Purchase regret prediction with Deep Learning

Purchase Regret is considered as the negative variable which can affect the consumer’s purchasing behavior and impacts the return on investment of the seller negatively too. This research topic, thus, focused on how to predict consumer’s regret on a purchase and the reasons for the same by using deep learning methods. The study focused on finding out which method and model of research and data analysis provided the best conclusion in order to come up with the solutions to sort these issues out.

This topic became trending because of the shift from offline to online business, as more and more sellers appeared and the doubt of whether buying the cheap would offer lesser quality and more regret, the buying patterns changed. Therefore, to come up with an accurate solution it was considered necessary to build a prediction model considering the brand’s social perception score and reviews they received to come up with the right price (not necessarily the cheapest price) for the products too.

Suggested Solutions Concluded To Reduce Purchase Regret

  • Recommendation System

    These systems are more or less used by all the e-commerce platforms which is why it was easier to collect and evaluate data through the help of them. These systems are not just for the traditional existing consumers but also for the new ones. Through deep learning modelling methods and by using PISA (Purchase Intent System-bAsed) Algorithm. Along with deep learning methods PISA techniques helped in managing the imbalance dataset well to see the purchasing behavior of the consumers.

  • Behavioural Purchase

    Understanding and evaluating the purchasing behavior is another method opted to recognize the reasons which can lead to regret and if that regret is because of pricing of the product or other reasons. For this, Long Short Term Memory(LSTM) and Quantile Regression(QR) data are collected and evaluated through deep learning methods.

  • Time Series Data Stability

    To understand the regret behavior, it is also necessary to see the history of purchase. However, for this an algorithm which provides time series data stability is important. Using the traditional ML approaches and vanilla DNN models of deep learning provided better results unlike the hybrid and newer version of deep neural networks like TreNet.

  • Dynamic Pricing Result

    Adaptive pricing and customized products usually offered less post-purchase regret ratio. This point, thus, highlights that regret is more likely affected by the durability and need of the product rather than the high price. However, with the adaptive price and steadily discount options can bring about a change in the post-purchase regret prediction too.

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