People who want to sell their goods on Quikr but lack Internet access can ring up the firm's call centre-or, rather, its "missed call centre"-where employees return calls to save the customer costs.Įspecially the low income groups like the drivers because the call from our side does not cost them anything," said Chulet. So far, half a million have paid to be on Quikr, according to Chulet.
Instead the Mumbai-based firm, present across cities, gets its cash by tapping small businesses to advertise on the site. He said that leaving customers to seal their deals offline keeps costs low and avoids regulatory hurdles-"I don't have warehouses or people running around making deliveries". It was turned into the re-branded separate entity Quikr by Chulet and co-founder Jiby Thomas. Today, Chulet says, more than half of Quikr's 3. So I thought a platform like Craigslist for India would make sense," said Chulet. And there are peculiarities, like we love to haggle. Like Craigslist, Quikr allows users to post ads for free and browse for furniture, apartments, pets and even potential spouses, before closing the deal offline-a system that chief executive and founder Pranay Chulet believes is well suited to India. Quikr, a start-up launched inhas become the leading online classifieds portal in India, where the e-retail market is exploding thanks to a vast young population with growing Internet access. They also suggest the tenant shouldn’t play loud music, party, or have “many friends over” while also not minding the sound of their landlord’s three-year-old running around upstairs.An Indian answer to Craigslist is drawing millions of monthly visitors to its website, exchanging everything from used iPads to cows, in a country where second-hand goods have traditionally been sniffed at. “Our ideal tenant would not cook much (only because the smell travels upstairs directly into our living room) and we are vegetarians so we don’t like the smell of meat either,” the ad reads.
The only thing is, their new landlords might get upset if they cook, make noise, have friends over, or hang out at home. This week’s humdinger was no different: an advertised two-bedroom garden suite for some very “special” new tenants.įor $1,400 a month, two lucky new renters can call this house, just steps from Commercial Drive, home. Vancouver Craigslist rental ads are more often than not fodder for some interesting proposed living arrangements. Send this page to someone via email email.
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