7 October update in the Flipkart section. Update, 5 October: Xiaomi sold 500,000 smartphones in 3 days of sales on Amazon, Flipkart and Snapdeal, according to an Economic Times report. The newly launched and only available offline model Redmi 3S+ contributed marginally to the 500,000 devices sold in 3 days. (Read about how much ecommerce companies sold in remaining days here.) The company apparently sold as many units in 30 days in October 2015 according to Manu Jain, Xiaomi India operations head. Xiaomi is now out of stock of its Redmi 3S Prime and Redmi Note 3 devices and is working with Foxconn to keep up with demand. Jain told ET that Xiaomi had ‘steadily increased production with Foxconn 6 months in advance for Diwali sales.’ Other highlights: - 2 of 3 top selling phones in the first 3 days of Amazon’s sale were of Xiaomi - Top selling phone was Redmi Note 3 - 4 of top 6 products in the Amazon portfolio are of Xiaomi’s leading with the 1000 mAh powerbank - Xiaomi was the top brand on Flipkart, and it had provided 3x the number of Redmi 3s and Redmi 3S Prime devices it would generally provide in a week - Xiaomi has been apparently selling 1-1.5 million smartphones every quarter in 2016 ** 3 October: Flipkart claims that it has sold over 500,000 products on the first day of its Big Billion Days sale. It also claims that it has recorded the highest number of concurrent users in the…
