“Half a million mobile handsets sale record is truly a testament to the growing demand for smartphones in India”, said Mukesh Bansal, head of the commerce platform at Flipkart.
“Bengaluru, Delhi and Chennai have emerged as the chart toppers in terms of visits from metro cities, and Ludhiana, Lucknow and Bhopal from the non-metro cities”, Flipkart said had in a statement.
Flipkart added that along with offers and discounts, customers can also save upto Rs 20,000 by exchanging their old phones.
Flipkart offers over 30 million products in more than 70 categorie bs like books, media, consumer electronics and lifestyle.
Flipkart on Thursday announced that it has sold half a million mobile handsets in ten hours after opening the sales of mobile phones during “The Big Billion Days” sale.
Amazon on October 13 launched its morning delivery service across four metros: Mumbai, Delhi /NCR, Bengaluru and Hyderabad. Amazon also provides same-day delivery option, where customers can place their order by 11 am and get it delivered the same evening.
Since India bars foreign capital in business-to-consumer (B2C) ecommerce, Amazon operates a marketplace, lending its platform for other retailers and manufacturers to sell products, as do Flipkart and Snapdeal.
The US-based e-tailer has already witnessed double the sale of its previous biggest day - on Independence Day - when the company ran The Great Indian Freedom Sale. Offer is applicable on all categories/products.
Analysts say e-commerce firms in India could make as much as a quarter of their annual sales during this period, with the global experience, logistics network and deep pockets of Amazon putting it in a good position to grab customers from local market leader Flipkart and smaller firm Snapdeal.
Here are five gadget deals that we feel that you should absolutely not miss today. For example, a jacket ad on the front page of The Times of India now comes for Rs 5-6 crore for all its editions across the country, compared with Rs 2-2.5 crore on a regular day, according to industry estimates.
