The Dilemma Of Online Purchasing: Overseas Purchasing

Less than p years ago, the case of leaving the air hostess after a year's trial was reopened in the second middle court of Beijing, so that we can reexamine the dilemma faced by the internet purchasing agency that just emerged.

In the face of huge profits, this risk taking "risk taking" occupation arises at the historic moment.

A large number of luxuries are sent to the whole country through this way.

However, in addition to a small amount of genuine products, a large proportion of them are goods.

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< p > in recent years, overseas purchasing has developed rapidly and has been favored by many online shopping consumers.

The China electronic commerce market data monitoring report released in 2012 by the China Electronic Commerce Research Center (100EC.CN) shows that in 2012, the scale of China's overseas purchasing market pactions amounted to 48 billion 300 million yuan, up 82.2% from last year, and the scale of pactions on overseas purchasing in 2013 will be expected to reach 74 billion 400 million yuan.

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< p > according to the China Electronic Commerce Research Center tracking Alipay monitoring data, in 2012, consumers in China only realized the scale of "Hai Tao" consumption by only 117% through the Alipay payment platform, an increase of 64.7% over the same period, which is far higher than the growth rate of domestic online shopping.

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< p > a person engaged in online purchasing related work said, "some websites that are known as overseas purchasing are purchased from China and sent to France.

After being pferred to France, it is then sold to domestic purchasing customers.

They can earn more than 100 thousand yuan per bag. "

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< p > in 2012, Hermes CEO Patrick Thomas said publicly that "80% of Hermes is fake products in online purchasing."

Most of these 80% belong to the ranks of high imitation luxury goods.

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< p > in this case, Hongkong is one of the most popular addresses on behalf of online shopping, < a href= "http://www.91se91.com/news/index_c.asp" > luxury goods < /a >.

Many online purchasing claims that the products come from Hongkong, and can be accompanied by Hongkong's shopping in products to prove that the goods are genuine products sold in Hongkong. If there are doubts, they can be compared with Hongkong counters, from bills to tickets.

But the mystery is just on this shopping.

In order to protect consumers' privacy, Hongkong District refused to pass through to inquire about consumption records.

Therefore, this is just a symbolic meaning and has no practical effect.

It is precisely because of the characteristics of the Hongkong area that Hongkong has appeared in online luxury shopping.

Even if it is not for Hongkong, the past shopping ticket as a symbol of overseas luxury "ID card" is not credible now.

On Taobao, you can search overseas purchasing fake bills at random, ranging from 10 yuan to 40 yuan. Fake counterfeit tickets can easily counterfeit Singapore and France special bills. On some trading platforms, the phenomenon of group buying of fake small ticket business appears.

Under the operation of the "professional" Taobao merchants, we can customize the small number of national brands and brand names with anti-counterfeiting watermark.

The purchase address can be selected on demand. As long as the small ticket ordered to customer service instructions needs "Hongkong counters", "Singapore counters" or "French counters", it can be tailored.

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< p > more industry insiders admit that high international freight makes it impossible to buy too much margin space for purchasing agents, less than 50 percent off of purchasing cosmetics are basically fake, and less than 30 percent off of purchasing luxury packages are not credible.

In the three direct global stores, such as Hermes, LV and Chanel, goods are generally not discounted.

Not only that, for example, some bags of Hermes need to be queued for one year to buy them.

"The purchase price of genuine products reaches 30 percent off or 20 percent off, which is already the limit. It will not be lower, especially for LV and so on. Their price in the international and domestic markets is only 26 points, and 15% off is very great."

Yu Hai, general manager of a luxury collection store in Beijing, revealed.

The confusion of the industry environment makes overseas purchases more serious in people's minds.

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< p > "even if the brand electricity supplier often has a public relations crisis, the credibility of private purchasing is even lower."

Yu Hai said, "and the most need for luxury goods is good faith, business integrity is not enough, the buyer's confidence is not enough, the real product is absolutely limited in the development space, and the luxury market has shown a variety of modes of operation, simple discount is no longer a selling point."

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< p > in order to improve the credibility of the goods, on some purchasing websites, the sellers have launched the signboards of "stewardess purchasing" and "airport purchasing". They say all goods are stewardess directly "a href=" http://www.91se91.com/news/index_c.asp "purchasing" /a ", and some of them are also called" air hostesses ".

However, after contact with several sellers, the reporter found that many of the so-called "stewardess shopping" stores were not opened by the flight attendants themselves. The owner also admitted that friends or family members were stewardess, so this is convenient.

The reporter learned from an airline that the airline banned the crew from buying on behalf of the airline. Once a purchasing agent was found to be used for sale, the crew would be grounded or even dismissed.

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< p > it is learnt that in addition to stewardess, tour guides, tour guides and other "flying trapeze" are also strictly prohibited from purchasing, and once they are checked, they will be prosecuted for criminal responsibility.

Under the severe attack of the Customs Department, the risk of buying a stewardess, tour guide and tour leader is very high.

In some so-called "stewardess shopping" stores, bags, cosmetics and other goods are sold very high, and it is difficult for light attendants to reach such a large amount of personal entrainment. "Flight attendants shopping" is obviously a gimmick of online stores.

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Less than P, on the other hand, the slow reaction of international brands is also one of the culprits to help the counterfeit goods in the purchasing process.

It is difficult for the ordinary people to identify the authenticity of luxury goods. Many consumers will put their hopes of identifying authenticity in luxury stores in domestic stores or offices.

However, there is no identification service for the products purchased on the market.

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Sales personnel < p > a href= "http://www.91se91.com/news/index_c.asp" > PRADA < /a > (Prada) said that they never provided inspection services.

If a customer's package requires them to provide after-sales service, they need to produce regular tickets.

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Sales staff of < p > DIOR (Dior) said that they could not issue relevant vouchers if they were genuine. However, customers had objections that they could take the bags to the store. They could look at the products first, and if they had problems, they would not provide related services.

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"P" Hermes salesperson told reporters that if new products were introduced, they would generally advise customers not to do any relevant maintenance.

If the customer suggests to do it, their staff can accept the bag first, and the maintenance man in Shanghai will tell whether it needs maintenance and repair.

In this process, the company will confiscate and destroy the goods once it is found to be a fake.

And tactfully through the letter to the customer to tell the customer, the reason for the bag was recovered.

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< p > according to some luxury store salesmen, stores do not want to identify authenticity, mainly because stores have no obligation to purchase goods for informal channels.

At present, the counterfeit level of goods is very high. It is very difficult for the general staff to make an absolute judgement.

Moreover, once the appraisal report is issued, the subsequent legal liability will be involved.

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< p > and if customers insist on carrying out the inspection, the cost of the usual inspection will need to be paid by the consumers themselves, which is almost equal to the price of a new package.

In the face of high cost of time and money, most consumers will not send products to the test.

This loophole has become a major reason why many counterfeiters are unscrupulous.

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< p > because of the low entry threshold and lack of strict examination and approval procedures, most of the online pactions are based on both sides' self-reliance. There are too many uncontrollable factors, and the evidence collection is rather difficult, which is a lack of guarantee for consumers.

At the same time, because most online shopping are off-site consumption, it is more difficult to protect rights elsewhere.

Overseas purchasing agents are usually individuals. Problems like "disappear" and other similar situations can be solved by litigation. The cost is too high, and consumers sometimes can only admit their bad luck.

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