Quotes About Pricing

Micropayments are great if you use them for a product or service with certain properties. It must be one where you can get away with usage-based pricing, and where there is a strong rationale for making it cheap, yet not free.

The prices of raw materials do not fluctuate directly with the labour cost of producing them.

In some respects, the video-game business is a lot like the razor business, which follows a simple model: Give away the razor, gouge 'em on the price of the blades.

I've been saying for years that readers want inexpensive ebooks.

Higher ebook prices don't benefit me, booksellers or readers, and that means something is really wrong.

The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for that bounty does not change its real value.

Markets work well with goods that economists call private goods.

For me, if I can design beautiful things that have the price be lower, I am thrilled.

An awful lot of food is thrown away. This you can call a spillover. It doesn't sort of enter into our economic system because it's a consequence of running things in a highly competitive way: the free market, global pricing and so on.

There should be a flexibility on ticket prices in multiplexes.

I don't think that just because people will pay a certain amount for a ticket that it's all right to charge it.

You can technically lose money during the playoffs if you don't raise your ticket prices.

In our business we don't mind if a price of a ticket goes down; our job is to get as many bums in seats as possible.

In terms of the pricing of football tickets, there's no need - given the massive amount of money that's coming in now from television rights, there's no need for them to be greedy. Look after the supporters; make sure they can still afford to go and watch football.

I used to watch Babe Ruth for 50 cents. Now, baseball tickets are $400!

Forbes describes how Daniel Kahneman, a Nobel Prize-winning psychologist, discovered that "people would rather do business with a person they like and trust rather than someone they don't, even if the likeable person is offering a lower quality product or service at a higher price.

If you can buy the best companies, over time the pricing takes care of itself.

You can't flood the market with every TV show, every reality show, and dump your library into the market all at one time and not have some kind of game plan in terms of pricing.

We knew well how much these people were paying for cocaine - and that the more coke cost, the more people wanted it. We applied the same market plan to our budding catering operation, along with a similar pricing structure, and business was suddenly very, very, good.

O peixe é um negócio complicado. O snapper vermelho pode custar ao chefe apenas oito euros por quilo, mas esse valor inclui as espinhas, a cabeça, as escamas e tudo o mais que é cortado e deitado fora. Pronto, o preço real de cada filete limpo custou ao chefe mais do dobro daquela quantia e, assim, ele realmente prefere vendê-lo a deitá-lo no lixo. Se ainda não cheirar mal na segunda-feira à noite, você irá comê-lo.

being charged in fees.

When we find unjustified spikes in the prices of long-standing life-saving drugs, we should slap penalties on companies trying to cheat people who need those drugs!

Never knowingly undersold.

In the early days of outlets, manufacturers ripped labels from items because they were reluctant to link their brand with the cut-rate price. But today many discounters do just the opposite, trumpeting goods under brand names to give the impression of quality while not necessarily backing that claim in a meaningful way.