Consumer Behavior Report
Consumer Behavior Report
CONDITION
Antecedent conditions refer to
situational characteristics
influencing consumer behavior
before a purchase. These include
economic resources, orientation,
mood, and other emotional
perception such as fear. and other
factors shaping the perceived value
of a purchase.
ECONOMIC POWER
BUYING POWER
The economic setting refers to a consumer
bringing to a particular purchase setting
resources in the form of cash or buying power.
Buying power can be by draft (check), systems
like PayPal, money or debit card. Among all
methods of payment, cash transactions have a
way of emphasizing the sacrifice required for
purchase. Overall, the method of payment
represents a situational influence on consumers
in several ways.
THIRD PARTY PAYMENTS
Sometimes, consumers need not spend their own
money to make purchases. Instead, some third
party provides the financial backing for the
purchase. Sometimes, the third party is another
consumer, like a parent or guardian, or an
institution, like an insurance company or charity.
The consumer’s employer or even the
government sometimes pays for expenses or
other items, particularly if the employee is
traveling.
CONSUMER BUDGETING
Once upon a time, young consumers found it difficult to
get credit because a track record of payments was
necessary to establish credit. For the past 20 years or so,
high interest rates have compensated for high-risk
consumers, and young consumers, even those still in
college, now find it easy to get a credit card.