2:33 AM

New Channel : Homeshop18

 

A new teleshopping channel going by the name of homeshop18 has been introduced to DishTv . This channel basically is full of advertisements of  products sold at unbelievable discounts (upto 60% according to them) with a free home delivery offer.Apart from credit card you also happen to have a cash on Delivery scheme whereby you pay the cash after the product has been delivered .

I am a big believer of “Nothing comes for free”  so i went about snooping around their site and checking out all their offers and products . They DO give products on good discounts , but some preliminary research over the internet reveals that the original MRP they advertise is often overly inflated and so the true discount is actually half of what they say it is . In my opinion some good bargaining could  give you the same price in an open market . Some of the electronics they sell also happens to be of questionable quality as they come from companies i have never heard of such as SigmaTel and Vox . Some of their product categories

such as lifestyle accessories also lacked variety . I am yet to order any of their goods so i dont really know of their promptness in shipping .

Online shopping in India has never really taken off because of one major hurdle i.e safe shipping of the product . If homeshop18 do provide guaranteed safe shipping of the product i am left with no doubt that they will become the heralders of  tele/online shopping in India . If not for the discount it would definitely be for the convenience of shopping from home.