—CT News Bureau
New Delhi, Oct 21: Its time for Diwali discounts and freebies at many of the IT and consumer electronics stores. Most of the IT and mobile handset players have rolled out exciting offers ranging from free festive apps, rebates on talk time and freebies.
Microsoft and Amazon are offering a discount of Rs 4,000 on the Xbox One and offering the FIFA 15 game free. The Xbox One video game console is currently available on Amazon.in for Rs 35,990.
To add to the fun this festive season, mobile handset maker Blackberry is offering its users free applications like Diwali Greetings for BlackBerry 10, Indian Sweets Recipes, Party Planning, Party Games, Cocktail Mixer Remixed, Search for Amazon and Flipkart Store Browser.
Another consumer electronics brand Samsung India is expecting to clock incremental sales during this festive season. With a host of celebratory offers and schemes across our product portfolio, the end of the third quarter and the beginning of the fourth quarter accounts for 40% of the companies annual business in the Consumer Electronics segment.
Samsung has introduced exciting promotional offers on home appliances and audio visual products. The promotional offers include assured gifts, instant cash back, free installation and exciting service schemes. It is offering complimentary gifts such as free tablets with premium Samsung SMART TVs for customer to get state of the art interactive experience. During this high footfall period, it has also deployed additional manpower and trained our entire workforce across our retail network to give world-class brand experience to our customers.
“Samsung has been witnessing very encouraging growth across our portfolio in consumer durables, surpassing the industry growth rate which has started reflecting in growing market shares across our product portfolio. We are expecting further increase in our market shares this festive season, said Ranjivjit Singh, Senior Vice President, Corporate Marketing, South West Asia, Samsung Electronics.
As part of the Online Shopping Dhamaka, Amazon.in hosted the Diwali Dhamaka Week October 10-16. It offered great deals across hundreds of products from all categories enabling great savings for customers every day and every hour on their festive shopping.
OPPO Mobiles India has launched a contest on Facebook that gives users a chance to win the Diwali Bonanza — home digitization products worth Rs 5 lakh — as the grand prize while 10 other winners can take home an OPPO N1 worth Rs 32,990 signed by Hrithik Roshan.