More than 2 million users logged in during the first hour of Unbox Diwali Sale: Snapdeal

More than 2 million users logged into Snapdeal during the first hour of sale, claimed Snapdeal in a press release.

Early trends showed a huge jump in mobiles, appliances, personal electronics and furniture items. Buyers who had made up their minds had already stocked millions of products in their carts and wish lists before the sale started to avoid missing out on their chosen products, the press release said.

Responding to the early trends, Saurabh Bansal, Vice President, Categories at Snapdeal said. "We are very excited to see the tremendous response in the initial hours of the Diwali Unbox Sale. Users have loved the additional, instant discount on Citibank cards. Many more exciting offers are lined up over the next days of the sale."

The top selling mobile phones in the first 8 hours of the sale were the Samsung J2 Pro and the LeEco Le Max2. In the first 8 hours of the sale, nearly one lakh mobile phones were sold at Snapdeal, translating to nearly 200 phones sold per minute, the press relaease added.

The Snapdeal Unbox Diwali Sale will run from 2nd to 6th October 2016.