Price skimming

(noun)

This involves the top part of the demand curve. The price is set relatively high to generate a high profit margin, and sales are limited to those buyers willing to pay a premium to get the new product.

Related Terms

  • Penetration pricing
  • push strategy
  • pull strategy
  • yield management

(noun)

Price skimming is a pricing strategy in which a marketer sets a relatively high price for a product or service at first, then lowers the price over time. It is a temporal version of price discrimination/yield management.

Related Terms

  • Penetration pricing
  • push strategy
  • pull strategy
  • yield management

Examples of Price skimming in the following topics:

  • New Product

    • Penetration and skimming are two strategies employed in pricing new products.
    • Price skimming involves the top part of the demand curve.
    • A premium product generally supports a skimming strategy.
    • Video game systems, such as the Sony PS3, usually employ the classic new product pricing strategy, known as skimming.
    • Compare penetration and skimming as two strategies for setting a price level
  • Demand-Based Pricing

    • Price skimming is a pricing strategy where initially a product price is set very high, but lowered over time.
    • Price skimming is sometimes referred to as "riding down the demand curve."
    • Price skimming is a pricing strategy in which a marketer sets a relatively high price for a product or service at first, then lowers the price over time.
    • Price skimming is sometimes referred to as riding down the demand curve.
    • The objective of a price skimming strategy is to capture the consumer surplus.
  • Demanding a Premium

    • Firms can engage in premium pricing by keeping the price of their good artificially higher than the benchmark price.
    • A premium pricing strategy involves setting the price of a product higher than similar products .
    • This strategy is sometimes also called skim pricing because it is an attempt to "skim the cream" off the top of the market.
    • It is also called image pricing or prestige pricing.
    • Luxury has a psychological association with price premium pricing.
  • The Marketing Mix

    • Price: Prices for such products may be a little higher than conventional alternatives.
    • There are various strategies that can be applied when pricing a product like skimming and penetration pricing.
    • Skimming means to price the product highly to increase profits.
    • For example if you invent a new software which no one else has, you can skim the market because the customers are forced to buy from you until there is more competition.
    • Penetration pricing can be applied when you want to enter a market and price your product lower than the perceived market price so that more people will buy it and this will increase your market share.
  • Ethical Issues at an Organizational Level

    • Ethical marketing issues include marketing redundant or dangerous products/services; transparency about environmental risks, product ingredients (genetically modified organisms), possible health risks, or financial risks; respect for consumer privacy and autonomy; advertising truthfulness; and fairness in pricing and distribution.
    • Marketing ethics involves pricing practices, including illegal actions such as price fixing and legal actions including price discrimination and price skimming.
  • Another twist: capitalizing on guilt

    • For example, some airlines will voluntarily add a few dollars to the price of their tickets and several power companies provide the option of paying a higher monthly fuel bill to help offset carbon emissions.
    • In other examples, Range Rover automobiles offered an emissions offset for the first 45,000 miles (72,000 kilometres) which was factored into their purchase price and a ski resort in Vail, Colorado, once enticed skiers to buy energy credits to help buy a wind turbine so in the future the skiers will be carbon-neutral when they are lifted to the top of a nearby mountain.
    • Brokers have been known to skim as much as 60% off of carbon-offsetting investments as they're passed from one middleman to another, tree-planting schemes have been found to be non-existent, and some solar energy projects have reportedly turned out to be little more than scams.
  • Competition-Based Pricing

    • Competitive-based pricing occurs when a company sets a price for its good based on what competitors are selling a similar product for.
    • Competitive-based pricing, or market-oriented pricing, involves setting a price based upon analysis and research compiled from the target market .
    • For instance, if the competitors are pricing their products at a lower price, then it's up to them to either price their goods at a higher or lower price, all depending on what the company wants to achieve.
    • One advantage of competitive-based pricing is that it avoids price competition that can damage the company.
    • Status-quo pricing, also known as competition pricing, involves maintaining existing prices or basing prices on what other firms are charging.
  • Status-Quo Pricing of Existing Products

    • Status quo pricing is the practice of maintaining current price levels that other firms are charging.
    • Price-Quality Effect: Buyers are less sensitive to price the more higher prices signal higher quality.
    • Status-quo pricing, also known as competition pricing, involves maintaining existing prices (status quo) or basing prices on the prices of competitor firms .
    • Status-quo pricing, also known as competition pricing, involves maintaining existing prices or basing prices on what other firms are charging.
    • Compare Nagle and Holden's nine laws of price sensitivity with status-quo pricing
  • Pricing

    • confirming the impact the corporate strategies should have on pricing policy
    • (TT Nagle, The Strategies and Tactics of Pricing, Prentice-Han, Inc.
    • Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1999. ) Price sensitivity reduces:
    • A gray market comes about when individuals buy products in a lower-priced country from a manufacturer's authorized retailer, ship them to higher-priced countries, and then sell them below the manufacturer's suggested price through unauthorized retailers.
    • Questions to consider are: What currency should a company price its products?
  • Differential

    • Differential pricing exists when sales of identical goods or services are transacted at different prices from the same provider.
    • Price differentiation, or price discrimination, exists when sales of identical goods or services are transacted at different prices from the same provider.
    • This usually entails using one or more means of preventing any resale: keeping the different price groups separate, making price comparisons difficult, or restricting pricing information.
    • There are two conditions that must be met if a price differentiation scheme is to work.
    • For example, airlines routinely engage in price differentiation by charging high prices for customers with relatively inelastic demand (business travelers) and discount prices for tourists who have relatively elastic demand .
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