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BD Cams for Sale 7-Nov-2009 At 9:55:05 PM garbie

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On 7/11/2009 citationx wrote:

>How do you determine the "recommended retail price"? Do you set it? Does
>the brand company set it in AUD?
Its in STS's catalogue, but I don't know how they set it.

>More importantly, what happens if retailers deviate from it? In all seriousness,
>is the RRP price to be charged by a retailer enforceable by some ACCC rules,
>or some other national body? Are you legally allowed to prosecute the retailers
>you supply if they unfairly capture the market by continually selling your
>distributed product below your RRP? (eg, a 15% off the whole year round)

not illegal, I'd have known by now if it was

>For both the importers and retailers (this too is a serious question -
>i guess it relates to the earlier point of "business planning"), does anyone
>actually do the economics 101 style calculations of supply/demand elasticity?
>Has anyone actually tried to model what the demand would be by lowering
>the RRP of products? would a 10% drop in prices be responsible for a greater
>than 10% increase in demand?
Its pretty inelastic I reckon - you want some gear, then you find the best price you can. Although I
know some people who'd buy some if they were on sale just to make their rack look better, and keep
the dream alive of actually using them.