Throughout the National Day holiday, the group 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 Alipay has joined forces with the group to rewrite the tourism pattern of first-tier cities.

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

On the last night of the October holiday, Jiang Qin was shirtless and the three goods in the dormitory, as well as Zhang Guangfa and Zuo Baiqiang from the dormitory next door, drinking beer and eating side dishes delivered by the group.

The most wonderful time of college life is probably at this moment.

But before he could get drunk, Wei Lanlan's phone suddenly hit Jiang Qin's mobile phone and read him a news brief.

[Tuanbao.com is suspected of having broken funds, 400 customer service calls are unanswered, and the boss may have run away]

Hearing this title, Jiang Qin frowned, and said in his heart Sure enough, after the last round of market competition, the group buying network that has not raised funds has begun to be unable to stand up.

"Lao Jiang, why are you going?

"It's okay, you eat first, don't wait for me."

Jiang Qin stretched out his hand, picked up the only meat dish on the table, turned around and turned on the computer, completely ignoring the beautiful quintessence behind him.

Tuanbao.com entered the market at the beginning of the group buying market, and the early development was very fast, and the membership points system of group buying was the first to be established.

In August last year, before the major websites raised funds, the company had 2,300 employees and more than 8 million members.

During the advertising war in 09, he invited He Rundong and Qin Lan to be spokespersons, earlier than Lashou.com invited Uncle Ge, and the advertisements shot out can be seen everywhere on CCTV and Satellite TV.

It's just that in the third round, capital did not continue to be optimistic about him, causing his development to slow down.

Unexpectedly, in just one year's effort, this website has been disconnected.

However, it is difficult to distinguish the authenticity of the Internet news, and Jiang Qin did not believe it all, and he has been searching for the news in the early stage of Tuanbao.com.

Then he found out that Tuanbao.com had announced a layoff plan at the beginning of this year, and directly laid off 50% of its employees in the first round.

At that time, the matter was in a uproar, but it was quickly suppressed.

Head websites like Pintuan, Dianping, Handle, Nuomi, and Wowotuan will only look forward and not backward when doing the market, so it is normal to miss some rear news.

It's just that I didn't expect Tuanbao.com to be so miserable and go bankrupt directly.

But what surprised Jiang Qin was that they didn't just suddenly go bankrupt, because just three days before the people of Tuanbao went to the empty building, they also held a large-scale preferential activity.

In other words, they once sold discount coupons for their own website, and then exchanged a sum of money, and immediately disappeared.

This matter was exposed, and the matter became big in an instant.

Group buying is currently the hottest emerging industry, especially the combination of Alipay and Pintuan, which has even been crowned with the title of "changing the times".

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

The merchants who cooperated with Tuanbao saw the news and directly announced that they would unilaterally terminate the cooperation and no longer recognize their coupons.

The coupon in the consumer's hand is not even a waste of paper, because it has lost its own value, and that thing is nothing more than a string of codes and a text message.

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

"I bought 30 supermarket shopping coupons, is it useless?"

"Damn, I said a long time ago that group buying is a scam, how can it be so cheap, now I am really trapped!"

"Call the police, call the police!"

"Do you have WeChat, brothers? I set up a rights protection group, and the group number was posted below. ”

"The government must give us an explanation for this matter!"

"What's the matter with the government?"

"Shouldn't the government tighten its grip on allowing such websites to operate? How can you say that you can run away! ”

"The police have been called, and the police said that a case would be filed, so let's go back and wait for news first."

"I'm not a consumer, I'm the owner of Zhenguo Supermarket, it's been three months, and Tuanbao has not paid me!"

"I'm also a merchant, and they have pressed me more than 800,000 yuan!"

"It's over, I haven't even given the merchant's money, this website is definitely running away!"

Jiang Qin clicked into the post bar and silently looked at the comments inside, his expression becoming serious little by little.

Just like he talked to the old professor in class, the group buying website is developing rapidly and fiercely, but at this stage, the market will definitely slowly cool down.

Websites like Pintuan have a strong ability to resist risks and may not be affected too much, but some websites that are already struggling will definitely have broken funds.

But the operation of Tuanbao.com really didn't make Jiang Qin expect it.

He actually sold coupons directly before he went out of business, rolled up the money and ran away, so that the credibility of the entire group buying industry may be affected.

Because when you buy coupons on other group buying websites, you will definitely worry about whether he will be the next group treasure network.

"Lao Jiang, are you still drinking?"

"Don't drink anymore, start a career."

Jiang Qin raised a finger: "Do you see it, as soon as I press this finger, there will be millions of them." ”

After listening to this, Cao Guangyu pinched the can in his hand: "Grass, it's too good to pretend." ”

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

"Then you still need to say it, of course it's true!" Cao Guangyu slapped the table.

"Then you still say that Mr. Jiang is pretending to be forced?"

"I'm angry because it's real, and the fake can't help me!"

Jiang Qin laughed twice, then copied the WeChat group number in the post and joined in.

Many rights defenders have already joined the group, and they are talking in the group with the quintessence of the country, and the voice of defending their rights is extremely high, even if you suddenly send an astringent picture to enter, it may not be able to interrupt their scolding.

Then the major media also began to follow up, and the news about the sudden departure of the group buying network began to spread across the network.

Some experts even jumped out and commented on this phenomenon.

"The boom in the group buying market itself is deformed, and it's not surprising that this happens......"

"In the industry that burns money, if you can't upgrade your services and do a good job in operation, it won't be too long before the capital chain will be broken."

"There may be more websites like this in the future, and consumers need to choose carefully and not blindly greedy for cheap."

The expert's words are not simply 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 group buying websites at the head issued statements one after another, claiming that the funds are sufficient and there will be absolutely no accidents.

But the seeds of doubt have been planted, and sometimes they can't be solved in a few words, and scammers don't tell you that they are liars in the first place.

As a result, many people who like to hoard coupons have begun to return coupons, and even the website business that has been constantly marketing the image of integrity has also been affected, and a large number of applications for refund have been received.

The amount of these chargebacks is huge, and it can even add up to enough to bankrupt a website of Lashou.com's size, so all group buying sites have become a little nervous.

(End of chapter)