the end of the year brings more than just winters with the retail world cashing in on the festivals it is also festive shopping time in india which over the last few years has evolved from entering stores to clicking a mouse but for residents of noida and other up cities online shopping has largely meant window shopping in october 2015 major ecommerce companies like amazon snapdeal and flipkart had stopped delivering orders worth rs 5000 or more in up while the cap still remains at flipkart snapdeal removed the limit earlier in the festive season and amazon recently increased it to rs 50000 online shoppers from the state say they are happy that they can finally have those smartphones and lcd tvs delivered to their noida addresses and wont have to rely on their delhi friends to take their ordersdont have to take favours from delhi friends anymorewhat does one do if they have their eye on that brand new smartphone available on an ecommerce site but have a noida address the answer is get it delivered to a friend in delhi something many noidawallahs resorted to aatish a greater noida student says i would get things delivered to my cousin in mayur vihar and then spend the entire sunday travelling from my hostel in greater noida to mayur vihar to fetch my order whoever says online shopping is effortless and not tiring should see how noida folks do it or rather used to do itaditi anand a resident of sector 124 adds it feels like my house is not a barred zone anymore it is not practical to get everything delivered in delhi i needed a phone urgently last year when my older one conked offwhile amazon refused to comment on the development other online shopping portals remained unavailable for commentaditi anand adds i was using a basic phone and couldnt access emails on the go my friend had to specially travel from south ex to my place as soon as it got delivered so that i could work properlynoida shoppers happily collect their packages from a delivery boy in sector 16 bccl noida shoppers happily collect their packages from a delivery boy in sector 16 bcclcollegues always knew the orderrajesh a software engineer living in sector 120 says i have lost count of the times i have had to get stuff delivered to my office in delhi since they wont deliver it to my house once in a while its okay but it had come to a point where all my colleagues knew what i was gifting my girlfriend or what appliance i had orderedearlier festive shopping would look like grocery shoppingmany noida shoppers are happy that with the cap lifted their festive online shopping can be uninhibited neeta arora a homemaker from sector 26 says last year my diwali shopping consisted of only a yoga mat and some half a dozen books i dont have places in delhi where i can get stuff delivered so