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I have tried buying Redmi5A Phone and MiTV 4a via Flash Sale on Flipkart and Mi.com : Is it worth the time I spend? Have you ever bought an Mi Phone or TV from Flipkart or Mi.com via Flash sale?
Mi Phones comes with variety of Price range. I was looking at Redmi5A which advertised as a 5000 phone. I have tried 3 weeks to buy the same. It was out of stock in a couple of seconds. Sometimes before the flash sale begins it shows out of stock. Now after 3 week the price is 6000 ;-). Did you learned anything from this ?
UPDATE 19-03-2018 : Now the maximum price is 6499 INR.
Today ( 13-03-2018 ) I even tried to buy an MI 32 inch smart TV. It also went out of stock in a couple of seconds. Lets look into twitter and see if any of them have bought any TV.
You can see 2 people mentioned they got it. If you look closely one account have 6 tweets and is genuinely spam. I believe these are all fake accounts. Don't count on me, just verify yourself. But the majority of twitter says no one have ordered. And sometimes even when people say they ordered the product after a few days we can see they complaining about the order is cancelled.
So is it worth to spend your time on Mi Products on a Flash sale? The answer is NO.
What are they doing in the name of Flash sale?
They don't have these product, but just trying to see / understand the market. They are studying how many customers are interested in their product and at what price they can sell these products.
Lets look at Redmi5A, they offered it for 5000, and they learned about this from each week how many customers are online trying to buy the same. On the next flash sale they are again looking how many are interested to buy the same in 6000 INR.
My wife have one xiaomi phone. I don't see a battery, everything is embedded to phone. From my understanding it is a use and throw phone, you will not able to replace the battery once it is dead. So think whether you want to buy a "use and throw" phone or a good one available in the market. Just don't think about the price. Your time is worth the amount.
Don't even trust them and link your bank / credit card information. The connection is not even secure. The one below is taken when I changed to https , but the site defaults load to http. I don't know whether they are really PCI Compliance when they are storing your credit card and bank informations.
If you are interested delete your account from xiaomi.com , you can click on the link https://account.xiaomi.com/pass/del .
What if Xiaomi really wanted to sell their Products?
They would have told their customers, we don't have adequate product with us. But you still can book with us, and when it is ready we will ship it. This is similar to how the Indian Railway booking system works. We all are in a queue. I believe people will be ready to pay the amount for the same if that is the strategy. But they are not actually looking to sell anything as they boast.
UPDATE : 19-03-2017 , MiTV4A when you get on your hands will be priced 16000 and not as they advertise. See Redmi5A price increased from 4999 to 5999 and now maximum price shown as 6499. Similarly the TV price will increase. See screenshot below.
UPDATE : ( 20-03-2018 )
Some of the people already have taken how the flash sale lasts. See and enjoy!
On Mi
On Flipkart
via https://twitter.com/Harish_WebDev/status/968377215036674048
I have tried buying Redmi5A Phone and MiTV 4a via Flash Sale on Flipkart and Mi.com : Is it worth the time I spend? Have you ever bought an Mi Phone or TV from Flipkart or Mi.com via Flash sale?
Mi Phones comes with variety of Price range. I was looking at Redmi5A which advertised as a 5000 phone. I have tried 3 weeks to buy the same. It was out of stock in a couple of seconds. Sometimes before the flash sale begins it shows out of stock. Now after 3 week the price is 6000 ;-). Did you learned anything from this ?
UPDATE 19-03-2018 : Now the maximum price is 6499 INR.
Today ( 13-03-2018 ) I even tried to buy an MI 32 inch smart TV. It also went out of stock in a couple of seconds. Lets look into twitter and see if any of them have bought any TV.
You can see 2 people mentioned they got it. If you look closely one account have 6 tweets and is genuinely spam. I believe these are all fake accounts. Don't count on me, just verify yourself. But the majority of twitter says no one have ordered. And sometimes even when people say they ordered the product after a few days we can see they complaining about the order is cancelled.
So is it worth to spend your time on Mi Products on a Flash sale? The answer is NO.
What are they doing in the name of Flash sale?
They don't have these product, but just trying to see / understand the market. They are studying how many customers are interested in their product and at what price they can sell these products.
Lets look at Redmi5A, they offered it for 5000, and they learned about this from each week how many customers are online trying to buy the same. On the next flash sale they are again looking how many are interested to buy the same in 6000 INR.
My wife have one xiaomi phone. I don't see a battery, everything is embedded to phone. From my understanding it is a use and throw phone, you will not able to replace the battery once it is dead. So think whether you want to buy a "use and throw" phone or a good one available in the market. Just don't think about the price. Your time is worth the amount.
Don't even trust them and link your bank / credit card information. The connection is not even secure. The one below is taken when I changed to https , but the site defaults load to http. I don't know whether they are really PCI Compliance when they are storing your credit card and bank informations.
What if Xiaomi really wanted to sell their Products?
They would have told their customers, we don't have adequate product with us. But you still can book with us, and when it is ready we will ship it. This is similar to how the Indian Railway booking system works. We all are in a queue. I believe people will be ready to pay the amount for the same if that is the strategy. But they are not actually looking to sell anything as they boast.
UPDATE : 19-03-2017 , MiTV4A when you get on your hands will be priced 16000 and not as they advertise. See Redmi5A price increased from 4999 to 5999 and now maximum price shown as 6499. Similarly the TV price will increase. See screenshot below.
Before you buy MI Product itself do check the thread by Elliot Alderson who have found many security flaws of different systems. Eg : Aadhar.
Hi @xiaomi 👋! Can we talk about your MiuiDaemon application?— Elliot Alderson (@fs0c131y) December 7, 2017
This application is monitoring among other things Bluetooth, boot, broadcast, package, screen on events. Of course, all this data is sent to a China server. pic.twitter.com/vn2WVj7d5X
UPDATE : ( 20-03-2018 )
Some of the people already have taken how the flash sale lasts. See and enjoy!
On Mi
@XiaomiIndia @Flipkart @flipkartsupport The #Xiaomi #MiTV4 sale has got to be the worst online sale scam ever. @MiIndiaSupport please stop doing fake sales when you don't have stock. It went out of stock before 12 p.m(before sale went live). Here is the video pic.twitter.com/oUhyEmam2n— Harish (@Harish_WebDev) February 27, 2018
On Flipkart
via https://twitter.com/Harish_WebDev/status/968377215036674048
