
Product becomes inelastic
Law factors that inllegal for price setting
Price Fixing (agreement of price with big business)
• Resale Price Maintenance (have to set MSRP)
• Price Discrimination (expensive for the small retailer )
• Minimum Pricing (determined by cost, lowering price to undermine the competition, that’s illegal)
• Price Increases (as long as consumer willing to pay, there is price ceiling)
What is deceptive pricing?
Double the price and put the sale sign on product is illegal. selling price must be lower than its original price.
Complain to Federal trade commission.