Businessmen Sell Fake Products To Wechat Friends Circle: Fake " Chanel " Called " Fragrant Grandma "

When buying clothes on Taobao, merchants should first add WeChat to see the goods. Reporter survey found that some Taobao merchants sold fake products to WeChat friends circle, merchants "re engraved" many brands of fake "Chanel" known as "fragrant grandma" "Moncler" is called "M home", "GUCCI" is called "G home crying"...

As China's efforts to crack down on intellectual property infringement and the manufacture and sale of fake and shoddy commodities continue to strengthen, some illegal vendors of electronic business platforms have "made another way" to avoid supervision. Reporter survey found that in some business platform, WeChat circle of friends and live platform, some businesses openly sell infringement, counterfeit luxury goods, some sales are still quite a few.

1, reporter survey: Merchants battle circle of friends openly sell infringement, counterfeit luxury goods

"Summer wears cold and winter wears goose". When winter comes, many consumers will choose to buy a down jacket for them to keep warm and fashionable. In recent years, Canada Goose (canadian goose) has been popular with young consumers. A big wave of Hollywood stars collectively beat call. But a canadian goose's down jacket is worth a lot of money. Reporters at the Canada Goose Tmall flagship store saw that a woman's down jacket was less than a few thousand yuan and more than ten thousand yuan.

The "China Consumer News" reporter found in the electronic business platform "Canada goose down jacket" as the keyword search, many prices of hundreds, one thousand yuan of goods appeared, and these commodities are claimed to be "Canada goose down jacket".

The reporter entered a shop randomly. The store page shows that the monthly sales volume of a commodity introduced as "19 new goose down garments" has reached 215. When the reporter asked whether this down price was 1480 yuan, whether the down garment was genuine, the customer service of the store replied that it was called a reporter plus WeChat friends.

After the successful addition of friends, the reporter saw the seller of WeChat, known as "Professor XII, who had a fever." in the circle of friends, not only did he sell "Canadian geese", but also all kinds of so-called "luxury brands". But in the introduction, merchants call "Chanel" "fragrant grandma", "Moncler" is called "M home", and "GUCCI" is called "G home crying".

The reporter asked the merchant whether the Canadian geese sold were genuine or highly imitated. The merchant replied, "genuine goods need ten thousand yuan." The meaning is very clear. Then the reporter asked if his quality could be false. The businessman said: "high grade waterproof fabric like brick cabinet, super high goose down filling, Canadian import wolf hair, and brick cabinet consistent details."

Reporters online search also found that in recent years, the news of selling fake products by friends circle has been frequently reported by the media.

2, more and more people in the circle of friends are selling fake goods.

"China Consumer News" reporter found that many consumers are troubled by the increasing number of high imitation luxury goods in their circle of friends. Zhang, a consumer from Shandong, told reporters:

"Do not know when to add these fake goods, now open friends circle is all kinds of fake luxury goods."

Ms. Wang, a Shanxi consumer who has bought several high imitation luxury goods in the circle of friends, told reporters:

"At first, it was attracted by the low price, and also to satisfy its vanity. After buying several times, it is found that the quality of the goods described by the merchants and the friends in the circle is totally different, even the high imitation is not enough.

Ms. Wang also told reporters that when she said she wanted to return the goods, she found she had been blacken.

Mr. Li, a consumer in Heilongjiang, has also had similar problems. He said that there is no after-sale for micro dealers, so it is difficult for consumers to safeguard their rights.

3, friends circle to share live links more and more, making consumers more difficult to distinguish true and false

The reporter understands, "live with goods" has become the biggest growth point of brand in recent years, more than 50% of the businesses have received new growth through live broadcast. However, there are many problems in the live broadcast of goods. For example, the media reported that, due to the inadvertent live language, Wei Ya triggered "powder pinch", Li Jiaqi's "non stick pot" became a "no stick pot" phenomenon.

In November 21st, the China Consumer Association collected data on consumer rights protection for 15 days during the "double eleven" period, up to 7 million 900 thousand. Among them, there are more than 100 thousand false propaganda problems with live goods.

Live with goods deceive consumers, business propaganda is inconsistent with reality, fraud is not priced and so on.

The reporter found that many live selling businesses share the link between live rooms through their friends circle, which makes the sellers in the circle of friends more "mixed up".

In these links, a lot of live goods are sold as "luxury goods" such as famous brand bags, and ordinary consumers are hard to distinguish between true and false.

4, friends circle is not outside the law, lawyers show problems, consumers can protect rights.

In recent years, WeChat's friends circle has become a "private plot" for many businesses to sell fake goods, but friends circle is not outside the law. The e-commerce law has incorporated micro businesses and purchasing agents into the scope of supervision. Reporters learned that, as early as 5 years ago, some people were sentenced to sell fake brands on WeChat.

In 2014, Zhenjiang District Procuratorate in Shaoguan handled a case of using WeChat platform to sell goods. Qi Mou and Qian Mou are a pair of post-80s small couples. The two people began selling fake counterfeit brand names in a residential area from June 2013. They sold the "LV", "GUCCI", "PRADA" and "Hermes" brands such as "Rolex", "OMEGA", "Cartire", "Earl" and other brands through the WeChat "friend circle" as a commercial promotion platform.

The two husband and wife confessed that over the past year, they had gained about 80 thousand yuan by selling fake brand-name goods. In the end, the couple were sentenced to seven months' imprisonment for one month, six months and a fine of 15000 yuan for the crime of selling counterfeit registered trademarks.

The prosecutor introduced that the defendant through WeChat's "friend circle" as a commercial promotion platform, compared with the traditional cases of infringing intellectual property crime, the means of committing crimes are relatively hidden, but the spread is wide and the speed of promotion is fast. Selling counterfeit registered trademarks involves a wide range of products and the social impact is bad.

Liaoning Fei Hai Law Firm lawyer Fei Fei pointed out that the electronic commerce law has incorporated the micro business into the scope of supervision. Through the WeChat circle of friends, the advertisement of commodity information is also liable to the entity advertisement. The seller is responsible for the authenticity of the advertisement. If the quality of the goods is defective and the consumers are lost, consumers can protect their rights according to the relevant laws such as the consumer protection law, the contract law and so on.