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On page 37 of the article “Buy Now and Match Later: Impact of Posterior Price Matching on Profit with Strategic Consumers” by Guoming Lai, Laurens Debo, and Katia Sycara Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Winter 2010, Vol. 12, No. 1, 33–55) , to the beginning of §3.4 Purchasing Behavior, the following sentence should be added: “Similar to Png (1991), we assume that the consumers will make no purchase if the price is higher than VH and thus the seller will not set the first-period price above VH in our model. Furthermore….” The assumption that p1 ≤ VH was made, but was not stated explicitly in the model set-up section.