TimesDeal.com Creates E-comm Record, Sells 50k Recharge Deals in a Day

TimesDeal.com, the group-buying portal of The Times of India Group, set a record in the Indian e-commerce space by selling 50,000 deals of a special mobile recharge offer on a single day. 

The deal on December 1 let users buy a mobile recharge voucher worth . 100 from PayTM for just . 50. TimesDeal.com reported more than 250,000 unique visitors for that day. 
"Offering users relevant high value-for-money deals like these has always been our primary focus for TimesDeal," said Times Internet CEO Rishi Khiani. 
Paytm.com, a subsidiary of One97 Communications, is an ecommerce platform that offers a medium for mobile users to recharge their prepaid connections. The TimesDeal offer generated 100,000 visits on Paytm-.com, an online mobile recharge platform of One97 Communications, that day and the number of new users increased by a whopping 1700%. 
"The unparalleled reach of TimesDeal in online and offline world combined with PayTM's perfect mass-appeal product made this epic. Wish we both create a next benchmark of selling 100,000 orders in a day," said One97 Communications CMD Vijay Shekhar Sharma. 
TimesDeal-.com offers a collective buying deal everyday to its users across six cities in India — Delhi-NCR, Mumbai, Kolkata, Bangalore, 
Pune and Chennai. The deals include shopping deals, restaurant deals and tickets for events, among others.