This article is from WeChat public account:Zhongxin Jingwei (ID:jwview), author: Zhang Yan Zheng, head diagram from the visual China
“Customer temporarily cancels the position, only 2 people, Xinmatai 9 nights and 10 days only need 3599 yuan / person” “Customer temporarily cancels the emergency collection, Bali 5 nights 7 days 2799 yuan / person” “Day Direct flight, only 4 seats, Japan 5 nights, 6 days, 1299 yuan / person” … See the WeChat group “special offer travel tail sharing group” in the low-cost outbound tour, many people are heart-warming.
Does “super low price” and “special offer” really exist? Can such a low price go abroad to be a pie or a trap? What are the risks of booking in a circle of friends?
01 “Special offer” or “cheap shopping group”?
Mr. Zhang from Beijing told the reporter of Zhongxin Jingwei that in mid-October, he took a vacation and went to Jeju Island in South Korea. After consulting the offline travel agency, Mr. Zhang found that there was no pure play group in the schedule of travel planning, so he participated in a group tour of Jeju Island for 4 days, 3 nights, 1599 yuan/person in a travel group.
Mr. Zhang introduced that after adding “Special Customer Service” to the WeChat group, there are 3 shopping spots on the “Jizhou 4 Days 3 Nights” travel ticket sent by the customer service, which are “Gaoli Ginseng Exhibition Hall”. “Haigan Product Store”, “Korean Cosmetics Center”, etc.
“I really didn’t report this group for the sake of greed, mainly because the personal holiday time is limited. There is no suitable pure play group. I chose this group under the trade-off, and at the time I thought about 3 shopping spots. It was a big deal. Go outside to see the street scenery.” Mr. Zhang said. However, the experience later proved that Mr. Zhang thought it was too simple. According to him, there are 10 four-day itineraries and hidden sales points. The products include horse bone meal, citrus vitamins, seaweed, cosmetics and ginseng.
To mention this travel experience, Mr. Zhang expressed regret that his precious vacation time was wasted in the store to listen to shopping sales. “The ground-based tour guide requires us to stay in the store for an hour and a half. The sales staff and tour guides even sell the tourists’ ‘one’, and they are not allowed to take pictures of the scene and the goods,” Mr. Zhang said.
Mr. Zhang also mentioned that the “big group” of more than 40 people belonged to the group, and other tourists could only participate if they paid only a few hundred yuan.
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Zhongxin Jingwei reporter saw in a “Tour-selling order” WeChat group, a customer service staff released “Customer temporarily canceled the position, only 2 people, Xinmatai 9 nights 10 days only 3599 yuan / People” leaflet. Immediately, the reporter of Zhongxin Jingwei said that six people wanted to participate in the new Matai trip together, and the customer service called “some” and sent the itinerary.
In the itinerary, Zhongxin Jingwei reporter noticed that the 10-day Xinmatai trip was removed from the airport for two days. The remaining eight days of the trip included “jewelry display center”, “latex center” and “chocolate center”. 11 local shopping points such as the Local Products Center. Among them, there are trips to visit jewelry in Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand. The total length of visits to jewelry is only 270 minutes, and the total length of visits to the latex center is 150 minutes.