Sunday, November 23, 2014

difference between consumer and customer

consumer - (хэрэглэгч)
costumer - (худалдан авагч)

Difference Between Customer & Consumer


  • The basic difference between consumer & Customer is very small.
    The one who buys is a customer & the one who uses the product is the consumer.

    Who should be the target for a company a customer or a consumer ??



  • There is a little difference between customer & consumer..

    Customer - A person who is a intermediary person between the seller & end user.customer may be the consumer,customer purchase the product or services.

    Consumer - Consumer is the end user who only consume the product..

  • The one who buys the product is called a customer and the who uses the product is called a consumer. That's how the our prof at Welingkar helped us remember.

  • Customers and Consumers are used regularly to determine the same personal but there is a distinction. The distinction between a customer and a consumer is identified by the direction of the product after it is bought.




What Is the Difference Between a Customer & a Consumer?



Customer

  • The customer is an organization or person that purchases a product but is not the end user of the goods. For example, assume a customer is the purchasing department of an organization. Each department of the organization places an order for goods or services that it needs, such as paper for the administrative department. The purchasing department finds a manufacturer that sells the product and orders the product. The purchasing department is the customer but the administrative department is the consumer.

Consumer

  • The consumer is the end user of a product and actually uses the product. An example of a consumer is the patron of a grocery store. The patron buys groceries from the store to eat the food. The grocery store bought those food items from farmers, manufacturers and other vendors, so that it could sell these items to consumers. The grocery store is the customer of the farmers, and the patrons are the consumers of the grocery store.

Customer vs Consumer

The difference between a consumer and a customer, is a very thin line. Aside from both terms being used frequently in the field of business, these words are often used in a similar context, which adds up to the confusion.
By definition, a customer is someone who buys services or goods from someone else while a consumer is someone that consumes a certain product or commodity. In the concept of Economics, a consumer can either be a single person or an entire organization, that uses a certain type of service. Consumers can also be any form of organism, that devours or eats something, as in the field of Science and Ecology.
For example, a customer is best exemplified by a coffee shop, that buys a coffee maker, from a coffee maker manufacturer. This means that the restaurant buys the said equipment, for the benefit of its patrons or guests. In this connection, the restaurant is clearly pictured as a customer and not the actual consumer. However, in a similar scenario wherein you directly go to the coffee maker manufacturer and buy their product so that you can bring it home for your family’s use at home, then you are the real consumer.
Simply said, if you are going to use a particular product for purposes other than your own consumption, like for commercial usage, then you are considered a customer.
However, according to the Consumer Protection Act of India in 1986, the term, ‘consumer’ has a broader, meaning to include those who use a product or commodity for a living. And so, if you are the sole proprietor of your company and you purchased the coffee maker under your name, then you can still be considered a consumer according to this Act.
Furthermore, the Act expands the consumer definition even more by stating that a consumer does not need to buy products for personal usage to be considered as one, rather the mere thought or intent of buying already turns you into a consumer.



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