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Developing PricingStrategies and Programs

Marketing Management, 13th ed

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Copyright © 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall 14-2

Chapter Questions

• How do consumers process and evaluateprices?

• How should a company set prices initially forproducts or services?

• How should a company adapt prices to meetvarying circumstances and opportunities?

• When should a company initiate a pricechange?

• How should a company respond to acompetitor’s price challenge?


Gillette Commands aPrice Premium

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Synonyms for Price

• Rent• Tuition• Fee• Fare• Rate• Toll• Premium• Honorarium

• Special assessment• Bribe• Dues• Salary• Commission• Wage• Tax


Common Pricing Mistakes

• Determine costs and take traditional industrymargins

• Failure to revise price to capitalize on marketchanges

• Setting price independently of the rest of themarketing mix

• Failure to vary price by product item, marketsegment, distribution channels, andpurchase occasion


Consumer Psychologyand Pricing

Reference Prices

Price-quality inferences

Price endings

Price cues

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Table 14.1 Possible ConsumerReference Prices

• “Fair price”• Typical price• Last price paid• Upper-bound price

• Lower-bound price• Competitor prices• Expected future

price• Usual discounted

price


Table 14.2 Consumer Perceptions vs.Reality for Cars

Overvalued Brands• Land Rover• Kia• Volkswagen• Volvo• Mercedes

Undervalued Brands• Mercury• Infiniti• Buick• Lincoln• Chrysler


Tiffany’sPrice-Quality Relationship

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Price Cues

• “Left to right” pricing ($299 vs. $300)• Odd number discount perceptions• Even number value perceptions• Ending prices with 0 or 5• “Sale” written next to price


When to Use Price Cues

• Customerspurchase iteminfrequently

• Customers are new• Product designs

vary over time• Prices vary

seasonally• Quality or sizes vary

across stores


Steps in Setting Price

Select the price objective

Determine demand

Estimate costs

Analyze competitor price mix

Select pricing method

Select final price

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Step 1: Selecting the Pricing Objective

• Survival• Maximum current

profit• Maximum market

share• Maximum market

skimming• Product-quality

leadership


Step 2: Determining Demand

Price Sensitivity

EstimatingDemand Curves

Price Elasticityof Demand


Figure 14.2 Inelasticand Elastic Demand

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Table 14.3 Factors Leading to LessPrice Sensitivity

• The product is more distinctive• Buyers are less aware of substitutes• Buyers cannot easily compare the quality of substitutes• The expenditure is a smaller part of buyer’s total income• The expenditure is small compared to the total cost of

the end product• Part of the cost is paid by another party• The product is used with previously purchased assets• The product is assumed to have high quality and

prestige• Buyers cannot store the product


Step 3: Estimating Costs

Types of Costs

Target Costing

AccumulatedProduction

Activity-BasedCost Accounting


Cost Terms and Production

• Fixed costs• Variable costs• Total costs• Average cost• Cost at different

levels ofproduction

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Figure 14.4 Cost per Unit as aFunction of Accumulated Production


9 Lives Uses Target Costing


Step 5: Selecting a Pricing Method

• Markup pricing• Target-return pricing• Perceived-value

pricing• Value pricing• Going-rate pricing• Auction-type pricing

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Figure 14.6 Break-Even Chart


Auction-Type Pricing

English auctions

Dutch auctions

Sealed-bid auctions


Step 6: Selecting the Final Price

• Impact of othermarketing activities

• Company pricingpolicies

• Gain-and-risk sharingpricing

• Impact of price onother parties

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Price-Adaptation Strategies

Geographical Pricing

Discounts/Allowances

Differentiated Pricing

Promotional Pricing


Price-Adaptation Strategies

Countertrade• Barter• Compensation deal• Buyback

arrangement• Offset

Discounts/ Allowances• Cash discount• Quantity discount• Functional discount• Seasonal discount• Allowance


Promotional Pricing Tactics

• Loss-leader pricing• Special-event pricing• Cash rebates• Low-interest financing• Longer payment terms• Warranties and service

contracts• Psychological

discounting

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Differentiated Pricing

• Customer-segmentpricing

• Product-form pricing• Image pricing• Channel pricing• Location pricing• Time pricing• Yield pricing


Table 14.6 Profits Before and After aPrice Increase


Increasing Prices

Delayed quotation pricing

Escalator clauses

Unbundling

Reduction of discounts

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Brand Leader Responses toCompetitive Price Cuts

• Maintain price• Maintain price and add value• Reduce price• Increase price and improve quality• Launch a low-price fighter line


Marketing Debate

Is the right price a fair price?

Take a position:1. Prices should reflect the value thatconsumers are willing to pay.

or

2. Prices should primarily just reflect the costinvolved in making a product.


Marketing Discussion

Think of all the pricing methodsdescribed in the chapter.

As a consumer, which pricing methoddo you personally prefer to deal with?

Why?

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