IndiaPlaza is running a Price Challenge offer on Mobile Phones and Books. The offer is as simple as this, find a retailer – either online or offline (Brick and Motar) who is selling a Book or Mobile phone at cheaper price than IndiaPlaza and collect twice the difference of the amount as gift voucher to spend on IndiaPlaza.in if IndiaPlaza is expensive.
I was purchasing these two books ISBN 8131702391 / 8129704056 and had a price check at FirstandSecond.Com and IndiaPlaza and found it cheaper on IndiaPlaza. However, I have found few mobile phone vendors offering cheaper prices than IndiaPlaza, but lets see if IndiaPlaza will accept it.
This Price Challenge is just an eye wash. The day I got a mailer…I spent just about 15 minutes to find at least 2 mobile sets…which were available at a cheaper price at Indiatimes.com. I informed Fabmall/Indiaplaza about the price difference (a diff of about INR 500/-). But in a few days I received a mail that they didn’t find that Fabmall price was hiigher…& asked me to produce tax invoices. How rediculous. So I threw that mail on their face…& sent them the screenshot of the products …which was priced higher at Indiaplaza. They should be ashamed of themselves & take down such fake “Price Challenge”.
The saga of FAKE Challenge continues from Indiaplaza:
http://innindia.blogspot.com/2007/03/indiaplaza-price-challenge-fake-sage.html
This is the worst website for shopping. Dont even think of it.
for me it was a night marish experience.
worst customer support. they work like a typical indian govermnet office
The price challenge scheme is an eyewash. I had made many entries finding a lot of large differences in price. For around 25 entries submitted, I received one gift voucher and that also for much less than the value due. I think they pay in about 1 out of 50 cases hoipng to get traffic on the site. Probably they will calim their decision is final if you questioned them. Not that anyone asked them to run such a scheme. But it is pretty poor value systems to hot make good on commitments.
The price challenge on Indiaplaza is only a publicity stunt. They are counting on the fact that people will generally believe that a company will make such a public claim unless it were true. The fact is that books are not the cheapest and there are significant differences in hundreds of cases. And they keep such a scheme alive by a simple ruse – not paying up!! They do not honour their commitments in most of the cases. A cousin has promised to send a list of over 100 books with large differences in price together with all details. I intend to post it on the net. Let us see whether they continue to run the scheme with no intention to pay up or withdraw the scheme!
Hi Guys, I read all your stories but i guess i am the luckiest of all, i took lot of effort for this price challenge and was rightly paid off. i received some 60-70 vouchers worth Rs.80000 for book challenge, yes Rs. Eighty Thousand. And someone was saying that when they tried using the voucher, they were getting error saying ” Please redeem this GC only on the store it was meant to be redeemed”. Let me tell you friends, you have to try all the combination while making purchases, what i used to do was buy one book, which was mandatory if you have won book price challenge and then buy other things and to tell i bought a dvd player, a 25inch TV, Food Processor, Microwave Oven and host of other things, yes one thing i agree that customer support is worst. So guys i dont think so it was fake. yes one more thing i agree i must have send some 500 entries and i got 60-70 vouchers.
i ran into this website Bookchowk.com
which actually searches all indian book search sites and shows the price difference,
seems to include all the major sites
ebay,firstandsecond,rediff,indiaplaza,indiatimes,prakashbooks, kithabay etc
They don’t compare books from flipkart.com
It is among the best online store i have used.
looks like now they do