Monthly Archives: April 2011

Airline pricing – good or bad?

Some people (typically economists) love airline pricing and think that flexible, demand-based prices should be applied to all sorts of things (such as restaurants, in this posting from Rafi Mohammed). After all, if there’s a shortage of something (Saturday night … Continue reading

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How not to set your prices

Procter & Gamble and Unilever have been fined 315 million euros for price-fixing. There are much more imaginative (and legal!) ways to maintain a price premium than this. Product innovation enables price differentiation; increasing the perceived value of your product … Continue reading

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How many litres in a pint again?

Spotted in my local grocery store. What a great bargain. Update: perhaps they saw my posting, because prices have now been adjusted to… …removing the last possible theoretically valid argument for this pricing structure. When asked about the rationale behind … Continue reading

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Attitudes to price fairness

A very typical message from someone on twitter…  Not typical because I only follow people who talk about pricing, and anyone who says I do is lying… …but typical because fairness is a deeply ingrained norm in pricing, and … Continue reading

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Generous offer…?

To be honest, it just makes me suspicious.

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New research: *.99 no longer optimal for prices

The blog has been quiet for a while. I can now tell you the reason for this: I’ve been working on an intensive research project for the last couple of months. The Inon Pricing Research Centre has partnered with three … Continue reading

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