What happened to snapdeal, paytm Mall, homeshop18, yebhi ?
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Hi guys,
What happened to these sites, most of those not opening like homeshop18, yebhi, fashion&you, 99label, zovi, inkfruit etc , I am curious to know founder and ceo of these companies doing what nowadays. 
Also snapdeal, paytm mall looks like some local website now.
Missing those good old days. 
Now living in Amazon n flipkart monopoly. 
They are the ones who built trust on online shopping experience. Sadly they are no more in the market.
U mean they built the trust ?homeshop18, yebhi, fashion&you, napptolā¦???
There was Tradus as well. I remember buying an iphone from them way back in 2010. What days!
Was frequent on Tradus. Had placed more than 5 orders from them. They had pretty good coupons which when combined used to give great deals. Par afsoos ab Tata. Bye-bye. Khatam. š„²
Meanwhile the founders/co-founders after reading OPā¦
Most of the chor sellers have sifted to Myntra now. If this continues, very soon myntra will join this list of dead site.
Customer āunfriendlyā support is responsible for mushrooming of chor sellers in a site leading to angry buyers and loss of trust in the site.
Was frequent buyer on inkfruit but it got shut and was acquired by zovi, Homeshop18ās Superdeals were awesome, bought many things from them, Yebhi shined in those days but the buzz was short lived, also pepperfry in those days use to list electronics products, apparels etc before turning into full fledged furniture store pepperfry use to provide many coupons, then there was one called Greendust for refurbished productsā¦ good old days
Snapdeal is still around their target markets are mostly towns and rural areas 
infibeam too.
though infibeam e-commerce business stopped but its CCAvenues running.
Currently no e-commerce company is in profit. so it is difficult to survive for small players.
Homeshop 18 was Closed by Reliance Industries Ltd (2018), RIL Acquired its Parent Company Network 18 in the years 2012-13.
Shopclues is still there,selling Chindi Samaan ,The founder Dinesh Agarwal has also Founder and CEO of DROOM 
These websites are victims of free market because they had nothing to attract repeat customers.
Nice thread, nice memories.
Ebay: Cheap Chinese TAT
Indiatimes/Rediff Shopping: Horribly bad knockoffs
Infibeam: Good books. Electronics deals were good.
Bought a 0.5MP webcam that would make Katrina Kaif look like a beggar.
Jabong: Okay, nothing special
Pepperfry: LEDs, Power Sockets and many many things at a great discount when they were a marketplace
Paytmmall: Incredible deals before Buffett invested. Plenty of 90% cashback deals.
Bought a TV for 850. Couldnāt sleep well at night with excitement. It turned out to be a toy.
Paytm mall jinda hai abhi bhi ā¦
Hamre dilo mainš
I still remember i gad bought digicam from tradus.in in GOSF 2012ā¦.
Anyone remember TIMTARA.com š¤£ I had bought digital camera from that site. Then lots tshirt from INKFRUIT. Cheap electronic items from eBay, books from infibeam, gfās dress from fashion&you, 99label. Shoes/chappal from yebhi.
ā¦.many guys can counter this with claims like funding etc but it takes guts to burn money to increase businessā¦.a salaried guy will never understand the pain of doing businessā¦
ā¦I have nothing but fond memories and love to see them back in any which wayā¦
Naptol was fake , m wondering how ShopClues is surviving.
Naptol worked for me
Mai to yeh soch rha ye sb kon hai
I still remember those askmebazaar flat coupon deals. Got SD cards for a throwaway price.
around 2016 time shopclues for ticket compliments cards with mobikwik š¤£š¤£.. golden days
Nice memories indeed 
Before Ebay, there was Baazee.com where I shopped for the first time (2002, I think). Baazee was acquired by ebay.
From India times, I purchased my first āSmart Phoneā .. i.e. Cingular 8125 .. It was 2006, I think.
ā¦ still have this phone with box
After mention in forum snapdealĀ :-
Homeshop was better than naaptol. And snapdeal was providing good service but one misunderstandings and boycott after another (eg idiot goons calling for boycott of snapdeal after snapchat ceo said something 
) it fell down hard.
Snapdeal had internal problems. š Me n my friends were betting that Snapdeal would fail. It failed. š It gave away tons of discount n failed to capture the heart of many. Same thing with eBay. Flipkart on the other hand had started humbly n steadily. They gave me some discount coupons to buy books. They had given these little bookmarks. Amazon has a shiploads of money to burn. Snapdeal and FreeChargeās https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/info-tech/... expensive merger backfired. The management was poor. The CEOs acted like as if they were in the casino. Paytm Mall tried to be a cheap mall. And nobody wants a cheap mall, not even poor people.
Failed and success stories of Indian E commerce
Ecommerce
Amazon India- The company took its first steps into the Indian market in February 2012 when it launched Junglee.com which Amazon acquired in early 2000 from Indian entrepreneurs Rakesh Mathur and Ashish Gupta. In 2013 amazon.in launched and junglee.com discontinued by parent company Az in 2017.
Flipkart ā Market Leader ā started in 2007 initially as a book store.Flipkart acquisitions
2014 ā Myntra and myntra Acquired Jabong
2016 ā Phonepe
2018 ā Flipkart itself aquired by Big giant āWalmartā
Sale things started after GOSF
GOSF ā The Great Online Shopping Festival was an online shopping event created by Google India on 12 December 2012 in collaboration with a number of Indian online shopping portals. The concept of the GOSF was that the online shopping sites would give heavy discounts for one day, in order to promote their sales.
Snapdeal ā Alive (Still struggling)
Vistaprint ā Alive
ShopClues ā alive but unknown
eBay ā closed
Fashion&u ā closed
Homeshop18 ā closed
Zovi ā Closed
Yebhi ā Closed
Jabong ā Closed (aquired by Myntra)
Letsbuy ā closed
Paytm mall ā Active but struggling to survive
Groupon ā failed turned into nearbuy
Grabon ā Active
Nafa ā Fraud and closed
Nyka ā Active
Affiliate marketing
Desidime ā Active and Leader (always will be) and best community
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Wallet Payments
Paytm ā Market leader
Mobikwik ā Shitty shit but alive
FreeCharge ā Alive ( 1st aquired by snapdeal for $400 mn then sold it in loss for $60 mn to axis bank just to keep snapdeal alive)
Phonepe ā Acquired by Fk
Lenskart ā Alive and unicorn after softbank investment.
Payment gateways
Ccavenue
Payu
Razorpay
Cashfree
Furniture
Urbanladder ā Alive but Sold to reliance in loss
Pepperfry ā Alive and leader
Cab
Ola ā Alive and leader
Uber ā Alive and leader ( Uber INC)
Travel
MakeMyTrip ā Alive and leader
Goibibo ā Alive ( Acquired by Makemytrip)
Cleartrip ā Alive ( Acquired by flipkart in 2021)
Easemytrip- Alive
Ixigo ā Alive
Yatra ā Alive ( acquired by Ebix)
Redbus ā Alive (acquired by Ibibo group)
Abhibus- Alive ( acquired by ixigo)
Food delivery
Foodpanda india ā Acquired by Ola in 2017 to compete with Ubereats and later suspended Foodpanda Indiaās food delivery business in the middle of 2019 and fired most of its 1,500 food delivery executives.
Ubereats ā Closed ( aquired by Zomato in 2020)
Zomato ā Alive and became brand
Swiggy ā Alive (Bundl technology)
Pharmacy
Pharmeasy ā Active and leader
Medlife ā Acquired by pharmeasy
1mg ā active and acquired by Tata
Netmeds- acquired by Reliance
Doctors on call
Practo ā Active
Docsapp- Failed and aquired by medibuddy
Medibuddy ā Active
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I had won jackpot prize of 10k in FreeCharge, in 2015. It was diwali. š
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they are resting in piece (RIP)