“…Further to that, an increase in perceived future customer purchase intention can used by business practitioners as a measuring barometer of the business' future survival and possible profitability prospects (Bao, Bao & Sheng 2011). Owing to this recognized importance of customer purchase intentions, academicians and business practitioners alike, have been interested in understanding the factors that influence customer purchase intentions (Kumar, Lee & Kim, 2009& Paul, Wu, Yeh & Hsiao, 2011. Among some of the noted predictors of customer purchase intentions in the marketing literature are customer trust in some brands Chen, 2008;Lin & Wang, 2006;Lu & Hsiao, 2010;Wang, 2008), customer perceived value of the products to be purchased (Wang, Yeh, & Yi-Wen Liaob 2013;Lu & Hsiao, 2010) and their overall perception of the quality of the products they need to purchase (Steenkamp, 1990;Miyazaki, Grewal, Dhruv, Goodstein & Ronald, 2005;Bao, Bao & Sheng 2011;Roest & Rindfleisch 2010;Carrillat, 2009) While most of the previous studies have examined the antecedents of customer or consumer purchase intentions in general, this study is unique in that it focuses on the purchase intention of electronic gadgets such as laptops from a student perspective.…”