Price endings and tourism consumers’ price perceptions

Sabine Kleinsasser and Udo Wagner

Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, 2011, vol. 18, issue 1, 58-63

Abstract: This investigation considers how consumers of higher-priced goods (i.e., tourism services that are neither cheap nor luxurious) perceive odd and even prices and reveals whether these perceptions differ from previous findings that have nearly exclusively related to low-priced goods (e.g., food). This study therefore addresses a new realm and contributes several findings on price endings in reference to goods priced at higher levels. First, consumers of higher-priced goods might be influenced by price endings, just as consumers of low-priced goods are. Second, personal involvement and price interest have a moderating effect on perceptions of such price endings. Third, odd prices also make sense for sellers of higher-priced goods.

Keywords: Price endings; Price perceptions; Hotel business (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jretconser.2010.09.011

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