Talk:List price/Archives/2014

Clarification
In the Distribution channel, SRP stands for Suggested Reseller Price. An acronym for "street price", absolutely not retail.

MSRP is Manufacturer Suggested Retail Price. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.249.42.70 (talk) 16:26, 1 April 2010 (UTC)

Removal
Removed text because there's no citation that indicates it's accurate:
 * Manipulation of retail price is common in the U.S., where companies often inflate these numbers, then give greater supposed "discounts" to create false value. This is especially common at retail chains which act as their own distributors and outsource manufacturing, thereby allowing them to set their own retail prices.

Removed text, what is "Chemist" and "Newsagent"?:
 * SRP is therefore usually only allowed in markets where special circumstances justify it. For example, Chemist and Newsagent might be allow SRP, so that they can afford to spread out and serve small communtites.
 * Try the search feature on the left: Chemist and Newsagent.

Left this in, but I'd like to know what ruling it's referring to:
 * These were determined to be in restraint of free trade.

This sentence is gibberish. What's it trying to convey?
 * A common use is due to statutory requirements regarding automobile sales in the United States.

--170.171.1.5 14:09, 20 September 2005 (UTC)

This is actually very key to how our "free market works". The problem with thwe word deal is that it means compared to something. If you are your own manufactor and distributor and sell one of a kind product then you can indeed set it at whatever you want because theres nothing to comeat with. However when we usually see stores sell "below this number", its complete jibberish and so deceptive because so is everyone else because they buy in huge amounts of bulk. So how is it a deal? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.32.31.254 (talk) 21:35, 15 January 2010 (UTC)

I've seen numerous examples, most especially with new technology and computer products, where the "list price" differs from the manufacturer's suggested retail price. Here's my take: MSRP is the manufacturer's prediction of the product's price before it is released on the market. Obviously, this price prediction may be unreasonably low skewed by the manufacturer's need for good press and investor optimism to drive their shares higher. List price, on the other hand, is claimed by the retailer to be the highest price that it could find a supplier selling the product to it, regardless of whether the retailer is actually purchasing from that supplier (?). Anyway, customers should not trust comparisons to the "list price" and should instead demand comparisons to the MSRP. Better yet, a customer should be looking at a sampling of the market to get an idea of the product's "real" price. - Maybe someone with expertise on the subject can substantiate this with some references and add this concept to the main entry.