Will Xiaomi Mi3 Flash Sale Break IRCTC Records? Be A Crash or A Bash?

Everyone was very exhilarated for Xiaomi’s arrival in India with its flagship handset Mi3. And, when it came to India it gained inexplicable success and left almost all established companies behind. By offering a quality product with high-end features at low price is the most advantageous factor of company which proved as a biggest achievement for company. As India is the hub in the mobile industry so, the Chinese mobile maker had decided to come in India. But, what quick response the product of Xiaomi has achieved in India, the company itself had never imagined.

Xiaomi had selected Flipkart to sale its Mi3 sets using a new concept which needs registration first to buy the handset and the tie-up with Flipkart was the big deal for Xiaomi for its product sale. Why company has choose this pattern while they have no idea that the e-commerce portal would be capable of dealing with huge traffic as at the time of Moto E sale, the site went down like a house of cards.

But, it had begun the journey of Sale on July 22 and then never looked back. As per its concept of registration, around 1 Lakh people had been registered with them before a day to make the device own. However, there was not a guarantee for the device. Well, devices were went on sale but failed to handle the huge traffic and went down and created a dilemma.

Don’t you feel like you are opening IRCTC site for reservation and site suddenly goes down after a huge traffic comes over it. Xiaomi sale also resembles the IRCTC Tatkal reservation where you are not confirmed about your reservation. What would you call this? "15,000 Units sold out incredibly in just 2 seconds." Unacceptable and implausible but, the true fact. It’s like Flipkart has changed all the process for selling this device. All these saying and unsaying arises one question in mind what the original amount of Xiaomi Mi3 had been sold out and what number of units will be sold out this time?

As company has claimed to sale 20,000 units but if we made faith on the report of Zauba, an import-export tracking site, then only 10,400 units of Mi 3 handsets were shipped to India on July 25 for August 5 sale. So we have no idea that how much units reached India. But, along with the great positive response, company has also started to receive negative feedback also.