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Setting Prices on Priceline

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Anderson11_Setting_Prices_on_Priceline.pdf (113.36 KB)
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Author
Anderson, Chris K.
Abstract

Priceline is best known for its name-your-own-price format, in which consumers bid for services but not for service providers. Because Priceline serves as an opaque selling mechanism, it attracts price-conscious consumers. Sellers also benefit because they can price into multiple market segments without worrying that they are diluting revenue they might receive from customers who are willing to use conventional selling channels and pay more. A firm that releases its inventory to Priceline must manage the trade-off of pricing its inventory too low (and forgoing revenue) versus pricing it too high and forgoing a sale. In this paper, we outline the mechanism that Priceline uses to determine if customer bids are successful and, given this mechanism, establishes optimal prices and inventory allocations for Kimpton Hotels.

Date Issued
2009-07-01
Keywords
dynamic programming
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marketing
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pricing
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buyer behavior
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