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Chapter Eight
Pricing
Learning Objectives
When you finish this chapter you should:
1. Discuss the importance of understanding customer value perceptions when setting prices.
2. Identify and define the other important external and internal factors affecting a firm’s pricing decisions.
3. Describe the major strategies for pricing imitative and new products.
4. Discuss how companies adjust their prices to take into account different types of customers and situations.
Chapter Outline
Price
Factors to Consider When Setting Prices:
Customer perceptions of value,
Product costs,
Internal-external considerations.
Pricing strategies:
New product pricing strategies,
Product mix pricing strategies,
Price-adjustment strategies,
Price changes.
Public policy and pricing
Price
Price is the amount of money charged for a product or service, or the sum of all the values that customers give up in order to gain the benefits of having or using a product or service.
Factors to Consider When Setting Prices:
Customer perceptions of value:
Considerations in Setting Price
Customer perceptions of value Other internal and external considerations Product costs
Price ceiling
No demand above this price Marketing strategy, objectives, and mix
Nature of the market and demand
Competitors’ strategies and prices Price floor
No profits below this price
Value-based pricing
Cost-based pricing
Good-value pricing
Value-added pricing
Cost-plus Pricing
Break-even analysis and target profit pricing Fixed costs
Variable costs
Total costs
Costs at Different Levels of Production
Costs as a Function of Production Experience
Pricing strategies
New product pricing strategies:
Market-skimming Pricing
Market-penetration Pricing
Product Mix Pricing Strategies:
Strategy Description
Product line pricing
Optional-product pricing
Captive-product pricing
By-product pricing
Product bundle pricing Setting prices across an entire product line
Pricing optional or accessory products sold with the main produ