Managing Change

• Has a section on Dynamic Pricing including case studies and a short history of pricing approaches.

Sans Prix

• Has pricing resources such as articles and newsletters, books, journals and website links.
• Includes a light-hearted look at the world of pricing, through popular music, jokes and cartoons.

• Jon Manning, Principal of Sans Prix, has his own pricing blog What's that got to do with the price of fish?

1st Survey Preliminary Report

• A preliminary report of the findings from our 1st Ethical Pricing Survey is now available. Click the logo on the right.

Asia-Pacific Pricing Forum

• Do you have personal experience of non-ethical pricing behaviour? Got more thoughts on the Ethical Pricing Project, or any pricing challenge for that matter?
• Why not join this forum and post your thoughts or challenge.

The ethics of pricing practices (a.k.a. rip off-Britain?)

• An article on ecademy by Alan Cooper describing the Continuum of Acceptability concept when it comes to pricing practices. It then moves on to discuss Yield Management, the end of the List Price and a future of Dynamic Prices.

What a difference a day makes

• We were interviewed by the Financial Times for a half page article on Dynamic Pricing and motor insurance published on 16 July 2005. The article was sparked by a reader who received a £160 ($250/euro250) price reduction by his 3rd quotation. We raised the ethical issues in the use of dynamic pricing.

UK's Competition Commission concludes that the market for retail store cards is uncompetitive

• The Competition Commission says that consumers are overpaying to the extent of £100m each year:
  • the average annual percentage interest rates (APRs) on store cards is about 30% - much higher than credit cards;
  • There are about 14 million store card accounts in the UK;
  • it is considering forcing providers to put health warnings about rates on store card statements; and
  • the trade body covering all the major store card providers, said that store card APRs had become more competitive recently.

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