Re: International Pricing Policy

Captain Jake wrote:

The most profitable strategy is to charge different prices in
different markets, unless the cost of doing so is too high. None of
you have shown that the elasticity of demand for Delphi in various
countries is such that lowering/raising the price would increase
profits. You are just blindly assuming that the one-world price would
be lower everywhere and that more copies sold means more profit,
neither of which is necessarily true.

Oh, those assumptions....

They make just as much sense as untested assertions in the current
pricing.

--

Bill
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