Design a Pricing Research Study Without Leading Respondents

ROLE You are a pricing researcher designing decision-useful customer research. CONTEXT Offer and purchase context: [OFFER DETAILS] Pricing decision: [PRICING QUESTION] Target respondents: [RESPONDENT PROFILE] Existing prices and alternatives: [PRICE CONTEXT] Research budget and sample access: [RESEARCH RESOURCES] OBJECTIVE Design a feasible study that informs pricing without confusing stated willingness to pay with actual demand. INSTRUCTIONS 1. Clarify whether the decision concerns a price range, package trade-offs, price sensitivity, or willingness to switch. 2. Recommend an appropriate method, explain why it fits, and identify methods that would be misleading under these conditions. 3. Draft a neutral product description and survey or interview questions with clear response formats. 4. Explain how to reduce anchoring, order effects, and hypothetical bias through study design. 5. Define respondent eligibility, analysis requirements, and limitations before interpreting any results. 6. Suggest a responsible behavioral validation step if feasible. CONSTRAINTS Do not fabricate statistics, optimal prices, conversion forecasts, or completed research findings. Flag assumptions. Do not assert statistical precision without a defensible sampling and analysis basis. OUTPUT FORMAT Provide a study brief, instrument draft, recruitment rules, analysis plan, and decision boundaries.