How Are People Valuating Their Products?

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Sometimes I check out some marketer's sales copy and wonder how they arrive at the values for their up sell items. They may say "a $97 value free." How exactly are they arriving at that figure if that item has never actually sold for $97? Of course the value is exaggerated to sweeten the deal (nothing wrong with that). When I see those offers, that's what someone like me is thinking. If you've successfully sold a product to lots of people at one price, then its obvious that your valuation was correct.

Anyone who actually does business will tell you that the price of an item is largely predicated on what people will pay for it, not your own perceived value. Sometimes companies have to change the price of an item constantly until it begins to sell. In the trading markets, the market price of a security is based on how much the last buy/sell order was for. Its pretty much the same way in any other business.

So that's the queston: How do you some of you arrive at the figures in which you value products that you've never sold?
#people #products #valuating
  • Profile picture of the author jaggyjay
    Current pricing conventions; Competitor pricing research; and Product/Service development cost. Isn't hard to price or value a product if you use the aforementioned. Of course, on the other end of the spectrum you can just flat out guess
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  • Profile picture of the author Doppelbock
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    You could always take a stab at the "What would I pay for it?" game, usually makes for a good starting point.
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  • Profile picture of the author Daniel Evans
    Originally Posted by Sean T Alexandre View Post

    So that's the queston: How do you some of you arrive at the figures in which you value products that you've never sold?
    A lot of sellers are effected by social proof.

    They feel obliged to sell at a certain price sometimes within a give marketplace for the simple fact that everyone else is selling at the same rate.

    A lot of people base their own opinions upon the next persons opinion.

    In a lot of situations you'd shock people if you done things differently.
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  • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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    Originally Posted by Sean T Alexandre View Post

    I check out some marketer's sales copy and wonder how they arrive at the values for their up sell items. They may say "a $97 value free." How exactly are they arriving at that figure if that item has never actually sold for $97?
    In some countries there are laws requiring that, for such claims to be made, products have to have been sold at that price for a certain length of time, within a certain recent period. I don't imagine for a moment that people from other countries take any notice of that, online, though.
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    • Profile picture of the author Young Financier
      Originally Posted by Alexa Smith View Post

      In some countries there are laws requiring that, for such claims to be made, products have to have been sold at that price for a certain length of time, within a certain recent period. I don't imagine for a moment that people from other countries take any notice of that, online, though.
      It seems like the officials of those countries understand the methods of valuation.
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  • Profile picture of the author talfighel
    Originally Posted by Sean T Alexandre View Post

    They may say "a $97 value free." How exactly are they arriving at that figure if that item has never actually sold for $97?
    They make those numbers up. Many companies do it all the time. They just estimate the value in their head and then post it.
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    • Profile picture of the author Young Financier
      Originally Posted by talfighel View Post

      They make those numbers up. Many companies do it all the time. They just estimate the value in their head and then post it.
      LOL. I just wanted to see if anybody would admit it.
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