Myntra Jabong Online shopping resumes in Kerala after tax issue

Online shopping sites had stopped shipping to Kerala few weeks back due to tax and other issues with the logistic partners. People in Kerala were not able to purchase items from many of the leading online shopping sites. though Cash on delivery was stopped at first stating the tax issues with the state government, later all the modes of purchases were stopped to Kerala and reason was stated like the difficulty of logistic partners to complete the order.

Read more about the online shopping issue in Kerala :

Myntra Flipkart Online shopping stopped in Kerala

No it seems like the problem has been solved to a greater extend and many of the sites started shipping to Kerala. We confirmed it by placing an order in Jabong. Myntra also resumed the shipping to kerala. You can check by giving the pincode and only thing you will notice is that the delivery time gets extended to one week to  two week which was similar to the existing time period asked by e commerce sites to ship to kerala.

Flipkart has not started to ship to kerala, as it still shows : " Not available in your location yet.
Reason: This item cannot be delivered to your location due to our logistic partner's shipping constraints in your pincode. "

As many of the sites has started accepting orders from Kerala and good offers are running in many sites, now the people of Kerala can also avail its benefits. Once the issues are completely sorted out, online shopping in Kerala is expected to come back to its full swing.

Airasia Bengaluru Cochin price hiked from 500 to 990

AirAsia announced Bangalore Cochin flight ticket for INR 500 including taxes. It was introduced as a promotional offer as part of adding Cochin to the domestic services of AirAsia. The ticket was made available to book from 16 July,2014 and it's a limited seats offer. As offer reached to more popularity, more and more tickets got booked and site experienced a good traffic. The price was updated to INR 990 during 17 July, 2014 and tickets are unavailable for most of the dates announced. Status shows as either unavailable or sold out.

This offer heated up the price war between budget airlines and this was considered as a loot offer and mostly targeted to get first time fliers on board. News was spread in the media mostly through 17 july morning newspapers and other online media. It got a very good response as ticket was available for both routes at INR 500 , rather than similar offers in the industry were return tickets are priced higher. The price announced was including the taxes and this was a good attraction.

There was a confusion regarding the baggage charges where customers doubted whether they will charge high for baggage/luggage carried by the passengers using this promotional offer. But a baggage around 10-15 kg was allowed in the package and it settled all the related discussions on online medias.

Now, the tickets for Rs 500 between Cochin and Bangalore (Bengaluru) is not available and you can avail the tickets for Rs 990. Based on the demand, there may be variations in the price and AirAsia is doing the best to make this promotional offer and there by their launch in Cochin , a success. Services from Cochin is planned to start from 20 July, 2014.

How to add background image to all blogger post content area

We can add custom images to blogger background and even for posts and side bar. But, if we apply a background image to a blog inside main-wrapper, then the image will be applied to the whole post including post title and footer. this will be useful in some case.

But, if you need to add background image only to blog post content area, then  there are two ways.

How to 1:

In every post, manually go to html tab and add a new div inside first div. Don't forget to close the div in the last. Now you can add image to this div using img tag and this will act as a background image for blogger post content area.

This is very useful if we want to put background images to posts separately. But, what if we need to put same background image to all posts ? then this is an extra work to manually add additional div to every post.

So, we can use option 2

How to 2 :

If you need to apply same background image to all posts, then you can add it in the template itself.

To apply image for whole post area, add below code inside "main-wrapper" :

background:url(IMAGE-URL) repeat top right;

If you need background only to post content area, then add this line of code to ".post-body "

Save template and refresh your blog.

That's all.

Bingo !!

Yummybay.com review – Looks good, but doesn’t works ?

Yummybay.com is an online food ordering portal with services listed for cities like Bangalore, Chennai, Mumbai, Delhi, Pune and Kerala. The site is looking fully operational from the user view on landing the website, but it seems like the back end operations are not happening as expected.

We tried booking a take-away from one of the main hotels listed in Kerala. The menu was presented with item details and price. Check out also happened with cash on delivery option. A successful transaction page was shown at the end saying that they will call for confirming the order. User will also get an SMS on their registered mobile phones.

The price of dishes was low compared to the current market price and this also made a doubt on the current operational status of this website. Though it was mentioned that the hotel/website will call us for confirming delivery within 15 minutes, no further response was available from the other side.

Several other user review websites also has reporting similar issues over this website. It looks like, though the website is up and running, the back end support and operations are not happening in the preferred way. This may be some temporary issue, but it would be better if the website have some notification about the same. A new user will spend time and effort in placing the order, though the order is not getting processed in the back end. This will not only affect the reputation of yummybay.com, but also reflect a bad image on the overall online shopping/ordering experience of the users. It will not be a good thing for the online space as the user base of these cities are on the nascent stage of online commerce experience.

Myntra Flipkart Online shopping stopped in Kerala

Online shopping in most of the locations in kerala including the state capital trivandrum is facing serious issues. Major players in the field like flipkart, myntra , jabong , shopclues , snapdeal etc have shopped shipping to kerala. When you enter your pincode of most of the locations in kerala, it is showing as the Product cannot be delivered to the location. On myntra it is showing as We cannot deliver to this pincode anymore.

Reports says that this is because of the tax issues with the kerala government. As of now the sales tax for online shopping is credited to the state where the online shop is situated or registered. As the volume of online shopping increased in kerala, a notable reduction in tax through sales is leading to these issues.

At first cash on delivery was discontinued as in this case the cash transaction is happening in kerala and this will lead to the payment of tax in kerala. But now most of the sites have stopped shipping to most of the locations we tried placing an order. This is because the courier service cant deliver these products due to these type of issues.

There may be other reasons also which is leading to a halt for online shopping experience in kerala. Companies and government has to sort out  a way to end the issues and the people will be able to  enjoy the online shopping experience only after sometime.

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Major dealers of MRF Tyres in Trivandrum

Major dealers of MRF Tyres in Trivandrum

You can call the number and say the tyre size (eg: 100/90 - 17) to check for the availability of the tyre and tyre price.

Rohini Tyres

Panamoodu Lane, Panavila Jn, Trivandrum

Phone: 0471 2330800

Ambady Tyres

Panavila, Near Bakery Junction, Trivandrum 

Phone: 0471 2331636

New Bharath Tyres

Kochar Road , Opp. New International Airport Terminal, Chenthitta, Chakka, Trivandrum

Phone:  0471-2473909, 0471-6455620

PRINCE TYRES

Gilead plaza , Kesavadasapuram, Trivandrum

Phone:  0471 2550076

PRINCE TYRES

Vazhuthacaud , Trivandrum

Phone:  0471 2343426

ANUPAMA TYRES

Sree kariyam ,Trivandrum

Phone:  0471 2444339

KUNDARATHALA TYRES

Balaramapuram , Trivandrum

Phone:  0471 2402015

Buffet rates in Trivandrum

Trivandrum buffet rates in different hotels

Park Rajadhani , Uloor
Rs. 290

Maurya Rakadhani, statue general hospital road
Rs. 400

Windsor Rajadhani , kowdiar
Rs. 450

Taj ,Varkala
Rs. 820

Classic avenue , thampanoor
Rs. 400

NB:
# Slight changes in rates are expected with time.
# Taxes extra in some hotels
# Rates co ordinated for lunch buffet.
# Corporate discounts available in some hotels.