Effect of consumer strategic behavior on online presale strategy

Abstract

Given the effectiveness of online presale in enhancing retailers’ sustainability and efficiency, combining that consumers’ strategic behavior have a powerful influence on retailers’ presale imple-mentation, investigating the online presale promotion model based on consumer strategic behavior is of key importance for both Academics and business. This study takes the “deposit + final” payment online promotional presale model as the research goal and establishes three different models for providing the retailers with optimal presale strategies. On the basis of proposed models, several numerical experiments to study the effects of retailers’ presales strategies on consumer returns and deposit ratio is conducted, and finally, based on the model results, the suggestions on whether to participate in presales and how to make the optimal deposit ratio decision for retailers when participating in presales is provided for both sustainability and efficiency purpose.