Swift Dzire sells a lot more than its competitors. While many factors contribute to that, one is - a sense of making the right choice. Can’t go wrong with a product if millions are buying it, right? Psychological factors affect our buying decisions & brands try to manipulate them.
Let’s talk about one such tactic - Scarcity #Marketing. It has a lighter & a darker side. Lighter is when a business creates fictitious urgency by announcing limited stock. Darker is when cartels hoard and creates artificial scarcity.
So, what are some scarcity marketing tactics?
1. Limited stock availability (OYO’s listings)
2. Season end sale
3. N number of people on the page (NoBrokr)
4. Limited Editions (Audi R8 Decennium is priced $40K higher than the regular R8)
These tactics work as we think,
Limited availability = exclusivity
Limited editions = more valuable
Some of these are transactional as in limited availability never comes in the way of anyone’s buying desire. They seem to be always available.
Other times though, companies go great lengths to maintain exclusivity & ensure future success for instance, in 1980, Disney urged people to buy limited editions of their films before they went back into Disney Vault & didn’t make it available for years.
