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switching costs

Forums › Ask ACCA Tutor Forums › Ask the Tutor ACCA SBL Exams › switching costs

  • This topic has 1 reply, 2 voices, and was last updated 7 years ago by AvatarKen Garrett.
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  • May 8, 2018 at 5:57 pm #450655
    Avatarmsk29
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    Hello Sir,

    Can you please explain the concept of switching costs with an example?

    Does it mean that as a business,you don’t give an opportunity to the buyers to switch to other suppliers? Hence buyers depending on your source of supply. As a result it would be low switching costs but high bargaining power of buyers.

    Is it that way? If not, kindly explain about it please.

    Thank you.

    May 8, 2018 at 6:43 pm #450663
    AvatarKen Garrett
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    You give the opportunity but make it ‘bothersome’.

    For for example, in the UK, when mobile phones were becoming popular if you wanted to change your network provider you had to change your telephone number: a dreadful inconvenience/switching cost.

    Not any more: we can keep our numbers and switching networks is much more common.

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