
The Big Billion Day-saster: A Flipkart Chutzpah!
Lets just all collectively agree that we all were there at the virtual gates of the almighty, only to be greeted by ‘Out of Stock’ & ‘Sold out’ at the first site.
As if the fact that it was a Monday after a long weekend wasn't daunting enough, we were all taken for a roller coaster ride by flipkart for the things that we could have bought for the fraction of a cost. To buy or not to buy, that wasn't the question at all.
It was a big day for flipkart which was spot on with respect to it’s target for sales but at what cost? Here is a timeline based on public reactions across various social media platforms as to what all went wrong during the whole day.
https://storify.com/ankitsawant/the-billion-day
Do you still think that flash sales or such artificial scarcity is a good way to make sales whereas we can already see that demand is outplaying the supply all the time?