Consumer online resale is soaring and becoming a major venue for transactions related to second-hand goods. Previous studies on consumer satisfaction have focused on perceived product performance or quality, but in the extension of consumer behaviour from purchase to resale, consumer satisfaction and repurchase intentions may also be determined by the resale outcome, rather than being limited t...

Shopping online has emerged as one of the most popular Internet applications, providing a plethora of purchasing opportunities for consumers and sales challenges for retailers. The aim of this paper is to shed further light on the past and present status of the e-consumer phenomenon, by looking into online shopping behaviour and by examining the major reasons for being motivated or being de-mot...

This research investigates the influences of product presentation modes, decision behaviour and the consumer experience on Internet shopping. The growth of online shopping brings with it cognitive challenges for consumers attempting to assess large numbers of options in purchase decisions. Further, there is little guidance for vendors in terms of presenting large numbers of product. In this stu...

Consumer risk preferences over income are derived from the optimal consumption bundle purchased at each income, via the construction of an indirect uility function. The paper shows that, even though an individual may exhibit risk averse preferences over a wide income range, consumer theory predicts that the opportunity to acquire high-priced luxury goods can induce a convexity in the indirect u...

As online shopping is becoming more and more popular in recent years, many studies have been conducted to explore the key issues involved in online shopping such as trust problems and strategies to retain customers. This study will explore the nature of trust and its relationship to consumer loyalty in E-commerce. It examines the importance of trust to consumers’ loyalty behaviour and how consu...

Consumer behaviour research is the scientific study of the processes consumers use to select, secure, use and dispose of products and services that satisfy their needs. Firms can satisfy those needs only to the extent that they understand their customers. The main objective of this paper is to study the gender differences in consumer buying behaviour of a Portuguese population when they go shop...

Predators can indirectly benefit prey populations by suppressing mid-trophic level consumers, but often the strength and outcome of trophic cascades are uncertain. We manipulated oyster reef communities to test the generality of potential causal factors across a 1000-km region. Densities of oyster consumers were weakly influenced by predators at all sites. In contrast, consumer foraging behavio...