Amitkg
Active Member
@elangoas
This is a cheap trick, used by e-retailers.
I am gonna explain it to you.
Just before the BBD on Flipkart, price of 50" FHD VU TV was 29,990. Surprisingly, during BBD sale it shot up to 37990. When I checked the availability, I found that 'no seller delivering to this pin-code'. Then, I tried other pin-codes that are adjacent to my area but I found no seller for those pin codes. Then I checked with Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai pin codes but there too I didn't find any seller ready to ship the product. I spoke to a source, who works with VU. He said that this was the strategy applied by VU and Flipkart. It works from two sides.
1) Price point- A customer who wants to buy the said model, will wait for price to come down.
2) Availability point - A customer who wants to buy the said model, would be under impression that he ( his pin-code rather) is unlucky and he would wait till the seller(s) is ready to ship the product to his pin code.
Fact of the matter is, product was no where available. And these tricks were applied to compel customers to wait.
Now, I come to what Amazon is doing here.
From your post, it's evident that Amazon doesn't have the stock of 60" Infocus TV. But Flipkart and other e-retailers have stock and they are selling it from their websites.
Now, Amazon tricks their prospective customers think that Amazon is offering the best price and for that prospective customers won't buy 60" Infocus from Flipkart. Instead, they would order it from Amazon but when they try to buy it from Amazon, they would see that 'no sellers are delivering to this pin-code'. Now, customers would wait, he would log in 2/3 times, on daily basis, to Amazon just to check whether seller is ready to ship to his pincode. Finally, the coveted TV will be made available on Amazon, but with higher price tag, that is equal or more-or-less equal to the price offered by Flipkart.
This way, Amazon tricks customers into waiting till they stock up the product that you and other customers are looking for. First, they don't want to lose customers, secondly, they don't want Flipkart to take away customers, who want to buy the said product.
I
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This is a cheap trick, used by e-retailers.
I am gonna explain it to you.
Just before the BBD on Flipkart, price of 50" FHD VU TV was 29,990. Surprisingly, during BBD sale it shot up to 37990. When I checked the availability, I found that 'no seller delivering to this pin-code'. Then, I tried other pin-codes that are adjacent to my area but I found no seller for those pin codes. Then I checked with Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai pin codes but there too I didn't find any seller ready to ship the product. I spoke to a source, who works with VU. He said that this was the strategy applied by VU and Flipkart. It works from two sides.
1) Price point- A customer who wants to buy the said model, will wait for price to come down.
2) Availability point - A customer who wants to buy the said model, would be under impression that he ( his pin-code rather) is unlucky and he would wait till the seller(s) is ready to ship the product to his pin code.
Fact of the matter is, product was no where available. And these tricks were applied to compel customers to wait.
Now, I come to what Amazon is doing here.
From your post, it's evident that Amazon doesn't have the stock of 60" Infocus TV. But Flipkart and other e-retailers have stock and they are selling it from their websites.
Now, Amazon tricks their prospective customers think that Amazon is offering the best price and for that prospective customers won't buy 60" Infocus from Flipkart. Instead, they would order it from Amazon but when they try to buy it from Amazon, they would see that 'no sellers are delivering to this pin-code'. Now, customers would wait, he would log in 2/3 times, on daily basis, to Amazon just to check whether seller is ready to ship to his pincode. Finally, the coveted TV will be made available on Amazon, but with higher price tag, that is equal or more-or-less equal to the price offered by Flipkart.
This way, Amazon tricks customers into waiting till they stock up the product that you and other customers are looking for. First, they don't want to lose customers, secondly, they don't want Flipkart to take away customers, who want to buy the said product.
I
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