\"\"NEW DELHI: Mobile phone retailers<\/a> have started offering zero down payment options to stir sales that have slowed down drastically over the past week, as consumers preserve cash on hand for making basic necessity purchases amid a liquidity<\/a> crunch caused by demonetisation of large denomination notes.
\n
\"Saturday morning onwards, we’re asking consumers to pay nothing upfront and take mobile phones, and pay the amount in equal monthly instalments over 12 months,\" said
Subhash Chandra<\/a>, managing director of Bengalurubased Sangeetha Mobiles, which has 300 stores in several states of South India.
\n
Retailers have typically followed the method of financing, where a part of the cost of the phone is paid upfront while the rest is paid in monthly installments at a certain rate of interest, besides accepting payments through
credit cards<\/a>, debit cards and all cash. About 30-40 per cent transactions are done in cash. Since launching this scheme, \"we have got some breather from the horrible sales\", Chandra said.
\n
\nConsumers have put purchase of large appliances and small electronic items such as phones, lower down on their priority lists after the government demonetised the Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 currency notes from Wednesday. The move has led to a drop in demand at retail stores across the country, and analysts expect the trend to continue for a few weeks to a month, or more, till the time the cash crunch subsides.
\n
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Demonetisation:零售商提供零首付搅拌手机销售

零售商、电子和手机,已经开始推出不同的激励计划购买目标是销售尽可能多的库存。

Gulveen Aulakh
  • 更新于2016年11月14日09:14点坚持
新德里消息:移动电话零售商已经开始提供零首付选项搅拌销售大幅放缓过去一周,作为消费者为购买基本必需品保留现金在吗流动性危机造成的大面额demonetisation笔记。

“星期六早上开始,我们要求消费者支付任何预付金,手机,和支付的金额等于每月分期付款超过12个月,”说Subhash钱德拉董事总经理Bengalurubased Sangeetha手机,拥有300家门店,在印度南部的几个州。

零售商通常遵循的融资方法,手机支付的成本的一部分预付,其余的则是在每月分期付款支付一定的利息,除了接受付款信用卡、借记卡和所有现金。大约30 - 40分完成交易的现金。自启动这个计划,“我们有一些呼吸从可怕的销售”,钱德拉说。

消费者将购买大型设备和小型电子产品如手机、降低他们的优先级列表后政府demonetised Rs 500和1000卢比汇率周三。此举导致需求下降在全国各地的零售商店,和分析师预计这一趋势将持续几个星期到一个月,或者更多,直到现金危机消退的时间。

零售商,特别是消费电子和手机已经开始推出不同的激励计划购买目标是销售尽可能多的库存。
  • 发布于2016年11月14日上午08:54坚持

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\"\"NEW DELHI: Mobile phone retailers<\/a> have started offering zero down payment options to stir sales that have slowed down drastically over the past week, as consumers preserve cash on hand for making basic necessity purchases amid a liquidity<\/a> crunch caused by demonetisation of large denomination notes.
\n
\"Saturday morning onwards, we’re asking consumers to pay nothing upfront and take mobile phones, and pay the amount in equal monthly instalments over 12 months,\" said
Subhash Chandra<\/a>, managing director of Bengalurubased Sangeetha Mobiles, which has 300 stores in several states of South India.
\n
Retailers have typically followed the method of financing, where a part of the cost of the phone is paid upfront while the rest is paid in monthly installments at a certain rate of interest, besides accepting payments through
credit cards<\/a>, debit cards and all cash. About 30-40 per cent transactions are done in cash. Since launching this scheme, \"we have got some breather from the horrible sales\", Chandra said.
\n
\nConsumers have put purchase of large appliances and small electronic items such as phones, lower down on their priority lists after the government demonetised the Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 currency notes from Wednesday. The move has led to a drop in demand at retail stores across the country, and analysts expect the trend to continue for a few weeks to a month, or more, till the time the cash crunch subsides.
\n
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