What Was That Economics Term?

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• Panic.

  That might not be the actual technical term.

• Fire sale?

• Zune? Vista?

• Peak pricing?
  http://www.economist.com/research/economics/alphabetic.cfm?letter=P#peakpricing

• Utter is close; what you have described in the post is really off-peak pricing; the downward trajectory of the fee as the commodity slips down the demand schedule.

  Inflection point would also work, since Christmas is the transition point between the pre-Christmas increased marginal value, and post-Christmas decreased value.

• in the airline industry yield management is responsible for a lot of the different pricing you can see over time. One of the elements of yield management is the perishability of the good. (that is they become value-less after a certain time period). [in the airline case, seats can't be sold after the plane leaves]

  so i would guess 'perishable' is close to what you're looking for.

• http://www.snpp.com/episodes/2F14.html
  Broker: Homer, you knuckle-beak, I told you a hundred times: you've got to sell your pumpkin futures before Hallowe'en! Before!
  Homer: All right, let's not panic: I'll make the money back by selling one of my livers. I can get by with one.

• Depreciation