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BUYER BEHAVIOUR
Evalution of Alternatives
Purchase Decision
various needs and wants. Consumers also further evaluate their purchasing capacity
with the estimated price or tentative cost of the product.
In this stage, the actual purchase takes place. In other words in this
stage, purchase decision is made and buying process is concluded. Basically for
cheaper product and daily consumable products, purchase decision may keep on
changing as consumer may seek new and better product which is called trial
purchase. Once the consumer is satisfied through the trial purchase, they may
continue purchasing the same product. But, trial purchase is not possible while
purchasing bigger products with larger amount or expensive products. For eg: Buyer
will not carry out trial purchase of vehicles as once it is used will have high
depreciation and the purchase is non-refundable also, whereas, consumer may take
risk of buying new variety of shampoo as a trial purchase, variety of shampoo as a
trial purchase.
largely decides on the future purchase and consumption of the product. In case of
durable products, consumers may take three types of actions as they may
continuous product to other or they may hand-over the product to other or they may
dispose the product permanently.