Can anyone tell me what "naked pricing" is?

Here's Euro area price harmonisation in action...

Want to know what we've been up to lately? Building the world's first "crowd-sourcing" pricing website", which is now up and running. Providing the most affordable expert pricing advice in the world, you can find the website here.

Here's an article I wrote many years ago...

Found at ebookbrowse.com

Zimbabwe...again

Here's a follow-up to my posting on 28th April 2009 on inflation in Zimbabwe, taken in the British Museum last month

Who will notice your price change?

Think no one is going to notice your sneaky start-of-the-year price increase? Think again! Look at how much trouble The Guardian (1st Jan 2011, p11) went to to show readers the extent of train fare increases effective from the 2nd Jan 2011.

A Nice Cartoon...

On Apps Pricing...

This article deserves the widest readership possible!

How did Tata come up with $2,500 for the Nano?

The Tata Nano, a two-cylinder minicar that weighs 1,300 pounds and emits 103 grams of carbon dioxide per kilometer, less than any other car, got its price tag when Tata Group leader Ratan Tata made an offhand comment to journalists that the company could make such a car for $2,500. Newspapers picked up the figure, and the company used it as a challenge to motivate employees, Tata executive Sunil Sinha said in a lecture at Harvard University.

Source: Harvard Business Review, The Daily Stat, 21st October 2010

The FairPay Zone: Business Model Generation with a new spin: FairPa...

The FairPay Zone: Business Model Generation with a new spin: FairPa...: "The radically new FairPay pricing process is particularly relevant to the continuing dialog suggested by 'Business Model Generation,' the re..."

My first Podcast

My first podcast has now been embedded on the right - - >

Recorded with Michelle Nichols, then the Business Week Savvy Selling columnist, and published on the 26th April 2007

More developements at Ryanair

Passengers will also have to take their baggage from the airport to the aircraft, eliminating baggage handlers and making tickets even cheaper. What happens on arrival?

More here

Ryanair Shock

Ryanair boss Michael O'Leary last night confirmed that the low-cost airline was planning to make passengers fly the plane themselves.

"By sacking all of our pilots and allowing our passengers to fly the planes themselves, we'll be able to make considerables savings that will result in even lower ticket prices"

- Private Eye No 1238, 12th - 25th June 2009, p22

A Distraction - What would happen if Ikea purchased General Motors?

Meanwhile, back in Zimbabwe

New pricing model for an old industry

There's an interesting debate happening over at Wired on whether a new pricing model will work in an old industry....

Life Imitates Art

It wasn't that long ago that the story below, of a car dealer offering a "BOGOF" (Buy-One-Get-One-Free) on Porsche's got widely circulated.

Now its become reality (see above), and proof of how dire the US economy and car industry is, with a Dodge dealer in Florida offering two Rams for the price of one.

Fuel Surcharges

Here's an interesting development....

Singapore Airlines this week announced a reduction in their fuel surcharges.

It will be interesting to see if other airlines follow.

New Uses for Old Planes

Over the past 10 months, many people have commented on this posting on New Uses for Old Planes.

Well now another use has popped up, this time in Stockholm.