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Tiered pricing allows customers access to these services who may not otherwise due to financial constraints, ultimately reflecting the diversity of consumer needs and resources. Tiered service helps to keep quality of service standards for high-bandwidth applications like streaming video or VoIP .
Price discrimination (differential pricing, [1] [2] equity pricing, preferential pricing, [3] dual pricing, [4] tiered pricing, [5] and surveillance pricing [6]) is a microeconomic pricing strategy where identical or largely similar goods or services are sold at different prices by the same provider to different buyers based on which market segment they are perceived to be part of.
A common variation of the model in online games and on websites is the freemium model, in which the first tier of content is free. Still, access to premium features (for example, game power-ups or article archives) is limited to paying subscribers. [4] In addition to the freemium model, other subscription pricing variations are gaining traction.
Good–better–best pricing takes advantage of consumers' anchoring bias; for example, when Williams-Sonoma sold a bread machine for $279, then introduced a premium bread machine for $429, the premium machine did not sell well, but the original model's sales almost doubled, because customers reasoned that the $279 model was a better value. [3]
A flat fee, also referred to as a flat rate or a linear rate refers to a pricing structure that charges a single fixed fee for a service, regardless of usage. [1] Less commonly, the term may refer to a rate that does not vary with usage or time of use.
A two-part tariff (TPT) is a form of price discrimination wherein the price of a product or service is composed of two parts – a lump-sum fee as well as a per-unit charge. [1] [2] In general, such a pricing technique only occurs in partially or fully monopolistic markets.
Hers offers simplified, inclusive pricing, with no hidden fees. The cost of your medication includes your initial consultation, ongoing care and communication with your healthcare team, and access ...
Volumetric pricing requires metering that can be expensive to implement, especially in the case of irrigation, alternatives include: [2] [3] [4] flat rate; per-area pricing, coupled with tiered pricing; a system of water rights or quotas; input pricing as a percentage of the cost of certain input(s), e.g., seed;