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Value-based price is a pricing strategy which sets prices primarily, but not exclusively, according to the perceived or estimated value of a product or service to the customer rather than according to the cost of the product or historical prices.

If customers after bergain find out the offered price of a product is more than what it is originally, that means the customer needs to give a higher price for their satisfaction. In such a case, the opportunity cost of the product is more than expected. o customers will prefer not buy such products.

A price ceiling is a government-imposed price control or limit on how high a price is charged for a product. Governments intend price ceilings to protect consumers from conditions that could make commodities prohibitively expensive. Such conditions can occur during periods of high inflation or in monopolistic markets.

If any company sets the price of its product or service too high, in the sense it is higher than others, even if they aren't compromising on other factors such as quality etc, the company will face low sales and low markup by the consumers. That is because the consumers will tend to buy from ones who have lesser prices at the best opportunity cost of other factors.

Value based pricing is the strategy which sets prices primarily, but not exclusively, according to the perceived or estimated value of a product or service to the customer rather than according to the cost of the product or its historical prices. So once the customer needs are found out and a target price is set, the incurred costs behind those products need to be found out.

Cost based pricing is the easiest way to calculate what a product should be priced at. This appears in two forms: full cost pricing and direct-cost pricing. So after designing the product, determining the cost of the product, one must set the price of the product as its determined cost.

The are many reasons behind the income of a company. But before any other reason, the company must design its product or service and set a reasonable price to it. Any certain change to the price can affect the set of customers to that company. So, price is the deriving element towards the cause of income for company.

Target costing is an approach to determine a product's life-cycle cost which should be sufficient to develop specified functionality and quality, while ensuring its desired profit. It involves setting a target cost by subtracting a desired profit margin from a competitive market price.