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Pricing
Term | Definition |
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Deceptive Pricing | False advertising or deceptive advertising is the use of false or misleading statements in advertising |
Bait-and-Switch Advertising | First, customers are baited by advertising for a product or service at a low price; second the customers discover that the advertised good is not available or the sales person disparages the advertised item and customers are switched to a costlier product |
Loss-Leader pricing | A product sold at a low price (at cost or below cost) to stimulate other profitable sales. It is a kind of sales promotion, in other words marketing concentrating on a pricing stategy |
Price Discrimination | Occurs when a firm charges different prices to similar customers in similar situations |
Clayton Antitrust act of 1914 | Defines price discrimination as creating unfair competition |
Robinson-Patman Act | Passed in 1936 to strengthen the Clayton act, prohibits sellers from offering one customer one price and another customer a different price if both are buying the same product in similar situations |
Price Fixing | Is an agreement among competitors to raise, fix, or otherwise maintain the price at which their goods and services are sold, price fixing is illegal |
Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 | Federal law against price fixing, which outlawed monopolies |
Predatory Pricing | Is the practice of selling a product or service at a very low price, intending to drive competitors out of the market |
Dumping | Is the practice of any kind of predatory pricing, especially in the context of international trade |
Resale Price Maintenance | Manufacturers try to force retailers to sell their products at a certain price, and if the retailer dropped the price too low, the manufacturer would punish the retailer by withholding the merchandise or refusing agreed upon discounts |
Pricing Decisions | Must consider transportation, production, and selling costs |
Price | What the customer pays for the product/service |
Cost | Expense that a business has for the product/service |