eBay offers free subscription in Punjab for 3 mnth

"We are offering a three month free dedicated eCommerce store to all new entrepreneurs from Punjab who sign up in June," e-Bay India, Head Global Trade, Amarjit Batra told reporters here today.     

Disclosing a new trend emerging in online trading, Batra said that Punjab had always been strong in the export of products like sporting goods (chess boards, cricket bats, balls, gloves and saddles) and apparel (salwar kameez, lehengas and kurtis), and we found a similar trend in exports on eBay. "Every 20 minutes, an item is now sold internationally from Punjab," he informed while adding, "Punjab based sellers have sold over 7,500 sporting goods and over 8,000 pieces of apparel to global buyers so  far."   

 

Punjab has a large base of global trade sellers led by sellers from Amritsar and Ludhiana, he said.    

Out of 2 million registered users in India, eBay, which has 34 per cent market share of e-trading in India, two per cent users are from  Punjab, he said.     

Sharing another new trend in e-commerce, he said that there had been a definite increase in sellers from non metro cities selling globally through eBay India. "Sellers from cities such as Shillong, Aizwal, Bakrol, Khanna and Khamaria are successfully trading with countries across the world. There has been a growth in contribution of smaller cities to the business with 50 per cent of all global sellers on eBay India against 45 per cent," he said.