Flipkart lists 'Amazon exclusive' OnePlus 3 at Rs 18,999

The company has put up a sale of OnePlus 3 device at Rs 18,999, which will start at 4 pm on December 18

Of late, Flipkart hits the controversy by putting up a banner listing the sale of OnePlus 3 smartphone, which is exclusive to Amazon India, for under Rs 20,000 during the big billion sale, which started today i.e. on December 18.

While the listing brought a lot of attention from prospective buyers, it came as a shock to OnePlus CEO, Carl Pei who took to Twitter asking Flipkart’s co-founder Sachin Bansal to clear the ambiguity around the sale of OnePlus 3 on Flipkart.

The tweet saw no reply from Flipkart or from Sachin Bansal and soon Amazon India took to Twitter to warn customers to buy OnePlus 3 from Flipkart ‘on their own risk’.

.@_sachinbansal brother, what's this? We're exclusive with @amazonINpic.twitter.com/0QBoyagoXz

— Carl Pei (@getpeid) December 16, 2016

There is still a lot of ambiguity around the issue, but for Flipkart things are as normal as they ever were. The company has put up a sale of OnePlus 3 device at Rs 18,999, which will start at 4 pm (IST) on December 18. On product page, the device details ‘1 year warranty’ on smartphone and ‘6 month warranty’ on accessories.

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Race on as Flipkart, Amazon, Snapdeal eye $1.5 bn in festive sales

The most-watched online sales on Sunday were about Apple and pizza, property and Harry Potter, attracting first-time buyers from Sangli and Hisar, while not letting the regulars from Delhi and Mumbai leave.

In response to Amazon’s first day score card — 1.5 million units sold in 12 hours — on Saturday, rival Flipkart on Sunday raised the bar, pegging the number of units sold at 2.25 million in exactly 12 hours.

WHAT HAPPENED ON DAY I

Flipkart

• Flipkart and Myntra together sold 2.25 million units in the first 12 hours of the Big Billion Days
• Sold more Apple watches in 10 minutes than the total sale of Apple watches online and offline in a month
• Myntra clocked 3 times more revenue in the  first hour, compared to the 2015 edition

Amazon

• In the first 12 hours, managed to sell over 1.5 million units
• More than 100,000 units sold in less than the first 30 minutes
• Microwaves saw a 30-time spike in demand
• Consumer durables categories saw a 10-time growth
• Diapers and baby products have witnessed an increase of 12 times

Snapdeal

• At midnight, 180 orders booked per second
• By 4 pm, more than 1.1 million people had made purchases
• Orders went to nearly 52,000 sellers
• People from 2,800 cities and towns placed their orders
• Fastest delivery: An order for iPhone 5s  placed at 7.20 am on Oct 2 was delivered in Gurgaon at 8.10 am

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