This purposive online survey of 122 existing TikTok Shop buyers examines social media marketing, price fairness, purchase intention, and self-reported purchase decisions using SmartPLS 4. Five direct paths were positive and significant. Reported indirect effects were 0.098 (p = 0.023) for marketing and 0.092 (p = 0.048) for fairness; complementary partial mediation remains qualified pending bootstrap intervals. Explained variance was 52.7% for intention and 53.3% for decisions. Questionnaire associations do not establish transaction outcomes or temporal ordering. Informative content and transparent prices are contextual implications, not tested sales interventions.
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