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Saturday, January 31, 2015

Quikr: My Favorite Features

Very often, when we look in our homes, we find many things we no longer use. Some are even unused and lying just for the sake of it. Sometimes, we want to replace some of our used things.
For example, this Diwali, we got new big corner statues for our drawing room. The existing flower pots were shifted to the office. Has they not been sent to office, we would have ended up giving them to anyone who wanted them - maid, sweeper and last option the garbage picker. If provided an easy option, we would love to sell them further and earn some money for the new ones.
Quiker.com comes as the blessing in disguise for such situations. The app can be used to trade tangible as well as intangible products sitting at the convenience of home.
Launched in 2008, it is currently present in 
940 cities across India and is accessed by more than 30 million unique users and 26 million brand new customers per month. Quikr provides the local community with a platform to help them buy, sell, rent and find something and address needs across many categories. These categories numbering over 12 and sub-categories over 170 range from Mobiles, real estate, cars, services, jobs, entertainment, furniture, electronics etc.
The portal has also grabbed awards and recognition for its servicecs. They include:
Always On Global 250 - Winner - Year 2009 – 2010
Young Turks Awards - Year 2010 - 2011
Red Herring - Year 2010 – 2011

Certificate of Appreciation - Year 2011 – 2012

WAT Awards - Year 2011 - 2012


From many attractive features, following are the three points which grab my attention towards the website:

Number Privacy Being a girl, I would not like my mobile number to be known to complete strangers. You never know who uses the number in what sense. The feature which keeps my contact number private is just the perfect to safe guard my contact to go public.

Chat History In case I am looking for a product from multiple sellers or have multiple buyers, I would definitely have some key data from different people which need to be compared. With the chat history feature, I no more need to save the details anywhere else or note them somewhere. All I need to do Is look back into the history and access the information I need.

Product MSP Irrespective of my choice to selling or purchasing a product, I definitely want to do the transaction at best price. In case of selling, I may end up quoting the price too low to get myself I loss or too high and not attract any buyers. Similar is the case with buying. I would wonder if the price I am paying is too much!
The feature developed. By quicker called MSP - Maximum Selling Price saves me from this dilemma. Maximum 
Selling Price (MSP) calculator to help users estimate a reasonable price range.
Written in response to Indiblogger Happy Hour - Get Quikr NXT!

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