《营销策略》英文版 In Class 37

Price wars are bad, especially with high fixed costs They reduce current profits and erode customers' perception of product quality Price wars are not inevitable. For example, the French and the Germans fight every fifty years but not every year But collusion is illegal Of course predatory pricing is illegal too

• Price wars are bad, especially with high fixed costs. • They reduce current profits and erode customers’ perception of product quality. • Price wars are not inevitable. For example, the French and the Germans fight every fifty years but not every year. • But collusion is illegal. • Of course predatory pricing is illegal too

Price wars are bad, especially with high fixed costs They reduce current profits and erode customers' perception of product quality Price wars are not inevitable. For example, the French and the Germans fight every fifty years but not every year But collusion is illegal Of course predatory pricing is illegal too

• Price wars are bad, especially with high fixed costs. • They reduce current profits and erode customers’ perception of product quality. • Price wars are not inevitable. For example, the French and the Germans fight every fifty years but not every year. • But collusion is illegal. • Of course predatory pricing is illegal too

If you differentiate by bundling; the design of the bundle should depend on your resources Bundle with your strong resources -unless you risk destroying them in the process Use advertising to create additional differentiation still based on your resources

• If you differentiate by bundling; the design of the bundle should depend on your resources. • Bundle with your strong resources –unless you risk destroying them in the process • Use advertising to create additional differentiation, still based on your resources

Price discrimination is a very common practice Some versions are illegal Effective 3rddegree price discrimination can make a lot of money in a lot of industries airlines classes times grocery coupons quality-tiered products

• Price discrimination is a very common practice • Some versions are illegal • Effective 3rddegree price discrimination can make a lot of money in a lot of industries – airlines: classes, times – grocery coupons – quality-tiered products