Research Article

Reselling or Agency Selling? The Optimal Pricing and Return Strategy for the Agricultural Product

Table 1

Notations and definitions.

NotationDefinition

Fault rate of the agricultural product
Base demand
Price—demand sensitivity coefficient
Refund—demand sensitivity coefficient
Refund—return sensitivity coefficient
Product demand
Product return quantity
Product effective sales volume
Wholesale price per unit product
Retail price per unit product
Return compensation per unit product
Platform revenue sharing proportion
Farmer cooperative’s profit in mode ,
E-commerce platform’s profit in mode ,
Total profit of the supply chain in mode ,