MTL - Who Can Fall In Love After Being Reborn?-Chapter 523 Crisis of Confidence
Chapter 523 Crisis of Trust
Throughout the National Day holiday, group shopping is developing steadily and healthily.
Hengtong Freight has successfully established its first supply chain, which has greatly reduced the subsidy cost for community group buying. Alipay and group buying have joined forces to rewrite the tourism pattern in first-tier cities.
However, for the group buying market, the crisis has still come.
On the last night of the October vacation, Jiang Qin was shirtless, drinking beer in the dormitory with three guys from the dormitory, as well as Zhang Guangfa and Zuo Baiqiang from the dormitory next door, and eating the side dishes delivered in a group meal.
The most wonderful time of college life is probably right now.
But before he even got tipsy, Wei Lanlan's phone call suddenly came to Jiang Qin's cell phone and he read a news briefing to him.
【Tuanbao.com is suspected of having lost funds, no one answered the 400 customer service call, the boss may have run away】
Hearing this title, Jiang Qin frowned and said to himself that, after the last round of market competition, the group buying website that had not raised funds had begun to be unable to survive.
“Lao Jiang, what are you doing?
“It’s okay, you eat first, don’t wait for me.”
Tuanbao.com entered the group buying market when it just emerged. It developed very quickly in the early stage. They were the first to establish the member points system for group buying.
Unexpectedly, in just one year, this website’s funds have been cut off.
As soon as the scandal broke out, many mainstream media outlets across the country began to follow up.
Jiang Qin reached out and took away the only meat dish on the table, turned around and turned on the computer, completely ignoring the beautiful Chinese quintessence behind him.
In other words, they once sold discount coupons on their own website, and then exchanged a sum of money and it was gone immediately.
Last August, before major websites raised funds, the company’s number of employees once reached 2,300, and the number of members exceeded 8 million.
It was only in the third round that capital did not continue to be optimistic about him, causing his development to slow down.
However, it is difficult to distinguish the authenticity of online news, and Jiang Qin did not believe it all, and he has been searching for early news on Tuanbao.com.
The coupons in the hands of consumers are not even waste paper, because they have lost their own value and are nothing more than a string of codes and a text message.
Merchants that cooperated with Tuanbao.com saw the news and immediately announced that they would unilaterally terminate their cooperation and no longer recognize their coupons.
This incident caused quite an uproar at the time, but was quickly suppressed.
I just didn’t expect that Tuanbao.com would be so miserable and went bankrupt.
As a result, Baidu Tieba was instantly filled with angry consumers.
Then he discovered that Tuanbao.com had announced a layoff plan at the beginning of this year, and had directly laid off 50% of its employees in the first round.
But what surprised Jiang Qin was that they didn’t just go bankrupt suddenly, because just three days before Tuanbao.com was emptied of people, they also held a large discount event.
This matter was exposed, and the matter became serious in an instant.
During the advertising war in 2009, he invited Peter Ho and Qin Lan to be spokespersons, earlier than Lashou.com hired Uncle Ge. The advertisements he shot could be seen everywhere on CCTV and satellite TV.
“Damn it, I’ve already said that group buying is a scam. How could it be so cheap? I’ve really been tricked now!”
Leader websites such as Tuan Tuan, Dianping, LaShou, Nuomi, and Wowo Tuan only look forward when doing business in the market, not backward, so it is normal to miss some news from behind.
“I saved thirty supermarket shopping coupons, will they be lost?”
Group buying has always been the hottest emerging industry, especially the combination of Alipay and group buying, which has even been dubbed "changing the times".
“Call the police, call the police quickly!”
“Brothers, do you have WeChat? I have created a rights protection group, and the group number is posted below.”
“The government must give us an explanation for this matter!”
"What does it have to do with the government?" "If the government allows this kind of website to operate, shouldn't it strengthen control? How can it just run away!"
"The police have been called. The police said they will file a case. Let us go back and wait for news."
“I am not a consumer, I am the owner of Zhenguo Supermarket. It has been three months since Tuanbao.com has not paid me!”
“I am also a businessman, and they took more than 800,000 yuan from me!”
“It’s over, it didn’t even give the merchant any money, this website is definitely gone!”
Jiang Qin clicked into the post bar and silently looked at the comments inside, his expression becoming serious little by little.
Just like what he was talking to the old professor when he was in class, group buying websites are developing rapidly and intensely, but at this stage, the market will definitely slowly cool down.
Websites like Pintuan have a strong ability to withstand risks and may not be greatly affected, but some websites that are already struggling will definitely lose their funds.
But the operation of Tuanbao.com really surprised Jiang Qin.
He actually sold coupons directly before going bankrupt and ran away with the money. In this way, the credibility of the entire group buying industry may be affected.
Because when people buy coupons from other group buying websites, they will definitely worry about whether it will be the next group buying website.
“Lao Jiang, do you still want to drink?”
“Stop drinking and start your career.”
Jiang Qin raised a finger: "Did you see it? I pressed down this finger, and with a snap, I got several million."
After hearing this, Cao Guangyu crushed the can in his hand: "Fuck, you're so pretentious."
Zhang Guangfa looked at Jiang Qin, and had an illusory feeling that the classmate sitting next to me was a billionaire, so he burped: "I think what Mr. Jiang said may be true."
“You don’t have to say it, of course it’s true!” Cao Guangyu slapped the table.
“Then you still say Mr. Jiang is showing off?”
“I’m just so **** angry because it’s true, and it doesn’t bother me if it’s false!”
Jiang Qin laughed twice, then copied the WeChat group account in the post and joined it.
Many rights defenders have already joined the group, and they are talking in the quintessence of Chinese culture in the group. Their voices to defend their rights are extremely loud. Even if you suddenly send a pornographic picture into the group, you may not be able to interrupt their curses.
Then the major media also began to follow up, and news about the sudden disappearance of the group buying network began to spread throughout the Internet.
Some experts even jumped out to comment on this phenomenon.
“The enthusiasm of the group buying market itself is abnormal, and it is not surprising that this situation occurs..."
“In an industry that burns money, if you cannot upgrade services and operate well, the funds will be cut off sooner or later.”
“Perhaps this will happen to more websites in the future. Consumers need to choose carefully and not be blindly greedy for cheap.”
The words of the expert are not just directed at Tuanbao.com, but at the entire group buying industry, and these words will inevitably arouse the vigilance of consumers.
So in the following days, several leading group buying websites issued statements one after another, claiming that funds were sufficient and there would be absolutely no accidents.
But the seeds of doubt have been sown, and sometimes it cannot be solved in a few words. The liar will not tell you directly and clearly that he is a liar from the beginning.
As a result, many people who like to hoard coupons have begun to refund their coupons. Even the website business of Pintuan, which has been constantly marketing the image of integrity, has been affected and received a large number of coupon refund applications.
The amount of these chargebacks is huge, and together they are enough to make a website of the size of Lashou.com go bankrupt. As a result, all group buying websites have become a little nervous.
(End of this chapter)
