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Consumer dissatisfaction

Visualization of narrower problems
Name(s): 
Grievances of consumers
Consumer complaints
Claim 
Customers will always complain. Nothing is ever good enough.
Counter-claim 
Through competition, consumer dissatisfaction serves as a market sanction for poor performance.
Broader 
Grievances
Lack of satisfaction
Narrower 
Over-pricing
Return of purchases
Unsurveyed consumer needs
Decreasing consumer choice
Excessive bill-paying surcharges
Unsafe design of consumer products
Prohibitive cost of goods and services
Lack of consumer influence on industry
Haphazard provision of consumer services
Non-destructible containers and packaging
Incorporation of carcinogens into consumer goods
Reduces 
Consumer vulnerability
Related 
Nagging wives
Unethical consumption practices
Misrepresentation of information to consumers
Aggravated by 
Biased regulators
Failure of computer billing
Disincentives to complaining
Defensive marketing facilities
Inflated material expectations
Lack of local commercial services
Lack of knowledge of eligibility for benefits
Inadequate recall procedures for unsafe products
Non-payment of compensation for damages to consumers
Reduced by 
Denial of right of complaint
Strategy(ies) 
Satisfying customers
Listening to grievances of consumers
Value(s) 
Satisfaction
Complaints
Dissatisfaction
Grievance
Selfishness
Type 
(D) Detailed problems

About the Encyclopedia

The Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential is a unique, experimental research work of the Union of International Associations. It is currently published as a searchable online platform with profiles of world problems, action strategies, and human values that are interlinked in novel and innovative ways. These connections are based on a range of relationships such as broader and narrower scope, aggravation, relatedness and more. By concentrating on these links and relationships, the Encyclopedia is uniquely positioned to bring focus to the complex and expansive sphere of global issues and their interconnected nature.

The initial content for the Encyclopedia was seeded from UIA’s Yearbook of International Organizations. UIA’s decades of collected data on the enormous variety of association life provided a broad initial perspective on the myriad problems of humanity. Recognizing that international associations are generally confronting world problems and developing action strategies based on particular values, the initial content was based on the descriptions, aims, titles and profiles of international associations.

About UIA

The Union of International Associations (UIA) is a research institute and documentation centre, based in Brussels. It was established in 1907, by Henri la Fontaine (Nobel Peace Prize laureate of 1913), and Paul Otlet, a founding father of what is now called information science.
 

Non-profit, apolitical, independent, and non-governmental in nature, the UIA has been a pioneer in the research, monitoring and provision of information on international organizations, international associations and their global challenges since 1907.

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