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Online Book Pricing: Amazon Cheapest Currently, Flipkart has Lowest List Prices [MySmartPrice]
MySmartPrice, one of the leading price aggregating platform in India, did a comparative analysis on how newly launched Amazon.in fares when it comes to pricing on Top 2000 books available on various online stores in India.
Like we…
Amazon.in – Everything you wanted to know about Amazon’s Indian Marketplace!
Something that has been talked about a lot for past couple years has finally happened. Amazon has finally launched its dedicated Indian e-commerce marketplace - amazon.in. Currently, the site has only 2 categories on offer - Books and…
Flipkart Flyte MP3 Store goes down – Piracy won?
Yesterday when I went to get a song from Flipkart’s mp3 selling business Flyte, I could not find it on the main site. A little searching got me the song that I wanted but also gave me the information that Flyte is going to shut down on June…
Myntra Launches Seamless Product Exchange Service for Online Shoppers!
If you are a regular online shopper, you may have faced problem ‘improper fits’ many times. You order a particular item lets say an apparel of a particular size that fits you. But when it arrives, the fit is not upto your liking. You either…
Shocking Data Breach Incident At Croma – Customers Beware!
Ankit Khandelwal from Pune is a regular Croma customer. Like thousands of other customers, he believed that his personal information is safe with India’s one of the largest electronics retail chain, whose parent company is Tata. Little did…
Why Online Marketplaces may fail in India…
Indian eCommerce space is slowly transforming itself and virtual marketplace is the new frontier. Flipkart recently launched their own marketplace as reported here, and in the last 18 months, several eCommerce ventures started their own…
Social Media performance of Indian Ecommerce Brands: Best & Worst
Social Media and Ecommerce are like twin brothers. One without the other will feel lonely and both of them together will result in awesome teamwork.
Once a buyer decides to purchase any commodity online, he is bound to be affected/…
Myntra acquires Fitiquette to solve dress fitting issues of Online Shoppers!
Myntra seems to have taken inorganic route to spruce up their backend as well as frontend capabilities. Fitiquette marks Myntra’s Second International Acquisition in less than Four Months. They had earlier acquired Sher Singh, a designer…
Indian Courier Services Review For E-Commerce Businesses [Infographic]
Logistics is to e-commerce what queues are to retail stores! The longer the wait, the more frustrated a customer!
And that is why it is absolutely essential to choose the best and most reliable logistics partner for your business. It makes…
Dotzot.in: A Delivery Network for Indian E-commerce platforms!
Order fulfillment is one of the major issues that Indian E-Commerce platforms face, especially small to medium sized ones!
While bigger platforms can afford to build and operate their own order fulfillment delivery network (like…
Flipkart raises Free Shipping Limit from Rs. 300 to Rs. 500!
While the price war continues among other e-commerce portals, Flipkart is slowly taking the other route. Flipkart has recently increased the free shipping limit from Rs. 300 to Rs. 500. So going forward if your total order amount on…
Flipkart delivers 2 stones instead of iPod to a user! What if…
Now, this is outrageous – A twitter user tweeted today that his sister had ordered an iPod, but to her surprise she was delivered 2 stones inside the box.
Twitter user with handle @nikhilsekhar tweeted the following accompanying picture…
5 Indian SAAS ECommerce Platforms [Comparison]
Ecommerce in India is flourishing like never before. A number of big and small players have jumped into the bandwagon resulting into a cut-throat competition. To improve their authority, more established eCommerce portals are offering some…
RCom launches Discounted Online Shop for its Customers!
Reliance has become the latest in the long list of telecom operators & mobile brands who have launched their own online shop, but it is with a small twist. RCom has chosen to call it a “customer delight program”, where they will…
Online Shopping Trends in India in 2013 [Google Video]
Google has released a video depicting the online shopping trends in India currently and what is expected of the online shopping growth in future. The video is based on Google search trends data and consumer research that happened in…
Zovi Acquires Inkfruit
Ecommerce in India is consolidating, the latest being Zovi’s acquisition of Inkfruit. Although, there have been talks of merger in past few days, ToI reported today that Bangalore based online Fashion retailer has bought out Inkfruit.com…
India’s first Virtual Shopping Wall comes up at IGI Airport
Do you remember the much talked about Tesco shopping wall which was put up at one of the railway stations in South Korea couple of years back? It was a touch display wall, where commuters could actually buy the groceries while waiting for…
Cash On Delivery: Should Indian Online Retailers Persist with it?
Cash On Delivery (COD) is currently one of the most popular mode of payments among Indian online stores.
As the buyer does not have to pay anything before the good are being delivered, COD system minimizes the risks in online…
Snapdeal starts selling Automobiles online!
Snapdeal.com, one of the leading Indian ecommerce portal, has now started offering automobiles on sale online. They have forged a partnership with Mahindra & Mahindra to offer range of their two-wheelers. This is probably for the first…
Online Ticket Bookings Witness Healthy YoY growth [IAMAI]
15.8 lakh air tickets were booked online and 47.2 lakh online bookings for Railway tickets were made on IRCTC website in October 2012, according to data from the Internet & Mobile Association of India's (IAMAI) Internet Economy Watch…