Flipkart begins phone delivery to all UP, Bihar cities post GST

[Devesh]

Flipkart has begun delivering mobile phones to all cities of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar from July 1, as the goods and services tax (GST) regime has reduced the tax outgo besides doing away with cumbersome paperwork. Rival Amazon, which has been delivering to these states, said it will ramp up expansion and last-mile delivery of higher value goods in Bihar.

Delivering handsets -- among the ecommerce players’ highest selling category -- to two of the three most populous states in the country is critical for both market leader Flipkart and challenger Amazon as they slug it out for a higher share of the growing e-tail market.

“With GST coming in, markets of UP, Bihar and some parts of Gujarat will now be serviced, where orders were virtually nothing,” said Ayappan Rajagopal, senior director for smartphones at Flipkart. “We intend to increase our share in these markets which make up close to 13-15% of the total Indian market,” he said.

Flipkart: Flipkart begins phone delivery to all UP, Bihar cities post GST, Telecom News, ET Telecom

 

[ApurbSSJ]

Thanks for this news bro

 

[IndianMascot]

While booking Redmi Note 4 there was a special banner saying this.

 

[IndianMascot]

Check this

 

[ApurbSSJ]

Check this

Yes , earlier we can't buy phones,etc priced more than 10K in bigar that was the I bought redmi 4 otherwise I would have bought redmi note 4 only

 

[Aviral Sangal]

Yes even i had to get my Redmi Note 4 delivered in Delhi.

 

[IndianMascot]

Good that GST solved this problem.

 

[scorpionking76]

Kudos now start ordering by FK

 

[Aviral Sangal]

These days I don't feel like ordering from fk. Amazon serves me well enough.

 

[Technoglitch]

Fk has gone down in terms of delivery. They don't update the trackers Regularly