To keep those that are, Assa has offered price cuts, says Roberto Wagmaister, its president.
The deal also may raise the attention of regulators, which may explain why Qwest is not trading up to the offered price.
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Microsoft also has offered price breaks on its Windows software meant for a new class of simple PCs known as netbooks and seems to be responding to a market shift in consumer demand toward smaller tablets.
He said they might be offered cut price deals or bursaries to try to secure their places.
To IBM he offered a price of zero in exchange for 10% of the savings--but he was spurned.
The president emphasized economic growth and job creation, and insisted that his proposals would not increase the nation's deficit, though the White House offered no price tag on his initiatives.
Sol Price offered deep discounts on products in stores stripped of most fancy accoutrements.
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Many shoppers will never go to Amazon.com if they see a lower price offered by another site.
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It seems highly unlikely that my company will ever get offered a sale price on health insurance.
Its rules also mandate that any subscription price offered outside the App Store has to be available within it as well.
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Some have offered double the price, says Stanley, but he rarely budges.
Atomic Pop gives artists 50% of the profit, and ownership of their copyright, against a standard 10% of the retail price offered by the majors.
They said the site can display inventory that is in storage or pieces offered at lower price points and therefore not a priority for gallery sales staff.
One way distributors hope to convince some of those customers to stick around is by offering them more flexibility in the form of programming packages offered at different price points.
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The price it gets is, in a competitive market, determined by the demand for the service at the price offered, not by how much it costs to provide the service.
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Ms Goswell said that Exeter Deaf Centre offered half-price discounts for courses to parents, but added that they would not have had to pay anything if they had remained living in London.
Market analysts say that Kuala Lumpur may have offered the generous price in order to move the bonds in a difficult market (which at that time was nervous about Latin America and U.S. interest rates).
Then last week, Clearwire filed with the SEC an 8K concerning the retention talks that it is currently having with its employees with regard to the Sprint merger that may never happen if there is not an upward revision in the price offered.
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That same agreement also gives Mr. Scott and his related family interests the right to put their shares to the Corporation at fair market value to be determined by independent appraisal if the sellers do not agree with the price offered by the Corporation, and payable in Berkshire shares.
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Warren was offered a give-away price with an interest coupon the general public would have loved to have been offered.
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But the price being offered to the customer doesn't reflect that efficiency, said Parnaby.
In the past, many would sell their produce to traders at whatever price was offered.
Even without that, Crest believes the majority of funds and outside investors are not happy with the price being offered and will vote against it.
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The car, plus bananas, will be offered for an unspecified price.
When a Costco customer walks in the door, he or she expects that the products will be of high quality and offered at a low price.
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We felt similarly good about the new CSR pedals, which take a lot of design cues from the Clubsport pedals, but will be offered with a lower price.
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If you allow yourself to be drawn into repeated price negotiations you will find that every time price comes up the buyer will start at the discounted price you offered before.
The price cuts offered are sometimes steep, and a small business swarmed with eager subscribers could be trading some significant profit losses in the short term for potential customer gains in the long term.
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