Chapter 8 - Done Flashcards
What is price?
Value exchanged for a product in a marketing transaction (most flexible element of marketing mix)
What is pricing?
The management of price
What is the primary pricing objective?
- The key to successful marketing lies in the creation of a mutually beneficial exchange of value between one party and another
- For the buyer, the benefit is the satisfaction derived from the consumption or ownership of the product
- For the seller, the benefit is primarily the revenue derived from purchases
What is bartering?
The direct exchange of goods and services in payment for other goods and services
What are the pricing objectives?
Profitability Long-term Prosperity/On-going survival Market Share Positioning What the customer is prepared to pay
What is Profitability?
- Profits are generated when total revenues exceed total costs
- The profit required to justify the investment in a particular product or project is known as the target return on investment, or ROI, and it is a common basis for pricing decisions
What is Long-term Prosperity?
- Profitability over the long term leads to greater total wealth for business owners than does maximizing short‐term profits at the expense of the future of the business
- Profitability over the long term leads to greater total wealth for business owners than does maximizing short‐term profits at the expense of the future of the business
What is Market Share?
Many businesses use aggressive pricing in an effort to increase or defend market share
* Major car companies such as Toyota, Holden, Ford and Mazda use aggressive pricing to increase and defend market share in particular market categories, as well as overall market share
What is Positioning?
- Consumers often compare competing products based on price, and to some extent this assessment can occur relatively independently of other product attributes
- Customers interpret price differently
What is not-for-profit pricing?
While they do not seek to make a profit, they do generally seek a return on their activities and many charge for their products
* Their objective may be to make sufficient funds to cover their activities
What is comparison discounting?
The practice of explicitly quoting a discounted price and the regular higher price together
What is bait pricing?
Establishing an artificially low price for one item in a product line to attract potential buyers, then trying to sell them a higher‐priced item in the product line
What is bait-and-switch?
Occurs when the seller has no intention of selling the lower‐priced item and merely uses the ‘bait’ price as a pretext to lure shoppers into the store, then ‘switches’ to the normally priced items
What is price discrimination?
Occurs when price differentials between business customers give one business customer an unfair advantage over another, thus reducing competition
When are price differentials legal?
- When they do not adversely affect competition
- When they arise because of differences in the costs of selling or transportation to various customers
- When they arise because a supplier has to cut its price to a particular buyer to meet a competitor’s prices
- When they relate to volume discounts
What is secondary market pricing?
Involves setting different prices for different target markets
What should be considered when the pricing method is selected?
- The price should reflect the needs and the capacity of the consumers in the market
- Additionally, it should adhere to the customer’s perceptions of the product and should not exceed or be under it
What is demand-based pricing?
Setting prices according to the level of aggregate or individual customer demand in the market
What is a demand schedule?
A table that shows the actual or estimated quantity demanded for a particular product at particular prices
What is a demand curve?
The plotted version of a demand schedule is known as the demand curve
What does the demand curve for a prestige product look like?
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What is ceterus paribus?
“Holding everything else constant”
How are demand curve shifts shown?
- A shift in the demand curve to the right will mean that more of the product will be sold at every price than before
- A shift in the demand curve to the left will mean that less of the product will be sold at every price than before
What is price elasticity of demand?
The sensitivity of the quantity demanded to changes in price = (% change in demand)/(% change in price)
When is demand elastic and inelastic?
- Demand is said to be price elastic if ed is greater than 1 (i.e. if the percentage change in the quantity demanded exceeds the percentage change in the price)
- Demand is said to be price inelastic if ed is less than 1 (i.e. if the percentage change in the quantity demanded is less than the percentage change in price)
What does the slope of the curve show?
- When a price elastic demand curve is relatively horizontal, it illustrates that a small change in price leads to a proportionally larger change in volume
- When a price inelastic demand curve is relatively vertical, it illustrates that a large change in price leads to a proportionally smaller change in quantity
What are fixed costs?
Costs which do not vary with changes in output
What are variable costs?
Costs, which do vary with changes in output