TimesDeal.com Sets New Record in Online Orders

TimesDeal.com, the group buying portal of The Times of India Group, set a new record with 70,000 mobile recharge deals in a day. The portal outdid its own feat of 50,000 orders in a day established on December 1, 2011. 

The portal offered users a special mobile recharge deal on May 9, 2012 that allowed users to pay just . 50 and get a mobile recharge voucher from PayTM worth . 100, doubling the value of their money. The deal sold 70,000 orders in a single day, a new record in terms of number of online orders in the e-commerce space in India. 

Rishi Khiani, CEO of Times Internet, said, "Offering maximum value for money to customers is core to the deals business. Therefore, the primary focus of TimesDeal has always been to offer users such relevant high value-for-money deals. The repeated overwhelming response bears testimony to this."