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Definition of Base Point Pricing

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Definition: Base pointing pricing is the practice of firms setting prices as if their transportation costs to all locations were the same, even if all the vendors are distant from one another and have substantially different costs of transportation to each location. One might interpret this as a form of monitored collusion between the vendor firms.(Econterms)

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