FEATURES OF PRICING OF AMBER PRODUCTS IN MODERN CONDITIONS

Анотація

The purpose of the scientific article is to identify the pricing patterns of raw
amber and amber products in modern conditions based on market
analysis and interpretation of information in terms of decorative and
consumer properties, technological processes of processing. Methodology.
The methodological basis of the research is based on general and
special methods of scientific cognition. The study uses general scientific
and special research methods: analytical, dialectical, comparative legal,
systemic and structural, comparative and evaluative, gemological and
economic. The main part of the work is based on the practical results
of previous research and expert assessments. The scientific novelty lies
in the identification of natural relationships between the weight
of products and their cost, between the weight of raw materials
intended for the manufacture of a given product and the cost of raw
materials. This is used to distinguish the market value, the commercial
or marketing value and the forecast value, which reflects real prices,
and is used to draw up business plans and expert reports. Results.
It is proved that the modern amber market is characterised by the
widespread use of Internet resources for the sale of goods, promotion
of online sites and shops. It is argued that prices in price lists and on
websites of mining, processing and trading companies require systematic
analysis in order to understand their formation for amber and amber
products. The article reveals natural relationships in pricing of
raw amber and amber products in modern conditions based on market
analysis (the results are visualized in the form of graphs and illustrated
with examples) and interpretation of information, taking into account
decorative and consumer properties, technological processes of processing.
The author proposes a procedure for determining the market, commercial
and forecast value, which consists of the following steps: studying the
consumer properties (colour, weight, size, inclusions and cracks,
transparency, processing quality, cost); filling the database with information
based on the results of the research; using an SQL program to process the
results and calculate the cost of raw materials for a sample, the cost of raw
materials per gram, and determining the weight of raw materials for the
manufacture of a given product. The visualized results of this scientific
research are of particular importance in connection with the requirements
of the legislation of Ukraine on forensic examination, which defines the
principles on which forensic activities are carried out, including
the objectivity and completeness of the study