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Review the "Consumer Purchasing Decisions" topic material. Describe the consumer decision-making process and the factors that would most influence consumers when making their first purchase of each of the items below. Justify your selections using the topic materials.
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Chewing gum = As the price of the product is very low many in
few cents, and this is the product that is being bought by the
customers quite often, the purchase will be termed as routine
buying situation. The customer will not collect much of the
information and he will rely on personal preferences and the
advertisements. Due to the lower price of the products and the ease
of use of the product and no major financial consequences of buying
any defective product, the customer can buy the product without
intense information search.
Smart phone= As the price of the smartphone is relatively higher
and it can range up to thousands of dollars, the level of
involvement of the customer in this purchase decision will be
relatively higher than the chewing gum. The customer will take
reference from some other users, friends and can go online to
search for the relevant information. He will compare the different
smartphones and compare their relative price and features and after
a lot of search and comparison, the purchase decision will be
taken. This product is called a specialty product and it has a
medium
Car= This is a very costly product and it has a lot of financial
consequences on the customer if the correct product is not
purchased that fulfills the need of the customer accurately.
Therefore this product buying situation will be termed as intense
customer buying. In this, the customer will collect a lot of
information from every possible information source. He will take a
lot of time to analyze each input and compare the different
alternatives on each parameter. Once he is fully satisfied with
each parameter, then only the buying decision will be made.