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Pricing Is Very Subjective

Name: Pricing Is Very Subjective
Uploaded: 2023-12-22T20:00:03+00:00
Duration: 46 s
Channel: David Molina
Description: In this brief YouTube segment, speaker David Molina discusses the subjective nature of pricing and shares a real‑world experiment that illustrates the…

22 Dec 2023 · 1 min

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In this brief YouTube segment, speaker David Molina discusses the subjective nature of pricing and shares a real‑world experiment that illustrates the power of framing. Initially, his company offered a 30% discount (about $2,000) on a product, but no customers accepted the offer. They then re‑phrased the same discount as a dollar‑amount saving—"save $2,000"—which is actually a smaller monetary benefit. After the change, the first viewer took the deal and a second asked for it, demonstrating that presenting the discount in dollar terms dramatically increased uptake despite a lower absolute saving. Molina highlights this as a striking example of how psychological framing can influence purchasing decisions.

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Pricing is an interesting topic because it's numbers, but it's also very subjective. So we have a, a one-two page, right? So first you get into the weekly thing and after we offered a paid-in-full discount. So we used to offer 30% discount, which was a little over $2,000. Nobody took it. Zero. Like nobody did. Then we changed it to save $2,000, which actually is less saving. And the first person who saw it got it, and the second person who saw it asked for it. This is kind of mind-blowing to me. I don't know, but to me it's— you had less of a saving, but because you framed it instead of as a percentage, as a dollar amount, more people were willing to take it and one person actually took it.