Amazon-owned product comparison site Junglee.com has tied up with online classifieds business website Quikr to let shoppers view and compare prices of second hand products listed on Quikr. Prices from Quikr are visible under a section titled 'Related product listings from sellers' on product pages. These listings are location-based, with an option to change your location and see relevant result from sellers in your area. As of now, this feature is available for shoppers from Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Chennai, Gurgaon, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Kolkata, Mumbai, New Delhi and Pune. Only consumer electronic products are currently listed as of now, but Junglee plans to expand the coverage to more categories in the near future. It is worth noting that eBay was among the investors when Quikr raised $32 million (Rs 176 crore) in 2012 from Warburg Pincus and other existing investors such as Matrix Partners India and Norwest Venture Partners. It is not clear why the company did not go for such a tie-up with eBay. eBay on the other hand had started cross promoting products with Snapdeal (another company it has invested money in December 2013) as part of "first stage of partnership”. Quikr competes with Naspers backed OLX, and Sulekha. It also competes with vertical specific sites like Gaadi.com or 91mobiles. In the consumer electronics space, e-commerce companies such as Flipkart and Snapdeal have tied-up with companies such as ReGlobe to buy back products and offer in-house credit for buying newer products. Companies such as ReGLobe cover only a limited set of devices and the prices offered is not…
