'There is an expedition, all expenses paid, once you cover your journey successfully, surpassing all adventures, coming back successfully, and detailing your journey in length in your own words. If you accept this challenge, write back.’ - Read a mailer in my mailbox on Google.
'Your budget is xxxxx amount that you will have to spend on the way to fill up your necessities and essentials on the way. Once you come back and submit your success story with us, the amount mentioned above will be transferred to your bank account.' It further mentioned. 'Your journey will be 5000 miles.'
'Wow!' I thought, 'Quite a challenging task. Let me go for it...'
This is a mailer from my favorite Blogadda as below:
The Budget:
The budget is Rs. 5,000. We three sat together with our individual ideas on what to buy, as soon as the birthday party was over and we gottime free to start planning for our expedition. The categories that excited us most were 'Mobiles & Tablets', 'Electronics & Appliances', 'Home & Lifestyle' and 'Entertainment'.
'Wow! You can buy new items too here!', exclaimed my daughter. That was an awakening call for all three of us. So far we thought it is only for selling and buying old/used/second hand items only. She got to know the moment she clicked on 'Mobiles & Tabs' category, selected a selected a sub category and reached to the and had a look on the left hand side options bar with all kind of useful options.
'That is fantastic!', the reaction was simultaneous from both of us. We learnt that you can refine your results in terms of brand, price range, old/new items, location preferences, ads only with photo. That is really marvelously customer friendly gesture for high level of facilitation to get quicker and accurate results. Unanimous decision was to go only for new items.
- Folding Chairs, Chairs, Cane chairs, cane stools
- Artificial Jewelry
- Mop on Wheels (Spin Mop)
- Electric Roti Maker
- Handbags, Tote Bags, Leather handbags
- Clothes hanger for accommodating 84 cloths.
- HeviBase Induction Cooker
- Gas Tandoor/Grill
The clock was ticking rapidly with a higher pace as compared to the speed at which we had to zero down on final products and that too the festive season around Diwali was nearing, indicating that finalization of deals during this period might be a hiccup for sellers. The first item zeroed in on was a Hawkins Hevibase Induction Cooker. It was easy to hunt as I knew my destination (the cooker, brand, type) though didn't know the seller. But it was not as simple to search as I had anticipated it to be. By putting "Induction Cooker" in search, I found Induction plate (on which the cooker and other induction utensils are placed for cooking) rather than the desired Hawkins induction cooker. Putting "Hawkins Induction Cooker" again brought in similar kind of mixed results, instead of giving me the desired result. One irritating point is that when you go for customized search, you don't get the complete items on the left bar, like to opt for used or new items. Another drawback is that once the repository of ads is in the hands of seller. Like in my case when the seller, who was an individual, had delivered the items at my residence, the ad was removed by him. Here is the link to his ad that he had posted that clearly stated about the price of the cooker. Here is the screenshot of the Cooker page on Quikr:
1. Quikr refined search is not very powerful when you want to go for customized product search.
2. The links to pages saved do not remain constant.3. There is no rating provision of sellers so that you can be cautious for the wrong sellers. And sellers remain cautious for their rating going bad. That way they will always go for the fair deal.
4. I have contact details of the persons for each deal so as to prove my purchasing in case anything goes wrong due to lacking in Quikr site.
5. Some sellers (specially in handbag section and some other sections) give wrong information in terms of pricing (give lower price) so as to attract customers.
6. Quikr site's concept is good but then there are all kind of good and bad people for which they need to do some improvements on their site so as to increase fair buyers and sellers.
7, There is a huge experience gained in terms of interactions with sellers and hunt for products on Quikr portal. A lot of interactions happened with the sellers over the phone, whatsapp etc.
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