Tip: How to get a Xiaomi merchandise at the Flipkart flash sale
Xiaomi Redmi Note 4G is a single SIM device priced at Rs 9,999
With
the recent craze of the Xiaomi smartphones, Flipkart has been in the
limelight for all the good and bad reasons. People complaining that they
cannot get through the sale and passing it as a scam, to many others
who are happy to get their hands on one piece, Flipkart has been in the
centre of the chaos.
Well,
Flipkart selling Xiaomi handsets doesn’t look like a scam—we know a
couple of them who did get lucky with a handset each. With 200,000
people waiting for that 
button
sharp at 2 PM at each sale, 20,000 clicks in one second are highly
possible. This is the main reason Flipkart has managed to exhaust an
inventory of a whopping 20,000 Mi 3 handsets within 3 seconds each sale.
button
sharp at 2 PM at each sale, 20,000 clicks in one second are highly
possible. This is the main reason Flipkart has managed to exhaust an
inventory of a whopping 20,000 Mi 3 handsets within 3 seconds each sale.
Well,
we can give you a few tips on how you can get you hands on a
Xiaomi Redmi Note handset, but do not guarantee it altogether. However,
with the past experience of how the flash sale at Flipkart works and
inputs from various buyers, we can give you some possible tips with a
fair chance of getting one. Once you have registered, all you need to do
is wait till the countdown ends.
Here
is what you can do. Get yourself ready 15 minutes before the 2 PM sale.
Open around three to four different browsers. If you don’t have that
many, then go ahead and install them now itself. You may choose from
Chrome, Opera, Firefox and Internet Explorer, or any browser you wish.
Open each one of them and tile them across your screen so that you can
see all the windows together. Open the Flipkart website and login to
your account on each one of them. Click on the respective page (www.flipkart.com/mi) where the sale will begin.
Closer
to the 2 PM sale start, keep refreshing each window every 2 – 5 seconds
so that you don’t miss the timer synchronization with the Flipkart
server. When there is around 5 seconds remaining for the 2 PM sale, wait
patiently and be alert. The moment you see the button,
move your mouse as fast as you can to hit on the button on all four
browser windows. You should at least get past one of them if not more.
If you are lucky, you should be able to get your hands on one handset.
button,
move your mouse as fast as you can to hit on the button on all four
browser windows. You should at least get past one of them if not more.
If you are lucky, you should be able to get your hands on one handset.
The sale works like this — at the 2 PM clock, you need to hit the button.
Once added to your cart, Flipkart considers the handset sold. You then
get up to eight hours (before 11:59 PM) after that to complete the
payment. The customer does not have to pay immediately. If that was the
case, buying the handset with all payment procedures would take more
than 10 minutes to complete. And with almost 100,000 customers paying at
once, the Flipkart payment gateway will either crash or get slower than
usual. Hence Flipkart offers the customer to pay for the handset later
(before 11:59 PM). This is the reason why 100,000 handsets can go ‘poof’
within a few seconds. Once a customer adds the handset to his cart, the
handset is considered sold. 100,000 handsets can be added to shopping
carts in just one second if more than 200,000 people are clicking at the
same time (that’s just 10% of the entire stock).
button.
Once added to your cart, Flipkart considers the handset sold. You then
get up to eight hours (before 11:59 PM) after that to complete the
payment. The customer does not have to pay immediately. If that was the
case, buying the handset with all payment procedures would take more
than 10 minutes to complete. And with almost 100,000 customers paying at
once, the Flipkart payment gateway will either crash or get slower than
usual. Hence Flipkart offers the customer to pay for the handset later
(before 11:59 PM). This is the reason why 100,000 handsets can go ‘poof’
within a few seconds. Once a customer adds the handset to his cart, the
handset is considered sold. 100,000 handsets can be added to shopping
carts in just one second if more than 200,000 people are clicking at the
same time (that’s just 10% of the entire stock).
Another
tip is to use as many computers, tablets and mobiles, all up and ready
to buy the handset you are waiting for. For that 10 minutes during the
flash sale, request your friends, colleagues of family members to help
you with that sale. Increasing the number of browser windows (via
multiple browsers, tablets, PCs, mobiles, etc) you can increase the
chances of getting a handset.
Just
make sure you have all the browsers on the PCs, tablets and mobiles,
you are using for the sale are ready on the Flipkart Note sale page and
already logged in. Ensure you have a good internet bandwidth. A sluggish
bandwidth will take longer to refresh the page and even slow down the
data sent to the Flipkart servers. So, wish all the very best! The clock
is ticking, so get your browsers ready for the 2 PM sale.
Deal
