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Price Adjustment Strategies

&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad1" id&equals;"quads-ad1" style&equals;"float&colon;left&semi;margin&colon;0px 0px 0px 0&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">The price adjustment strategies relate to all the strategies implemented by an organization that takes into account the differences between customers and rapidly changing&period; The price adjustment strategies are&colon; geographical pricing&comma; psychological prices&comma; segmented prices&comma; promotional prices&comma; international prices&comma; supply and pricing of allowances&period; The explanation of these strategies is as follows&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3>Discount and allowance pricing<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>Several companies offer discounts and bonuses in their basic price to reward customers for their specific responses&period; Discounts can take many forms&comma; such as cash discount which give the buyer a discount if paid before the due date of payment&period; Similarly there is a quantity discount on the purchase of products in large quantities&period; For example the price of a shirt is &dollar; 5&comma; but if the buyer purchases two shirts&comma; then the price is &dollar; 4 per shirt&period; Other functional forms off discount &lpar;which is given to channel members by the seller to perform certain functions&rpar; and the discount season &lpar;in which discount is given to buyers to purchase goods off-season&rpar;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3>Segmented Pricing<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>Companies use segmented pricing to charge different prices to buyers on the basis of differences in customers&comma; products and places&period; Some of the major forms of price fixing are targeted customer segment&comma; the shape of the product price&comma; location&comma; etc&period; Low price pricing segment of customers&comma; firms charge different prices to different customers&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&lbrack;adsense&rsqb;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>For example&comma; students pay less for tickets of the soccer match compared with other citizens&period; For prices to a product&comma; customers pay differently depending on the different versions&period; Here we take the example of mobile phones that are priced differently depending on features&comma; but these features only costs a few dollars more to do&period; Also&comma; in case of liquidity pricing&comma; firms charge different prices to customers based on their preferences for certain places&period; For example&comma; in cricket matches&comma; ticket prices are different depending on the location&comma; although the cost of providing in each place is the same&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3>Psychological prices<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>Many people judge the quality of the commodity price for taking a higher price as a sign of good quality&period; Sometimes customers do not have information on actual prices of products as judging the quality of the product by its price&period; This type of behavior requires sellers to increase prices of their products despite the fact that real prices are low&period; Customers also lead to prices in their minds&comma; these prices are known as reference prices&period; In order to obtain higher profits&comma; sellers have to influence the reference price of the customers&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad2" id&equals;"quads-ad2" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px 0 0px 0&semi;text-align&colon;center&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;<h3>Promotional prices<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>Many organizations try to promote their products by cutting down the prices of their products below list price or costs&period; These promotional pricing helps merchants to attract customers in a short period of time&period; However promotional pricing can be dangerous for the organization&comma; because it can ruin the reputation of the organization&period; Just as these practices are easily copied by competitors and help organizations build their brand in the long term&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3>Geographic Pricing<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>The companies also charge different prices are the customers who live in different parts of the country or the world&period; If customers are living in remote areas&comma; companies have to charge higher prices to cover the cost of delivery&comma; but this will result in the loss of customers to competitors&period; Therefore it becomes difficult for the company the possibility to apply uniform prices across the country price or charge according to the geographical conditions in which the customers live&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3>International pricing<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>Many organizations operate in different countries&comma; because they have to decide whether to charge uniform prices or sell products according to the situations of the countries in which organizations operate&period; There are several factors that affect the pricing decision of companies such as consumer perception&comma; economic conditions&comma; law and order&comma; the marketing objectives of the company&comma; etc&period; These factors help organizations be able to charge similar prices or different throughout the world&period; For example&comma; in many cases the organizations to charge higher prices for people living in remote countries because of differences in income per capita&period;&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad3" id&equals;"quads-ad3" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;

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