{"id":8276,"date":"2016-04-05T12:51:40","date_gmt":"2016-04-05T10:51:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unex-group.com\/2016\/04\/05\/clever-solutions-for-price-differentiation-in-online-retail\/"},"modified":"2024-09-13T12:47:25","modified_gmt":"2024-09-13T10:47:25","slug":"clever-solutions-for-price-differentiation-in-online-retail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unex-group.com\/en\/2016\/04\/05\/clever-solutions-for-price-differentiation-in-online-retail\/","title":{"rendered":"Clever solutions for price differentiation in online retail"},"content":{"rendered":"
A few years ago, Amazon USA differentiated prices based on the search behavior of individual customers.<\/span> One solution is to leave the customer in the dark about at least one characteristic of the product at the time of purchase and thus offer an inferior product alternative.<\/span> Another solution is e-coupons, i.e. vouchers distributed via the Internet.<\/span> There are various ways to respond to the increasing market transparency in online retail and still offer differentiated prices.<\/span> Clever solutions for price differentiation in online retail A few years ago, Amazon USA differentiated prices based on the search behavior of individual customers. Customers noticed that a price fell when they deactivated cookies and rose again as soon as they reactivated the cookie. This type of price differentiation was not accepted by customers. So […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6346,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[134,135,123],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-consumer-goods","category-durable-goods-en","category-unex-analytik-power-bi-en-2"],"yoast_head":"\n
\nCustomers noticed that a price fell when they deactivated cookies and rose again as soon as they reactivated the cookie.<\/span>
\nThis type of price differentiation was not accepted by customers.<\/span>
\nSo how can the strong development of technologies in recent years be used intelligently to differentiate prices?<\/span>
\nWith the development of e-commerce, new forms of price differentiation are emerging that take account of increasing market transparency.<\/span>
\nMarkets are becoming increasingly transparent thanks to new technologies such as price comparison providers (Expedia, Check24, etc.), creating new challenges for price differentiation.<\/span>
\nNew forms of price differentiation should therefore not allow a direct price comparison and still offer an incentive to buy.<\/span><\/p>\nUncertainty about a product property<\/span><\/h3>\n
\nThe customer pays a lower price for this uncertainty compared to the original product and only learns the exact product characteristics after the purchase.<\/span>
\nAn example of this is blind booking by airlines, where the customer can choose a destination but only finds out the exact destination after booking.<\/span>
\nThis already works in a similar way with sneak previews at the cinema: the customer buys a cinema ticket at a discounted price because they only find out which film is being shown when they get to the cinema. Advantages for the provider:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n\n
Use of e-coupons<\/span><\/h3>\n
\nWith the amendment of the German Rebate Act and the German Bonus Ordinance, e-coupons have also been able to be used in Germany for some years now.<\/span>
\nThrough the use of cookies, customer and purchase-related data is collected so that the customer can be sent e-coupons that correspond exactly to the customer’s interests and purchasing preferences.<\/span>
\nThe use of coupons has been established in the USA for decades.<\/span>
\nDespite increasing transparency in the online market, e-coupons are a way of enforcing customer-specific prices that are perceived as fair by the customer.<\/span>
\nEven if new technologies make it possible to offer customers a completely individual price online based on their search behavior, this is often perceived as unfair and leads to annoyance and uncertainty on the customer side, as in the example of Amazon.<\/span>
\nThe toy retailer mytoys.de, for example, uses e-coupons as part of its price differentiation.<\/span>
\nAfter expanding its product range to include children’s clothing, customers who regularly purchased toys from mytoys.de received an e-coupon that gave them a discount on children’s clothing. Advantages for the provider: <\/b><\/span><\/p>\n\n
Conclusion<\/span><\/h3>\n
\nHowever, care must be taken to ensure that the pricing system does not become too complex.<\/span>
\nToo many different prices often lead to a non-transparent and no longer comprehensible pricing system that loses sight of the customer.<\/span>
\nPower BI supports the development and management of differentiated pricing systems.<\/span>
\nLet us analyze together how your prices can be differentiated sensibly and pragmatically so that you can benefit from the opportunities offered by price differentiation.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"