"Foreign Garbage Clothes" Flooded &Nbsp; Consumers Should Be Careful About Online Shopping.

The Yunnan Consumers Association has launched an initiative to remind consumers to maintain high vigilance on Internet sales of "foreign garbage" clothing, constantly enhance their awareness of safeguarding their rights, take the initiative to understand the hazards and identification methods of "foreign garbage" clothing, and require operators to invoke and prevent illegal businesses from selling "foreign garbage" clothing in the name of "super low price", "foreign trade tail cargo" and "export to domestic sales".

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The so-called "foreign garbage", in fact, is known as the import of old clothes. It refers to people being smuggled out of the country in bulk by the way of weight acquisition, which has been worn out by other people, mainly from foreign garbage dumps and 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.

A shopkeeper who is engaged in online trade clothing business in Kunming says that there are quite a lot of people selling "foreign garbage" on the Internet under the banner of foreign trade and foreign goods. For example, some of the clothes on the Internet that claim "outside alone" are 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 serious threats to the online sale of "foreign garbage" clothing imported from smuggling channels by the illegal operators using the concealment of network sales and asymmetric information.

Zhu Hongling, a clothing association of Yunnan, said that the "foreign garbage" entering the market was partly obsolete old clothes from abroad. Some of them came from funeral homes, and some came out of waste 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.

In addition to some "foreign garbage" hiding

How to identify "foreign garbage" effectively

In some forums, many online buyers say that they often buy foreign trade clothing through the Internet, but they do not know that foreign trash is hidden. They hope 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 odors, such as moldy, smell, and other volatile odors, such as kerosene, and do not buy them.

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.