Last quarter, RIM updated its guidance for the year and mentioned an expected shortfall in BlackBerry sales along with a lower average selling price for the smartphones (see RIM Guides Lower, Stock Sensitive to Market Share Decline).
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The prices announced for Zune HDs were initially markedly lower than Apple's selling price for comparably-sized iPods.
They also are apt to leave the market after it has dropped, therefore selling at a lower price.
Thailand native Supap Kirtsaeng, a mathematics student at the University of Southern California, noticed that some of the college textbooks he used and sampled from his local college bookstore were selling at a lower price in Thailand than here in the United States.
When roast-chicken restaurant Boston Market started expanding its Boston Chicken shops in the city, he had Gristedes start advertising Philadelphia Chicken and selling it at a lower price.
"This is a case of buying low and selling high, because the lower the price goes, the higher the implied expected return rises, " he said.
The publishers resisted, for instance, a provision of the contracts that said if another retailer were selling a book at a lower price, the publisher would have to match the lower price in Apple's bookstore.
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Such arguments ignore the fact that the crude-oil market is global: no American firm is selling its crude any lower than the world price.
He doubts that Microsoft could sell the tablet for a lower price and make up for it by selling expensive software.
Ranbaxy , a generic drugmaker based in Gurgaon, India, is challenging two key patents on Lipitor in the hopes of selling its own version of the drug at a lower price.
Because Apple is selling new products like the iPad Mini which is at a lower price point that the regular iPad.
It's the practice of selling a borrowed stock expecting to buy it back later at a lower price.
The monetary authority's aim was to slap down hedge funds that had been shorting shares (selling borrowed shares in the hope of buying them back later at a lower price).
Despite healthy volume, average selling price continued to decline as the Euro weakened and Germany transitioned to a new, lower feed-in-tariff regime.
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The meetings were already met with some skepticism on Capitol Hill, where lawmakers have been pushing the SEC to get more aggressive in reining in short-selling, in which a trader borrows shares to sell, hoping to profit from a lower stock price when closing out the loan.
Jobs initiated the routine of still selling the previous generation devices (like older iPhones, iPads and some iPods) at a lower price to address the buyers with lower budgets.
In short-selling, a trader borrows shares and then sells them, hoping to profit by buying them at a lower price later to close out the loan.
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