To the Editor: The price that you paid for downloading music, $2.99, does seem high (or at least at the high end of retail pricing).

It obtains retail pricing by collecting information about actual retail sales.

Another common technique is suggested retail pricing.

Critics in particular praised the combination of competitive retail pricing and quality of the Nexus 7.

BOM difference based on chips and chipsets is maybe $50 at most, which would translate to about $100 in retail pricing.

By mid-1997 retail pricing had been dropped by 25%.

Microsoft today announced Windows 7 retail pricing, upgrade information, launch details, and a preorder deal.

Thankfully, retail pricing is typically used as a starting point; most users will not be buying retail versions anyway.

A few readers have asked in the comments and via e-mail about retail pricing in other countries.

The absence of such safety features in an attempt to lower retail pricing is suspected to be one factor for the one-star crash test result.