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:

  • Demand-Based Pricing

    • These include: price skimming, price discrimination, psychological pricing, bundle pricing, penetration pricing, and value-based pricing.
    • In other words, price skimming is when a firm charges the highest initial price that customers will pay.
    • The objective of a price skimming strategy is to capture the consumer surplus.
    • These are graphical representations of price skimming.
    • Price skimming is sometimes referred to as riding down the demand curve.
  • 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.
  • New Product Pricing

    • Penetration pricing is the pricing technique of setting a relatively low initial entry price, often lower than the eventual market price, to attract new customers.
    • Skimming involves goods being sold at higher prices so that fewer sales are needed to break even.
    • Selling a product at a high price and sacrificing high sales to gain a high profit is therefore "skimming" the market.
    • Skimming is usually employed to reimburse the cost of investment of the original research into the product.
    • A skimming strategy would generally be supported by the following conditions:
  • 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.
  • Product, Placement, Promotion, and Price

    • The price is the amount a customer pays for the product.
    • Adjusting the price has a profound impact on the marketing strategy, and depending on the price elasticity of the product, often it will affect the demand and sales as well.
    • From the marketer's point of view, an efficient price is a price that is very close to the maximum that customers are prepared to pay.
    • A good pricing strategy would be the one which could balance between the price floor and the price ceiling and take into account the customer's perceived value.
    • Common pricing strategies include cost-plus pricing, skimming, penetration pricing, value-based pricing, and many more.
  • 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.
  • Impact of the Product Life Cycle on Marketing Strategy

    • Pricing may be low penetration to build market share rapidly or high skim pricing to recover development costs.
    • Pricing is maintained as the firm enjoys increasing demand with little competition.
    • There is intense price cutting, and many more products are withdrawn from the market.
  • 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.
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