Take a chill pill guys!! No need to fight over this because there is no single "correct" answer to your debate

. There are times when I have bought at prices lesser than S.P.Road(Bangalore's equivalent of Lamington Road, Nehru place etc) and there are times when S.P.Road has been cheaper.
Yeah... possible. But I placed the order under EMI! I think it is justified in that case...
I can very well relate with Santy's thought process here. It is not always about the lowest price. Sometimes, it is about flexibility, saving time (time to some is more valuable than money

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, convenience, EMIs and so many other factors.
Let me give you an example. Last month, I bought two 2TB hard-disks from ebay.in. The lowest price on ebay was Rs.6129 and I did not buy from that seller because he did not offer EMI. I looked for the next best price, with EMI option, good seller rating + a seller based in Chennai and bought it at Rs.6350. I got it shipped directly to a member in Chennai for copying for priceless content

. There was a Delhi based seller who was offering EMI and was offering Rs.30 per HDD less but I did not want any further delays, so did not go with this seller. I also got a 5% cashback from Citibank for the transaction which was an absolute bonus(I would have bought it even without the cashback). Now, in this situation I might have got the HDD in S.P.Road at lesser but I had no cash to buy even one 2TB HDD leave alone two 2TB

hyeah:. Even Credit Card would not helped because I had almost maxed out on my capacity to repay within the due date. EMI, I could still manage to repay somehow

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Lamington road price is 5750 or lower ( It was lowest current may be more)
So post coupon is 650 to 700 Rs..
So IT JUSTIFIES EMI?
BTW SANTY
As per maths I learnt in Mumbai
6425 >> 5750 ( > is greater than)
So Santy according to you EBAY IS CHEAPEST , as EBAY guys do not maintain storefronts etc,:


SO HOW DO YOU EXPLAIN REPEATED FAILURE OF YOUR HYPOTHESIS?

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Am I missing something Hemant? I don't think Santy ever said "Ebay is the lowest price always, anyday!!". If he has said something like that it can never be true because Ebay is made up of hundreds of sellers selling the same product.
Also, it is not fair to compare ebay\online prices with market prices. There are a whole lot of factors which influence the price in places like S.P Road. How each seller prices it is purely based on his cost price and how much profit/loss he wants to make (Yes, you read it right. Sellers even sell for loss). A seller's cost price again varies with another seller's depending on the quantities he ordered, whether he received any promotions, whether he bought it for a full cash payment(very rare) or a 90 day re-payment option. The seller in a marketplace can hike/lower the price based on the customer (friend, re-seller or BAKRA etc). Whereas, in e-bay the seller has to stick to his price till the listed date.
Also, never go by the price that is quoted to you by the sellers on S.P. Road, Lamington Road etc unless you already bought the product. There is a lot of unfair competition among the sellers there. When a customer asks for a price and the seller does not have the product, the seller quotes an unbeatable price. If you say you want to buy, they will tell you to come tomorrow or later the same day as their stocks are yet to arrive. Truth is that, stock will not arrive and you will end up wasting your time and also go back thinking the other sellers are quoting high. There are also sellers who will sell for lesser with reduced warranty and there are sellers who will price something low and make up that money in another product if you are buying more than one product.
So buying from ebay or from places like Lamington Road is an individual's choice. Both kinds of businesses will co-exist because priorities for each person is different. For some getting the lowest price is all important. For some others like me, other factors also play an equal role in my purchase. I will not even bother going to S.P.Road unless I have to buy a lot of stuff - the very thought of time spent, bargaining, traffic, finding parking, dealing with above-mentioned kind of dealers makes me buy from ebay.in/online dealers.
But that's just me. To each his own

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