Sunday, December 30, 2012
Online shopping
Online shopping is becoming popular in India these days. In a country like India, where people has to depend on metro cities for finding commodities with good quality and wide selection, Online shopping offers vast, easy and interesting shopping experience.
Online shopping provides several advantages like 24 hours shopping, which requires less travel, rich product availability and specifications etc. Almost all online shopping sites now offer items in discounted price and free shipping for selected items thereby attracting the net savvy customers to have a try. Unlike conventional shopping the consumer can get a detailed account of the specifications of the commodity through the website.
Online shopping has its drawbacks too, we cannot touch and feel the item, delay in shipping, risk of loosing your money etc are a few.
Ebay and Amazon are the market leaders in online shopping in the world. However local counterparts are more popular in India. Here is a list of popular websites offering online shopping in India.
(1) Flipkart.com – Score(4.76) -You can not only buy books online through Flipkart, but also mobile phones & mobile accessories, laptops, computer accessories, cameras, movies, music, televisions, refrigerators, air-conditioners, washing-machines, MP3 players and products from a host of other categories. After takeover of letsbuy.com now flipkart is largest player of e-commerce of India.
(2) ebay.in -Score(4.88) After almost 6month of dominating at number 1 ebay has come down at number two on indiafreestuff.in list. eBay.in is the Indian version of the popular online shopping portal eBay.com – world’s online marketplace. Ebay has a diverse and passionate community of individuals and small businesses. Ebay offers used and fresh items with a wide network of international shipping. http://www.ebay.in/
(3) tradus.com - Score(5.32) Tradus.in is owned by ibibo from books to clothes they sell you everything. Tradus offers the Online Shopping in India to buy Books, Mobiles, Cameras, Watches, Apparel, Home Appliances, Ipods & Many More at Lowest Price & Free shipping although their refunding process takes more than expected time and they don’t ship all over India but still at no 3 on our list
(4) futurebazaar.com -Score(5.39) -FutureBazaar.com is owned and operated by Future Bazaar India Ltd futurebazaar offers you wide range with good price The people of behind this company are same from bigbazaar, pantaloon and ezone
(5) infibeam.com -Score(5.69) India’s Online Shopping Platform offers Buy Mobile Phones, Books, Apparel, Jewellery, Cameras, Watches, Send Gifts to India, New/ Used Cars & Bikes in India a report says 40 lakh visits per month by Indians on this site.
(6) homeshop18.com -Score(5.82) here you find large range appliances, kitchen, cameras, mobiles, laptops, site, indian, gifts, apparel, buy, online, gifts. and more, HomeShop18 is a venture of theNetwork18 Group, India’s fastest growing media and entertainment Group. Network18 operates India’s leading business news television channels – CNBC TV18 and CNBC Awaaz. HomeShop18 has also launched India’s first 24 hour Home Shopping TV channel. The company has its headquarters in Noida, UP. The website has received the ‘Best shopping site” award from PC World Magazine in 2008
(7) Yebhi.com- Score(5.88) Yebhi is India Largest Shopping Destination for your Wardrobe. Shop for shoes, apparels, jewelery, Bags and more. No matter yebhi rules in Apparel catagory and if you want to buy clothes or shoes online this is best site, Their deals become more lucrative with discount coupons, Now they are also selling mobiles at good price.
(8) Snapdeal.com -Score(5.93) SnapDeal offers everything from local daily deals on restaurants, spas, travel to online products deals. They offer you best price with free shipping.
(9) buytheprice.com -Score(5.99) Shop Online – Buy Mobile Phones, Laptops, Digital Cameras, MP3 Players, TVs and Hard Disks + Free Shipping .One of the unique feature of this site is item prices get reduce after selling in big quantity for example a 4 gb pendrive is listed at 350 if 5 people buys it price gets down at 320 if 10-15 people buys it gets down at 285 so on buytheprice is at no 5 on our top10 list
(10) indiaplaza.in – Score(6.06) indiaplaza.in is on 10th place of indiafreestuff.in ranking, Shop online over 8 million items at India’s largest shopping site at lowest prices.
Apart from Top 10 Indian e-commerce sites here we have listed 10 more sites based on suggestion of our readers which can make place in top 10 lists.
( 11) Myntra.com :-Myntra.com is leading online retailer of lifestyle and fashion products. Myntra offers T-shirts, Shoes, watches and more at discounted price.
(12) Shopclues.com:- Shopclues is famous for their heavily discounted Jaw Dropping deals. Shopclues is one of the best online stores that offers a wide variety of cameras, Computer accessories, Mobile, Gift, Jewellery, Cosmetics, toys, clothes, books and bag
(13) Pepperfry.com :- Pepperfry is one of leading Indian website in selling lifestyle products ranging from men and womens clothing, home decor, jewellery, perfumes and cosmetics, furnitures, bags and accessories.
(14) Shopping.indiatimes.com :- Shopping.Indiatimes.com has a wide array of products that range from electronic items to products related to health & beauty, home appliances, fashion, music, movies and games.
(15) Sulekha.com:- deals.sulekha.com offers you great discount on all listed product.They offers wide range of products from Computer, laptop, mobile to books.
(16) Koovs.com:- Koovs offers best offers in dining, luxury, technology, entertainment, utilities, health care, fashion, travel & adventure and plenty more.
(17) Bestylish.com :- Bestylish is one stop destination for all your footwear shopping, they have good range with good price.
(18) Seventymm.com :- eventymm offers electronic gadgets‚ LCD televisions‚ DVD players‚ musical instruments‚ TV video games‚ handheld games‚ kids laptops‚wrist watches Being Human‚ Playboy‚ Ed Hardy & other fashion accessories like handbags‚ laptop bags‚ bed linen etc. For kids‚ we have exclusive stuff from Barbie‚ Disney‚ Ben 10‚ Cars‚ Pogo‚ Mickey‚ Winnie the Pooh. Buy soft toys‚ remote controlled toys‚ school bags‚ block books‚ activity books‚ coloring sets‚ umbrellas‚ animation DVDs‚ story books‚ stationery and more. Other products include decorative‚ toiletries‚ glassware‚ digital cameras‚ mobile phones‚ jewelry‚ coffee table books‚ movie posters‚ etc.
(19)HushBabies.com :- Hushbabies is Indias one-stop shopping source for baby products. from fun, bright bedding and furniture to gear,apparel, toys, baby care, cleaning products, and more. We bring you 100s of world class brands with 1000s of items to choose from
(20) Goodlife.com :-GoodLife.com is a one stop destination for your personal care essentials. It offers products from top Indian and international brands. Some of the most reputed brands available on GoodLife.com include Lakme, Sally Hansen, Lotus Herbals, Maybelline, L’Oreal, H2O+, Garnier, Revlon, Olay, Lux, Dove, Park Avenue, Organic Surge, Palmer’s. GoodLife.com offers the widest range to chose from, boasting of over 5000+ products.free Classifieds
There is no dearth of free classified sites on the internet. Many of them are paid services and provide exceptionally good services. However there are also many classified sites, which offer the same kind of services that paid sites do, at free of cost. There are many free classified sites in India as well that provide an array of services catering to the people of India as well as to others outside the country.
free classified websites in India:
1.Adsglobe.com: With a high Alexa ranking, this site is quite popular around the world, particularly in USA and India. It has been catering to the advertising, marketing and selling needs of individuals as well as business houses for quite a long time now. The best feature of this site is the free classifieds section on real estates, properties, jobs, events, automobiles, merchandises, travels and yellow pages among others.
2.Quikr: Quikr is a popular city based classified site in India. Here users can buy or sell products of their interest. They also can advertise their products on the site to attract buyers. It caters to almost everything.
3.Sulekha.com: Sulekha is a local classifieds site that is catching up fast in this domain. . Owing to its high intuitiveness and easy to use features, it attracts a huge user base.
4.IList: IList is a social based free classified site. It also has a high rank on Alexa ranking. The website circulates the ads posting of the users to various social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter and MySpace. It also has a feature of notifying those people in the contact lists of the users.
5.Olx : Olx is a free local classifieds site quite popular in India. It is well known for its simple approach of helping users’ efforts of selling, buying, training, discussing, organizing and meeting people.
6.ClickIndia: ClickIndia runs a classified section that lists Properties, Real Estates, Houses, Cars, Education and others. It also has a local city guide that features almost every city in India with their important information.
7.Kugli: Kugli is a free classifieds as well as business networking site. It caters to almost everyone including those employers searching for right candidates or a businessman looking for clients.
8.Meramaal: Meramaal is an easy to use free classifieds site. While users can post their requirements by selecting an appropriate category, businesses can use the site to improve their business through sponsored ads section on the website that promises more exposure.
9.Adbhai: Adbhai is a free Indian classifieds site that acts more as an aggregation service of most of the classified ads in newspapers and sites. It also integrates with Google Connect and has an Orkut app that allows users to browse the site from Orkut itself.
10.Porky Post: Porky Post is an easy to use free classifieds and online advertising community. Here, the users need not do any registration to use its service. They just can go ahead and post their requirements. It also has an engaging advertising forum.
Internet Services
Face Book
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Search Engines
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my websearch engines click this linkE-Mail services
Gmail, our TopTenREVIEWS Gold Award winner, includes excellent spam protection, phishing warnings and virus scanning; ultimate organization, conversation view, POP3 access and 8 GB of inbox storage that continues to grow every day.Additionally with Gmail you can chat, post documents and spreadsheets online, customize your homepage, get mobile access, check your RSS feeds, be notified every time you receive a new message and your account never expires. However, Gmail is like an exclusive club, you have to be invited to join.
The era of MSN Hotmail has come and gone. Microsoft put their best and brightest behind the retooling of Hotmail to give Google and Yahoo! a run for their money with Windows Live our TopTenREVIEWS Silver Award winner. They offer a whopping 25 GB of inbox storage and have intuitive spam filtering, virus scanning and inbox organization. When you take account of the many extras like Windows Live Messenger, online data storage with SkyDrive, and the various data and recreational services available from Microsoft, Live makes simple Hotmail 1.0 look like an antiquated 8-track player. If you’re a longtime Hotmail devotee, Windows Live allows you to keep your old Hotmail or MSN ID while also offering a new and improved feature set. Windows Live is fast, easy to use, and integrates beautifully with Microsoft’s web and software empire. The huge feature set and extras associated with a Windows Live account compare only to Google’s in terms of functionality and all-around usability.
Yahoo! free email leapt head first into Web 2.0 with their most recent retooling of Yahoo! mail. With unlimited inbox storage, seamless integration with the Yahoo! web empire and the everyday functionality of a professional email client, Yahoo! deserves our TopTenREVIEWS Bronze Award. Like most web based clients, Yahoo! offers so much more than an inbox. Between MyYahoo, Flickr, video chat, and a slew of productivity tools, Yahoo! is a luxury information management suite we can heartily recommend.
All of America can be online now with the veteran email provider— AOL. The new AOL includes some of the best spam filtering and virus scanning available. Additionally, your free AOL account allows you to download AOL’s Safety and Security Suite in association with McAfee. Many of the services you enjoyed with AOL as your ISP are now available free, no matter who your Internet provider is.AOL’s free email unlimited inbox storage, image blocking, download restrictions, your choice of HTML or plain text composer, IMAP access and plenty of extras, including your choice of personalized domain names. AOL is restricted on customized filters and there is no email sorting.
FastMail is an easy and proficient free email service. It provides effective security features and is great for someone looking for a secure email service without the bells and whistles. As FastMail states in there FAQ section, “We’re much more concerned with adding more features, than making everything pretty.”
FastMail has a spam filter, phishing protector and virus scanner; and if spam happens to slip through you can easily report it. FastMail includes an HTML and plain text composer. Additionally, it has IMAP access. Although FastMail does not have black/white lists you can easily customize up to 100 filters to keep unwanted mail out of your inbox.
You can choose from a very small list of domain names if you don’t like @fastmail.fm; however, their choices aren’t nearly as fancy as Mail.com’s or Care2.
FastMail only allows 10 MB of inbox storage, which is considerably less than most email providers. Although FastMail includes online storage, they only allow you about 1 MB of space. This is the equivalent to a few emails and maybe an attachment.
FastMail is great if you are looking for a no–frills email service with strong security; however, if you would like a similar service with additional inbox and online storage see the #2 provider, Windows Live.
Inbox.com shines as a diamond in the rough amongst many lackluster online email services. Their exceptionally easy–to–use interface and email service stood out compared to many of the leading competitors. Inbox.com addresses all your email needs with 5GB of email storage, 20 MB attachment limit, 5 GB of free online storage, easy photo access and POP3 access. Additionally, you can read news, play games, send ecards and download screensavers.
Inbox.com is a solid email service, but ultimately doesn’t quite stack up to the integrated Web 2.0 functionality of Gmail, Yahoo! and Windows Live. We found Inbox.com to be an excellent email provider they do not include security for phishing attacks, and they lack some additional features like an instant messenger and mobile access.
Mail.com is a basic email program. It includes all the features an email service requires, and a few extras. Mail.com filters known spammers, including phishers, and tries very hard to prevent unwanted mail from reaching your inbox. Unfortunately, sometimes junk slips through. Mail.com allows you to report any spam that the filters don’t catch.
You can use a dozen customizable filters to help sort and organize your incoming mail. Additionally, you can establish black and white lists to block or allow specific addresses.
Mail.com includes a few practical extras like a calendar and notepad. Mail.com’s most unique feature is audio mail. You can have your mail read to you in a variety of languages, English, UK English, German, French, Italian, Dutch, Japanese and more. Additionally, you can choose you domain name from a large selection of choices. If you do not want to be name@mail.com you can choose, @dublin.com, @techie.com, @europe.com, @doglover.com and many more.
We were pleased customer support returned our email in about a day.
While Mail.com is a practical and easy–to–use email service, they only offer 3 GB of inbox storage, there is no POP3 access and only includes a plain text composer. However, it does include spell check, unlike many other plain text composers.
The most frustrating aspect of Mail.com is the occasional pop–up ad. Although our browser filters stopped most of these, a few still made it through.
Lycos is a simple, easy–to–use free email service. Lycos provides 5 GB of email storage space. It has a spam filter with the choice of three strengths, “off,” “on” and “exclusive.” Exclusive spam filtering is the equivalent of using black/ white lists. Only address on your “White list” will be sent to your inbox. Lycos will also restrict automatic downloads and images for additional safety.
To organize you inbox you can create additional folders; however, Lycos does not allow you to set up custom filters to sort specific conversations or unwanted emails.
We found Lycos’ help section to be frustrating. While the FAQs answer many questions, the search feature would not produce relevant results for common terms like “virus.”
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