You are a pricing analyst for QuantCrunch Corporation, a company that sells a statistical software package. To date, you only have one client. A recent internal study reveals that this client’s demand for your software is Q=300-0.20P and that it would cost you $1,000 per unit to install and maintain software at this client’s site. The CEO of your company recently asked you compare: (There are 2 answers to this question) Please see below.
1. The profit that results from two-part pricing (Hint: set the per-unit price for each unit of the software installed and maintained equal to marginal cost; and charge a fixed “licensing fee” that extracts all consumer surplus from the client)
2. Which pricing strategy would you recommend to your CEO?