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How a 5-Dollar Shipping Fee Anchors Free Returns
Episode 56 of The Pricing Marketing Podcast with Fexingo explores how a seemingly small $5 shipping fee can anchor consumers into perceiving free returns as a generous perk, even when return costs are baked into product prices. Lucas and Luna break down the psychological mechanism using a real-world example from the online apparel retailer Everlane, discussing how the fee acts as a decoy to shift customer focus from total cost to a single salient number. They also touch on behavioral economics concepts like loss aversion and transaction utility, and explain why removing the fee altogether can…
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