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customer and consumer

English translation: Customer buys something for another consumer

06:58 Aug 15, 2008
English language (monolingual) [Non-PRO]
Bus/Financial - Accounting / commerce
English term or phrase: customer and consumer
customer may or may not be the consumer
consumer may or may not be the customer

is it true?
saran kumar
Selected answer:Customer buys something for another consumer
Explanation:
The customer is not always the consumer.

If I buy a present - or anything at all - for my son, then I am the customer, but he is the consumer.

The same applies in any situation where one person or legal person acquires something to be used by someone else.

Or when a retailer buys from a wholesaler for resale to the end consumer.

Plenty of other examples.
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Christine Andersen
Denmark
Local time: 13:48
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SUMMARY OF ALL EXPLANATIONS PROVIDED
3 +7Customer buys something for another consumer
Christine Andersen
4 +2The person or organization in question may not be the one getting the product or service
Jack Doughty


  

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12 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
The person or organization in question may not be the one getting the product or service


Explanation:
and vice versa. E.g. the customer may be a wholesaler who will pass goods on to a retailer, who will sell to the consumer.

Jack Doughty
United Kingdom
Local time: 12:48
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 16

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Christine Andersen
5 mins
  -> Thank you.
agree  Marie Scarano
52 mins
  -> Thank you.
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17 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +7
Customer buys something for another consumer


Explanation:
The customer is not always the consumer.

If I buy a present - or anything at all - for my son, then I am the customer, but he is the consumer.

The same applies in any situation where one person or legal person acquires something to be used by someone else.

Or when a retailer buys from a wholesaler for resale to the end consumer.

Plenty of other examples.

Christine Andersen
Denmark
Local time: 13:48
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
Grading comment
Selected automatically based on peer agreement.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Jack Doughty
4 mins
agree  kmtext
12 mins
agree  Demi Ebrite
14 mins
agree  Gary D: when you go to the shop and buy a drink, Is it for you or the person in the car?
1 hr
agree  Nuno Lima Netto: A customer is a consumer if that is the last link of a transactions. Otherwise a customer is still going to continue a transaction. Industrial conpanies have customers.
5 hrs
agree  Jürgen Lakhal De Muynck
14 hrs
agree  Phong Le
21 hrs
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