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Buyer behavior is at the core of marketing. All marketing programs need to begin with an understanding of why and how consumers buy what they do. If no one purchases a company's product or service,
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allows foreign customers to purchase them by mail for price v2 where v1, v2 are the domestic and foreign reservation prices The problem is that frequent travelers are tempted to purchase the CD play
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