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Even though the three ecommerce giants of the country are busy attracting customers to their platforms for the Big Billion Days, Diwali Sale and the Great Indian Festive Sale, they never miss out a chance to dole out clever and sarcastic taunts at each other. Today, it was Kunal Bahl who came up with a twitter taunt on Flipkart and Amazon crashing as soon as their sale started. However, this clever marketing tactics backfired as he was trolled by the Twitterati Janta.
Here’s what Kunal quipped:
Hey folks,@Snapdeal apps, msite & website are working as smoothly as ever.Come shop w/ us while others figure out how to make their app work
— Kunal Bahl (@1kunalbahl) October 14, 2015
What followed were some funny burns from the Twitterati Janta #backfired.
@1kunalbahl @snapdeal The reason your app doesn’t crash is because no one uses it. — Ishan Sharma (@Equix3n) October 15, 2015
@1kunalbahl @snapdeal while @Flipkart was figuring out how to make app work, still managed to sell 100k phones in 15mints, #burn
— Dhru_ReDevil (@Dhru_ReDevil) October 14, 2015
@1kunalbahl @snapdeal hunting for deals or consumers on @flipkart? — Rishi Vasudev (@RishiV) October 14, 2015
.@1kunalbahl @snapdeal …trolling doesn’t work ..ask your team to work on the soln sent them over DM…to stop any business losses to you
— Murari Bhartia (@muraribhartia) October 14, 2015
@1kunalbahl @snapdeal did you finally find any customers? @Flipkart awesome as ever — Ankita (@curious143) October 15, 2015
@1kunalbahl @snapdeal did you finally find any customers? @Flipkart awesome as ever
— Ankita (@curious143) October 15, 2015
@1kunalbahl @snapdeal Guess Kunal wanted to order something on #Flipkart but didnt get through. — Shashank A Jain (@shanky23in) October 15, 2015
@1kunalbahl @snapdeal Seems SD was finally able to sell a few items… @Flipkart is back up now ..sorry for @snapdeal
— Mohan Gupta (@mohi13) October 14, 2015
@1kunalbahl @snapdeal what were u trying to buy??? now its working smoothly … Please try now #BigBillionDays #MobilesOnFlipkart — Amit Pareek (@PareekAmit_) October 15, 2015
@1kunalbahl @snapdeal I understand no traffic in snapdeal, that is why this special invite is being sent
— gokul krishnen (@gokulkrishnen) October 15, 2015
Fortunately, there were some supporters for Kunal and Snapdeal out there:
@1kunalbahl It’s always great to have an uninterrupted experience. Also, offers are far better on #SnapdealDiwaliSale — Sushant Kumar (@extendedself) October 15, 2015
@1kunalbahl @snapdeal Amazed by its smooth interface and Snapdeal App works good even in poor n/w as compare to others Apps #UserFriendlyApp
— Vivek Tomar (@TheVivekTomar) October 14, 2015
@1kunalbahl @snapdeal absolutely your app is flawless — jack sapporow (@shikhari09) October 14, 2015
@1kunalbahl @snapdeal Other App Team should Update their Error message to “Please Try some other website”. #WeCantHandleIt
— NexToWeb (@NexToWeb) October 14, 2015
@1kunalbahl @snapdeal Quality dig at Flipkart. Pretty sure Snapdeal will have a great Dussehra and Diwali sales season. All the best!
— Singh Is Bing (@DahiiBhalla) October 15, 2015
Wonder what Kunal has to say now. I hope Snapdeal doesn’t lose it’s cool and snap back.
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