iShopd is a newly launched startup that is built on the premise of group shopping (read this conversation on Group shopping portals in India).
iShopd lets you announce your shopping intent (in twitter style), rate/review products, add products to wishlist etc.
Group shopping is no easy game – companies like Mercata (backed by Paul Allen and one of the most promising companies of web1.0 era..not alive anymore) tried similar concept – i.e. aggregate demand, get deals from suppliers (at discounted price) and pass on some % of discount to consumers (and keep the rest).
The thing about such a model is that it is too business development dependent and many a times, malls have better offers than what few chunks of consumers can demand.
Anyways, iShopd in it’s current format looks very basic and unless they think of the offline channel, I am not sure an idea like this will fly (i.e. in terms of monetization).
What’s your opinion?
India still lacks a decent, no frills ecommerce portal. Concepts like that mentioned above are nice but are ahead of time for Indian context (IMHO).
And if we leave the “get back with a deal” part, we are left with a subset of an ecommerce portal.
Even if http://www.ishopd.com be ahead of times. But we must appreciate the effort.
nice..site luks neat and nice..not used to seeing such portals in india! all the best.
Hi Mr Sinha,
Thank you for covering ishopd.com in your review. It does feel great to be on pluggd.in. I agree to most of your observations, and will send you an email which will highlight some of the new launches we are working on, to help ishopd.com evolve into a more comprehensive portal.
Thanks.
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