by mayur borah shenzhen china tieups between etailers and cellphone companies seem to be the order of the day but chinese mobile maker gionee is bucking the trend and says it doesnt have any arrangement with online shopping websites in india we want to go through the retail channels and reach the enduser we dont want to lose our connect with the customer and our retailers said william lu president of gionee gionees india head arvind vohra said none of the websites selling gionee phones in india are authorized to do so we have no tieup with any of these websitesmany etailers are selling phones at very low rates which is hurting our brand and affecting the retailers vohra said these websites do not provide after sales service which is a key component he added that gionee sells its mobiles only through its estore and registered distributors earlier this year gionee had issued an advisory warning customers against buying phones from ecommerce portals it asked customers to check all warranty and service related details carefully if they decide to take the plungelenovo and dell have also issues similar advisories lu also said gionee is ready to manufacture in india but a right ecosystem must be ready before any development he said robust policies by the new government could be the booster shot the shenzhenbased company manufactured 30 million mobiles during the year and plans to come up with 45 million handsets in 2015 the correspondent was in shenzhen by the invitation from gionee tnn published on dec 23 2014 at 0200 pm ist telegram facebook copy link be the first one to comment comment now comments comment now read comment 1 all comments post post find this comment offensive choose your reason below and click on the submit button this will alert our moderators to take actions reasons for reporting foul language defamatory inciting hatred against a certain community out of context spam others report join the community of 2m industry professionals subscribe to our newsletter to get latest insights analysis download etretail app get realtime updates save your favourite articles scan to download app international shenzhen arvind vohra retail expansion gionee homenewsgionee avoids etail will stick to brick mortar retail