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Quikr launches product delivery & checking through Doorstep

Online classifieds site Quikr has launched Quikr Doorstep (link), a service which lets sellers bargain with their buyers for a used product in the middle of an order*. It also allows buyers to pay to Quikr, which then schedules a pickup with the seller and delivers it to the buyer. In case the buyer accepts the product, Quikr transfers the money to the seller’s account and if not, returns the buyer’s money and the seller’s product respectively. On its website, Quikr states that it encourages buyers to open the packages and validate the condition of the item before accepting its delivery, given that the shipment came from the same city. As of now, Doorstep is available for mobiles and tablets, electronics and appliances and home and lifestyle categories, but Quikr says that it plans to ‘aggressively scale this business over the coming year.’ With this, Quikr claims to be the only platform to complete all steps of a transaction online in India, and aims to address issues of trust, payment and logistics in C2C transactions (customer-to-customer). In the blog post, Pranay Chulet, founder & CEO of Quikr says that, “.. It also directly puts us in the middle of the transaction loop, making us the only player in India that is monetizing this category in a meaningful way.. Quikr Doorstep further strengthens our leadership in terms of size as well as monetization in C2C categories which have been core to our business since the very beginning.” Doorstep, which Quikr started…

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