NEW DELHI: Because of the Various advantages and benefits, more and more people say they prefer online shopping over conventional shopping these days. One of the biggest reasons consumers are flocking from brick-and-mortar stores to e-commerce websites is the substantial discounts that the latter offer. However, a Flipkart product listing has cast some doubts over these discounts that e-tailers offer.
However, a closer look at the product’s image on the listing page shows that the pair of wedges were priced at Rs 399 only by the manufacturer.
While posting the image on Flipkart’s Facebook page, Sen wrote:
Dear Flipkart Team… Whenever we think of online shopping, we definitely check your site first for the product availability. You have built huge brand value in India. But these incidents damage customers’ trust factor, as well as your brand value. Please see the picture attached…
In response, Flipkart said: “Sorry about this Mani. Checking on this… will have this rectified at the earliest.”
However, the poster boy of Indian e-commerce received a lot of flak from users, who wrote comments like:
Yash Chaudhari: What more we can expect from #Flipkart, due to this they are #Giant in Indian eCommerce business.
Shivakiran Boppana: What will u rectify… will you now add 799 tag to this….. LOL
Amit Sharma: This is not about One product many product are listed like this, even same product with different MRPs and selling price
Interestingly, one Facebook user posted in comments:
All they did now is they Photoshopped the image and removed the MRP, while keeping the same 50% off ‘fake’ offer.
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