Sitemap - 2023 - The Pricing Conundrum

An End-of-Year Post Thanking Pricing Conundrum Readers & Supporters

What Elizabeth Anderson’s Pluralist Theory of Value Tells Us About Economic Valuation

Experience Curves, Declining Cost Incrementality & Extreme-Value Pricing Strategies

Why Shrinkflation Works So Well (and When it Doesn’t)

If a Junk Fee is Disclosed, Does it Become Less Junky?

Understanding the many nuances of transparency in business

An Integrative Perspective on Business Transparency

Tracing the history of left-digit bias research to its origins: Lessons from Ginzberg’s (1936) “Customary Prices”

Every Price Tells a Story: The Case of Movies-On-Demand Platform Pricing

On the Usefulness of Distinguishing Purchases from Investments

How Managers Made Pricing Decisions in 1939

B2B Pricing Case Study: Cepheid's Tuberculosis Test Pricing Dilemma

Pricing Case Study: The Moonswatch Success Story (plus a Typology of Collabs)

Pricing Case Study: The Dark Side of Costco's Pricing Strategy

"Did We Make a Good Pricing Decision?"

How Will American Consumers React to Moderating Inflation?

Pricing Case Study: Burger King's "Tomato Vacation" Approach to Raising Prices

Algorithmic Transparency & Consumer Disclosure

When High Prices Attract Consumers and Low Prices Repel Them

Business Operations Transparency

Digital Pricing

What Consumers Get Wrong About Shrinkflation

Pricing Case Study: How Do You Price a Taxidermied 19th Century Horsehair-Stuffed Whale Penis?

The Many Faces of Business Transparency

Why Are Resort Fees So Popular When Consumers Hate Them?

Pricing Concept: The Informational Value of Price

Price Transparency

Pricing Case Study: How One Iconic Price Promotion Forged a Retail Brand For Over 3 Decades

The Role of Price in the Customer’s Decision Journey

Pricing Case Study: Why Does a Hermes Birkin Handbag Cost $40,000?

Pricing Concept: Psychological Pricing

Pricing Concept: The SALVE Framework of Price Image

Pricing Case Study: The Power of Seller-Supplied Thresholds

Pricing Concept: The Eight Psychological Affordances of Price

Pricing Concept: The Value-Based Pricing Method in Six Steps

A Balanced Assessment of Cost-based Pricing

Pricing Case Study: Two Ways Marketers Realize Stealthy Price Increases

Disclosure-Based Price Transparency

Pricing Case Study: Why Did Influencers Pay $600 For a Pair of $20 Payless Shoes?

Pricing Concept: Understanding the Difference Between Price Level & Price Structure

How Dynamic Pricing Can Benefit Consumers - And Why Managers Should Care

Pricing Case Study: The Psychological Insight From a $2.95 Cup of Coffee

Pricing Tool: The Value Pricing Framework

Pricing Strategy: Retail Shoppers Can Negotiate the Price of Almost Anything --- What This Means for Managers