You are concentrating only on the negative aspects. You keep harping about can't this and can't that.
it only takes one person to change the rule of the games..and you could be the person..
then we will buy from you..if you offer cheaper price than other online shop
Whether that was sincere or meant as sarcasm, I'm out of the picture for two reasons. One is that, as I said before, I live in a remote part of the country where I do not have easy access to importers and distributors. Secondly, I am not a trader at heart. I don't want to spend my life buying and selling other people's products. This does not mean that I don't know the principles of business. It simply means that there are other things I would rather devote myself to.
and as you said it normal brick and mortar store also including shipping..etc...
They do not have to be cheaper than "normal brick and mortar stores" in the same large city. They just have to be competitive in pricing. And many, if not all, customers will be perfectly willing to pay extra for a reasonable shipping charge.
Let's suppose a product costs Rs.5000/- on Lamington Road or SP Road or Nehru Place or Chandni Chowk or China Bazaar or Ritchie Street or Shakespear Sarani, AND also 5000/- at an online shop with a two hundred rupee shipping charge. The 5200/- is still cheaper than the 6 or 6.5K price that many buyers face in their home town for the same product. But if it also costs 6 or 6.5K online, then there's no sense in going through the hassle, delay and risk of ordering it online.
doesnt dell computer give more bangs for your bucks and also have newer components faster than other brands normally distributed through brick and mortar shop? why they are not growing that much? they are now changing a bit of tacts and arranging for a tieup with some brick and mortar store to sell their wares...india is this kind of market..if dell cant change it? can you? probably yes as nothing is impossible..the thing is india is still not mature enough to have reach that kind of a stage. where online store can compete effectively with brick and mortar one.
If Indians are so lacking in awareness about online trading, why is eBay-India doing such a booming business? Managing eBay (and Baazee before them) must be immeasurably more complex than running a relatively simple online shop selling only one type of merchandise, namely computer hardware.
There was a time when my wife liked sending for household items from a mail order firm. Business boomed with that firm for a while but they folded after a few years, and do you know why? Because they sold shoddy products at twice the price in conventional shops.
itwares no frills using simple html..thats it
So what? That should help keep their prices down.
the others are more like ecommerce sites
techshop.in uses a free ecommerce solution(i have used it before) with quite a lot of modification and theme customisation
And their prices are sky-high. It does not
have to be that way. That's the whole point of this discussion.
i also like to shop online like people in the US can on newegg.com but sadly it couldnt be that way here in india.
Why?
as far as i know hosting either of the above solutions do not command a high price unless traffic is very heavy which is not the case here...
I'm not sure what you're trying to say here. Do you mean to say "....the above solutions do not
justify a high (web hosting) price....." ? If traffic is light, that's because high prices do not attract customers.
the problem is they do not think they are competing with brick and mortar shop
That's the whole point. They do not think. Period.
becos of many people who will be willing to pay extra. volume business at low margin is really not appealing to them compared to low volume and higher margin.
Again, that's the crux of the matter. They think in terms of making a quick buck, not in terms of attracting more and more customers and establishing a growing, lasting business. Perhaps they think that the novelty of operating an online shop will raise their image and that they can get away with high prices. Maybe they can, with some people. But a vast section of the buying public are not as gullible as that.
a simple approach is to cut price and attract buyers but how much more can they attract and thats the problem..can they attract the volume that will make business sense?
Yes. But they won't know until they try.
anyway forget all the above why dont you join up with like minded people and start a venture so that we can benefit from it all? that will be really cool!
I've already explained that.
by the way one important point in india..by buying online..you are leaving behind a trail which sniffer dogs can follow and haunt you if you are not so honest with the authority...as you are basically indirectly telling them you bought this and that...surely some people will not want to that to fall into the hands of the authority.
Come on. You're talking as if buying computer products was a shady business and that people want to do it only in complete anonimity. Can't you imagine how many items are bought on eBay-India every year? In any case, online purchases do not have to be done only with credit cards.
