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Anonymous Posted 12 years ago
Grammar

Customer or Client?

Hi there,

Can someone tell me the difference between the words CUSTOMER and CLIENT?
  

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Anonymous Hi there,Can someone tell me the difference between the words CUSTOMER and CLIENT? To me the difference is like this: If you go to a department store to buy clothes or home furnishings or other mass produced goods, you are a customer. If you go to a lawyer's office for a private meeting to set up a trust or a will, you are a client.

— CalifJim

  • Anonymous Hi there,Can someone tell me the difference between the words CUSTOMER and CLIENT?
  • To me the difference is like this: If you go to a department store to buy clothes or home furnishings or other mass produced goods, you are a customer.
  • If you go to a lawyer's office for a private meeting to set up a trust or a will, you are a client.
  • CJ
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Anonymous Hi there,Can someone tell me the difference between the words CUSTOMER and CLIENT?
To me the difference is like this:

If you go to a department store to buy clothes or home furnishings or other mass produced goods, you are a customer.
If you go to a lawyer's office for a private meeting to set up a trust or a will, you are a client.
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Broadly speaking, 'client' is a posher, fancier, more upscale term.

Clive
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