E-Commerce: My Latest Encounters

Last year December I put a story that book prices over Flipkart is not the cheapest, while Infibeam & Indiaplaza is offering a way cheaper than Flipkart.

After 4 months, TimesofIndia agrees with me, as they covered a story - Flipkart faces heat of rivals’ discounts. The article says people over India are now more aware to get the cheapest deal online.

Now a days I buy books online, after comparing prices over Indiabookstore.net. From my last some purchases I find that books are cheapest on Homeshop18 (on basis of April-May shopping). While Indiaplaza comes second on pricing, but delivers fast (in 2-4 days)

While to get online comparison of other stuffs (eg: Pendrive, mobile phones, camera etc) I use Google. Well here is a catch, select the model you like to buy and search like this: 'Micromax A73 shop' on Google (India). Google will reveal the product pages of top Indian sites - Naaptol, Saholic, Flipkart, Indiaplaza, Sulekha, Snapdeal, Letsbuy, Homeshop18 and many more.

Daily Deals of Tradus, Infibeam, Indiaplaza, Timtara, Naaptol, Saholic

There are many sites like SnapDeal, Rediff's Deal ho jaye, Indiatimes' Times Deal , Crazeal which offer city based daily deals or hourly deals, and these are the only ones which I can remember at time of writing, there are more than 30 similar sites, but here I am listing the deal of day links of various reputed/well known e-commerce sites in India.

Tradus - Deal of the day
Infibeam - Magic Box
Indiaplaza - Daily Deals
Saholic - Best Deals
Timtara - Special Offer
Naaptol - Hot Deals
mGinger - Deals

This is it! I do not find more links apart of these ones, if you find such deal links please comment on!

Infibeam - A Case Study [Siblings & Unique Visitors]

When I posted Flipkart is Cheapest - I mentioned that Infibeam is rising. Now after the consolidation of Flipkart & Letbuy (it is more than just buy-out of Letsbuy by Flipkart), it seems that this move was unavoidable.

Infibeam is not just a single e-commerce site of India. It has many sister sites selling stuffs at a competitive price range.

As you can remember Infibeam has tied up with Ananda Publishers, a part of Anandabazar Group which is one of largest Bengali publishing companies

Flipkart is NOT Cheap, Others Offer Cheaper than it

Flipkart is not that cheap!

When I came to know about Letsbuy.com and its coupons, I find Letsbuy is way cheaper than Flipkart. Later I also find that electronics are cheaper on Letsbuy, even if the product is at same price, Letsbuy is offering some value-for-money gifts (like Nikon P500 gets 16GB memory card on Letsbuy).

But still for books I thought Flipkart gives me ultimate deal. As COD is withdrawn from many cities by Flipkart, it has now no speciality for me.

Worst part is other online sellers are selling books at lower price than Flipkart. I recently mailed to my friends regarding the high pricing by Flipkart with an example of Desperate Dubai - Flipkart @Rs 224, Tradus.in @Rs 212, and Infibeam.com @ Rs 179.

Consumer Tech Gadgets - Made In India

India is going great, as we find some of indigenous gadgets are coming soon which could change the scenario in gadget market. Most of them are on pre-order stage or coming soon phase before commercial roll out.

Notion Ink's Adam - http://www.notionink.in/

probably will show a upper cut to iPad when released! Specs are highly appealing! Coming at the end of 2010 as developers undergo some problems.