Amazon India is now live

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Post by vineetdhanawat » Tue, Jun 04, 2013, 8:06 PM UTC

Amazon India is now live
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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Jun 04, 2013, 8:08 PM UTC

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Post by samirahmed » Tue, Jun 04, 2013, 8:15 PM UTC

Interestingly amazon is in the backseat here and it will be interesting to see how they succeed. From my understanding http://www.flipkart.com/ is the dominant player in the online shopping marketing in India

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Post by vineetdhanawat » Tue, Jun 04, 2013, 8:18 PM UTC

samirahmed wrote: post #3

Interestingly amazon is in the backseat here and it will be interesting to see how they succeed. From my understanding http://www.flipkart.com/ is the dominant player in the online shopping marketing in India

Yeah. For starters,amazon is giving free delivery. As far as prices are concerned, tons of books are listed at lower price as of now.

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Post by evolutionblues » Tue, Jun 04, 2013, 8:30 PM UTC

Looks like they have only launched with Movies and Books - hopefully other categories will follow.

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Post by houshuang » Tue, Jun 04, 2013, 8:30 PM UTC

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)

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Post by swohns » Tue, Jun 04, 2013, 8:34 PM UTC

Used to work in International Dev for a ecom company, and India was a serious target. We ended up going elsewhere because of delivery infrastructure and local competitors, that free delivery is going to be a huge advantage.

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Post by valgaze » Tue, Jun 04, 2013, 8:37 PM UTC

Interesting- there's free delivery and also COD "cash on delivery"

Screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/Og9xMtn.png

Policy: http://www.amazon.in/gp/help/customer/display.html/ref=mk_ss...

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Post by valgaze » Tue, Jun 04, 2013, 8:41 PM UTC

vineetdhanawat wrote: post #4

samirahmed wrote: post #3

Interestingly amazon is in the backseat here and it will be interesting to see how they succeed. From my understanding http://www.flipkart.com/ is the dominant player in the online shopping marketing in India

Yeah. For starters,amazon is giving free delivery. As far as prices are concerned, tons of books are listed at lower price as of now.

"Your margin is my opportunity" -Jeff Bezos

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Post by gnok » Tue, Jun 04, 2013, 8:50 PM UTC

valgaze wrote: post #8

Interesting- there's free delivery and also COD "cash on delivery" Screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/Og9xMtn.png Policy: http://www.amazon.in/gp/help/customer/display.html/ref=mk_ss...

The COD part is somewhat cultural. Very few people in India will trust a credit card based system that requires you to hand over your credit card number online and accept delivery at some point in the future. Cash usage in general is disproportionately higher than other forms. I think direct payments from bank accounts is next. Cards rank a distant third.