Price Filtering: Restricting Price Deals to those Least Likely to Buy Without Them Available to Purchase

Discusses methods of tailoring prices to buyers who differ in their willingness to pay while maintaining a semblance of fairness and uniformity – filtered pricing. Considers microeconomic theory,geographic discrimination, filtering methods such as couponing,skimming, quality and features, sales, as well as newer methods like rebates and price packaging. Surmises that there is a challenge to create new price filtering techniques, without ignoring the ethical questions involved.