[Ducati] 1098 price

[mike major]

I checked your reference and I think your quote from the open source dictionary is a pretty selective one.  To be dumping, in international trade terms, the price has to be below the cost of production and injure domestic producers.  In this case Ducati may charge less here for competitive reasons but as long as they aren't selling at a loss and no US motorcycle producer complains then what they are doing is simply competitive pricing.  In a free/open market it is common, and legal,  to charge different prices in different locations based on the competition.  Gas prices are a favorite example, the pump price will be lower in locations with effective competition than they are in areas with little effective competition even though it is the same product and costs the same to manufacture.  The best thing for us consumers is effective competition which we seems to be happening in this case.   Later, Moonbeam

Tom <st2_ at ticino.com> wrote:   > No, it's because they are dumping in the US market. The 1098
> costs the same
> as a 999 everywhere else in the world.
>
> Tom
>
> That's not what dumping means. To call it "dumping" you in fact have to 
> have a domestic industry that the predatory pricing is hurting. I doubt 
> any 1098 level of pricing would affect the bottom line at HD or Polaris or 
> any of the boutique custom makers.

>From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumping_%28pricing_policy%29

"A standard technical definition of dumping is the act of charging a lower 
price for a good in a foreign market than one charges for the same good in a 
domestic market"

This is the sense of the word I meant. In Italy, and the rest of the world 
other than the US, the 1098 costs the same as the 999 did. In the US, they 
have lowerd the price to a level far below the domestic market level in 
order to build up sales in the US.

Tom



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