If all are offering the same product, consumers will go with the least expensive choice.
And there is nothing to stop a rival company from creating the same product.
Facebook is, to me, still offering the same product that it did five years ago.
Awkwardly, this leaves retailers selling the same product at different prices online and in their stores.
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We know that the rest of the management team remains the same, with the same product plans.
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Having two different prices for the exact same product is not sustainable in a free market economy.
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However the more expensive models of the same product will contain discrete graphics cards from AMD as well.
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Such differentiation is especially important in cutthroat categories where many of the top players sell pretty much the same product.
Instead of rewarding companies for building the same product, we should reward companies who continuously improve designs and cut costs over time.
The reason many factory jobs are leaving the United States is that generally other nations are more efficient at producing the same product.
This is the best tasting coffee anywhere, it is 100% organic, and is the same product served by top chefs here and internationally.
They suffer from the inability to recognize value and assume that all competitors can provide the exact same product at a lesser price.
Taking the hassle out of comparison shopping, this app sends alerts if you can purchase the same product on another site for less.
VirusScan Handheld is essentially the same product the company already offers for home users, but is now priced and packaged for businesses, McGee says.
Two shoppers with loyalty cards, identical except for their past purchasing habits, might receive two different prices for the same product at the same time.
Customers are willing to pay different amounts for the same product or service, depending on how well off they are and how much they need it.
My point is that they are not good enough to keep an online shopper from going to another site with a lower price for the same product.
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Yet customers may feel it unfair for retailers to charge customers differently for the same product, based on hunches about how much they can be stung for.
ShopDAQ is a really cool price comparison plug-in that works for most Web browser, which displays in real-time other retail sites where you could find the same product, cheaper!
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By manufacturing round the world and by selling variations of the same product in many markets, car firms have been able to push profits higher than they would otherwise have been.
Marketing can shape consumers' reactions to goods and services: for instance, a product with a known brand name is judged to taste better than the same product with a generic brand.
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Currently, she added, Amazon is testing the prices on select merchandise in its DVD store for a limited time, so different shoppers could indeed be charged different prices for the same product.
All of a sudden people will say, wait a minute, if Ican get the same product or service at a common currency price and it's better, why stay with the home country bank?
He also reveals that the same product manager showed him the new, Wi-Fi enabled FlipLive that would allow the world to see what an individual was filming immediately through Twitter, Facebook, or e-mail.
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Why buy two copies of the same product?
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But reasonably sophisticated investors can create the same product themselves by purchasing a risk-free zero-coupon Treasury bond and call options on a stock index, such as XSP options traded on the Chicago Board Options Exchange.
Such sanctions can also be undermined by so-called "foreign availability" (or the ability of other foreign companies to step in and supply the same product) and constrain potentially useful people-to-people contact and other forms of bridge-building with potential adversaries or competitor nations.
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