I posted about the benefits of having a vibrant second hand
market and its handiness when it comes to folks who are looking to set up base
in short amount of time without having to spend a bomb and a series of weekends
exploring.
Quikr has already given an awesome market place for these transactions and is always looking to up
the game and make it a better experience for the users. With quikr next, they
are introducing quikr chat which is going to be a great thing on many counts. Here are the reasons I would prefer chatting over a phone call.
Reduce
Interruptions
We live in a world of interruptions. While
it is impossible to eliminate it, it is wise to reduce it as much as possible
for preserving your own sanity. A phone call leaves little room for
multi-tasking and snatches you away from whatever you are doing. Responding
to chat, on other hand, can be dealt with an asynchronous manner. A significant improvement in our
overly interruption ridden world.
Multi-task
Chat gives an option for you to speak to many
people at once, often times re-using responses as opposed to a phone chat,
where you can talk to only one person at a time and things get recorded only if someone is explicitly transferring the data
from voice format to some other longer lasting format than your memory.
Convenience
It is hard to take calls and talk in office
at your desk unless you have a plush personal office to use which many of us
are really not fortunate enough to have. For those of us, having an option to continue a quiet chat makes a lot of sense.
Privacy
You are always worried about handing out
your phone number with the large number of marketing calls you receive. Despite
being extremely cautious about giving out my number, I get a lot more marketing
calls than I would be comfortable with.
Record
Keeping
You will be talking to a good number of
people and both as a buyer and a seller you would want to keep track of what
things were discussed, which would include some clarifications around nuances
that matter to you but don’t always get captured in the fixed categorization and
text put in the ad. You can keep track of all those with chat and will be super
handy when closing in your option. With phone in one hand, it will be
challenging for someone to really note down the information, simply too inconvenient
when compared to the comfort of being able to chat and preserve the information
forever.
Cheaper
than phone call
You save money on phone calls! Data is much
cheaper than voice, until now that is. Things may change in future but as it stands
now, you do spend a lot more for the details you share using voice than when you
send it as text/image over internet.
Like I said in previous blog, things are much sweeter for everyone these days and more in-line with the times. These simple
but extremely effective features are going to be make a significant impact on
the way people buy/sell things and set up their homes!
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