A review of the literature revealed factors that influence consumers’ attitudes, such as price, quality, risk, materialism, and brand consciousness (e.g., Burton, Lichtenstein, Netemeyer, & Garretson, 1998; Phau, Teah, & Lee, 2009).
In particular, price, quality, and risk may be the most essential factors in influencing consumers’ attitudes toward counterfeits (Huang, Lee, & Ho, 2004).
Thus, price-quality inference and risk averseness were introduced as extended variables
of the TPB in this study.