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17.   Certain items—those with that hard-to-define quality called exclusivity—have the odd property, when they become available for sale, of selling rapidly even though they are extremely expensive. In fact, trying to sell such an item fast by asking too low a price is a serious error, since it calls into question the very thing—exclusivity—that is supposed to be the item’s chief appeal. Therefore, given that a price that will prove to be right is virtually impossible for the seller to gauge in advance, the seller should make sure that any error in the initial asking price is in the direction of setting the price too high.

The argument recommends a certain pricing strategy on the grounds that

(A) this strategy lacks a counterproductive feature of the rejected alternative

(B) this strategy has all of advantages of the rejected alternative, but fewer of its disadvantages

(C) experience has proven this strategy to be superior, even though the reasons for this superiority elude analysis

(D) this strategy does not rely on prospective buyers estimates of value（A）

(E) the error associated with this strategy, unlike the error associated with the rejected alternative, is likely to go unnoticed

答案是A，可是，不怎么明白therefore后面的话，还有为什么选这个答案呢~请大家帮帮忙~

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由于卖家不可能提前预测出正确的价格，所以他应当确保他首次出价上的任何错误是由要价过高造成的。
我自己的理解是，这个提要求你总结题干argument的premise.实际上这个题干讨论如何更有效的卖 items with exclusivity.他给了两个方案：一个是asking too low a price；另一个是setting the price too high。题干比较了两个方案。一开头说第二个方案不影响exclusivity。第一个方案有缺陷：call exclusivity -the chief appeal of these items - into question。而且正确的定价也不能提前预测。所以，我们应该用第二个方案。

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