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What is the definition of price?
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The amount of money charged for a product or service
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What is the customer value-based pricing strategy?
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Choosing a price based on the perceptions of the buyers, rather than based on the sellers' costs
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What is the good value pricing strategy?
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- Offering the right combination of quality and service at a good price
- Includes EDLP and high-low pricing
- Includes EDLP and high-low pricing
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What is EDLP pricing?
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Everyday Low Pricing; charging a constant low price everyday with little or no discount
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What is High-Low pricing?
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Charging higher prices but offering more promotions on certain items
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What is the value-added pricing strategy?
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Attaching value-added features and services to differentiate one company's offering from another, and charging higher prices, rather than cutting prices to match its competitors
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What is the cost-based pricing strategy?
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Setting prices based on the costs of producing and selling the product
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What are fixed costs?
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They are costs that do not vary with production or sales level; price is constant no matter what
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What are variable costs?
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They are costs that vary directly with the level of production
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What are total costs?
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The sum of fixed and variable costs
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What is cost-plus (markup) pricing?
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Adding a standard markup to the cost of the product
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What is break-even (target return) pricing?
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Setting the price at a point to break even on the cost of making and marketing a product or setting the price to make a target return
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What is competition-based pricing?
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Setting prices based on the strategies of competitors, prices, costs, and overall market offerings
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What is pure competition?
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No buyer or seller really affects the market/pricing
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What is monopolistic competition?
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- Many buyers and sellers trading over a range of prices, rather than one single market price
- In this market, companies will use branding or advertising to set their offering apart from the others
- In this market, companies will use branding or advertising to set their offering apart from the others
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What is oligopolistic competition?
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- When there are a few large sellers who are alert to each other
- Pricing becomes a major tool here
- Pricing becomes a major tool here
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What is a pure monopoly?
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When there is one seller (ex. The Post Office)
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What is a demand curve?
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A curve that shows the number of units a market will buy in a given time period
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What is price elasticity?
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A measure of how sensitive demand is to changes in price
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What is significant about inelastic?
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Price does not change
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What is significant about elastic?
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Price changes