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Junglee Forays Into Classified Postings To Compete With OLX & Quikr
In the recent billion day sale fiasco, sources confirm Flipkart’s losses were Amazon and Snadpeal’s gain! Looks like Amazon India doesn’t want to rest upon the laurels. Good work ethic. Just days after the “pay with Amazon” service took…
Diwali Online Shopping To Cross INR 10,000 Cr. Footfalls In Malls Will Halve: Assocham
The Associated Chambers of Commerce & Industry of India (ASSOCHAM), which tracks and predicts commercial activities within the country has predicted that online shopping will rule to roost this Diwali. As per their estimations, more…
Brands Too Angry With Flipkart’s Big Billion Day Sale. May Take Legal Action For Predatory Pricing
I would not be exaggerating if I said Flipkart’s Big Billion Day sale will go down in history as one of the marquee events in the short life of Indian eCommerce. Such was the frenzy that every netizen logged into Flipkart atleast once on…
Pay With Amazon: Amazon’s Own Payment Solution Comes To India
Amazon has launched their own payment solution: ‘Pay With Amazon’ in India, which has been targeted for both merchants and customers. Originally termed as ‘Login And Pay With Amazon’, this service was launched in the USA last year, which…
Flipkart #BigBillionDay Sale, A Huge Disappointment. Thousands Complain Of Price Rigging &…
Flipkart had not left any stone unturned while advertising their ‘The Big Billion Day Sale’ on October 6th. Full page advertisements on leading newspapers, radio ads, TV ads, SMS ads and digital ads all over the web. I doubt any Internet…
IRCTC Floats New Tender For Co-Branded Online Marketplace
IRCTC’s first attempt at partnering with eCommerce site and selling products on their platform did not go very well, as they nulled their partnership with Yebhi in less than a year’s time.
Now, IRCTC has gone ahead and floated another…
Amazon India To Introduce Amazon Fresh, A Food & Beverage e-Store
In his recent visit to India, Jeff Bezos unveiled a new category “Food & Beverages” department in the main e-store, all set to rock the online landscape. Just before Diwali, ie October 23rd, Amazon will host more than 100 varieties of…
Shop Online This Festive Season, Benefit From Heavy Discounts
Flush with venture capital and high on hopes of attracting hoards of online shoppers this festive season, all major ecommerce portals are offering medium to heavy discounts on almost all the products. Especially in focus are electronics and…
Now, Amazon Stops Taking High Value Orders From UP
Amazon has become the second large Indian ecommerce store to stop delivering high value orders to customers who are ordering from Uttar Pradesh postal codes. Last year Flipkart has done the same.
Amazon India will not be delivering…
Instamojo Launches Appstore To Further Simplify Online Selling & Payment Collections!
Home grown micro product & services sales platform Instamojo today announced launch of a new appstore that further aims at simplifying the selling and payment collection experience for its sellers.
If you are unaware of Instamojo, it…
Flipkart Opens Marketplace for 3rd Party Sellers
When Flipkart opened it's marketplace last year, they did not have a fullfillment services. However, now it looks like Flipkart has started with their own fullfillment and logistics service very similar to Amazon, and it is called…
Flipkart Launches ‘Flipkart Advantage’, Stocking & Shipping Service For Merchants
Flipkart now seem to be showing up a new badge on their product buy pages – Called “Flipkart Advantage”, it is exactly same as “Fulfilled by Amazon”, where Flipkart offers stocking and shipping service to the merchants selling their…
Common Sense Prevails, Karnataka Govt Asks Taxmen To Go Easy On Amazon Sellers
Common sense seems to have prevailed in the ongoing clampdown of Karnataka Tax authorities on dealers selling their products on Amazon marketplace. Just two days back, news had surfaced that Karnataka tax authorities have sent notices to…
Amazon India Tax Issue Trouble: The Complete Story
Amazon India has got into big trouble due to the way they are operating their storage and logistics of products sold on their site. Karnataka Government has issued notices to over 100 third-party merchants who sell on Amazon platform…
Amazon Aims $300 Billion Indian B2B Market, May Start Operations Soon
World’s biggest ecommerce company Amazon wants to dominate the $300 billion Indian business-to-business (B2B) market, and they have already started the preparations. As per reports coming in, it has been found that Amazon is already in…
Snapdeal Starts offering Free Door-Step Installation Of Car Tyres and Alloys
Did you ever think that you could buy your car tyres online here in India? May be you have. But I bet, you may have never imagined that you will be able make an online purchase of door-step installation of those car tyres.
That’s exactly…
Ecommerce In India: Hot Jobs + Cool Work Cultures = Talent Wars
A recent article in the Economic Times claims
“if you are looking at having the hottest job at the coolest workplace and have the passion to do something different and think laterally, e-commerce is the place to be!”
The…
Yebhi Shuns Pure Play eCommerce, Becomes Aggregator For Other Players
While eCommerce is growing at at furious pace in India, it is not a easy business to be in, especially if you are into multi-brand marketplace model. eCommerce needs huge pool of funds and resources. There is a reason why Flipkart has…
Updated: It’s Official, Flipkart Shutting Down PayZippy From Nov 20th
It's official, Flipkart has sent a mail to all PayZippy customers that PayZippy will shut down on November 20th.
Here is the copy of email sent to everyone.
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Dear Customer,
Due to a change in our…
Ratan Tata Invests In Snapdeal, E-Commerce The Next Frontier For Head Honchos Now!
The fight for supremacy within Indian e Commerce world just got better as Ratan Tata, Chairman Emeritus of $108 billion Tata Sons has invested in India’s second biggest eCommerce portal: Snapdeal.com.
Kunal Bahl, CEO of Snapdeal just…