Abstract:
The purposes of this study were to investigate the purchasers behavior and factor affecting
their decision to buy soft wood furniture, to examine the level of significance of those factors and
to compare the found level of significance with the informants personal status. The informant of
this study were 400 people who lived in bangkok and used to buy at least one piece of soft wooden
furniture within 5 years. Questionaires were used to collect the data. Percentage, frequency,
arithmetic mean, standard deviation, Chi-square, ANOVA, and Scheffe analysis were used to
analyze the data.
It was found that most informants were male with the age ranging from 25-35 years, holding
bachelors degree, and earning 20,001-25,000 bath/month. Their familys average income was
50,001 baht/month upward. The number of family members was 4-5. Their housing was of
commercial building or town house type.
With respect to buying behavior, the study revealed that most purchasers bought bedroom
furniture such as sideboard and TV shelf. They spent about two weeks to find out the information
before deciding to buy. They knew the furniture shops in trade exhibitions. Furniture that showed
wooden pattern and was of almost the same color as the ones they had at home were preferable.
Most furniture was bought on purpose rather than on desire when seeing them. The media most
affecting their decision to buy was advertisement at sale location. Most informants bought wooden
furniture from furniture shops. The reason why they liked to buy wooden furniture was that there
were varieties of patterns offered.
With respect to the analysis of relationship between the purchasers personal status with
their behavior in buying soft wooden furniture, it was found that the informants considered price, sale location, and promotion as very important. Three items of behavior were found related to sex,
one to age, six to educational background, six to monthly income, seven to family monthly
income, three to the number of family members, six to housing types, and three to area for
installation.
Regarding the significance level of factors affecting decision to buy soft wooden furniture,
the study indicated that most informants placed the most importance on price, followed by sale
location, and marketing promotion.
The comparison of the significance level of factors affecting buying decision of purchasers
with different sexes, age, number of family members, and area of installation revealed no
differences as a whole. On the contrary, differences were found as a whole in factors affecting
buying decision of purchasers with different educational background, monthly income, and
housing types. The detailed investigation of the by-aspects and by-items yielded difference in
some factors of purchasers with different personal status except the aspect related to the number
of family members. The statistical significance level of this study was set at .05.