{"id":5248,"date":"2021-04-23T12:00:15","date_gmt":"2021-04-23T19:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/econ\/?p=5248"},"modified":"2021-04-23T12:00:17","modified_gmt":"2021-04-23T19:00:17","slug":"pay-what-you-want-pricing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/econ\/2021\/04\/23\/pay-what-you-want-pricing\/","title":{"rendered":"Pay-What-You-Want Pricing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Pay-What-You-Want pricing is probably the best pricing model if your goal is to run your company into the ground. This model is as simple as it sounds; a company provides a good or service, you consume it, then pay whatever you feel is a reasonable price. In this model, the consumer dictates the price of the good or service they are receiving, and the producer must accept it. For me, free is a perfectly reasonable price for everything!&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The motivation for the PWYW model seems legitimate; buyers will theoretically trust producers due to their confidence, and producers have the chance of selling at a price higher than the market dictates. I think this model could be successful, but only if a business has an established reputation with a customer base. I would not want to see a brand new business fail, but I do love free stuff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pay-What-You-Want pricing is probably the best pricing model if your goal is to run your company into the ground. This model is as simple as it sounds; a company provides a good or service, you consume it, then pay whatever you feel is a reasonable price. In this model, the consumer dictates the price of the good or service they are receiving, and the producer must accept it. For me, free is a perfectly reasonable price for everything!&nbsp; The motivation for the PWYW model seems legitimate; buyers will theoretically trust producers due to their confidence, and producers have the chance <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/econ\/2021\/04\/23\/pay-what-you-want-pricing\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Pay-What-You-Want Pricing<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":631,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/631"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5248"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5249,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5248\/revisions\/5249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}