Talk:Two-part tariff

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[edit] He or she?

I was interested to see that on 17 May 2007 an unsigned user decided to change my use of 'she' in the "A two-part tariff when consumer demand is homogeneous" to 'he'. I am not going to change it back, as it is a moot point, but surprising nonetheless. Is there a wikipedia policy on which gender to use, I wonder? =) -Narxysus 08:15, 11 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Rewrite of article

I rewrote this entire article, because it was not entirely correct, nor very clear in it's previous form. Hopefully the diagrams make it easier to understand. The article still, I think, needs an explanation of why the firm will not price above the monopoly price MC=MR point (and why it might price below), as well as as an explanation as to what might happen if demand is very similar or radically different (i.e. the respective sizes of the per unit and lump sum fees). I do plan to attempt this at some stage. Also, some good examples of two-part tariffs would help. There were some on the previous version of the article, but I think most of them were debateable, with the exception of the credit card example, which I have included. If anyone is interested, I created the diagrams in Inkspace. Narxysus 06:07, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

• I notice someone restored the examples that existed previously. This created repeated information, so I located them lower down. I do not think it is wise to present examples so early in the article, when they could be debated. For example, the amusement park item - I think in these cases the firm could charge these fees to recoup such costs as public liability insurance and the like, rather than to price-discriminate. The reader should form their ideas of the two-part tariff based on a thorough explanation of it, rather than some arbitrary examples. Narxysus 16:47, 3 February 2006 (UTC)