For anyone wondering why ecommerce is so bad in India, I'll share my experiences from living in the UAE which has a similar tech culture to India (as there are

For anyone wondering why ecommerce is so bad in India, I'll share my experiences from living in the UAE which has a similar tech culture to India (as there are a lot of Indian migrants). There is one main ecommerce website, but it sells very little (if any) of the products itself - it's more like the marketplace of Amazon for independant sellers. The problem with that is that you really have no idea who you are buying something from, and if it looks too good to be true it probably is (there are lots of scams). Online payments aren't really trusted in the country so you are expected to pay cash on delivery, which if you are lucky will take less than a week. The weird thing is that there are some decent physical shops, I bought a Dell monitor when I was there for ~€180 and everywhere else I looked (even abroad) had it for €200+. Most things were usually at least 20% more expensive than the EU, which is weird as they have no tax there :-) I bought a Roomba while I was there from Amazon DE, even including international express delivery and import taxes it was about €150 cheaper than buying it locally.