The Importance of Commercial Services in the Trade Activity

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present the concept of commercial services from different points of view and analyze various commercial business operations that implied the need to group trade services in several categories for easier administration, but also for solving economic and social problems such as vertical or horizontal competition.

Abstract: Although commercial services always accompanied the trade activities, the impact and power of these business were really felt about 3 decades ago. This paper aims to present the concept of commercial services from different points of view and to analyze various commercial business operations that implied the need to group trade services in several categories for easier administration, but also for solving economic and social problems such as vertical or horizontal competition. Due to the complexity and characteristics of commercial services, organization of commercial activities should provide flexibility depending on the time of the request, the moment of performance and the consumer behavior.Therefore,yhe knowledge of the characteristics of business services and their consequences for consumers and traders can influence the efforts to achieve results and to assume commercial risks.A briefly presentation of the commercial services development and their effects in the activity of a successful furniture trader is provided in order to demonstrate the importance of this type of services.