HP Owned Snapfish Launches In India
Hewlett Packard owned Snapfish, a free online photo sharing which allows users to order prints, has launched in India, reports ET. Snapfish also provides storage space to members who order at least a print a year. Prints cost Rs. 2.95 onwards, and the site also offers prints on mouse pads, t-shirts, mugs etc. HP is in the process of tying up with channel partners for prints. Snapfish was founded by Bala Parthasarathy Varadarajan Krishnan, GM for consumer sales, imaging & printing group for HP India says that they’re targeting (only) 3000 photo outlets in four years. HP intends to put up kiosks in high traffic areas for printing digital photographs (payment via credit cards), as well as photo centres.
Snapfish already has a tie-up with Microsoft for online printing services Windows Live Spaces community, so I wonder if that will be extended to India.
There are a few other online photo sharing and printing sites in India, including - Picsquare (funding from 3 Angel Investors), iTasveer (tie-up with Microsoft), Printo (funding from Seedfund) and MeraSnap.com. The big business appears to be in sending photos to India, rather than within India, where, apart from the aforementioned players, there are others like eYaadein, RangeelaPhotos, Photomasti and 123shots.
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Comments (8)
Oct 18, 2007 3:28 AM
i do not recommend snapfish india (snapfish.co.in). they took my order for photo-gift (mug & keychain) and fled away with the money, no email for confirmation or anything. customer service is only thru email which doesn’t work. yet to receive response after eight days. cannot cancel either because nobody replies to your email after submitting the form. there is no phone no. or any individual’s email address either where to contact. Stay away from snapfish!! They fleeced me of my money, but i won’t let that happen to others.
Oct 19, 2007 3:19 AM
I am not sure how you have not received the order. I have placed about 10 orders on snapfish.co.in and I dont see an issue. I was infact thrilled and overwhelmed with the quality of prints both on the mugs and photographs.
Aug 5, 2008 6:07 AM
Snapfish India Photo gifts and price range
Mug - Standard RH Rs. 195.00
Mug - Standard LH Rs. 195.00
Mug - Standard Mug Full Image Rs. 195.00
T-shirt Rs. 399.00
Mouse pad Rs. 149.00
Key ring (rectangular) Rs. 99.00
Key ring (round) Rs. 99.00
11 ounce collage mug Rs. 349.00
Canvas Prints Rs. 999.00
Aug 5, 2008 7:17 AM
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Nov 29, 2008 6:51 PM
I have toa gree that after giving Snapfish a first order they screwed it up so I’ll pay whatever Kodakgallery.com wants to continue to do my prints for online ordering. The “same day in store pick up” for posters sounded too good to be true. It didn’t happen and now my order is in limbo and no one seems to care. The one comment here about email not working is also true. You have to manually email them. I got back a stupid 3 line reply that didnt address my issue, so I wrote a letter to HP Corporate asking why they avoid customers with concerns and state things online that are not true. What a waste of time.
Mar 9, 2009 4:14 AM
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Mar 10, 2009 8:52 AM
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Mar 22, 2009 4:33 AM
Can anybody help me by giving any e-mail id HP manaagement .
Snapfish is a cheat co. , pls. avoid ordering,
I bet u will never receive ur Gift.