Flipkart is offering a barter deal to its sellers!

If you want to get ‘priority seller’ status on Flipkart, all you have to do is buy its warehouse. Flipkart is selling warehouses, which were occupied by WS Retail, after it cut its dependency on its top seller.

Flipkart founders Sachin Bansal and Binny Bansal partly owned WS Retail but sold their stake and stepped down from the board in 2012.

"They have already spent money on the infrastructure and warehouses are lying empty because WS Retail is not buying goods anymore. They want us to use that infrastructure. They are telling large dealers to move into their warehouses and they say they will guarantee and will give priority on their platform,”
a top executive of a company that Flipkart had approached for warehouses in the Delhi region and Hyderabad told ET.

Flipkart, reportedly, is also approaching third-party vendors. An eKart spokesperson told ET that it has expanded the warehouse space to 1.5 million square feet and is offering that to sellers.