Born Again: A Journey of Love Rediscovered Novel Chapter 523

Throughout the National Day holiday, group shopping is developing steadily and healthily.

The successful establishment of the first supply chain of Hengtong Freight has greatly reduced the subsidy cost of community group buying, and the cooperation of Alipay and group buying has also rewritten the tourism pattern of first-tier cities.

However, for the group buying market, the crisis is coming.

On the last night of the October vacation, John 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 tour.

The most wonderful time of college life is probably right now.

But before he got tipsy, Lana Wei's phone call suddenly came to John Qin's cell phone and read him a news briefing.

[Tuanbao.com is suspected of having lost funds, no one answered the 400 customer service call, and the boss may have run away]

Hearing this title, John Qin frowned and said to himself that, as expected, after the last round of market competition, the group buying website that had not raised funds had begun to be unable to survive.

"Lao John, what are you doing?

"It's okay. You guys eat first. You don't have to wait for me."

John 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.

Tuanbao.com entered the group buying market when it first emerged. It developed rapidly in the early stage. They were the first to establish the member points system for group buying.

In August last year, before major websites raised funds, the company's number of employees once reached 2,300 and the number of members exceeded 8 million.

During the advertising war in 2009, he invited Peter Ho and Qin Lan as spokespersons, earlier than Lashou.com hired Uncle Ge. The commercials he produced can be seen everywhere on CCTV and satellite TV.

However, in the third round, capital did not continue to be optimistic about him, causing his development to slow down.

Unexpectedly, in just one year, this website's funds have been cut off.

However, it is difficult to tell the authenticity of online news, and John Qin does not believe it all, and has been searching for early news on Tuanbao.com.

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.

This incident caused quite an uproar at the time, but was quickly suppressed.

Leading 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 just didn’t expect Tuanbao.com to be so miserable and go bankrupt.

But what surprised John Qin was that they didn't just suddenly go bankrupt, because just three days before Tuanbao.com left the building empty, they also held a large discount event.

In other words, they once sold discount coupons on their own website aggressively, and then exchanged the money for it, and it was gone immediately.

This matter was exposed, and the matter suddenly became a big deal.

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".

As soon as the scandal broke, many mainstream media outlets across the country began to follow up.

The 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.

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.

As a result, Baidu Tieba was instantly filled with angry consumers.

"I saved 30 supermarket shopping coupons, are they useless?"

"Damn it, I've already said that group buying is a scam. How can it be so cheap? Now I'm really being tricked!"

"Call the police, call the police!"

"Brothers, do you have WeChat? I 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?"

"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 settled the payment for me!"

"I'm also a merchant, and they took over 800,000 yuan from me!"

"It's over. We haven't even paid the merchants. This website has definitely run away!"

John Qin clicked into the forum and silently looked at the comments, his expression becoming serious little by little.

Just like what he talked with the old professor during class, group buying websites are developing rapidly and fiercely, but at this stage, the market will definitely slowly cool down.

Websites like Tuan Tuan 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 Tuanbao.com's operation really surprised John 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 everyone buys coupons from other group buying websites, they will definitely worry about whether it will be the next group buying website.

"Lao John, do you still want to drink?"

"Stop drinking and start your career."

John Qin raised a finger and said, "Did you see it? I pressed my finger and, with a swish sound, I got several million."

After hearing this, Charles Cao crushed the can in his hand: "Fuck, you're so pretentious."

Zhang Guangfa looked at John Qin, and had an illusory feeling that the classmate sitting next to me was a billionaire, so he burped: "I think what Mr. John said may be true."

"You don't have to say that? Of course it's true!" Charles Cao slapped the table.

"Then you still say Mr. John is showing off?"

"I'm just so damn angry because it's real. It's fake and it doesn't bother me!"

John Qin laughed twice, then copied the WeChat group account in the post and joined it.

Many rights defenders have joined the group and are talking in Chinese quintessence. Their voices are extremely loud to defend their rights. Even if you suddenly send a pornographic picture into the group, you may not be able to interrupt their curses.

Then the major media began to follow up, and news about the sudden disappearance of the group buying network began to spread throughout the entire network.

Some experts even jumped out to comment on this phenomenon.

"The popularity of the group buying market itself is abnormal. It is not surprising that this situation occurs..."

"In a money-burning industry, if you can't upgrade your services and do a good job in operations, it will only be a matter of time before your funds are cut off."

"Perhaps this will happen to more websites in the future. Consumers need to choose carefully and not be blindly greedy for cheap."

The expert's words are not just aimed 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 planted, and sometimes it cannot be solved with just a few words. The scammer 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 began to refund their coupons. Even the website business of Pintuan, which has been constantly marketing the image of integrity, was affected and received a large number of coupon refund applications.

The amount of these chargebacks was huge, and together they were enough to make a website of the size of Lashou.com go bankrupt. As a result, all group buying websites became a little nervous.

I came to catch the flight at 6 o'clock in the morning, and then I have been working on the manuscript at the airport. I will update these first, and continue after landing. There will be more in the evening.