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What is Price discrimination

Encyclopedia of E-Commerce Development, Implementation, and Management
A marketing method of differentiating price sensitive consumer groups from less sensitive customer groups and offering different prices for the products and services to each group.
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Theoretical Perspectives on Social Shopping
In Lee (Western Illinois University, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-9787-4.ch169
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Internet Prices and Price Dispersion
Firms charge different prices to different consumers for an identical product.
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The Internet's Impact on the Law and Economics Of the US's Motion Picture Industry
A system where a firm charges a higher price to those consumers who most desire the good or service. Price discrimination is often accomplished by offering the good or service first to customers who pay the most.
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Prices on the Internet
Firms charge different prices to different consumers for an identical product.
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Retail Prices and E-Commerce
Firms charge different prices to different consumers for an identical product.
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The Microeconomic Impacts of E-Business on the Economy
The practice of charging customers different prices for the same good.
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Vertical Integration in Telecoms
Anticompetitive strategy that can be undertaken by an integrated incumbent in order to rise competitors cost and/or drive them out of the market. It relies on price instruments, such as predatory prices and cross-subsidization.
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