How Can Consumers Face The Invasion Of Foreign Garbage?

Recently, Yunnan Provincial Consumers Association launched Initiative To remind consumers to maintain high vigilance on Internet sales of "foreign garbage" clothing, and constantly enhance awareness of rights protection, take the initiative to understand the hazards and identification methods of "foreign garbage" clothing, and ask operators to invoke and prevent illegal online stores from selling "foreign garbage" clothing in the name of "super low price", "foreign trade tail cargo" and "export to domestic sales".

"Foreign garbage" flooding network

The so-called "foreign garbage", in fact, is the importation of old. clothing Commonly known as "people who have smuggled from abroad by the way of buying by weight, have been worn out by other people, mainly from foreign garbage dumps or even morgue. However, because some of the clothes are of better style and become more fashionable, they are even "big brands". They are picked out by some clothing merchants, and are sold through ironing, polishing and repairing. Reporters in Taobao mall saw that the number of garments that were mainly exported to foreign trade and foreign orders was huge, and there were more than 100 garments with "foreign trade" keywords. The price ranges from several yuan to several hundred yuan. The owner of an online trade garment business in Kunming told reporters that there are quite a few people selling "foreign garbage" on the Internet under the banner of foreign trade and foreign goods. For example, the clothing on the Internet partly declares "outside alone" is actually "foreign garbage".

Many consumers of shopping websites say that they often like to go to the online shop to wash clothes, and they can buy the real foreign trade tail goods. Of course, if they encounter "foreign garbage", it will be disgusting. According to official statistics, clothing and apparel products are especially popular with online shopping consumers. However, while the online shopping market is developing vigorously, there are illegal operators using the concealment of network sales and asymmetric information of goods. The online sale of "foreign garbage" clothing imported from smuggling channels seriously threatens consumers' health and disrupts the order of China's online shopping market.

Zhu Hongling, a clothing association of Yunnan, told reporters that the "foreign garbage" entering the market is part of the outdated old clothes from abroad. Some of them come from funeral parlours, and some come out of garbage disposal plants. These "foreign garbage" are not only popular on the Internet due to their low price and good fabric, but also had a certain market in Kunming in the late 80s and early 90s. But then, because of the clean-up by relevant departments, "foreign garbage" basically disappeared. At present, in addition to some "foreign garbage" hiding network, there are still a small number of "foreign garbage" clothing in Kunming night market and second-hand market.

How to identify "foreign garbage" effectively

Reporters at a number of forums saw that many online buyers said they often buy foreign trade clothing through the Internet, but they did not know that foreign trash was hidden, hoping to understand the common sense of identifying foreign garbage. At the same time, many netizens have provided their own identification methods. Among them, the most effective way to identify online shopping is to see the number of clothes provided by businessmen, because foreign garbage is basically a style with only one piece, so when sellers are selling the same clothes, buyers will be vigilant.

At the same time, Zhu Hongling said that because of "foreign garbage" need to do some special treatment such as disinfection, so clothes will leave pungent smell. When consumers buy clothes, they find moldy, fishy and other odors and clothes with volatile smell such as kerosene.

In addition, consumers can also identify the clothing surface, such as most of the clothes have trails, carefully look at, can find some man-made damage and defects, some countries "foreign garbage" clothing at the neckline or cuffs are also embroidered with the name of the user once.

The Yunnan Consumer Association reminds consumers to maintain high vigilance against "foreign garbage" clothing. When consumers find that they are suspected of selling "foreign garbage", they should promptly report complaints to online trading platforms and consumer associations, and pay attention to preserving and providing effective evidence.