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Re: Amazon India is now live

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Post by jaseemabid » Tue, Jun 04, 2013, 9:18 PM UTC

akbaralis wrote: post #11

What about http://www.junglee.com/ . Thought that was Amazon's India store.

junglee might refer to amazon or shutdown now

Re: Amazon India is now live

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Post by sameerp1 » Tue, Jun 04, 2013, 9:20 PM UTC

The key thing that people need to be aware of is that Amazon is still not allowed to sell anything in India. They are exclusively a marketplace because the Indian govt does not allow foreign investment into e-commerce.

Instead for now they are an intermediary. The end customer pays Amazon the money who passes it onto the actual seller (after taking some commission). Amazon might even handle the logistics for some sellers. But the transaction is between the marketplace seller and the customer.

Until Amazon is granted approval to become a seller on their own right, their impact on Indian e-commerce will be much more limited than it would be otherwise.

Re: Amazon India is now live

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Post by ajju » Tue, Jun 04, 2013, 9:21 PM UTC

sameerp1 wrote: post #22

The key thing that people need to be aware of is that Amazon is still not allowed to sell anything in India. They are exclusively a marketplace because the Indian govt does not allow foreign investment into e-commerce. Instead for now they are an intermediary. The end customer pays Amazon the money who passes it onto the actual seller (after taking some commission). Amazon might even handle the logistics for some sel…

Such bureaucratic B.S.

Re: Amazon India is now live

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Post by gnufied » Tue, Jun 04, 2013, 9:22 PM UTC

Don't know why Kaspersky Internet Security is warning about phishing url for all the Amazon.in links. Has anyone else seen it?

Re: Amazon India is now live

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Post by shared4you » Tue, Jun 04, 2013, 9:23 PM UTC

mey wrote: post #15

Finding it odd that they are using an image instead of unicode for INR, ₹. Is the browser support simply not there?

Somebody needs to tell Amazon about this site: http://webrupee.com/

This pulls in a web font (woff) to display ₹. If Javascript is disabled it shows up as "Rs" instead. A fair compromise instead of images everywhere.

Re: Amazon India is now live

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Post by nikic » Tue, Jun 04, 2013, 9:25 PM UTC

gnufied wrote: post #24

Don't know why Kaspersky Internet Security is warning about phishing url for all the Amazon.in links. Has anyone else seen it?

I'm seeing it too. Probably people have used domains like amazon.XYZ for phishing in the past.

Re: Amazon India is now live

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Post by __mharrison__ » Tue, Jun 04, 2013, 9:25 PM UTC

houshuang wrote: post #6

Great to see a good selection of Hindi novels, wish they were available for Kindle though. (Don't think the e-ink Kindles can even render Hindi though)

Not true, they can render hindi.

Re: Amazon India is now live

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Post by pyvek » Tue, Jun 04, 2013, 9:30 PM UTC

Launch infographic - http://g-ec2.images-amazon.com/images/G/31/Press_Releases/Am...

More - http://www.amazon.in/b/ref=footer_press?ie=UTF8&node=159...

Re: Amazon India is now live

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Post by copper-horse » Tue, Jun 04, 2013, 9:37 PM UTC

Ah, well, they'll find the right person to pay eventually and they'll be a real business in India...

Re: Amazon India is now live

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Post by jsolson » Tue, Jun 04, 2013, 9:39 PM UTC

anirudhgarg wrote: post #17

ravinder wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yup it is similar to google shopping www.google.com/shopping

I think they are still doing the same thing. Doesn't look like any products are actually sold by Amazon.

They're providing transaction processing, inventory tracking, and in some cases (e.g., http://www.amazon.in/gp/product/9380349300 selected at random from the gateway) fulfillment services.

Given the scope of their 3P seller business in other markets (say, the US), this constitutes a much larger entry into the market than some comments are making it out to be.