Amazon India has launched a new platform for its customers to buy and sell old or new products using Amazon Local Find. With this new service, customers on Amazon.in can sell their used & new products with Amazon facilitating delivery and payments. Through Local Finds, customers can buy & sell across multiple categories including books, video games, music, movies, mobiles, tablets, laptops, accessories, fashion, home decor and more. Delivery and payments are facilitated by Amazon such that customers need not spend their time and money in meeting strangers or answering calls and texts.
As an introductory offer, customers can avail free delivery along with cashback (up to INR 100) as Amazon Pay Balance for jewellery, apparel, and home decor purchases worth INR 500 or more on Local Finds. Individuals & home entrepreneurs selling on the platform for the first time can earn up to INR 500 extra for selling more than 5 products.
This service was available in Bengaluru with around 600 sellers earlier this year. Now, this has been expanded to 3 more cities – Mumbai, Hyderabad and Chennai.
Talking about Local Finds, Mahendra Nerurkar, Director – New Initiatives,Amazon India said, “Through our pilot, we realized that in every city we have customers who have a few products to sell – some want to get value for their used products, others are hobbyists, creators and home entrepreneurs who need to find the right customers for what they collect or create and there are customers who are interested in buying such products. Existing solutions available to such sellers and buyers had gaps – people needed to commute in traffic and meet strangers, this lead to privacy and safety concerns along with precious time and money lost. With Local Finds, we aim to seamlessly connect sellers and buyers, help them quickly list and discover each other’s products and transact tension free with delivery, payments and customer service facilitated by Amazon. We are humbled to see over 30,000 customers sell their products on Local Finds in such a short period of time.”
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