Flipkart, Amazon of India, has sales of $100M in one day

Post by wodenokoto » Tue, Oct 07, 2014, 5:58 AM UTC

rpm33 wrote: post #5

suprgeek wrote: post #3

This article has a few details on why this week was important for e-commerce sites in India: http://qz.com/274278/the-real-reason-why-indias-shopping-web... The incumbents from Silicon Valley may not have the Cultural understanding of the Indian market and the barriers to utilizing Large scale distributed technology platforms have never been lower. I boldly (and somewhat foolishly) predict that as more and more India…

"The incumbents from Silicon Valley may not have the Cultural understanding of the Indian market and the barriers to utilizing Large scale distributed technology platforms have never been lower." What do you think are the barriers to utilizing large scale distributed technology platforms? I personally don't think this is a cultural thing.

Post by balladeer » Tue, Oct 07, 2014, 6:11 AM UTC

bilalhusain wrote: post #9

bgdam wrote: post #2

Most of the offers were sold out within seconds of the sale start, the servers kept crashing intermittently, items mysteriously disappeared from the cart just before payment, prices shown on the product page were silently increased when added to the cart, and to top it all off people managed to get screenshots of prices being raised to near 200% before a discount was applied and the items were sold for higher than no…

I am sure they weren't deliberately tricking the customers, instead it is their incompetence and immaturity showing up. They couldn't handle the commotion and steps taken to handle the load backfired (A completely made up example can be that they started the crashed servers but in panic forgot to apply the discount configuration). Disclosure: I worked at Flipkart. I felt that employees are immature.

Post by kopparam » Tue, Oct 07, 2014, 6:23 AM UTC

haosdent wrote: post #8

Alibaba sales $5.78 billion in 2013/11/11.

Post by hrjet » Tue, Oct 07, 2014, 6:34 AM UTC

balladeer wrote: post #13

bilalhusain wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am sure they weren't deliberately tricking the customers, instead it is their incompetence and immaturity showing up. They couldn't handle the commotion and steps taken to handle the load backfired (A completely made up example can be that they started the crashed servers but in panic forgot to apply the discount configuration). Disclosure: I worked at Flipkart. I felt that employees are immature.

They actually were deliberately tricking the customers. They are known for doing this. Actually Amazon.in is hitting them hard with excellent and transparent pricing, great customer service (at least from Indian standards) and that is making them desperate. Source: I've been a customer for years and have been watching them closely :-)

Post by gnurag » Tue, Oct 07, 2014, 6:54 AM UTC

appreneur wrote: post #10

As we more westernised in our outlook, bigbillionday is something similar to "Black Friday" and deep discount on single day ....might do more for overall internet penetration....currently only 25% of Indians have access to Internet, which stands at 243 million , if this crosses to 340 million, That's a huge market growth of Internet users ...this will in the long term benefit everybody.....perhaps remove poverty of m…