Abstract:
The objectives of this research were to study the consumers buying behavior, to study the decision of the consumers buying, the demographics factor influenced on the decision of consumers buying and to study the relationship between the decision of the consumers buying and the factors influenced on the decision of the consumer to buy the counterfeit goods, brand name in Surat Thani Province. The data were collected by using a questionnaire from 400 samples. Frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, t-test, F-test and Chi-square were used to analyze the data.
The results revealed that most of the respondents were female age between 24 - 32 years old, single, Buddhist, bachelor degree, income between 20,001 - 30,000 Baht and working at private companies. Most of the purchased counterfeit goods, brand name were a purse, Gucci. The place of shopping was the Tesco Lotus, Surat Thani .The magazine influenced to buy .The period of shopping was between 11:01 - 14:00 hrs, on weekend with the average frequency of once a month and the average monthly paid amount of 500 Baht. The factors influenced on the decision of the consumer to buy the counterfeit goods, brand name were high in product, price, environment, channel, marketing promotion, staff and process. The comparison of demographics factors was found that gender, age, occupation, monthly income influenced on the decision of consumer to buy the counterfeit goods ,brand name at a significantly statistic difference of 0.05 .The decision of the consumers buying was related to the factors; the place of shopping, the average monthly paid, the average frequency of shopping ,media and banner influenced on the decision of the consumer to buy the counterfeit goods ,brand name in Surat Thani province at the significant level of 0.05.