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Vincent has been purchasing goods for his firm from a single supplier for many years. On every purchase, the supplier gives him reasonable discounts. Even though other vendors sell the same goods at lower rates, Vincent states that he has never considered an alternate supplier because the quality of goods provided by his existing supplier has always been exceptional. This is an example of Group of answer choices a spiff. vendor loyalty. insider selling. reseller price maintenance. collusion.

          Vincent has been purchasing goods for his firm from a single supplier for many years. On every purchase, the supplier gives him reasonable discounts. Even though other vendors sell the same goods at lower rates, Vincent states that he has never considered an alternate supplier because the quality of goods provided by his existing supplier has always been exceptional. This is an example of
Group of answer choices
a spiff.
vendor loyalty.
insider selling.
reseller price maintenance.
collusion.
        
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Vincent has been purchasing goods for his firm from a single supplier for many years. On every purchase, the supplier gives him reasonable discounts. Even though other vendors sell the same goods at lower rates, Vincent states that he has never considered an alternate supplier because the quality of goods provided by his existing supplier has always been exceptional. This is an example of Group of answer choices a spiff. vendor loyalty. insider selling. reseller price maintenance. collusion.
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00:01 So here we're thinking about the supply side and you want to know when suppliers have a lot of power, right? so a actually sounds very promising.
00:12 Few suppliers, which is good.
00:14 Think of monopoly, right? monopoly is when there are few suppliers and the monopoly has all the power, right? so few suppliers is getting close to the monopoly situation.
00:28 And when it's difficult to industry members to switch, right, you've got plus trapped.
00:36 So to me, a is actually the right answer.
00:40 There are few suppliers, and that means the suppliers have market power, and the industry members are trapped.
00:46 So the suppliers have the industry members hostage.
00:48 A is absolutely correct.
00:50 Let's go through the rest and why they're wrong...
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