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Myntra, India's largest fashion and apparel e-commerce portal to go mobile only

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Re: Myntra, India's largest fashion and apparel e-commerce portal to go mobile only

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So stupid. Taco Bell tried it and fairly quickly realized how stupid it was.

At least Taco Bell was the exclusive way to get your Taco Bell fix. Myntra is just an e-tailer, and many of their products you can get elsewhere. So it makes even _less_ sense than Taco Bell's move. Interestingly, you can still access Myntra's non-frontpage: http://www.myntra.com/women

When you check their site from a phone, it says changes will be active from 15th May.

Re: Myntra, India's largest fashion and apparel e-commerce portal to go mobile only

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Data makes the move look compelling..

"From Zero users a year ago, currently about 95% of Myntra’s traffic is being channeled through its mobile app. Mobile accounts for 70% of its total revenues.. Of the total time Indians spend on the internet, 90% is through mobile phones."

http://www.forbes.com/sites/saritharai/2015/05/12/in-global-...

Re: Myntra, India's largest fashion and apparel e-commerce portal to go mobile only

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Data makes the move look compelling.. "From Zero users a year ago, currently about 95% of Myntra’s traffic is being channeled through its mobile app. Mobile accounts for 70% of its total revenues.. Of the total time Indians spend on the internet, 90% is through mobile phones." http://www.forbes.com/sites/saritharai/2015/05/12/in-global-...

Actually most articles and even Myntra itself is missing one big variable which has caused this '95%' mobile traffic.

The mobile only offers. I myself have fallen to those offers, downloaded the App, used the mobile-only offers and bought items. But when no such offer is provided I prefer browsing and buying from the desktop site. For the past few months Myntra and Flipkart have been running such mobile-only offers. And I get it why they are doing this but they fail to realise ( I am talking out of my depth maybe ) that eventually when they want to make money and the offers are normal/stopped people would not necessarily use the mobile app. Myntra alternatives are many in India.

Re: Myntra, India's largest fashion and apparel e-commerce portal to go mobile only

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post #4

So stupid. Taco Bell tried it and fairly quickly realized how stupid it was.

At least Taco Bell was the exclusive way to get your Taco Bell fix. Myntra is just an e-tailer, and many of their products you can get elsewhere. So it makes even _less_ sense than Taco Bell's move. Interestingly, you can still access Myntra's non-frontpage: http://www.myntra.com/women

I guess you didn't even try to open http://www.myntra.com

Re: Myntra, India's largest fashion and apparel e-commerce portal to go mobile only

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I don't understand the point in shutting down the website. There's a large audience in India which browses for products on e-commerce website while casually browsing other stuff. Taking the service entirely to an app based platform isolates a lot of such customers. Another point is that the there is a section of audience which doesn't necessarily use smart phones, or won't use smart phones for making such purchases,…

I think the data belies your assumptions (see achow's post)

Re: Myntra, India's largest fashion and apparel e-commerce portal to go mobile only

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I don't understand the point in shutting down the website. There's a large audience in India which browses for products on e-commerce website while casually browsing other stuff. Taking the service entirely to an app based platform isolates a lot of such customers. Another point is that the there is a section of audience which doesn't necessarily use smart phones, or won't use smart phones for making such purchases,…

I can suppose that keeping the web site up to date costs significant resources, while channeling only a small percent of sales.

Not having web presence at all is strange, though. Possibly they'll shut down the e-commerce web site, just leaving a static site with contacts and the links to the mobile apps.

Re: Myntra, India's largest fashion and apparel e-commerce portal to go mobile only

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It seems we can soon expects the closing date for Myntra. Its not a good move.

Also only 70% of your sales coming through mobile leaves a big minority that are not. Can they even afford to remove 30% of their revenue potentially? Is maintaining a website really costing that much?
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