Which of the following is not a condition of price discrimination? a. the seller must be a price searcher. b. the seller must be able to distinguish between customers willing to pay different prices. c. it must cost the seller more to service some customers than others. d. reselling the product must be extremely costly or must not be possible

c. It must cost the seller more to service some customers than others.

Explanation:

Price discrimination is when a producer is able to differentiate prices and take advantage of its consumers' surplus.

A price searcher is someone who can influence their prices to change, price discrimination is not possible without being a price searcher.

The seller must also be able to distinguish between different customer groups if not individual customers, hence the distinguish is a must for price discriminators.

Reselling the product must be expensive and hard other wise economic agents would buy the products where there is a lower price and take advantage by selling where differentiated price is high.

However point C, is conditional and it may actually not cost the seller any additional costs to charge different prices.

Hope that helps.

in 2001, dell computer became the world’s largest personal computer vendor, continuing to

gain market share and post profits in an industry struggling with slumping sales and billions of

dollars in losses. dell sells 90% of its pcs directly to the final customer, largely bypassing the

reseller channel that accounts for most of the world’s pc sales. this direct customer relationship

is the key to dell’s business model, and provides distinct advantages over the indirect sales

model. dell’s direct relationship with the customer allows it to tailor its offerings to customer

needs, offer add-on products and services, and use the internet to offer a variety of customer

services. in addition, dell’s pcs are built to customers’ specifications upon receipt of an order,

giving dell additional advantages over indirect pc vendors who must try to forecast demand and

ship products based on those forecasts. dell’s direct sales and build-to-order model has achieved

superior performance in the pc industry in terms of inventory turnover, reduced overhead, cash

conversion, and return on investment (kraemer, et al., 2000).

explanation:

i guess you could put raise the economic balance