'The boycott has not achieved success. Sales figures for Chinese products on the top three Indian online retailers in the first week of October hit a new record. Amazingly, the Chinese mobile phone company Xiaomi sold half a million phones in just three days on the Flipkart, Amazon India, Snapdeal and Tata CLiQ platforms.'
The strategy these online marketplace companies follow in the next few months will determine whether Amazon gets to be the leader in 2017.
It is hard enough to make a profit in e-commerce without having to deal with excessive paperwork, legal fees and the constant threat of harassment by revenue officials.
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This was only four days after many aggrieved buyers chose social networking sites to attack Flipkart's 'Big Billion Day' discount this Monday (October 6), followed by an apology from the company's co-founders, Sachin and Binny Bansal.
It entered India in 2006, with the aim of tapping the promising consumer market.
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Today, more about 35 per cent of Amazon's traffic is through mobiles.
The chief executive of the e-commerce giant is making his second visit to India -- the first since Amazon entered this market.
Another point of contention is the invoice issued by the e-companies.
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