Many durable products with relatively short selling seasons have been using returns policies between manufacturers and retailers as the contractual protocol for some time. Recently, these sectors have witnessed the growing popularity of peer-to-peer Web-based used goods markets as important...

Chapter 1. Estimating Demand with Constrained Data and Product Substitutions -- Chapter 2. Selling Innovative Products to Anxious Consumers -- Chapter 3. Buyer Valuation Uncertainty and Firm Information Provision Strategies -- Chapter 4. Optimizing Promotions for Multiple Items in Supermarkets...

Used goods markets are currently important transaction channels for durable products. For some durable products, such markets first appeared when retailers started buying back used products from “old” customers and selling them to new ones for a profit (). The growth of electronic...