Xiaomi's Cheap Marketing Tricks and How Flipkart is Cashing on it

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90k only, I guess this time the figure is way over the roof! Good they changed the way in which you can order this phone at least better late than never!!

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Flipkart sale postponed to 2 PM, stock of only 10,000 units on sale

http://www.deccanchronicle.com/140728/technology-mobiles-and-tabs/article/will-xiaomi-mi-3-bring-flipkart’s-website-its-knees-again.

Am i right or Am i right? :wink:

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These crashes bring free publicity for Xiaomi. So many newspapers/blogs are writing about it. Many people who had not eveb heard of Xiaomi have heard it now and have looked it up.

Hugo Barra is THE boss. [emoji106]

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Not even 10 seconds stock last…Do you people think it was gennuine sale or what…i am doubting their integrity now.

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I got two handsets !!

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There are definitely more than 10 k people who would have ordered.

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How can they order when they don’t have stock more than 10k. Out of stock in 1 minute 40 Seconds.

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What I meant was 10,000 orders would have gone through in that time.

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This is not a good practice though. Getting cheap publicity and irritating people who wants to buy.

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Yes…I am definitely disappointed.Norally i dont get disappoint wen buying a hardware.

But i genuinely need handset now.As my SPice Mi 410 crashes everytime i open an app.I was not ready to go for 20k plus stuff.

This one genuinely fits my criteria.Not expensive and would had taken really care about my need.

Really damn disappointed.

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“F**k You, Xiaomi”. This is what people are tweeting and commenting.
Thanks to BGR.in article.

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It was out of stock immediately after counter reached to zero. Stock doesn’t even lasts for 3 seconds. Cheap publicity stunt from Xiaomi and Flipkart.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bqKJ7H07Rs

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TBH, that BGR article was whiny to say the least. This has been their sale model for the past 4 years, and it works. And I’m sure even after all the whining, another 100k people will line up the moment another sale date goes live. Not to mention higher numbers for Redmi Note and 1S.
Another sale on 5th August. There you go.

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they are clearly simulating demand in the market. rest assured you will be getting the mi3 if you wait for anothe 2 weeks are so.
Yikes some one selling the mi3 bought for flipkart for 24K :angry: . is ther a way to report this seller?

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That video is so LOL. My understanding was the deal was live for a minute or so.
If it ended so fast then no doubt it was just to create hype & news.
Bad stuff !!!

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Hola hola. WTF is this? Selling for double the MRP.
Do one thing someone take email id of this ebay seller by communicating with them and complain to flipkart with ebay link.
The warranty of the phone will be void.

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Is it me who is only thinking HOW SHAMELESS Xiaomi poeple are?

https://twitter.com/MiIndiaOfficial/status/494049448280850432

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https://twitter.com/manukumarjain/status/494050534303608833

Out of stock in 5 Seconds. Sold how many.. 100?

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Flipkart can’t do anything … On eBay people have been doing this nuisance from ages , you can’t report and expect something to happen.
The dumbness will be if someone buys it for that price..

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Zauba says only 10,400 Mi3’s came to India. You should guess who’s playing games?
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Xiaomi says it sold 10,000 pieces on 23rd july, so did it sell just 400 phones today (29-07) ?

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Good job Flipkart. Now my Uncle also knows about Xiaomi.

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talking about zauba how accurate are thier reports?