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 Jiang 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.
When this incident was exposed, the situation suddenly became a big deal. Group buying is currently the hottest emerging industry, especially the combination of Alipay and group buying, which has even been given the title of “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 would 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!”
Jiang Qin clicked into the post forum and looked at the comments in silence, 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.