A phone, a smile and a lot of love!
It was a chilly evening yesterday when the call came. The wind blew around the Ashoka University campus, making everyone hurry their steps towards their destination. Some decked up in layers of wool walked under the street lamps searching for hot pakoras. Some others took refuge in the Mess, a haven in the January cold. As we opened the doors to this refuge, we saw Chandrashekhar Bhaiya, one of the people working for the caterers at Ashoka, waiting for us beside one of the pillars.
He had been looking for a cheap mobile phone for a while and he got to know about CoMarket from all the posters and other publicity that had been going on in the campus. He made his account on the platform on the 14th of Jan and checked out the catalog of phones available and messaged one of the sellers the next day. Yesterday at night while the team was working, Aditya mentioned that someone was interested in buying his Moto G 2nd Gen and had arranged to meet in the mess.
As Chandu Bhaiya took the phone from Aditya and swiped around the screen, we stood there in wonder at what had just happened. He gave an advance amount yesterday and paid the rest today evening. While CoMarket had already had successful transactions before, this one engulfed us with the kind of warmth that is tough to put in words. In that small moment as Bhaiya beamed at his new phone happily, surrounded by five other Mess Bhaiyas smiling with us and all the students cheering on, we realized that what we had built, had reduced boundaries. We realized that what we had built, transcended business plans and business talks.
In that small moment, we realized that CoMarket was touching lives and bringing everyone together. And the smiles that we receive are what get us going.
Here’s a huge cheer for Chandu Bhaiya from CoMarket! And hey, you, have you checked out what all we’re selling on CoMarket? :)