This study delves into emerging costs and benefits of digital markets to consumers through in-depth interviews with 5 women and 4 men consumers. Four themes are founded from the analysis of the transcript as follows: 1)benefits of Intemet shopping con...
This study delves into emerging costs and benefits of digital markets to consumers through in-depth interviews with 5 women and 4 men consumers. Four themes are founded from the analysis of the transcript as follows: 1)benefits of Intemet shopping consisted with convenience, price efficiency, and fun, 2) dustirted effciencies consisted with distorted price efficiency, distorted time efficiency, and limited choices based on familiarity, 3)addiction to digital market consisted with waste, distorted satisfaciton, and solidarity, and 4)stages in consumer types according to shopping experiences from the novice, the explorer, the expert, and the cynic in part and the addict in part. These themes imply consumer benefits from economic and esthetic aspects and mixed consumer costs according to consumer's level of informatization. This study concludes that the digital market is morphogenic, flexible, fluid market and therefore, the real features of the digital market are yet to come. More research attention should be highlighted in the impacts of digital market to consumers from various perspectives with varlous methodologies.