Comments on: IndiaPlaza – Books and Mobile Price Challenge

By: Gulshan

Gulshan — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 18:28:17 +0000

looks like now they do

By: Animesh

Animesh — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 16:48:42 +0000

They don’t compare books from flipkart.com
It is among the best online store i have used.

By: Mnaish Garg

Mnaish Garg — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 10:23:49 +0000

i ran into this website Bookchowk.com
which actually searches all indian book search sites and shows the price difference,
seems to include all the major sites

ebay,firstandsecond,rediff,indiaplaza,indiatimes,prakashbooks, kithabay etc

By: AJ

AJ — Sat, 05 May 2007 05:29:07 +0000

Hi Guys, I read all your stories but i guess i am the luckiest of all, i took lot of effort for this price challenge and was rightly paid off. i received some 60-70 vouchers worth Rs.80000 for book challenge, yes Rs. Eighty Thousand. And someone was saying that when they tried using the voucher, they were getting error saying ” Please redeem this GC only on the store it was meant to be redeemed”. Let me tell you friends, you have to try all the combination while making purchases, what i used to do was buy one book, which was mandatory if you have won book price challenge and then buy other things and to tell i bought a dvd player, a 25inch TV, Food Processor, Microwave Oven and host of other things, yes one thing i agree that customer support is worst. So guys i dont think so it was fake. yes one more thing i agree i must have send some 500 entries and i got 60-70 vouchers.

By: SM

SM — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 17:39:17 +0000

The price challenge on Indiaplaza is only a publicity stunt. They are counting on the fact that people will generally believe that a company will make such a public claim unless it were true. The fact is that books are not the cheapest and there are significant differences in hundreds of cases. And they keep such a scheme alive by a simple ruse – not paying up!! They do not honour their commitments in most of the cases. A cousin has promised to send a list of over 100 books with large differences in price together with all details. I intend to post it on the net. Let us see whether they continue to run the scheme with no intention to pay up or withdraw the scheme!

By: VVR

VVR — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 17:08:20 +0000

The price challenge scheme is an eyewash. I had made many entries finding a lot of large differences in price. For around 25 entries submitted, I received one gift voucher and that also for much less than the value due. I think they pay in about 1 out of 50 cases hoipng to get traffic on the site. Probably they will calim their decision is final if you questioned them. Not that anyone asked them to run such a scheme. But it is pretty poor value systems to hot make good on commitments.

By: Sri

Sri — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 03:00:30 +0000

This is the worst website for shopping. Dont even think of it.
for me it was a night marish experience.

worst customer support. they work like a typical indian govermnet office

By: Arijit

Arijit — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 08:10:15 +0000

The saga of FAKE Challenge continues from Indiaplaza:

http://innindia.blogspot.com/2007/03/indiaplaza-price-challenge-fake-sage.html