Miscellaneous
I was chatting with my friend and she had a very interesting thing to say about how Desis use eBay.
Apparently, eBay is a big draw for a good number of americans and it’s their default website to purchase things. Now, our ever smart desis hunt the net looking for crazy deals. Once they spot a deal, they make the purchase and promptly put it on sale in eBay at a margin :)
You can always survive so long as you have people dumber than you.
March 22nd, 2007 at 11:19 am
iduku peru speculation, idhu dhaan namba oorula nariya per panneranga
pazkha dosham poguma?
March 22nd, 2007 at 12:00 pm
thappe illa… idhu smartness.
March 22nd, 2007 at 12:25 pm
Inga, India la real estate pozhappu idhaanenga !
March 22nd, 2007 at 3:14 pm
PK sir, Very intersting.. how did you find out this Alibaba’s secret????..
One of my gujju friend does this….she visits fatwallet.com(deal site) and some other deals sites and buy all the deal proudcts and sell onto ebay for big margin…….:)
March 23rd, 2007 at 10:12 am
PK,
If you didn’t know already, it’s not just our “smart desis” who do this here in the US.
A good number of American housewives buy things at their local flea markets and garage sales at rock-bottom prices and sell them on eBay as antiques. And there are articles in magazines with tips on how to sell successfully on eBay.
So, it’s either surviving over folks dumber than you or it’s an art/business/passtime or a good source of supplementing income. However you choose to look at it.
-KM
March 23rd, 2007 at 5:40 pm
Ada che, Thozhila maathiyaganumpa inime. Darn desi pannu vendamgala adhai ippadiya ellorkitteyum sollikine panradhu. computation increase aagadha ?
March 25th, 2007 at 1:09 pm
I’m not an ebay seller(where profits margins are far less) but a fairly successful Amazon bookseller. The truth is that Americans are equally picky about prices and costs if not more and we face tough competition(if I may dare use the word) from them. The bottomline is that any kind of part-time business needs good amount of investment(money and time) if you really want to strike it big and desis have no chance at all.
March 25th, 2007 at 11:26 pm
aamam..
unmai..unmaiyoo..unmai..
March 26th, 2007 at 3:09 am
vatsan,
looks like good money during spare time
chakra,
neenglaum try pannunga :0
sree,
yes yes
March 26th, 2007 at 3:13 am
balar,
namba level ku evana s/evala vadhu sonna poduven.
‘investigative journalism’ nu ellam jalliyadika maaten
km,
hmm. i agree.
karthik s,
sorry thalaiva.. did not realise abt that angle……:)
TTM,
amazon la epdi vikkaradhu? can i sell from India?
priya,
paartheengala NRI samachaaram ellam RI naan solla vend irukku
March 27th, 2007 at 5:00 pm
PK,
No I dont think amazon supports Indian sellers though there are websites for aus, UK. Depends on what you want to sell - if you are into books you might want to go for abebooks.com which supports Indian sellers and is picked up by book search engines like www.fetchbook.info.
I’d recommend ebay and although it has a short listing period plus mandatory rental fee, if you have a good range of products(engineering textbooks/IT books for e.g), one can get a decent market from the internet-savvy middleclass, after a lot of initial hard work of course