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¡°Wow, the real price of the item is
much cheaper than the discounted
price in social commerce site!¡±
You may have this experience after
buying some products in the social
commerce. ¡®Anchoring,¡¯ which is
the theory of the behavior
economics says the human
behavior depends on the first
given information when we
¡ãAcustomerisbuyingawristwatchonthesocialcommerce,Coupang.
havetochooseorsetthecriteria.
For instance, even if the real
they just exaggerate the
online member¡¯s mail. In this point,
fixed price of a pair of jeans is
discount rate compared
theword¡®Today¡¯makespeoplethink
a 50,000 won but they raised the
with the real discount rate. Social
thattheycouldnotgetbenefitsifthey
price to 90,000 won and gave 40
Commerce enterprise¡¯s exaggerated
misstoday,andtheytendtothinkthe
percent discount so that its price
discountrateisawrongpoint,butthe
products are more precious. That is
becomes54,000won.Itsaysthat¡°We
reasonconsumersarepsychologically
justthe¡®Heuristic-Thinking¡¯workon
even offered ¡®40 percent¡¯ discount.¡±
affected by the discounted price is
ourmind.¡®Heuristic-Thinking¡¯isthe
At that time a consumer does not
because consumers do not tend to
theory of the Behavior Economics.
compare the real fixed price to the
consider the real product¡¯s value.
¡®Heuristic¡¯ is a process that the
discounted price. They just compare
Theyjustfocusonthefirstsuggested
person unconsciously or deliberately
thepricewhichthesocialcommerce
price 90,000 won which catches
disregards the recognized
site suggested (90,000 won) to the
the consumer¡¯s mind. A rational
information. The reason we make
discounted price (54,000 won). That
person who is expected to be in
a mistake when we purchase the
makes people feel that they get the
economics will consider whether the
products could be explained by our
much benefit just ¡®anchoring¡¯ the
price 90,000 won is reasonable or
¡®Heuristic-Thinking.¡¯ According to
90,000 won which is the social
not. However, the person in reality
that theory, consumers are putting
commerce¡¯s first suggested price.
has the limit to consider all part of
more importance the value to the
But, customers actually paid 4,000
goods. That is why he has a trouble
products having time and amount
wonmorethanthefixedprice.
todoit,andjustputthecriteriatothe
limitation, disregarding the original
FTC announced a report, which
wrongpriceinformationwhichsocial
productorservice¡¯svalue.LeeSung-
requestedConsumersUnionofKorea
commerce enterprise suggested,
min, sophomore of Department of
to survey the 53 social commerce
irrationally.
Mathematics in HUFS, said ¡°Time
enterprise¡¯s products. And the result
limitation that we could get the
was that the discounted price of 29
Wrongjudgmentduetolimitation
discounted products only ¡®today¡¯
productsamongthemismuchhigher
ontimeandamount
makes us think that we must buy
thantheonlinehighestprice.Inother
Ifwegetintothesocialcommerce
that products and must not miss the
words,eventhoughsocialcommerce
site like ¡®Coupang,¡¯ they say we can
chance, even though the product is
enterprise strongly advertises that
purchasethestuffwiththediscounted
not really necessary to me. I think
they applied 50 percent discount in
price only ¡®Today¡¯ and that day¡¯s
that time limitation disturbs our
the products, it is not true because
discountedproduct¡¯slistissenttothe
wise purchase.¡± It means that the
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