An Account of the Purchase of a Television Set in Singapore

CASE 5 AN sum up OF THE PURCHASE OF A TELEVISION SET IN SINGAPORE forefront 1 What are the dissimilar breaker points in the purchasing physical process for a goggle box prune? What critical stimuli or events drive each stage? The get decision process is a basic psychological process. This process plays an burning(prenominal) role in understanding how guests make their buying decision. In this case, the consumer are planning to get a bigger tv preparation stage set, which force out be placed in their living room, while the current tv pull up stakes be moved to their bedroom.Referring to the case, on that point are five different stages in the buying process for a television sets which are caper recognition, information search, evaluation of alternatives, leveraging decision and post purchase behavior. comprise MODEL DESCRIPTION a) Problem recognition * The buying process is commencement exercise with problem recognition. A need roll in the hay be activated b y means of internal and external stimuli. * As a consumer, they hurl to recognize a problem occurred and the needs of the sweet television set.In this, the external problem occurred when her bring up in law decided to move in with them. The purpose of buying new television is to give more appropriate environment and to avoid conflicts with her parent in choosing the television programs. Besides that, it is to give a dampen perception to the relative. While the internal stimuli derived when * Their budget for the new television set is RM 1300 only. b) Information Search * After problem recognition, the consumer tries to solve it and gathers the sources and information almost the television set.There are four consumer information sources which is i) Personal sources ( family, relatives, friends, neighbors etc) ii) Commercial sources (advertisement, salesman, dealers) iii) e genuinelyday sources (mass media, consumer rating organizations) iv) Experiential sources (handling, ex amining, using the products) * In this case, they gain started browsing a newspapers and magazines, browsing an internet and website to compare the different models available in market. In order to get more information, they also get a passport from their friends and colleagues.Besides that, they also make a visit to the household shop to chance upon about the product specific every(prenominal)y. c) Evaluation of alternative * After wrap uped the information, the consumer fuddle to clarify and evaluates the alternatives that they find out. First, they see to clarify a need of a new television set. * In this case, they plan to have a new television set when their parents decided to move in to their house. This is to avoid conflicts with their parents in choosing the television programs and to give a better perception to their family. Besides that, they have to get word at the benefit from the product selected. As a consumer, they have to choose which television will give more benefit to them and can satisfy their needs. d) Purchase decision * Evaluation behavior leads the consumer to form a ranked set of preferences. In making buying decision, they will go out a few factors which is a) Attitude of others very much(prenominal) as husband, family, relatives, friend. b) Anticipated situational such as evaluate family income, expected total cost of the product and the expected benefits from the product. ) Unanticipated situational as look or manner of the salesman * In murder a purchase intention, the consumer have to make up five gunman decision a) Brands, b) Dealer c) Quantity d) Timinge) Payment method (cash or acknowledgment card) * At this stage, the consumer has to choose either JVC 29 flat screen or Panasonic 29. * For JVC 29 flat screen, the television set was came with four historic period warranty, special discounts of 15% and will get a free lay out JVC VCD worth of S$180. The model also has a futuristic look and matched with their furni ture. However, the set was slightly broad(prenominal)er than their estimated budget. While for Panasonic 29, the television set was come with angiotensin-converting enzyme year warranty, no free gift and the price was lower from their budget. * Finally, afterward evaluate and considering all the factors and recommendations, they have decided to purchase the JVC 29 flat screen model although the price exceeded their budget. e) Post purchase behavior * After buying and experimenting the product, the consumer will feel close to level of satisfaction or dissatisfaction and the level of satisfaction depends very much on the expectation and the products perceived performance. In this case, the consumer is very satisfied and happy with the television set because it matches up to her expectations. Question 2 What are the social and psychological factors influencing the buying process for a television set? In the buying process of a television set, there are social and psychological factors that will influence the consumer. The social factors influences customer buying decision includes culture, subculture, social class, reference group and family. Culture is the set of belief, attitudes and behavior patterns shared by members of the society and transmitted form one generation to the next.For example, most of the Singaporeans will spend much of their free cadence at home watching television. So the television set is an important household appliance for every family. Reference group includes a miscellany of groups that effect consumer behaviors through normative compliance. In this case, reference group that influencing them in buying process are referring to family consist of husband, wife, parents and relatives. While the psychological factors influencing the buying process of a television set are motivation, perception, learning and memory.Motivation will drive a person to act in achieving their needs. In this case, the consumer has some needs such as pr ivacy, esteem, belongings and discomfort. In achieving their needs, the consumer will collect all the information and evaluate the alternative that they find out in choosing the best television set. Question 3 What lesson can be learnt for the merchandise of television sets from understanding the consumer buying process and influences? Perception is the process when the consumer select, head and interprets information.In this scenario, the consumer has been influenced by the salesman about the quality and performance of the television set after he explained the features and functions of the different models. The features of the message and the way it is communicated was influenced the consumer perceptions. Learning involves the changes in an unmarrieds behavior arising from the experience. In this case, the consumer has learned from the salesman/salesgirl behavior, such as when they went to the Courts, no salesperson entertain them and at the Electric City & vanquish Connection , the sales person failed to give the best services to her customer.These bad experiences have change the interest of the consumer to buy television set with them. Memory is all about the information and experiences that have been encounter as they go through their life. In the stages of the buying television set, the consumer will influence with the famous and high quality brand of television in Singapore. In the marketing of television sets, understanding the consumer buying process is very important. As the marketer, they must discover needs, wants and demands of the consumers. They also have to consider all the buying process factors and try to provoke the feeling of risk in the consumer perception.