Emotionally Speaking

Don’t buy from Bag it Today or India Today

Bag it today from the India today Group is a bad online shopping option if you have been influenced by their ads or spam messages. Someone I know had ordered this shoe (see image) from them and got a black colour, poor quality shoes! India today group has earlier sent poor prints of good books [...]

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Buying insurance online is fun

I have done a lot of online shopping from various sites and could be one of the most experienced online shoppers in India. I have bought most things that you could name from a small cycle horn (Decathlon, Btwin) to hundreds of books (Flipkart) or contact lenses (Healthkart, Lenskart). Recently I bought insurance online from [...]

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Buy all sports goods online from Decathlon and Lifemojo dot com: Shop Online

Decathlon (French company; Indian office in Bangalore) sells quality sports goods related to almost any sport from running and hiking to swimming, skating and cycling. It has various brands under its belt to cater to various sports segments. Lifemojo.com is an online Decathlon reseller. It has the cheapest prices online and very good customer service. [...]

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Be careful while buying second hand bikes and other goods online

There are sites like bikes4sale dot in and others where you can buy second hand goods. I discovered what I am going to tell you while researching for buying a second hand motorcycle. When you find the name and phone no. of somebody selling you his or her motorcycle (bike), do run a Google search [...]

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Gigapedia is now library.nu

The hugely popular book downloading (“indexing”) site Gigapedia is now rechristened as library.nu and is available on the new web address. In fact typing Gigapedia.com will automatically direct you to library dot nu. While the reasons for it are not made public, it may be because Gigapedia may have rubbed the publishers the wrong way [...]

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Having bought >120 books, I recommend Flipkart.com to buy books online (India)

UPDATE: June 2010. Now I have shopped some 350 books from flipkart.  Flipkart rocks! Flipkart now also sells CDs, DVDs, Music and games and have raised $8 to $10 million dollar VC funding (source); so expect more! I had a very bad experience with online shopping (I was cheated by Rediff Shopping and then had [...]

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