India: Flipkart gets tougher with its sellers

India: Flipkart gets tougher with its sellers

Visual from the Flipkart website, September 2015

India’s largest e-commerce firm, Flipkart Ltd, has changed its policy toward third-party sellers on its platform, charging higher commission rates in key categories, passing on costs of product returns to sellers and encouraging them to use its logistics service, as part of an effort to improve its customer service and brand.

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