We used these factors as criteria in our recruiting process and met lovely people that spanned C1 (average monthly income R$1710) and C2 (average monthly income R$1128) classes.<\/p>\n
This is how C-Class thinks about and uses money.<\/p>\n
C-Class has Purchasing Power<\/strong> What’s this all mean?<\/strong> Written with Cori Schauer. Shortly after doing some secondary research and talking to people who had lived in Brazil, we realized that the way we, Americans, think about money and … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":308,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9591,9583,9576,24660,1,9594],"tags":[378],"coauthors":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/ux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/ux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/ux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/ux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/308"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/ux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/ux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/ux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/ux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/ux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1513"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/ux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/ux\/files\/2012\/10\/Screen-Shot-2012-10-08-at-12.05.43-PM.png\" "\\"money2\\"")
<\/a>Money is Familial<\/strong><\/p>\n\n
![\"\"](\"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/ux\/files\/2012\/10\/Screen-Shot-2012-10-02-at-1.31.39-AM.png\" "\\"Hector\\"")
<\/a>One of our participants, Hector, told us about sharing the expense of his remodel.\u00a0 He said, \u201c…everyone contributed, even my brother-in-laws, we raised some money together during the years. And it still wasn\u2019t enough, but we were able to negotiate the materials to be paid in installments. We borrowed my uncle\u2019s credit card which had a higher limit, and we were able to divide that into installments…\u201d.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/ux\/files\/2012\/10\/Screen-Shot-2012-10-02-at-1.32.59-AM.png\" "\\"credit\\"")
<\/a>Credit can be good or bad depending on who you talk to.<\/strong> Using credit was prevalent amongst our participants.<\/p>\n\n
![\"\"](\"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/ux\/files\/2012\/10\/credit-1.png\" "\\"credit-1\\"")
<\/a>Enrique, one of our participants in Recife, told us a story about borrowing credit from his Aunt.\u00a0 He said, \u201cAfter having paid my fan and my sofa off, I set out to dip into some savings, I talked to my aunt, as most things I buy, and actually, I use my aunt\u2019s credit card. I gave her a down payment and then I financed the rest. Most of my things were bought with her credit card. Her credit limit is higher. I gave her a down payment of 200 and asked her to split in two of 50.\u201d<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/ux\/files\/2012\/10\/credit-2.png\" "\\"credit-2\\"")
<\/a>On the flip side, Ricardo avoids using credit because he doesn’t trust it. He feels it is difficult to manage, and he could easily get into debt if he used credit regularly.\u00a0 He bought these new sneakers by saving money that he earned from his part time job.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/ux\/files\/2012\/10\/Screen-Shot-2012-10-05-at-11.14.52-AM.png\" "\\"Monica\\"")
<\/a>We also met people like Monica, who combine cash and credit to make big purchases like her family TV above.\u00a0 The price was good, but she and her husband didn’t have all the money in cash. They paid a specific amount of money up front and used credit to finance the rest.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/ux\/files\/2012\/10\/credit-3.png\" "\\"credit-3\\"")
<\/a>We also met a woman who had been blacklisted by the government for not paying her credit cards off, and all her credit was revoked. This meant she used cash for everything. She said, “My stove was broken, only one burner was working. So we decided to buy a new one. I started researching, looking for deals. We were already saving for it. Then we found this cheap deal and bought it.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nBrazil is an emerging market and they are putting money into material goods instead of their modest homes.\u00a0 And they want more.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/ux\/files\/2012\/10\/homework.png\" "\\"homework\\"")
<\/a>This group is interested in buying high-tech devices – especially those used for communication and entertainment.\u00a0 They are also practical and look for the best deal and the most effective way to spend money.<\/p>\n
\nWhen selling a phone to this group of people, we need to pay close attention to the price and the functionality.\u00a0 The phone needs to be affordable, but at the same time not seen as “cheap” otherwise they will not value it as much as their current phones.\u00a0 In terms of functionality, the phone needs to have the communication and entertainment features such as FM radio, TV, MP3 player and a good camera so that they can satisfy their core behaviors with the phone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"