Flipkart.com – THE Awesome ONE in The Online Retail Shopping Arena..

Online retail shopping is next big thing in India. It’s been on since long in the US through Amazon but India is a new and latest market that is yet to be tapped into to its fullest potential. Amazon has offices in India but not warehouses and it may not be too early to guess that they would be planning on the same very soon.
FLIPKART and CROSSWORD are the two online shopping stores that come immediately to my mind.

As for now, the most popular (and most wonderful, by personal experience) retail shopping portal has been FLIPKART (link: www.flipkart.com). Based out of Bangalore, it’s been cartering to some of the best retail shopping experiences in the present retail marketting scenario.
The best thing about FLIPKART is its Indianization. Their marketting strategy has gelled well with the Indian mentality, for they provide with an option of paying (with cash or card) on delivery. I’m not sure if CROSSWORD provides that option, although CROSSWORD keeps itself competitive by offering stuff at 1% less than what FLIPKART does. But nevertheless, I’ve found the service (booking, ordering, delivery) of FLIPKART very efficient to even think about trying out CROSSWORD.
And its not just books that are available, but for now we can buy mobile phones, computers, cameras, movies+TV shows, games, music+mp3 players, healthcare products and even home appliances at FLIPKART – almost everything at a price less than what you get them at when to go in person to shop!!
The best part, however is the shipping. If your invoice amount is a minimum of INR 100 (~$2), the shipping is absolutely free and it’s reasonable at INR 30 (~60 cents) if invoice bill is less than the minimum specified amount. Good bargain I would say.
My rating for FLIPKART is an awesome 5/5.