Baffled by Pricing Strategy


Over the course of the last two years, I’ve been on here and AudioMart roughly daily.  Like most of us, I always have some items on my Watchlist but I’m especially active looking at the gear in my price point right now.  One oddity that I can’t wrap my head around: Person posts their used gear, it doesn’t sell for months even after lowering the price, and their strategy is to raise the price?!?? People certainly have the right to ask for whatever they want but each time I see this I think to myself “yup, that’ll get it sold…”. From what i can tell, it’s not been in response to manufacturer’s price changes, product scarcity etc…. and it’s not like the community hasn’t seen the previous, lower price.  What’s the logic here?

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Showing 1 response by jrbirdman333

Inverse elasticity of demand. Place a $6.00 sticker on a bottle of wine and people will think it is garbage. Place a $36.00 sticker on the same bottle and suddenly people will take notice, discussing what a fine bouquet it has.