Meet Xiaomi's new Indian friends: Amazon & Snapdeal.

Apparently, the fallout with Flipkart regarding the exclusivity is because Xiaomi is not happy due to slow down of sales. Amusing to hear that because when has any Xiaomi lasted more than an hour when it went on sale? They should concentrate on getting more volumes of the products into the country before they tie up with more platforms.
 
Flipkart is not be blamed for slowing down sales.
Infact Lenovo was leading in sales in the last 2 months, Poor Xiaomi has low production, I read somewhere they actually sell their product to only 60% of potential buyers in Flash sales and rest of them go away.
“I think more than 3-4 lakh units of the (Lenovo) phone has been sold already and the demand is close to a lakh a week,” said an industry source.

Though demand for Redmi 2 is also equally strong, the system of pre-registration and supply constraints mean that demand cannot be met, and weekly sales is more in the range of 50,000-70,000 units, according to industry estimates.

Currently, it looks like Lenovo’s superior execution, production and supply chain management is helping the company tap into the demand for cheap LTE phones in India.


Read more at http://rtn.asia/t-t/10758/lenovo-a6000-outsells-redmi-2-in-india#p0uJXpS3JXp1IUBT.99
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flipkart has been receiving a lot of flak offlate because of limited reach over certain pincodes.
that is reach is limited in certain suburbs.
with time i have only seen the serviceable pincodes to reduce for flipkart.
this is where amazon and snapdeal can push the sales for xiaomi forward.
 
With so many Fake Xiaomi products in the market, and with my previous experience.. I wouldn't buy anything from Snapdeal, no matter whatever discounts they offer ( even Amir or Anna hazare endorses it)

Amazon definitely is giving a tough time to Flipkart, Exclusive OPO, Micromax Eureka sales have already taken a exclusivity title of Flipkart. Anyways it's a good news for customers.
 
^ Can't agree more. My last 2 orders from snapdeal were cancelled without proper reasons. All were COD so I wasn't too worried. But still I can't trust them aymore, too much wastage of my time. OTOH, Amazon deliveries are really fast, mostly prior to the delivery date. Point about flipkart is also right, lots of sellers don't ship to my location, though I live in Pune.
Back to topic, I read somewhere about the Xiaomi's anniversary celebrations offers. Do they apply in India as well?
 
suhailkhan said:
^ Can't agree more. My last 2 orders from snapdeal were cancelled without proper reasons. All were COD so I wasn't too worried. But still I can't trust them aymore, too much wastage of my time. OTOH, Amazon deliveries are really fast, mostly prior to the delivery date. Point about flipkart is also right, lots of sellers don't ship to my location, though I live in Pune.
Back to topic, I read somewhere about the Xiaomi's anniversary celebrations offers. Do they apply in India as well?
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the deals are there on the amazon page.

http://www.amazon.in/b/ref=amb_link...rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=605485847&pf_rd_i=1320006031
 
I still shop with Snapdeal, My bad experience with them was on BigBillion sale day. They cancelled my 2orders, without any reason. I usually don't buy like other Fools from sellers who do not have Good ratings and slow shipping.
Their Pricing is what keep me buy there.

BTW, Xiaomi products have been sold out on snapdeal.
 
I was worried that I wont be able to buy any more Xiaomi product that it has gone to crap amazon but a sign of relief that its not an exclusive deal like Yureka (Reason- They dont ship product more than 5k to U.P. - Forget COD/Prepaid)
 
I placed an order for Redmi 2 on Amazon on 8th and on 9th I got an email from Amazon - "We cannot complete this order because our records show that you have reached the purchase limit for this product."

It was my first and only order for Redmi 2 with Amazon.

I placed order with gift card balance and they wanted some money maybe.

Two of my other misc orders of 2nd (Delivery estimate: 6-8 April 2015) and 6th April are "Not yet dispatched".

Things are not good with Amazon.

BTW, My three misc orders of 2nd, 4th and 5th April were delivered as per schedule.
 
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mk151 said:
Did the mail cone from qla department. If so then your account may be black listed.
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Yes, it came from qla@amazon.in

What does it mean ?

I had 7.8k in my gift card balance.

Placed another order of 9.4k today (7.8k gift card) and 1.6k by credit card)

It is showing "Preparing for Dispatch".

Called up Amazon today morning after writing above post. The CC executive apologized and assured me to take it further. She didn't say anything about black-listing.

God knows what is happening with Amazon India.
 
It happened with me also. All my orders were getting cancelled. I don't know what's happening with amazon but apparently lots of products have user limit and qla are account specialist team above CC. I had to write to qla before I could order again.

It also appears that they may be pruning non profitable customers.
 
In last month's time I have purchased from all three; PS3 from Amazon - delivered in 15 hours flat (selected 2 days guaranteed delivery), Tablet from Snapdeal - delivered 2 days before promised date, feature phone from Flipkart - delivered in 3 days. All the experiences were smooth. Except Flipkart both other orders were COD :p
 
Yeah, I like the decession of xiomi alright.

I want to see this as*ho** company flipkart who wants to fu** with common pubic freedom of neutral internet in dumps.

Its the first company to support airtel zero platform. You people must also not support such a company. It have been the biggest beneficiary of open internet and now when it got the change to return something to its roots. It did the contract with ****tel to stop startups from going up. And as a repercussion we consumers would get bad customer service and higher rates products.
 
observed that the seller selling xiaomi products is listed as TVS international. (both on amazon and snapdeal)

funny thing being for a pincode in thane flipkart and amazon is ready to ship a redmi 2 but snapdeal isnt.
 
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