Price Fairness: Good and Service Differences and the Role of Vendor Costs

Lisa E. Bolton and Joseph W. Alba

Journal of Consumer Research, 2006, vol. 33, issue 2, 258-265

Abstract: Prior research suggests that consumers are forgiving of a price increase that is commensurate with increased vendor costs. We argue that the perceived fairness of the price increase will also depend on the alignability of the cost and price increases, such that alignable increases will be perceived as more acceptable than nonalignable increases. Moreover, we predict that when a cost increase is nonalignable, consumers will be more receptive to a service price increase than a goods price increase. Evidence from a series of experiments supports both predictions. (c) 2006 by JOURNAL OF CONSUMER RESEARCH, Inc..

Date: 2006
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