GOSF India – THE FUN AND EXCITEMENT BEGINS

The Black Friday sale in the U.S, held on the day after Thanksgiving, is famous throughout the world for the unbelievable discounts it offers. Google decided to make it possible, for its Indian users, to feel the same joy by offering them huge discounts on a wide range of products, and launched the Great Online Shopping Festival in 2012. With participation from a wide range of E-Commerce websites, classifieds companies, travel sites, fashion and apparel labels – there are incredible discounts and deals for everyone! The initiative was launched by Google to boost the adoption of online shopping in India. Since its launch, GOSF has reportedly witnessed a tremendous response. It gets bigger and better with each passing year. The festival has seen active participation from users all over India, a huge percentage of them being first time online buyers! It definitely isn’t like just any other online sale.

Missed out on the awesome Online Shopping deals during Diwali or couldn’t make most of these festive sales? Don’t worry at all - The Great Online Shopping Festival is here, once again, to steal your hearts and load you with your favourite goodies without burning a hole in your pocket. Scheduled from 10th - 12th December 2014, this time around it will be even bigger and better on discounts and customer satisfaction than the last two years. Say hello to your very own online Santa Claus! The festivities, buying and exchanging gifts, season’s greetings, and the excitement of ushering in a new year makes December the most anticipated month of year. Google gives you yet another reason to celebrate because the Great Online Shopping Festival2014 is back to fill your shopping carts with enormous discounts!

As an online shopper the Great Online Shopping Festival 2014 gives you an opportunity to avail mammoth discounts on a wide variety of products. Don’t forget to buy everything you have been wishing to. Especially, from the comfort of your home. A little note to offline shoppers – nothing is going to get bigger and better on discounts than GOSF 2014! Good reason to give a miss to the malls you frequent, to check out online shopping instead, and avail the jaw dropping discounts. You will see how the internet will become your best friend during the four days of the festival.

Speaking about the whopping success of GOSF 2013, Nitin Bawankule, Industry Director E-Commerce, Google India said, "As new Internet users come aboard, we continue to see a very healthy growth in online searches for online shopping, with over 40 percent queries coming from mobile phones. We have extended the festival to three days to cater to the growing demand and hope to attract many first time buyers this year. Last year's success helped us to get onboard many partners across verticals and products, who have all lined up incredible deals for the bargain hunters and first time buyers. We are hopeful that the initiative will help our partners to set new benchmarks in daily sales and help to build consumer awareness and confidence in online shopping."

Block your calendar from this 10th - 12th December, because whether you know it or not, you would be spending a good part of your time shopping, simply because Great Online Shopping Festival doesn’t happen every day. Don’t miss it for anything in the world!