Price Sensitivity Model
Price Sensitivity Model
In the 1970s, Dutch economist Peter H. van Westendorp introduced a simple method to assess consumers’ price perception. It is based on the premise that there is a range of prices bounded bya maximum that a consumer is prepared to spend and a minimum below which credibility is indoubt. The Price Sensitivity Meter (sometimes called the Price Sensitivity Measurement) is based on respondents’ answers to four price-related questions.
A simple and easily executable method, the first step in the PSM is to ask respondents the following four price-related questions:
1. At what price do you begin to perceive the product as so expensive that you would not consider buying it? (Too expensive)
2. At what price do you begin to perceive the product as so inexpensive that you would feel that the quality cannot be very good? (Too inexpensive)
3. At what price do you perceive that the product is beginning to get expensive, so thatit is not out of the question, but you would have to give some thought to buying it?(Expensive)
4. At what price do you perceive the product to be a bargain – a great buy for the money? (Inexpensive)
From responses to these questions, cumulative frequency distributions are derived and plotted.
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Interpretation of Results:
• The IPP generally reflects either the median price actually paidby consumers already in the market or the price of the product of a market leader.
• The range of prices between the PMC and PME is considered the range of acceptable prices. In markets that are already well established, few competitive products will be priced outside of this range.
• The OPP, according to this method, is the point at which the same number of respondents indicate that the price is too expensive as indicate that the price is too inexpensive. Manypricing researchers question whether this is the definitive optimal price for a product. The questions asked itself, force
In the 1970s, Dutch economist Peter H. van Westendorp introduced a simple method to assess consumers’ price perception. It is based on the premise that there is a range of prices bounded bya maximum that a consumer is prepared to spend and a minimum below which credibility is indoubt. The Price Sensitivity Meter (sometimes called the Price Sensitivity Measurement) is based on respondents’ answers to four price-related questions.
A simple and easily executable method, the first step in the PSM is to ask respondents the following four price-related questions:
1. At what price do you begin to perceive the product as so expensive that you would not consider buying it? (Too expensive)
2. At what price do you begin to perceive the product as so inexpensive that you would feel that the quality cannot be very good? (Too inexpensive)
3. At what price do you perceive that the product is beginning to get expensive, so thatit is not out of the question, but you would have to give some thought to buying it?(Expensive)
4. At what price do you perceive the product to be a bargain – a great buy for the money? (Inexpensive)
From responses to these questions, cumulative frequency distributions are derived and plotted.
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Interpretation of Results:
• The IPP generally reflects either the median price actually paidby consumers already in the market or the price of the product of a market leader.
• The range of prices between the PMC and PME is considered the range of acceptable prices. In markets that are already well established, few competitive products will be priced outside of this range.
• The OPP, according to this method, is the point at which the same number of respondents indicate that the price is too expensive as indicate that the price is too inexpensive. Manypricing researchers question whether this is the definitive optimal price for a product. The questions asked itself, force