Flash sales online to sell mobile phones and bestsellers have created ripples over the past few months and proven to be excellent ways to raise publicity around a launch.
Trying to cash-in on the frenzy ahead of its launch, international burger chain Burger King took advance booking to a new level by letting customers order burgers in a flash sale.
The official Burger King India page on Facebook posted a link to ebay.in ahead of the opening of its first store in India at noon on Sunday by offering customers a chance to jump the queue and receive a free t-shirt on buying a burger at a promotional price online.
At first, Facebook users thought it was a fake message. This until people started posting screenshots of their confirmation vouchers. Youngsters crazy about fast food lapped up the offer and created quite a buzz around it.
However, some are still sceptical about the offer.
Rohan, a clothes store attendant at a Saket mall, where the outlet is opening, said: “All this is a gimmick to get people to visit the store on the launch date. There will be so many people at the store… it will be chaotic as I have been told that over 1,000 burgers have been booked. How is that jumping the queue?”
There is resentment among the fans of the chain over non-availability of their famous beef burgers in Delhi. The sale closed on November 5 once the number of burgers available sold out.
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