Of course, this trick will definitely not be used for a long time, and it will only be used for a year at most, that is, in the whole of 2002. In the future, when the social elite has almost digested it, the follow-up target new users are relatively poor, or they are unwilling to pay the monthly fee, Alipay's security has almost been upgraded to the level of "no need to bind MAC address, you can download the client on the website and install it casually".

At that time, the installation cost of Alipay will be reduced to almost zero, and there will be no monthly fees, and it can become a new e-commerce payment tool.

However, after the monthly rent fee is not charged, Alipay's new users after 2003 will also lose the natural convenience of "Lanfang visa financial exemption" and become an ordinary Internet payment tool.

However, in 2001 and 02, it has become the social elite of Alipay users, and it will directly become a high V when the time comes, which is equivalent to "opening the sesame credit score function after the revision, and 01-year-old users will directly default to 800 points to start, and 02-year-old users will start with 750 points by default".

At that time, those with a Sesame Credit score higher than 750 points will still be able to enjoy benefits such as "Financial Exemption for Lanzhou Visa", and there will be more privileges with a Sesame Credit score of more than 800 points.

Even in the future, Gu Kun can use his influence and prestige in the tourism circles of Asian countries to further push for the financial part of the visa exemption for Koreans who have a credit score of 800 or more.

In a word, the earlier the old users who mix with me, the more discounts they get, and the more social respect they get.

These benefits are equivalent to 2002, when people paid 30 yuan a month for a monthly rent of 360 yuan a year. After this village, there is no such shop, and after 03 years, newcomers want to get such a high sesame credit score, and the efforts and efforts that need to be accumulated must be far more than 360 yuan when converted into RMB.

It's like it only costs 50 yuan to open a high V in 04, and it costs 3,000 yuan a year to open a high V more than ten years later, Ma Feng must not let the early die-hard fans who charged him 360 years in 02 suffer.

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"It turns out that among the new users of Alipay, there are now so many people who are 'jujube or not', who don't care about a few spare money, and just get an account for the convenience of visa and payment. It's no wonder that the number of wealthy self-employed people and tourists from unknown sources is growing so dramatically. After Lin Ying completely understood the details of cause and effect, she finally suddenly realized.

As she spoke, she revisited the first-quarter reports of the hotel industry and shopping malls that she had just read with a new perspective.

It doesn't matter if you look at it, you will find more surprises when you look at it:

"Eh, husband, but you didn't. I think that these new Alipay users in the first quarter, their average purchasing power seems to be much higher than that of old users. Are there so many rich people in Huaxia who have vague money sources?

If you look at these tour groups, as well as the corresponding shopping statistics of these visas, each person buys at least millions of goods on average, and some categories don't even seem to have any exit tax refunds. Are you so proud? Look down on our Lan Fang's consumption tax at these points and disdain to refund it? There are so many rich Chinese. ”

Gu Kun originally just squinted his eyes and didn't pay much attention to it, but after listening to Lin Ying's emotion, he became slightly alert.

"I'll see. I haven't had time to pay attention to the results of travel sales. ”

Gu Kun said to himself, and then glanced at it a few times.

There is a way for bystanders to be clear, and after being reminded by Lin Ying, Gu Kun suddenly felt that something was wrong with the numbers.

It turned out that the sales performance of luxury goods in some areas in the last quarter was also too good, and the growth rate far exceeded the growth rate of the number of tourists.

For example, in the first quarter, the performance of all hotels under the royal family and Gu Kun increased by 41% quarter-on-quarter compared with the fourth quarter of last year and 76% year-on-year compared with the first quarter of last year.

However, all the luxury shopping malls and boutique stores that Gu Kun can manage, the reported luxury sales revenue increased by 68% month-on-month and 139% year-on-year, respectively.

It's normal for luxury goods to grow slightly more than the hospitality industry.

Especially the hotel industry after all, the state can not monopolize it, in recent years, the tourism industry in Lanzhou is too hot, private capital into the hotel industry too much, Lanzhou originally had a little money people, are pooling money to get the right to land planning and approval, sharpened their heads to engage in hotels, these hotels are generally higher than Gu Kun and the royal family's state-run poor fees are also cheaper, relatively poor tourists are more inclined to live in poor hotels, Gu Kun can not count, it is normal.

But it is certainly not normal for luxury sales to grow so much more than the turnover of the hotel industry.

Just by Gu Kun's superficial glance at the financial reports in recent years, he also knows that there is something greasy in it.

When he looked in more detail, he realized that the problem was even bigger.

"There's definitely something wrong with this data, you see, especially in March, the growth of a lot of goods is just a blowout. In January and February, the year-on-year growth of several of our major luxury brands was more than 80% to more than 90%.

But what about March? Sales increased by 260 percent compared to March last year! Even compared with February, they nearly doubled! It looks like someone is stockpiling goods on a large scale!"

"Is it that our people are swiping orders at the end of the quarter in order to rush for performance?" Lin Ying didn't have more knowledge, and her first reaction could only think of this possibility.

Gu Kun also felt a little reasonable at first glance, but then he felt that things were not so simple.

Gu Kun muttered to himself: "Someone swipes the order? For example, in order to better complete the quarterly sales task, some shopping centers suddenly embezzled funds at the end of March and the end of the quarter to ship a batch of goods first...... This also explains why there is no GST refund for this batch of goods.

Because the refund of consumption tax is handled by tourists when they leave the customs, if the citizens of the Blue side consume these luxury goods in their own territory, they will not be able to get the preferential treatment of tax refund. Tax rebates are significantly less than sales, apparently because the proportion of things that remain in China after sales has become higher, and many things are not taken out of the country after they are sold. ”

Whether it is Lanfang, or a free trade port such as Xiangjiang, there are no tariffs. But the absence of customs duties does not mean that there are no taxes, and there are still consumption taxes. It's just that the consumption tax is only levied on things consumed within the country, and foreigners will only be refunded after buying things and taking them away.

So in fact, Chinese tourists feel that "everything in Lanfang is tax-free and a shopping paradise", which is nothing more than based on the premise that Chinese guests will take away everything they buy and take out of the country, not spend it locally.

It is necessary to thoroughly investigate where the goods that are sold out of thin air have gone.

Gu Kun had a bad premonition, which made him quickly think of the business model of Chinese shopkeepers in the previous life who went to Paris to open stores and dominate tour groups - in the later generations, top brands such as Donkey and Gucci were also very strict in the management of dealers, and they would not casually allow Chinese newcomers to open these top brand stores in Paris, nor would they necessarily accept Chinese as distributors.

But this can't stop the motivation of the Chinese to cheat their compatriots out of money, so that many stores that collude with low-cost groups, when they can't be dealers, actually buy in large quantities from retail channels, and then resell them at a higher price as second-tier dealers - anyway, cheap group itineraries are prescribed shopping places, so you can deceive one is one, as long as someone does not compare prices online before going abroad, and do not know that the goods in these stores are more expensive than Lefayette or other boutiques on the Champs-Élysées, then it is possible to slaughter.

(If there is more than that, these people still have a conscience, at least they are still selling genuine products.) Some of those who sell fakes in France are even more despicable, but French fakes are not easy to leave the country at customs, and the French care about this very much. ）

Of course, this kind of trick is almost very rare after the 2010s, and it was rampant for a few years in the early 20th century, because e-commerce overseas shopping is too developed in the future, and the price comparison function is too strong. As soon as the Taobao search function comes out, the living space of this kind of scammer will be cut by at least half.

At this moment, it was difficult for Gu Kun not to think in this direction.

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