Mumbai has the highest number of active online shoppers followed by Delhi and Hyderabad; a recent report says e-commerce has picked up fastest in the megapolis.
According to the eBay India Census 2008, India's top five e-commerce hubs are Mumbai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Bengaluru and Chennai.
"Over 2,427 cities had online transactions in 2007. The IT hubs of Andhra Pradesh, Kerala, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka were the most wired states of India, with the maximum number of towns where e-commerce originates," eBay India Director (category management) B Muralikrishnan told reporters in New Delhi.
He added that e-commerce was helping bridge the demand and supply gap.
"Over a third of all products bought by eBayers in the hilly areas (north-east, Jammu and Kashmir and Himachal Pradesh) are tech gadgets (mobile phones, digital cameras and USB drives). While women from the metros are buying a lot of saris, the sellers are spread across various cities and towns like Devanagere (Karnataka), Chittaurgarh (Rajasthan); Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) and Kunnamkulam (Kerala)," he said.
The most bought and sold items on the shopping portal are diamonds, value handsets, MP4 players, USBs, MP3 players and Indian stamps.
"The census includes data only from shoppers on eBay India but can be used to get some idea of the market as 42 per cent of shoppers prefer eBay over other portals according to a survey by Juxt consulting," he said.
Similar reports have been brought out for the US and Canada operations of the company, which has a presence in 39 countries.
eBay India, formerly known as Bazee.com, is the wholly owned subsidiary of the US-based eBay Inc.
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