Flipkart or Fakekart?

joel.francis.7351

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If you remember all the mess that went <a href="http://www.managementparadise.com/forums/hot-debates-big-fight/228533-forbes-flipcart-failures-frugal-journalism.html" target="_blank">viral in 2012 about flipkart</a>, then this title would be no surprise for you.<br> <br> Today was one of the biggest sale flipkart announced because for some reason today was a historical day for them. However, out of stock, sold out, website errors, lost orders and a variety of technical issues completed turned the tables and provoked a wave of negative publicity.<br> <br> QZ wrote of the issue as a PR nightmare : http://qz.com/276454/flipkarts-mega-sale-day-is-proving-to-be-a-public-relations-nightmare/<br> <br> Just between all this fiasco, Kanchan Kumar adds fuel to fire with his tweet :<br> <br> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>$100mn worth of goods sold on <a href="https://twitter.com/Flipkart">@Flipkart</a> in 10 hrs! Not a joke. Let me ask the haters, how many of you have sold this value in one full year!</p>— Kanchan Kumar (@kanchankumar) <a href="https://twitter.com/kanchankumar/status/519118778508914688">October 6, 2014</a></blockquote>So what does all this mean really?<br><br>Was it a success? Is fake it till you make it the success mantra? What does it teach the future generation? <img smilieid="160" class="inlineimg" src="http://www.managementparadise.com/forums/images/smilies/ohwell.gif" border="0"><br> <script async="" src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
 

joel.francis.7351

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Not to forget a lot of people noticed that FK had jacked up the prices just a day before the sale and on the day of sale they were showing it as a discount. #malpractice? Is it ethical?
 

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