Sentence examples for a merchant model from inspiring English sources

Then a brilliant colleague proposed we pivot to a merchant model, in which Expedia would pre-purchase rooms at a big discount and then resale them at a reasonable markup.

This paper proposes a fractional Merchant model (FMM) to investigate the time-dependent behavior of a simply supported rectangular plate on viscoelastic foundation.

"I don't necessarily see the merchant model as an elixir," he said.

This increasing reliance on the so-called merchant model will not complicate matters for Web sites during a period of low sales, Mr. Jones said, because the online travel agencies do not actually own the inventory.

At the same time, Expedia and Hotels.com were pioneering the so-called "merchant model" of online hotel room selling.

Still, Mr. Jones cautioned that the point of the so-called merchant model was not simply to sell marked-up tickets.

But this so-called merchant model has been slow to catch on at most online travel companies, which have lacked the technology and marketing techniques, as well as the negotiating clout with the airlines, to make such an approach successful.

The fourth is the merchant model, in which the online travel agency buys the room inventory from the hotel company, which then pays a commission ranging from 18 to as much as 38 percent to the online travel agency.

The plate deflection, bending moment, and foundation reaction calculated using the FMM were compared with the results obtained from the analogous elastic model (EM) and the standard Merchant model (SMM).

This "merchant model" was considered much more aggressive in the accounting interpretation than the agent model.

Not "click-through-to-a-merchant shoppable," either, a model that others have pursued.