Saturday, September 15, 2018

DISCRIMINATION BY PRICE IN REALITY



Price Discrimination


Price discrimination is the strategy or you called action of selling of one product to different purchasers at different prices to get maximum profit and sales.

Types of Price Discrimination


     1.     Personal Price Discrimination:

     In this discrimination, for the same product different prices are charging from different customers
     Eg. - Auction.
     Example- Doctor charge different fees from poor and rich people for the same operation.

     2.      Market Based Price Discrimination:

     In this discrimination, monopolist charge different price in different market for the same product.
     Eg. - Age based discounts, Flipkart

     3.     Price Discrimination by Self Selection:

     In this discrimination, monopolist demand different amount for the different uses of the same  
     commodity. It is also called price discrimination according to use.
     Eg. - Coupons, Cashbacks.


Example: When I was 14 years old, one day my family decided to go for the movie near Inox. When we reached to Inox, box office cashier asked my father that how many tickets he wants. He said four tickets including 14 years old child. So, box office cashier told that you have to pay Rs.120 for the child and Rs.240 per person for adults. He had given all the four tickets in the same row. This example is based on the market based price discrimination.

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