Sellers force selling in bundles

In a bid to move more stock and make more profits, it has become a trend for sellers force selling in bundles, without option to purchase individually. Being a tech community, how do we stand against it ?

I am sharing few of my finding of such force selling.

*There was a video on Youtube by a retailer mentioning distributors forcing them to buy in bundles resulting in price hike.

Flipkart: Either they are selling such services bundle or you need to buy a mouse or keyboard to buy a laptop even if you don't need them.

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Simple. Don't buy stuff from such sellers.

FK started such shady practices recently. More reason to use amazon instead. FK has bad customer care as well, in case something goes wrong.

Wow, this is open coercion. How does Flipkart allow such practices, these kind of things can create huge negative impact in their users.

mitraark said:
How does Flipkart allow such practices

Probably because Flipkart is in on it?

Desmond David said:
Probably because Flipkart is in on it?

Yes, this. I remember Beebom doing a promo video on FK's smart upgrade plan or something which was a shitty deal & C4ETech just roasted them next day without naming them.

omega44-xt said:
FK started such shady practices recently. More reason to use amazon instead. FK has bad customer care as well, in case something goes wrong.

Yupp, i bought a tws from them, within days it started showing heating while charging and the left side stopped working. Now it only had 7 days return period but contacting them on 3rd day, they didnt respond. Tried again on 4th day did talk to me but rather said to visit a service centre. service centre did replace the device but it is so bad of fk to sell faulty product. Flopkart for me.

afaik this is something which started after first lockdown at many places. no comparison but the first such thing i was told was restaurants selling a bundle sort on swiggy. money problem has increased a lot.

stupid stuff.