School pass-outs, engineers among Flipkart’s top sellers in festive sale

Flipkart said it witnessed over 70 sellers becoming crorepatis and about 10,000 becoming lakhpatis during the first three days of the e-commerce firm’s Big Billion Days (BBD) festive sale.

Over 300,000 sellers — of which about 60 per cent belonged to tier-2 and beyond cities — enabled shopping in the first three days of the week-long BBD.

“This number doesn’t account for the total number of crorepati sellers during all six days (of BBD),” said Flipkart in a statement.

“The number of crorepati sellers went up by 1.5X in comparison to last year’s BBD sale,” it added.

The Walmart-owned firm categorises ‘crorepati’ as a seller who has done business worth Rs 1 core or more and ‘lakhpati’ as the one who has done business worth Rs 1 lakh. According to the firm, these sellers are continuing to grow rapidly and are scaling up their operations as Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated the shift to e-commerce.