• DocumentCode
    3092421
  • Title

    Group-buying price mechanism with two suppliers

  • Author

    Lei Guan

  • Author_Institution
    Sch. of Manage. & Econ., Beijing Inst. of Technol., Beijing, China
  • fYear
    2013
  • fDate
    17-19 July 2013
  • Firstpage
    149
  • Lastpage
    153
  • Abstract
    Group buying price (GBP) mechanism is a useful pricing mechanism in online selling. In this study, we focus on the case that buyers are small retailers, and there are two suppliers in the market. Retailers´ ordering choice is discussed, and we also study how the supplier should set the GBP price curve. The conclusion shows that to beat the fixed price, the supplier should not use a small slope price curve. And retailers´ group buying is not always better for the supplier.
  • Keywords
    Internet; pricing; retail data processing; GBP mechanism; GBP price curve; group-buying price mechanism; online selling; retailer ordering choice; slope price curve; small retailers; suppliers; Economics; Educational institutions; Equations; Internet; Organizations; Pricing; fixed price; group-buying; retailers; suppliers;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Service Systems and Service Management (ICSSSM), 2013 10th International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Hong Kong
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-4434-0
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICSSSM.2013.6602621
  • Filename
    6602621