Watch out 12- 12- 2012 get your credit/debit cards ready and make your wishlist of products to buy as Google bringing in the Great Online Shopping Festival in India. On that single day Google will be offering the best deals ever from a whole bunch of Indian online shopping sites like Flikart, Myntra, Pepperfry, Homeshop18, Jabong and more.
Google may be trying to make this one day shopping festival marking India’s own Cyber Monday or Blackfriday. Google has partnered with some of the great Indian online shopping sites to offer Indian customers exclusive one day deals. You can check the deals page to see the participating Indian online shopping sites and the specific deal for that day.
It seems while the time of posting some exclusive deals have already popped up like, ( only listing some of the deals which seems interesting )
- Indiatimes Shopping is offering “12% Extra OFF on Mobiles & Tablets Coupon Code: MOBTAB Valid on 12th December with a Maximum Discount Rs 500“
- RedBus offering Flat 10% OFF on every bust ticket
- Babyoye offering Rs 150 Off on shopping above Rs 1500 and Upto 50% Off on Clothes, Diapers & more with coupon code BO150
- BagsKart offering Flat Rs 300 OFF on all Bags purchase above Rs 1200 using the coupon code FESTIVEBAGS.
It seems users can only avail this exclusive deals on 12th December 2102, as currently the “buy” button on the website isn’t active. Also the coupon code and deals are valid only on 12th December for 24 hours. Google has also put up online guide for first time shoppers to clear their doubts and inhibitions with simple 10 point explanation about everything to do with online shopping.
Google India is also promoting heavily the same using social media. Users can keep track of all the things they want to purchase by just tweeting the wishlist using the hashtag #OnlineShopFest.
Is Google trying to experiment something here, like the possibility of the launch of Google offers? What do you think?
We will updating this story when we get more substantial information about GOSF.
Source – Great Online Shopping Festival (GOSF)