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"The Coase conjecture predicts that a monopolist selling a durable good will be forced to lower prices quickly because consumers anticipate future price drops, undermining the monopolist’s ability to maintain high prices."

That reads absolutely like a wishful thinking of people that desperately want you to believe that monopolies have any saving grace.

The best strategy is to delay the sale as much as possible, if your potential customers get more affluent on average (more than safe return on capital). Keep price high and steady, gradually capturing more and more customers at this price. The only thing that could force you to lower prices would be looming effective competition (which means you are about to lose your monopolist status) or your customer base shrinking due to general increase in poverty.



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