Friday, July 5, 2013

The price of moving - An approach from Economics

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Whether it is for Dallas moving or Fort Worth moving, relocating within Texas has been very easy and less time consuming. Moving on one’s own has been the thing of past. Everyone prefers professionals for handling their belongings when it comes to move to different places. Quite so, such preference does have many pros – safety of belongings, hassle-free and timely transportation. Most peculiarly though, the affordability has been the main highlight for the relocation process.
With many moving companies growing rapidly in the state, the price of moving has been reduced to a very affordable charge. In economics, laws of supply and demand can prove the aforesaid statement. A price of any good or service is registered in the market via an interaction of its supply and demand. Technically speaking, a point where demand and supply meets is called an equilibrium state in which a price placed in the state will the market price (equilibrium price). Now, in this scenario of rapid growth of moving companies, the supply of moving services has increased. A competition is built in the market where all the moving companies will thrive to be best. One of the most used tactics of companies will be to lower their prices to attract many customers as possible – even attracting the customers of their rivals – so that they can stay in the game. Thus, the increase of supply of moving services in the market (increment of moving companies in the state) has led to lower and competitive prices.

Though it should be kept in mind that the demand for moving services can increase – or most probably has increased – which will push up the price, ceteris paribus. Over years, Texas has been populated more and more. People migrate to cities like Dallas or Fort Worth for various reasons – chiefly being the suitably environment to settle and job transfers/seeking for jobs. With preference of moving professionals over self-moving, demand for services from moving companies has been increased. Moving companies tend to raise prices inferring that potential customers are willing to pay more prices for the services. However, the increased supply does overweigh the probable increase in demand, thence lowering the price.

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