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Re:Aukey kicked off Amazon following fake reviews allegations by OJFord on Sunday May 23, 2021 @06:58AM (#27254093)
What is Flipkart and why would it shut eBay India down if it's (as it certainly sounds and I would expect) such a massive, ripe, profitable market?
Re:Aukey kicked off Amazon following fake reviews allegations by wolfretcrap on Sunday May 23, 2021 @10:18AM (#27255151)
Also one key thing is that Flipkart only saw eBay as a threat that could be bought by competition and eBay was a known brand and nearly every online person in India knew about it.

Just to remove this possibility of being used as a weapon in competition's hand, they killed it.

They certainly didn't understand the whole use case of eBay like website but killed it because it was possible to use it for competition in consumer goods space considering it had many things that were being sold on Flipkart too

Re:Aukey kicked off Amazon following fake reviews allegations by wolfretcrap on Sunday May 23, 2021 @07:06AM (#27254131)
Flipkart is an Indian e-commerce VC funded giant like Amazon, it's nearly same just that it operates only in india.

Flipkart has a history of buying and shutting down businesses.

Re:Aukey kicked off Amazon following fake reviews allegations by redmanticore on Sunday May 23, 2021 @07:16AM (#27254171)
flipkart is actually walmart https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flipkart ( Owner Walmart (77%), )