I really don't want to get rich

Chapter 78 The first enemy is taking action
The launch of Hongtuan.com naturally attracted Wang Xiaotong's attention!
She is not a die-hard fan of Guntuan.com either. After seeing the various discount coupons and discount coupons issued by Hongtuan.com, because she can save a few yuan, she abandoned Guntuan.com without hesitation, and then Place an order on Hongtuan.com.

On this day, Wang Xiaotong finished the work in hand and prepared to place a pre-order on Hongtuan.com, so that she could go directly to the store to eat when she got home without queuing.

"Huh? Why did the price increase? The price has been stable recently!"

As a reporter for the social news section, Wang Xiaotong naturally knows the latest price situation.

Prices have been stable recently and have not risen. In fact, the prices of some commodities have even fallen.

For example, pork, she knew that the price of live pigs had dropped by [-] cents recently, so she even published an article to report on this!

Because the price of live pigs has dropped, but the price of pork has not risen or fallen, which makes many farmers miserable and resentful!

Seeing the price increase, Wang Xiaotong hesitated and did not place an order immediately. Instead, she used the online contact function of Hongtuan.com to contact the merchant and asked why the price of the rice bowl with shiitake mushrooms she wanted to order had increased by 3 yuan!

The merchant where Wang Xiaotong often places orders has a large number of online orders, so there are waiters who specialize in taking online orders, so the other party's reply was sent quickly.

[This customer, I am very sorry, because Hongtuan.com needs to charge us a 16% platform service fee, which leads to an increase in our cost, so we have to increase the price of the product as a last resort. 】

"Is that so?"

Wang Xiaotong felt very uncomfortable. She felt that it was wrong for the merchant to do so!

So she asked: 【Have the prices in your store increased? 】

【No. 】

The other party's reply was quick and straightforward. When Wang Xiaotong saw it, he felt even worse!
Because, this means that if she places an order on Hongtuan.com today to buy rice with shiitake mushrooms and meat, she will spend an extra 2.5 yuan!

Yes, Hongtuan.com only sent her a discount coupon of 10 yuan off for spending 0.5 or more!
Moreover, Hongtuan.com’s recent behavior also made Wang Xiaotong very uncomfortable when she found out, because Hongtuan.com was just deceiving people!
What big deal?

What big discount?

This is all nonsense!

When she used Hongtuanwang on the first day, Hongtuanwang sent her a 6 yuan discount coupon with no threshold and no limit, which is not bad!

Then the next day, it became 3 yuan, which is also acceptable!
On the third day, it becomes a full discount coupon of 12 minus 2, which is a bit nonsense!
Up to now, it has become a full discount coupon of 10 yuan for spending 0.5!Enough nonsense!
And this is because she was pretty lucky today. You know, what Hongtuan.com sent her yesterday was a coupon that gave her 35 off for every 1 she spent!

She didn't use the discount coupon at all because she couldn't eat so much!

You know, in this merchant, before the price increase, the price of a dish of shiitake mushrooms and meat topped with rice was only 7 yuan!

Anyway, this so-called big discount is just a gimmick!After letting you taste the sweetness, the next step is basically a pit!

【correct!I know that your shop is also available on Guntuan.com, but have you also increased the price on Guntuan.com? 】

【No!Guntuan.com does not charge any platform service fees, and our costs have not increased! 】

This statement is actually wrong!Guntuan.com charges an annual fee of 3650 yuan a year, which also increases their costs.

However, because Guntuan.com charges an annual fee, merchants feel that the rent of opening a store on the Internet has not increased compared with offline stores!
There are even many merchants who feel that they have fallen!Good deal!These merchants are the merchants who were willing to join Guntuan.com when it was first launched!Because they settled in early, after Guntuan.com became popular, they also had the most orders, which is why they deserved to make money!atmosphere!Have vision!Don’t care about immediate gains and losses!
After all, those who don’t care about the immediate gains and losses are a minority. Hongtuan.com’s 16% discount on an order has caused many merchants who care about the immediate gains and losses to start raising prices!
Just like the business that Wang Xiaotong is contacting, the owner of the business is definitely a person who cares about the immediate gains and losses!
[By the way, this customer, if you haven't received the coupon from the website, we still recommend you to place an order on Guntuan.com! 】

The owner of the business is very concerned about immediate gains and losses, but the waiter is quite conscientious, because it is also served with sliced ​​mushrooms and meat topped with rice. According to the 16% platform service fee charged by Hongtuan.com, if they sell it for 10 yuan, it is equivalent to getting 8.4 yuan!
On Guntuan.com, they sell it for 7 yuan, and they can only get 7 yuan!
Therefore, this proposal made by the waiter to Wang Xiaotong will reduce their store's income by 1.4 yuan!

Of course, this is only if Wang Xiaotong is willing to put up with the price increase and does not know about Guntuan.com!

Wang Xiaotong also settled the account!

However, she doesn’t want to place an order now!

Because the business owner made her feel extremely uncomfortable with the price setting, she wanted to write an article to criticize this matter severely!

Because even if your business costs increase, even if you want to make up for this loss, you can't increase it more!

Take this shiitake mushroom meat bowl as an example, in fact, the merchant should raise it to 8.33 (the number after the percentile is wiped out, don't get too deep into it) yuan!
In this way, the actual price of the merchant is only 7 yuan, which is the same as the price of other platforms and other offline physical stores!

In fact, this is because at this time in 2008, the country has not yet promulgated the "E-Commerce Law", otherwise, according to the law, the online and offline sales prices of merchants are required to be unified!
Otherwise, it is a violation of the law!
Otherwise, there would be even more arguments from Wang Xiaotong!
But even without this point, it is enough for Wang Xiaotong to criticize this phenomenon severely!
Wang Xiaotong started to act!
In order to make his article more convincing, Wang Xiaotong immediately selected 50 merchants on Hongtuan.com.

Then she discovered that more than 80% of merchants had increased their prices!

Moreover, the price increases are unreasonable, and the price increases are even higher!

She then took the list of 50 merchants and checked them one by one on Guntuan.com. She found that only 21 merchants were registered on Guntuan.com, and 17 of them had increased their prices on Hongtuan.com. Guntuan.com There is no price increase on the Internet!

There are only 4 of them, and the price is the same on both platforms!

However, her inquiry made her discover a more serious matter!

That is, there are 29 remaining merchants that have not settled in Guntuan.com, and there are actually 22 merchants whose certificates are published on the website, all of which are incomplete!
In fact, 11 of them did not even publish their business licenses on their website!
Moreover, Wang Xiaotong also tried to contact these 11 merchants, and the results she received were either that the merchants pretended to be dead and did not reply!

Or the merchant is hesitant and refuses to answer!
There are even two merchants who said very directly, does it matter whether they have a business license or not?
Operating without a license!
This time, the self-proclaimed righteous Wang Xiaotong was furious!

She doesn't know how many problems Hongtuan.com has now, but she knows that Hongtuan.com's problems are definitely not small!
There are serious loopholes in their management!

Moreover, in order to find out the situation, she went back to Guntuan.com to see the 21 merchants that were on the two platforms at the same time, and found that all of these 21 merchants had complete certificates and were operating legally!

No comparison, no harm!

Now Wang Xiaotong is really full of anger, writing like a spirit!

The computer keyboard rattled, and she worked overtime until after ten o'clock in the evening. It was not until the left-behind editor of the Jiangnan Metropolis Daily asked her why she was not off work that she realized that it was already very late!

However, Wang Xiaotong still did not choose to go home. She wanted to write the manuscript and submit it to the editor for review. She wanted to expose this phenomenon as soon as possible. Otherwise, Wang Xiaotong was worried that if this continued, serious food safety accidents would occur!
Yes, now the price increase has become a secondary issue in Wang Xiaotong's eyes!The most important issue now is food safety!
Wang Xiaotong can imagine that if this matter is not exposed as soon as possible to stop it, Hongtuan.com will become more unscrupulous, and more and more unlicensed businesses will settle in Hongtuan.com!

In the end, it may even lead to catastrophe!

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