Flipkart Billion Dollar Sale Is A Scam Or What?

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Flipkart is fraud.

Before the deals even started I was online, wanted to buy that Samsung tab which was under 'steal deal'. It was 'Out of stock' even before the deal began. I thought the stock will arrive once deal starts. I was continuously refreshing that goddamn page and bam! in main page it said 'shit just sold out'.
I was like what the crap ?

Now, my curiosity to know whether its the case in every 'steal deal' I remained online straight 3 hours refreshing page continuously & trying the buy the shitloads. But, I noticed that even when I try to purchase on very first second the stock appear, it says 'out of stock'. I mean come on, no one can purchase entire stock in just 5 seconds after new stock arrives.

BTW, anything other than 'Steal Deal' products can be purchased quite easily.

Flipkart is full of shit. Amazon one world better, period!

#-Link-Snipped-# - It's likely that they're using the 'steal deals' as marketing ploy; or say kept just about 10 items of each item under the deal. The moment people see that items are going out of stock, they'll jump on to the next deal and grab it fearing that they'll have to buy the item at a higher price later on.

Bezos did tell the secret sauce to his employees in India. Just keep an eye on it!

#-Link-Snipped-# Only the products that come under 'Limited Stock' is only giving legit discount. Anything other than that like 'Save more' , 'Steal Deal' and 'Limited Time' is just the usual discount which you see in regular days.

Also, as the stock decreases, the price gradually increases. I noticed it in <a href="https://www.flipkart.com/hp-15-g049au-notebook-apu-quad-core-a8-4gb-500gb-win8-1-k5b45pa/p/itmey7hhaurtczha?pid=COMEY34HEHBBH9TV&offer=D_Day_HPLaptop21990.&icmpid=bbd_viewall_6_D_Day_HPLaptop21990" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">HP 15-g049AU Notebook (APU Quad Core A8/ 4GB/ 500GB/ Win8.1) (K5B45PA) Rs. Price in India - Buy HP 15-g049AU Notebook (APU Quad Core A8/ 4GB/ 500GB/ Win8.1) (K5B45PA) Online - HP : Flipkart.com</a> . It went from 16K to 19K to 25k & decreased back to 21k.

Moral of the experience : Never get carried away by such discounts. It's all lies. 😁

😁 I saw all the Steal Deals only after they went out of stock. And it was just 6-7 minutes after 8:00 am today when the sale began.

Looks like sham to me. They never were on sale in the first place, or even if they were it was just 4-5 units.

Why make thousands of customers feel cheated or regretful for not logging in just a few seconds earlier? 😲😨😏😘

The worst thing about the Flipkart Big Billion Day is that they are making people buy things they do not need. People are falling for this big time. When it comes to steal deal I saw a Karbonn feature phone go for Rs. 1 at 10 am and by 10.01 it was out of stock. Plus the only thing I liked about Flipkart from the beginning was its low price on books but even on what is supposed to be a big discount day their prices are higher than of Amazon.

#-Link-Snipped-# Trust me buddy, that Karbonn device was NA/Out-Of-Stock even before it arrived on 'Steal Deal' Offer.

Flipkart should learn to give legit offers like we get during Steam Sales by Steam. BTW I forgot, you can't compare these fraudsters with the mighty Gabe Newell. 😁

Totally agree with Satya on this. I purchased a book on Amazon for almost half the price than what it was on Flipkart. There was a day when Flipkart was no. 1 go-to option for me when it came to buying books online. Had even recommended it to friends back then.

Also those who run after deals, beware of such tricks -






^ That's not just the case with Flipkart, but many other e-commerce portals.

Another example of a bad deal is the new Chetan Bhagat book, Half Girlfirend. Its being sold for Rs. 99 today at Flipkart but my sister bought the book for Rs. 99 and 10% cashback (SBI) at Amazon on 1st October.
I am starting to love Amazon now, I bought a couple of good books including a Sherlock Holmes box set from Amazon at dirt cheap prices in the last few days.

Full on total scam.

Clicks on the link of the Karbonn phone and you get this page

Looks like the Steal Deals are back. 😁 Can someone keep an eye on how fast they go out of stock? 😯 😛

Check this out : #-Link-Snipped-#

Check there is difference. The pink sticker costs your extra 4100/- Must be golden one 😛

Ankita Katdare😁 I saw all the Steal Deals only after they went out of stock. And it was just 6-7 minutes after 8:00 am today when the sale began.

Looks like sham to me. They never were on sale in the first place, or even if they were it was just 4-5 units.

Why make thousands of customers feel cheated or regretful for not logging in just a few seconds earlier? 😲😨😏😘

#-Link-Snipped-# you are saying just 6-7 minutes? I tried right on 8:00AM so you can say it was expired right on 8:00:01AM.
Upto now what I observe it's surely a scam. Sometimes they show product on deal page and when you visit product page it is out of stock WTF why don't you make your website better so it updates deal page if it is out of stock.

RaufCheck this out : #-Link-Snipped-#

Wow ! You see only flipkart have right to change MRP. 😁

Flipkart - Screw you rules we can change MRP anytime. 😉

Ankita KatdareLooks like the Steal Deals are back. 😁 Can someone keep an eye on how fast they go out of stock? 😯 😛

You are saying how fast they are go out of sell may be I smell it's out of stock already after out of stock they are putting it on sell. 😁

This is the only talk in town. Already couple of colleagues bought Chetan Bhagat's Half Girlfriend. Ordered in the morning 10.00 and got delivered by 12:00.

Harshad ItaliyaWow ! You see only flipkart have right to change MRP. 😁

Flipkart - Screw you rules we can change MRP anytime. 😉

Yes, If everything seems to be going well (with online purchase), you have obviously overlooked the T&C. 😏

This BBDS is going to hurt the rep of Flopkart(No typo). Many loyal customers including me will never look back at Flopkart. Time to switch to Amazon 😎

You would not able to add any damn item in your cart which is under Steal Deal; even if you add, and it's for less than INR 500, till you try to checkout, it would be removed from your cart.

It's just a fake sale and nothing else.

Following from Morning, they immediately placed 3 awesome looking offers:

1) 16 GB Pendrive for Re. 1
2) Samsung Tab 2 for Rs. 1399
3) Lumia 525 at INR 999

And no one was able to buy that.

Now even if we claim it is cheating, flipkart would come up with 50s of fake purchasers just to protect itself.

It's FRAUDCART 😀

Will wait for Amazon sale starting from October 10 😁

The Harry Potter Box Set is available for Rs. 1,200. I just tried adding it to the cart and was successful in doing so. Didn't buy though.

A friend just told me that she could bought the box-set for Rs. 1,300 a few months back from Flipkart.

Does that mean some items are genuine while some aren't?

Okay, do we have anyone who successfully bought item via steal deal?

I'm just waiting for some real person to either tweet or anything to tell the world s/he was successful in buying 😛

Kaustubh KatdareOkay, do we have anyone who successfully bought item via steal deal?

People would be only able to buy through Steal Deal when item costs > INR 1000 or something. 😀

lol, they are removing products automatically from cart.

FRAUDCART 😡😡😡😡😁😁😁

Nokia X at Rs900 - Went Out of Stock soon!

Hope you guys know there's a sale on Amazon today as well.

Kaustubh KatdareOkay, do we have anyone who successfully bought item via steal deal?

Even Rajnikath failed today buying anything from Flipkart Steal Deal 😛

look at the price of this book...exaggerated...flipkart scam only

Bought a Philips TV and a pair of shoes, was pending from a long time, didn't get much discount though. It was not a part of steal deal, just some regular discounts, and citi bank cashbacks! But as I been have hearing steal deals are a farce. I obviously couldn't get anything, products are just getting disappeared in seconds. They are just to lure customers to come to the site and then make them buy other stuff!

Dear flipkart, we don't expect you to be completely honest with everything, but at least don't cheat your customers.. We are mature enough to understand when you are trying to scam people!

Time for Sachin and Binny Bansal to come out and explain 😀

#-Link-Snipped-# Rs. 41,767?!!
Looks like they have not been able to handle the frenzy so well. What were they expecting?!
Most product pages are giving errors too. 👎

Kaustubh KatdareTime for Sachin and Binny Bansal to come out and explain 😀

And they are never going to do that.
I purchased Moto E few days back and they are going to give cashback to 100 buyers. I asked them on 1st oct to share the order ID who got their cashback and they said they have sent mail to winner no need to notify others. BULLSHIT !

Moral of the story... there is nothing called free , unlimited dinner 😀

Flipkart's raised about a billion dollars from their investors. If they're creating this hype, they should have spared about 100 or 200 crores spare and offered flat 50% discount on all the products. That'd have been a 'steal deal' for everyone.

I'm quite surprised that Redmi 1s, that sold ~40K units in just 4-5 seconds in every batch lasted for several hours today before going out of stock. If 40K units can sell in 4-5 seconds; 150,000 units should have been sold in a minute or two at max. If not; I'd not expect them to last for more than an hour!

But you see - the phone was there for several hours and almost anyone could buy it.

Certainly, things aren't rosy as they wanted to show.

A big notice on the top this morning said, 'No cancellation, No refund.'
This might not go so well with customers who have had bad experiences with the shipment & delivery.

Also, Gone are the days when we used to go to a local bookstore, find a book worth buying, log-in to Flipkart and check the discount on the book and decide to buy the book online after going home.

Did anyone try the Compare Hatke app on Chrome for plotting the price of a product over the last few weeks. I am sure the results would be alarming!
#-Link-Snipped-# any input on this?

ATTENTION: Anyone using 'Flipkart FIRST' service here? Any benefits over to us regular users???

Looks total scam to me. I saw a headphone and tried to buy it added in card and then while checkout out of stock. I came back to product and while several refresh price and availability was fluctuating with each refresh 😨

See the price variation for another headphone..
Observe the price from 31st July to 18th Aug, price is INR. 600. And in today's sale they again made it to INR. 599 and trying to sell as steal offer.



Edit: One more observation: They added RedMi 1S today, I am sure, they not able to sell all of them, and made out-of-stock just to show off. I added in my cart in morning and removed it. I got email that if I am trying to purchase this phone. Didn't got email for other product unless they ware in my cart for few days☕


Suggestion to Flipkart, if you are reading this.
You are already big brother of Indian E-Commerce and have earned the trust. I don't think you need to create hoax for people to come to your site. Stop doing "Chindi-Chori" (Cheap business).
People will move to Amazon and I guess Flipkart is already scared of Amazon.

Ebay's new promise.

Wasted all my day trying to get a steal and finally at about 3 p.m, i manged to get a 3000rs LONSDALE backpack for 99% off. The order was placed successfully and i was feeling happy that i at least i won something for abusing my finger all day by hitting the refresh button. Drained by this, i closed all browser and took some rest. I went back to FK around 4.30 to see if there are any other deals and to my surprise, my entire order history had been wiped clean. 2 years of order history vanished. I was outraged by this stunt pulled by flipkart and the only thing that kept me calm was that i managed to get only a backpack(which was stolen back by me) and not a high-end phone or tablet. None the less, I'm never going to order anything from flipkart again. I had been a loyal customer of FK and they screwed me over in the most unprofessional way.

Wasted all my day trying to get a steal and finally at about 3 p.m, i manged to get a 3000rs LONSDALE backpack for 99% off. The order was placed successfully and i was feeling happy that i at least i won something for abusing my finger all day by hitting the refresh button. Drained by this, i closed down my browser and took some rest. I went back to FK around 4.30 to see if there are any other deals and to my surprise, my entire order history had been wiped clean. 2 years of order history vanished. I was outraged by this stunt pulled by flipkart and the only thing that kept me calm was that i managed to get only a backpack(which was stolen back) and not a high-end phone or tablet. None the less, I'm never going to order anything from flipkart again. I had been a loyal customer of FK and they screwed me over in the most unprofessional way.

Anoop MathewATTENTION: Anyone using 'Flipkart FIRST' service here? Any benefits over to us regular users???

Nothing much mainly depends on your city. I just subscribe for Flipkart First today because of 399/- If I am going to order 8 items in one year less then 500/- amount it's Vasoool for me. 😀

Kaustubh KatdareI'm quite surprised that Redmi 1s, that sold ~40K units in just 4-5 seconds in every batch lasted for several hours today before going out of stock. If 40K units can sell in 4-5 seconds; 150,000 units should have been sold in a minute or two at max. If not; I'd not expect them to last for more than an hour!

That was fishy from the very first Mi3 sell and today they proved it.
If you ask Flipkart about reason they are surely gonna say that now almost every people has purchased Redmi that is why it is still there. We got some order canceled so we got more stock and blah blah.

Worst thing for sell on flipkart! Seems day to day they are degrading service and on one day the will sell cloths only like homeshop18 doing these days 😁

#-Link-Snipped-# seems Flipkart came to know about this thread and Redmi1S is now out of stock on website but not in real for sure. 😉

Guys visit#-Link-Snipped-# !! This is how amazon trolls Flipkart.

Source : #-Link-Snipped-#

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Also in the main menu page the timer was running when you clicked on the view all products on limited stock ,timer showing as ended and message to go for other deal.

totally disappointed!!

RaufGuys visit#-Link-Snipped-# !! This is how amazon trolls Flipkart.

Source : #-Link-Snipped-#

😛👍😁

Why not visit <scraped> too? 😀

PS: Scraped, because I'm not sure what was it exactly, let me search for that again.
It was something fraudcart.com or something.

Harshad Italiya#-Link-Snipped-# seems Flipkart came to know about this thread and Redmi1S is now out of stock on website but not in real for sure. 😉

Its not real out of stock. All 2 orders from my cart vanished in air!! and there is message that this item went out of stock.

So, came to know that those Re. 1 items and all those items that were offered for less that INR 100 were actually around only 100 items to be sold.

Now, I want to know how come Flipkart thought that they would serve "Whole India" with only 100 items of some products offered for less, and then spamming everywhere for huge discounts to everyone.

Seriously, they have forgotten that in country like India, people are not so dumb and blind to let them go un-noticed.

You have just encouraged your competitors to grow, nothing else 😀
and bdw, happy making that "Official" money you made today.

Found this on FB:

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Dear Mr. Out Of Stock, Thank you for offering "The Big Billion Day" sale. Today is the 6th of October, 2014 and it's a day when you offered the biggest sale. Let's start from the top. MY whole intent of writing this letter to you is to make you understand that you need a bigger warehouse and trust me on that because it is said to be believed that today is your biggest sale offering and most of your sale products(which you advertised) went out of stock in less than a minute!



I mean were you offering only 0.0001% of your stock of that product on sale? You were offering some phones at Re 1 and some at Rs 900. How many pieces of those handsets were being offered at the sale price? 1 or 10 or 100? Okay, for an instance let me believe that my net connection was slow(which is not the case) and I missed out of deals. But when I went to purchase a Macbook Pro which you were offering at Rs 49.5k your website did not allow me to put the item in my cart. After a lot of tries I get to see a page Error 500: Internal sever error where you are calling Houston trying to act smart!



Ah well! Let me tell you that I did not give up and tried refreshing a lot of times and finally went to the cart page. This took me about 5 minutes. Then surprisingly I see my cart is empty even though I had put the item in my cart. And after several attempts when I was able to checkout I see that you are showing that item, Out of Stock! What are you trying to do here?



Steal Deals!!! Steal Deals!!! Steal Deals!!!



What is there to steal in it when the same item is available at a lower price on your competitors website(Amazon this time) even though they are not making a GAGA about the discounts! The Canon 1200D with dual lens which you were offering at around Rs 26.5k today was being offered by Amazon.in at Rs 20.5k.Same with Apple MacBook Air and other products. I don't know why are you trying to fool us!



On 4th October 2014 I got a mail from both of you saying a few emotional lines about the start-up and how this will be big sale. You forgot to mention that it's not a big sale, it is a sale which goes out of stock in 1-3 seconds.



Btw, your marketing guy is doing a great job! Super great job! Think of naming your next sale as, India's biggest out of stock sale in 1 second! Do fire your supply chain guy. He hasn't done his homework to predict the sales and I am sure he has failed a lot of times seeing my news feed about how Red Mi and Mi3 goes out of stock in seconds!



Yours sincerely,

A "Flipkart First" customer

To all those who could connect with this letter, please go ahead and share it. Don't worry. This letter won't go out of stock! And while sharing, make your privacy settings public for this post so that all the customers can see it because they could not have the privilege to see the products in their cart.

pricina Katdare#-Link-Snipped-# Rs. 41,767?!!
Looks like they have not been able to handle the frenzy so well. What were they expecting?!
Most product pages are giving errors too. 👎

Anyways pricing above MRP is illegal...