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OLX's operations in India, like other online retailers, has faced problems with fraud and faced problems with people selling stolen vehicles. In combating fraud, nearly 25% of the car listings get rejected by its systems to protect users from fraud. [36] [37] In August 2023, OLX's India business was acquired by CarTrade for ₹ 535.54 crore. [38]
Snapdeal is an Indian e-commerce company, based in New Delhi, India. It was founded in February 2010 by Kunal Bahl and Rohit Bansal. [3] Snapdeal is one of the top 5 online marketplaces in India. [4] Snapdeal targets the value e-commerce segment, which Bahl estimated to be three times larger than the branded goods market. [5]
The website was founded in 2005 [7] [8] by Ronaldo Mouchawar and was originally a consumer-to-consumer auction site part of Maktoob Group. [9] In 2010, Wisam (Sam) Daoud joined Souq from eBay as Chief Technology Officer and led the transformation of the business from auctions to a fixed price catalog based business similar to Amazon.com. [10]
In addition to online reviews, peer recommendations on online shopping pages or social media websites play a key role [31] for online shoppers when they are researching future purchases. [ 32 ] 90% of all purchases made are influenced by social media.
The home shopping/electronic retailing industry was created in 1977, when small market talk radio host Bob Circosta was asked to sell avocado–green-colored can openers live on the air by station owner Bud Paxson, when an advertiser traded 112 units of product instead of paying his advertising bill. Hesitant at first, Circosta reluctantly ...
India has an Internet user base of about 690.0 million as of November 2023, about 40% of the population. [1] Despite being the second-largest user base in world, only behind China (1.079 billion, 48% of population), the penetration of e-commerce is low compared to markets like the United States (266 million, 84%), or France (54M, 81%), but is growing, adding around 6 million new entrants every ...
IndiaMART InterMESH Ltd is an Indian B2B online marketplace, connecting buyers and suppliers. It is headquartered in Noida. The company started its operations in 1996 when Dinesh Agarwal and Brijesh Agrawal founded the website IndiaMART.com, [3] a business-to-business portal to connect Indian manufacturers with buyers. [4] [5]
Pepperfry Limited, formerly known as Pepperfry, is an Indian online marketplace for furniture and home décor. [3] The company was founded in July 2011 by Ambareesh Murty and Ashish Shah, and is headquartered in Mumbai. [4] As of 2023, Pepperfry has 43 company-owned studios and 142 studios operating under its franchise model. [5]