As consumers get used to this idea, price competition on the web, which has so far been less energetic than expected, may intensify.
In principle, customers hate the idea of price discrimination as Amazon, an online bookstore, discovered when it charged customers different prices for the same book.
The company has no good idea what the price of copper will be in 20 years, nor is it certain what is the probability of different possible prices.
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It's also a good idea to monitor prices for your favorite items for about a month at your local grocery store to get an idea of the lowest price at which it is offered.
Thus Amazon was losing money on the Kindle likely with the idea that this low price would help encourage people to buy its e-reader yielding higher market share for a platform on which Amazon might be able to deliver content and commerce to consumers.
The idea is that if share price goes up, it benefits the shareholders.
Judges have experimented with the idea but this sort of price discovery is understandably unpopular with plaintiff lawyers.
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Finally, the idea that paying a high price would delay rollout seems absurd.
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This idea that speculation is causing price rises is simply wrong.
King, at Merriman Curhan Ford, gave the company a buy rating--predicated on the beaten-down share price and the idea that Soon-Shiong will be absent from the company he founded.
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The Big Mac Index uses Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) in comparing the price of the ubiquitous Big Mac across countries relative to its price in the USA. PPP refers to the idea that exchange rates across two countries should be equal to the relative price of a basket of goods and services in both countries.
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Instead, he reinforced the idea of quality, barely mentioning price, either to staff or to the City.
And he rejected the idea that an increase in the price of pelts was leading to more hunting.
And that rating was founded partly on an unproven idea and a fantastic share-price based on, well, Mr Silverman's star-rating.
The garden was the idea of the Right Reverend Peter Price who retires as Bishop of Bath and Wells in June.
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John Stephenson of First Asset Investment Management, a Canadian fund manager, reckons the idea that speculators swamp every other price signal is odd.
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The Republicans do not seem to have paid an electoral price for dismissing the idea as class warfare and preventing its implementation in Congress.
Even so, advertisers bristle at the idea that tablet editions command the same price premium as print pages.
Informal price targets give him an idea of when to cash out.
It's based on the idea that stocks that gyrate less in price generally have produced good returns with less risk than the broad market.
Web sites like mysimon.com and computers.com can give you a good idea of what is available in your price range and who offers discounts.
We are all about to pay the price for that arrogant, misbegotten idea--yet again.
And if you put any credence in the idea that a stock is cheap if its Price-Earnings-to-Growth ratio (PEG) is less than 1.0, then Netflix could be a bargain.
Second, by implementing a gradual transformation, it gave everyday consumers the chance to slowly warm up to the idea of owning an Xbox 360 while the price continued to drop.
The idea has been that if we put a price on these carbons, then maybe that would be a way that companies would all respond and start inventing new things that would make our planet cleaner.
Judge Mery Price of Ceredigion said she had no idea whose hens had laid the eggs she was judging but said that her decision would not have been influenced if she had.
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Christopher Davidge, former Christie's CEO, says the auction house price-fixing scheme was Taubman's idea.
Given possible price drops, this may be a bad idea, particularly if canceling service brings steep penalties and you expect to switch to a broadband service someday.
What can you do, spending as little money as humanly possible, to gather a persuasive body of evidence that the customers will really buy your product or service at a good enough price, in enough volume to make your idea worth executing?
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