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Avoid online route to buy our cars: Renault

May 30, 2014 14:25 IST

Image: Renault Fluence.
Photographs: Courtesy, Renault

The Indian arm of Renault, the France-based automobile maker, issued a warning on Thursday regarding the buying of its cars through e-commerce websites.

Recently, a few international electronic device companies such as Lenovo, Toshiba and Nikon had issued similar advisories on their respective websites, cautioning buyers against e-commerce purchase.

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Avoid online route to buy our cars: Renault

Image: Renault Fluence interior.
Photographs: Courtesy, Renault

Renault said it wanted to ensure people were not fooled by a false promise made by an individual  or group to lure customers in buying a Renault product, either by a discount or a compromise on the quality.

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Avoid online route to buy our cars: Renault


Photographs: Courtesy, Renault

In its public notice, Renault said, “E-commerce websites like Snapdeal.com, Flipkart.com, Amazon.in, OLX.com, etc, or any other person operating through these websites, are not part of our authorised dealer network and they are not authorised to sell new Renault brand vehicles.

New Renault brand vehicles sold through these websites do not carry any warranties from Renault.”

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Avoid online route to buy our cars: Renault

Image: Renault Koleos.
Photographs: Courtesy, Renault

On the other side, experts note e-commerce companies in India do not sell cars.

The exceptions are sites such as Quikr and OLX, offering a platform for transaction of old products, including used cars.

Some e-commerce companies have recently introduced an automotive segment but they concentrate on vehicle parts and some on two-wheelers.

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Avoid online route to buy our cars: Renault

Image: Renault Koleos.
Photographs: Courtesy, Renault

Renault's spokesperson said "we want to ensure that people are not fooled by any false promise made by an individual / group to lure customer in buying Renault product either on discount or compromise on the quality of the product".

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Avoid online route to buy our cars: Renault

Image: Renault Koleos.
Photographs: Courtesy, Renault

He added, selling a new car completely through E-commerce is not possible because the selling process involves a lot of physical interventions like registration of the car at the RTO, pre-delivery check, agreements with finance companies, etc.

Hence none of the car manufacturers actually sell though e-commerce sites, though there are a few sites which provide general and technical information about the cars and portals which sell used cars.

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Avoid online route to buy our cars: Renault

Image: Renault Koleos.
Photographs: Courtesy, Renault

The spokesperson said, "Additionally, as a foreign brand, we are prohibited from doing B2C transactions. Selling on on-line sites is B2C.”

The company, which informed the general public that new Renault brand vehicles are sold only through its authorised dealer network also requested them to check the warranty entitlements, when you purchase any Renault brand vehicles from such websites or persons operating through such websites,, the auto maker said in the advertisement.

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Avoid online route to buy our cars: Renault

Image: Renault Scala.
Photographs: Courtesy, Renault-Nissan Automotive India

The spokesperson added, "the advertisement must not be misinterpreted as a stand against e-commerce sites or digital lead generation but issued as an advisory cautioning consumers".

Renault is capitalising digital and social medial. About 15 per cent of company's leads are through the internet and mobile and have invested in technology.

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Avoid online route to buy our cars: Renault

Image: Renault Scala.
Photographs: Courtesy, Renault-Nissan Automotive India

Responding to the advertisement, the e-commerce majors have said that they don't deal with any automotive products, including cars. OLX.com deals with only cars, but not new ones and that too through advertisements by brokers or car owners.

However, the advertisement of Renault specifically mentions about "new Renault brand vehicles."

Industry experts says the move is to appease the vehicle dealers, who fear that online sales at lower prices would harm their physical outlets and overall business.

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