@flipkartsupport i got transaction message on my mobile twice so will 28000 be deducted? ps i reached the last page twice once succ once not — Krish Iyer (@KrishVishIyer) July 22, 2014

@flipkartsupport I tried at least 15 times & the transaction failed at various stages every time. Now it's out of stock! Ye cheating hai. :( — Akshay Tyagi (@atodat) July 22, 2014

after all the wonderful 500 & 502 errors, I've been told that due to shipping constraints, Mi3 can't be delivered. gg @flipkart — Sathya (@SathyaBhat) July 22,

Apologies for the issues our customers are facing... the Mi 3 launch is keeping our site very busy. Working on getting this fixed ASAP. — Flipkart (@Flipkart) July 22,

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NEW DELHI: Xiaomi 's Mi 3 smartphone went out of stock on e-commerce retailer Flipkart , after just 39 minutes of going on sale on Tuesday.The Chinese smartphone has made a debut in Indian market with an exclusive sales tie-up with Flipkart for Mi 3.The two companies did not disclose the number of units sold. Flipkart claimed to have received 100,000 registrations for the phone between July 15 and 21, when they provided a 'one week registration window'. Clearly, the retailer and the brand didn't have the stocks to meet this demand. However, both companies failed to disclose the actual number of handsets sold this afternoon.A large number of registered users were not able to order the phone due to technical difficulties encountered by Flipkart. The phone went on sale at 12 noon, soon crashing Flipkart's server capacity, with the website throwing up 502 errors and emptying the users' carts just before reaching the payments page. Some users also complained of being charged multiple times even when the order did not go through.Flipkart later sent out a Twitter apology saying, "Apologies for the issues our customers are facing... the Mi 3 launch is keeping our site very busy. Working on getting this fixed ASAP."Few users were able to get an order confirmation after some attempts. But overall, the buying experience was shoddy at best and the frustrated users poured instant venom on twitter against Flipkart and Xiomi.It's not the first time that Xiaomi has encountered this situation. It offers its products in a flash sale format, putting only limited stocks on sale each time.Mi 3 had gone out of stock in Singapore within two minutes. Similarly, 5,000 units of Redmi Note, priced at S$199 (Rs 9,600 approximately), were sold out in just 42 seconds in the country.However, Xiaomi had offered more units on sale in China in line with the size of the market. According to reports, it sold 100,000 units of Redmi Note in 34 minutes in its home market. Given the size of Indian market and the number of registrations, the company should have stocked more units to meet the expected demand.Why did Flipkart's servers crash? The e-commerce website too was aware of the demand, but failed to prepare for it.Not discounting the conspiracy theories, it is possible that supply was deliberately kept low to create artificial scarcity and increase the demand further in order to make the product a 'best seller.'Flipkart has since opened registrations again and will start selling the Xiaomi Mi 3 again on 29 July.For those unaware, Xiaomi Mi 3 has excellent specs that could indeed make it a hot-selling budget smartphone, outstripping the demand for segment best-seller Motorola Moto G.Mi 3 has a 5-inch Full HD display and runs on a 2.3GHz quad-core Snapdragon 800 processor with 2GB RAM. It is powered by Android 4.4 (KitKat) with Xiaomi's proprietary MIUI skin on top. It packs 16GB internal storage, but does not support storage expansion via microSD cards.It sports a 13MP camera with dual-LED flash on the back and a 2MP camera in front. Connectivity suite of the smartphone consists of 2G, 3G, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.0, microUSB 2.0 and NFC. It has a 3,050mAh battery, and Xiaomi claims that the smartphone can deliver talk time of up to 21 hours on 3G networks.