The flaw in this argument, in Canada at least, is that it has been more than a decade since
flat rate pricing models became the norm.
TradeMonster drops the ball a bit with its over $ 5 stock trades, however
its flat rate pricing model does help make up for the extra cost per transaction.
This flat rate pricing model, while talked about a lot in legal circles, is still hard for clients to find.
Bloomberg Law offers a simpler
flat rate pricing model: $ 450 per lawyer per month, for unlimited use.
Not exact matches
That doesn't leave Square a lot of wiggle room if the credit card companies decide to raise interchange fees: «Because we generally charge our sellers a
flat rate,» higher swipe fees «could make our
pricing look less competitive, lead us to change our
pricing model, or adversely affect our margins,» the company said in its prospectus.
That was meant to replace the wholesale
model, where sellers like Amazon sold ebooks at
prices they set themselves, paying publishers
flat rates.
The reasons for this are diverse: more (and cheap) self - publishing titles are entering the market and publishing houses are testing several
pricing models for their ebooks,
flat rates being one of them.
Because so much of the audiobook market uses subscription
models (where listeners purchase
flat -
rate credits that can be applied to any book on offer), it can be hard for shorter books to compete against full - length titles at the same
price through those distributors.