問23
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電子商取引のうち, オークションサイトでの取引など, 消費者がメーカや小売店以外の個人から商品を購入する形態はどれか。
平成24年度 春期 ITパスポート試験 問23
ストラテジ系ビジネスインダストリ › e-ビジネス
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問 23
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BtoB stands for Business to Business, that is, electronic commerce between one company and another. Ordering and receiving orders between a parts maker and an assembly maker, or electronic procurement between companies (an e-marketplace), falls into this category. In the question the buyer is a consumer and the seller is also an individual, so it is not a transaction between companies and this choice is wrong.
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BtoC stands for Business to Consumer, the form in which a company (a manufacturer or retailer) sells goods and services to consumers; online shops and mail-order sites are typical examples. The question explicitly says the goods are bought “from an individual other than a manufacturer or retailer,” which rules out buying from a business, so this is not BtoC.
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BtoG stands for Business to Government, meaning transactions between companies and government bodies (national or local government), such as electronic bidding and electronic procurement. No government body appears in the question at all, and the seller is an individual, so this does not apply.
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正解 The correct answer is エ: CtoC. CtoC stands for Consumer to Consumer and refers to electronic commerce carried out between one consumer and another. In the transaction described, the buyer is a consumer and the seller is “an individual other than a manufacturer or retailer,” that is, an ordinary individual who is not a business. Because both parties are consumers (C), this form is classified as CtoC. The auction site given as an example is a typical case of CtoC, since both the seller and the winning bidder are usually individuals. Flea-market (secondhand marketplace) apps fall under CtoC as well. It helps to remember that electronic commerce is classified by the combination of who sells and who buys.
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- The classification of electronic commerce (EC) is determined by the combination of the parties to the transaction. B = Business, C = Consumer, G = Government; the one written first is the seller and the one written second is the buyer, which gives BtoB, BtoC, CtoC, BtoG and so on.
- Transactions in which an individual lists an item and an individual buys it, as on auction sites and flea-market apps, are the representative example of CtoC. Even when the transaction takes place on a site operated by a company, it is judged to be CtoC as long as the parties to the sale are individuals.
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