Almost 90pc of Hungarian customers browse the Internet before they buy a product, while 50pc visit price-comparison websites and 44pc visit online auction websites, a Google-TNS Infratest survey of customers between the ages of 18 and 60 reveals.
Only 3pc of the respondents use no online resources before shopping.
About 78pc of the customers polled indicated they prefer to pay cash for purchased products, while 46pc paid via bank transfer and 17pc paid online.
The majority of the respondents said that fraud and the unsafe handling of personal data represent and impediment to an expansion of online purchases, while a minority reported that deficient product descriptions hamper growth of online sales.
About third of the customers said the Internet exercised an influence on their choice of shops and products.
The poll analyzed 6,830 purchases.
ehhh these lovely and useless statistics…
This is strange and kinda contradicts your recent article which said
that approx 50 % of hungarians uses the net on a regular basis…
@fidel: Yes, these numbers *are* weird… my guess is that they mean 90% of regular internet users. But they also don’t say what kind of purchases we are talking about – I doubt, for example, that anyone goes online to price-compare before buying carrots.
I don’t know about Hungarians consulting the net before they buy. I would suggest they consult their bank balances.
Most, as far as I am aware, are in the red!
Twenty seven thousand borrowers recently admitted
to not being able to repay loans on houses and cars etc. (Article posted by Erik, recently, confirmed this.) In addition a huge number of Hungarians are unable to pay utility bills.
I propose that there are more Hungarians in full employment abroad than there are here.
By that I mean..I observed twenty Hungarians gathered to repair a road. Never actually saw one of them working. Similarly, eight Hungarians
charged with cutting the grass along the highway.
Nearly twelve o’clock midday and they lazily decided to make a start.
Can you get a taxi outside of Budapest? Are there any proper rail links to the provinces? Does the sun shine on the chosen people of Magyarorszag?
Not at the moment..it’s more like the shit from non-existent sewers driftings across the pusztas
to choke the whole rotten debacle of a dung heap
that no one cares about, nor has any idea how to deal with.The overwhelming tide of ineptitude and corruption instigated by Bajnai’s buffoons in Budapest has layed bare a once fertile and enterprising land.
Whatever Hungary is or is not, the fact is that this “article” citing the “survey” done by “MTI-Econews” is pure, unadulterated garbage.
Just who is the person at RealDeal.hu who actually posts these cruel, crude jokes here, apparently trying to pass them off as legitimate “articles” or bona-fide “surveys?”
The mind staggers… and not in a good way, either.