Ran Caijing (ID: rancaijing) original
Author | Tang Yahua, Meng Yana, Liming, Yan Lijiao, Jin Yan, Su Qi, Zhao Lei, Kong Mingming, Wei Jia
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Are your wallets okay in 2019?
We have avoided layoffs and 996, but we may not be able to avoid training institutions running, joining agency scams, loan financing traps … the path you have traveled the most may be the routine of others.
This year, some people wanted to learn English to improve themselves, but they were swept away by their training institutions. Some people were superstitious about internal news, and they lost a year’s wages by buying wealth management products. “Gold Medal Lecturer” harvests IQ taxes. JD Cloud, Fengfeng Group, and other well-known Internet companies such as Fengda and OYO have also caused many agents and partners to suffer.
Everyone understands the truth afterwards, and the person in it is never alert enough.
Today, let’s listen to the 18 stories of these 18 people being pitted, and add a guide for you to avoid pits.
Part 1 Prepaid Pit
Primary school culture wants to learn English to improve itself, but it is all saved up
Lisa 28-year-old clerk
I work in Shanghai. Since I only have a sixth grade elementary school education, I used to work or work as a waiter in a factory. I have been working as a computer clerk in the past two years, earning 3,500 yuan a month. Many jobs require a basic English, and I hope to improve myself.
In June 2018, I enrolled in a one-year course of Webb English, which was nearly 30,000 yuan. At that time, I did n’t have that much money, and they recommended me to use Jingdong White Bar in installments. I paid about 10,000 first, and the rest were divided into 24 installments, with a monthly payment of 1,100 yuan. By June of this year, they were promoting sales, and the price of one year’s courses was reduced to more than 15,000 yuan, and I continuedIn one year, I paid the full amount.
In July and August, I found it difficult to schedule an appointment, and I could attend it three or four times a month at most. At the end of September, some of our classmates suddenly said that Weibo was running out of English. I rushed over to see that the store was really empty. My first year’s installment payment is still 12 years away and I still haven’t taken a one-year course.
In fact, when I first reported the class, I could n’t accept the financial situation at that price, but at the time I was thinking about learning English, and felt that Weber English was a 21-year-old brand. Suddenly this kind of thing happened, and I really couldn’t accept it. The 10,000 yuan renewal fee was all my savings for more than a year, and I had to repay the loan every month.
We went to the Public Security Bureau and the court, but things have not progressed so far. Chinese New Year is coming soon. What do you say about the money I owe? Is it possible that I will continue to repay without class? I have n’t paid it back anymore. Jingdong Baitiao has been playing Tai Chi, and I am collecting late fees.
In order to take this class, I rented the house in a cheap location where it took me more than an hour to work. The monthly living expenses can cost up to 800 yuan. Sometimes I ca n’t eat any food unless I am a friend.
I will not trust any private education institutions in the future. A 21-year-old brand is down. How can I trust other institutions?
Be clever, and I was finally cut once again.
Xiao Ya 27 years old Internet market operation
This gym has long been suspected of running, but I didn’t find it at the time.
It’s just across from my company. It wasn’t the name before. After changing the boss, the name was changed. The previous members directly and now run this company together. Because a colleague was a member of the previous gym, we went to check it out when we opened. At that time, it was cheaper to apply for the card, plus the raffle, the discounted annual card was only 2,000 yuan.
I haven’t noticed anything abnormal. It ’s said that fitness betting is that you do n’t go. Sure enough, because I am busy with work, I do n’t go every day.To 20 times. But every day when I came out of the company, I could see that they turned on and off the lights and the camp was closed. It wasn’t until my colleague and I said that they were going to close the door and renovate to get the registration information, I smelled the smell of cut leek.
I went to find a theory with a few colleagues. I also recorded and recorded the video at that time. The boss explained that the building was going to be renovated. They had to change places and wait for the renovation to come back and reopen. .
Some of our colleagues did not even have a contract when they applied for a card. On the spot, they requested to re-sign the contract. Some even did not open the card at all, but they already have a record of consumption in their system. In short, there are too many loopholes, but we haven’t noticed them before.
They said that another gym has now talked to them about a partnership, and they can receive their members during the time they are not open, and let us register information in the past. I thought to myself, was n’t the same boss before this shop the same routine?
Although old members can go to another gym to exercise, that gym is far from the company. It’s 200 yuan to transfer the card. If you don’t transfer it, it’s equivalent to asking us to give up the fitness card automatically.
The lesson of this incident is that it makes me more convinced that the traditional gym model is unreliable, especially this year’s large gyms such as Hao Sha closed down. This model can no longer win the trust of consumers by relying on the brand alone. Card consumption is the binding of assets. Sooner or later, I will be harvested once.
It is still open in the morning and it disappeared in the afternoon. Fortunately, the children were not taken away.
Linda 32-year-old clerk
At the end of March of this year, I took my child to listen to the Aile Early Education thinking course on the recommendation of my girlfriend. The child liked it very much. We both reported the two children to two years of class time. The discounted price is Thirteen thousand eighteen.
The sales staff originally said that it started in April, but it didn’t start. I asked them to pass through several times during the process, and I felt that they had difficulty in recruiting students. In May, the class finally started, and the children went to class every weekend. It was lively every time I passed, and I didn’t notice anything strange. Unexpectedly, after the eleventh holiday, I was suddenly pulled into an activist group, only then did I know that Aile had run away.
I’m actually a person with a high sense of risk. Before I give my child a lesson, I listened to the lessons from all the early education centers near our home. I chose Philharmonic at the end. Some parents send their children over and feel that the risk will be less. But after thinking about it, something wrong with this kind of organization is even more terrible.
According to other parents, it was still open there in the morning, and noon notifications said that internal training would be closed, and then all staff members disappeared collectively. Fortunately, there is no bad mind, or when the teacher disappears, he can also disappear with the child! This is more terrible than losing money.
We have more than 400 parents in our activist group, and my losses are relatively small. Some people have just reported 60,000 yuan for childcare to their children and have only been to a few times. Until a week before the incident, the sales staff was still selling lessons madly. So after the incident, some angry parents also found a moving company and moved everything that the early education center could move. I see that people are discussing in groups every day how to protect their rights, but so far no one has been able to recover the money.
I will definitely not buy more than 3 months of prepaid courses in the future. Immediately, Beijing will also introduce a regulatory policy, hoping to severely govern those institutions that do not follow the rules.
Part 2 Join the cooperation pit
I came to Beijing for the first time to defend rights
Wan Xinbao, 31-year-old agent of Jingdong Yunmai merchant district
In April of this year, I received a call from a member of JD.com saying that it was a new project run by JD.com and invited to participate. This project is called Jingdong Cloud Elite Pulse Merchants Circle, known as the Jingdong Edition Meituan. I paid the full amount of 59600 yuan on site and became the agent of this project.
After the APP is launched, there are many bugs that cannot be used normally. In the actual promotion process, not only is there no profit, but also money is used to push it. I requested a refund and was rejected by the other party. In July, more than 50 agents nationwide came to Jingdong headquarters to defend their rights.
I found out that there was a problem with the project. The people who introduced the project at the venue were not JD employees, but JD authorized service providers. However, the strength of JD.com was promoted on the scene, and the operation was avoided and the actual problems were understated. The operation difficulties were not mentioned at all, and the so-called income was seriously exaggerated. The annual revenue of two to three million is a routine.
In the eyes of our little bosses, Jingdong believesReputation is very good. At that time, I saw a picture of East Brother from the rollup in an interview with CCTV, saying that to do unbounded retail, I paid for it without saying a word. Later it became known that the service provider may have intentionally designed it.
For a moment, why is this pit so big? As deep as the sea? We pulled up a banner at the Jingdong headquarters and asked Jingdong to repay the money, all of which were blocked by the security and exposed to the sun. Maybe outsiders look bright and sunny, but it’s overcast to us! Many of us are in Beijing for the first time, and it turned out to be for human rights protection.
There are too many routines in the city. I think the most important thing in doing business is to talk about credit. In the future, we should be more careful about cooperating with new projects.
In order to attract attention, we even want to sleep on the street
Zhang Xia, 33 years old as a former employee
I am a former employee of Rufengda. In April this year, more than 200 people besieged Rufengda’s Beijing headquarters. I am one of them. At that time, Rufengda owed over two months’ salary to all employees of our foreign subsidiaries. On behalf of all employees of one of the subsidiaries, I came to Beijing to discuss it.
Later, I found out that there were so many suspects in Ruanda’s death, and we pitted us ordinary employees and suppliers. The new shareholders suddenly stopped the acquisition, the old shareholders gave up and left Rufeng card dead in the middle. If Fengda goes bankrupt, all its debts in arrears will be liquidated, and shareholders will not be held liable.
When I came to Beijing, I didn’t know the road, so I found the headquarters of Rufengda according to the map, only to find that dozens of people were waiting at the door. Representatives of the new shareholders were blocked in the building, and several suppliers owed tens of millions, the guards day and night feared he would run away.
Someone was fighting in the building, and someone wanted to jump on the floor with the new shareholder representative. We called the police. A dozen security guards surrounded the building and no one was allowed in. I wanted to rush in and fight, thinking that there were dozens of people in the company waiting for me to ask for money, so I squatted downstairs obediently.
I stayed in Beijing for a week and squat downstairs every day. Consumption in Beijing is very expensive, and some people who come to ask for salaries from other places can’t afford it and withdraw in advance. I eat lunch every day and live at nightFor hotels, the expenses are shared equally among the unpaid employees.
We even thought about sleeping on the street with a cover on the roll, which might attract the attention of relevant departments and give us a statement. This salary incident made me realize that our employees can still be so united. Later, we had to get back some money, which was a blessing in misfortune.
Being owed more than 100,000, but also to help users bear 3 years of after-sale
Li Qian 41-year-old Storm TV Dealer
Last year, Storm TV promised a rebate of 3% of the total purchase amount, but after the company’s accident, there were still more than 100,000 people who did not cash it. Beginning in June 2019, the storm sale is no longer free. Until now, I have paid for it myself, and I have spent more than 30,000. Although Storm TV is not working, my business must continue to do business. There must be integrity in doing business. The company does not assume after-sales services. After all, customers are the goods that we get.
From 2016 to 2018, I sold approximately 6,000 TVs. If calculated at a normal 5% failure rate, I may provide after-sales services to more than 300 TVs. If each cost is calculated at 500 yuan, this alone Blocks lost more than 100,000. Storm said at the time that the after-sale service was handed over to a third party, and users paid for repairs themselves. It is impossible for a third party to make an after-sale, it is all about making money. We are now looking for an after-sales service of another brand, and let them repair it for us. We order the accessories ourselves, so the cost can be a little less. The back and forth losses add up to an estimated two to three hundred thousand.
This loss is not the most fatal. I have spent two or three years expanding the market for this brand. I really made a new brand from zero. In the promotion, I spent a lot of energy, not only promoting sales, but also taking people (distributors at all levels) to travel. The most important thing is that the entire smart TV market is just in time for harvest this year, so the storm is actually a pity.
To be honest, although I have been pitted by hundreds of thousands, I still have some feelings for this brand, otherwise I would not be willing to pay so much. In fact, I think the worst thing is those users, employees and dealers who have a lot of goods. I have been in this business for many years, so I basically order every month according to the estimated sales volume. Some dealers hold a lot of goods and cannot sell them, and finally lose a lot of money. There are also employees who have been unpaid for several months and they also have a family to support.
I have a contract with Storm, but the staff who provided us with services was suddenly laid off. He had no choice but to report the storm. The storm had no money for him. I was looking for someone at the time, so in the end I lost a sum of money.
The dessert shop turned into a snack stand, it was n’t me who was messing around, but the brand was too pitiful
Liang Jingjing 28-year-old franchise for a dessert brand
Coordinated to the second-tier cities in the north. I wanted to make some money three years ago and joined a dessert brand. All products are very simple to make. I can use the materials and machines purchased by the headquarters and provide the recipes. The city opened three stores. Before opening the store, I tried to eat the finished products in my own shop. I was very disappointed. It was very different from the headquarters. The investigation found that the headquarters has very strict control over the materials and the price is expensive. Cut corners. But everything was ready, the arrow was on the string, and there was no turning back.
It has been too difficult offline in the past two years. The weather is cold and the dessert shop has no market. I worry that this winter will be more difficult than last year. I just added a lot of “roadside snacks” to the store. The dessert shop turned into a snack stand, not because I was messing around, but because the brand was too dull.
For three years, this brand has no voice in the market, it has never been new, and it has never been marketed. In management, there is nothing to do. If the machine is broken, you can directly find the manufacturer. There is no feedback for any help. The principle of the brand is “never return money.” We all feel that the brand is just like our own, and has nothing to do with the headquarters.
I lost more than 2 million in three years. There is nothing but a crash. Sometimes I ca n’t stand it and want to close it directly, but my credit card, online loan, and relatives ’debts remind me that I ca n’t. As a matter of fact, the last thing I regret is not to open this store, but to borrow money from relatives. The price is a lie after a lie, because I ca n’t pay them back at all, but I dare not tell the truth that they can’t stand it. I can’t see any hope right now, but if I close the shop again, there is no way out.
Because of bad decisions made by greed, the hotels in the market are closing down
Hu Longjun 27-year-old OYO hotel partner merchant
I have n’t worked in the hotel industry before. I spent 100,000 yuan in September this year.He took the Kowloon apartment in Zhuzhou.
Before that, I had done the Internet, clothing, education, etc., and was a serial entrepreneur. When I saw the OYO Hotel, I felt that this cooperation model could be a new opportunity, just like the group purchase, takeaway, and online car subsidy battle, and ordinary people like me could profit from it.
The Kowloon apartment under the market has 54 rooms. When signing the contract with OYO Hotel, OYO provided a guaranteed minimum price of 1.3 million yuan and provided a decoration of 270,000 yuan. During that time, I went to Zhuzhou and Xiangtan to inspect forty or fifty hotels, and even wanted to find relatives and friends to borrow one or two million yuan and set up more shops.
But after one month of cooperation, OYO requested to lower the guaranteed floor price from 1.3 million yuan to 480,000 yuan. If not agreed, the contract will be cancelled. At the time, I was in a dilemma: On the one hand, OYO’s policies changed too quickly and made people feel insecure. On the other hand, old customers were taken away by OYO to become members, and the difficulties faced by independent operations would be even greater. After careful thinking, I chose to continue to cooperate with OYO, re-sign the agreement, and reduce the reserve price to 480,000 yuan.
From October 11th, they began to implement price control. On November 8th, I found that the bill was abnormal. On December 3rd, I received a unilateral termination notice from the company. On December 14th, I was forced to go offline. In mid-to-late November, I went to the Changsha Division once, and promised to make up 22,000 yuan in October, and finally paid 17,600 yuan. The decoration mentioned in the previous contract was not paid. During the cooperation process, the orders of old customers and Ctrip Meituan were all converted into their members. Because they would use a lot of subsidies to reduce house prices when they cooperated, my business plummeted after a sudden termination, and my losses were heavy. This hotel is now basically closed.
I choose to cooperate with them, on the one hand, my greed, on the other hand, if I cooperate with others in the future, I will be more cautious about the contract.
I thought it would be safe to work with a large company, but I did n’t expect the same problem
AQ, 22, CEO of marketing company
Our company is doing marketing promotion. The main business direction this year is to help WeChat or Alipay to promote face payment. Currently, the promotion of face brush payment is basically a service provider constantly recruiting agents to promote face brushing equipment. For example, the original factory price of a device is 1499 yuan. After we buy and promote it, there will be an official rebate.
In the service provider’s mouth, the profit margin of this business is huge. On the one hand, Alipay or WeChat has policy preferences, and rebates basically completely subsidize equipment expenditures. Second, subsequent transaction flows can also have a commission rate; finally, if youThere are more equipment to promote, and you can also recruit advertisers.
But after a period of promotion, it is found that merchants do not pay at all. Now the mainstream payment method is still scanning the code. Brushing the face is not just needed. In addition, UnionPay’s promotion policies are free. This market is difficult to beat. Service providers say What is said is difficult to achieve.
However, this is a normal market choice. We recognize that the most vexing thing is that we took the equipment from the service provider, and they upgraded the equipment we promoted without any prompts, resulting in a comprehensive Paralysis, we need to redeploy one by one, even the messages I heard from customers, one by one to call and said it is not working, it made me very collapsed, because I had promised it, this time Let customers have mistrust of us.
Including the rebates mentioned earlier, the payment platform first called the service provider, but the service provider did not give us the delay. He just sent a notice saying how much money this month or this quarter was, but he did not receive it. For a penny, I didn’t ask your bank account. When you asked, the feedback was extremely slow. Once, I waited for two days to get a reply, which made my work completely impossible.
After 6 months of cooperation, the other party caused us about 200,000 losses. In fact, as early as two or three months, we found that something was wrong, but it was not easy to get on the thief ship. I can only continue to do stuffy heads, but in the end, there is no way, I can’t get money, and I dare not make trouble with them.
Now that I’m already in a lawsuit with them, I will probably win. I thought it was a high-quality cooperation with a large company. I didn’t expect to disrupt the company’s overall plan. Now we are still struggling to adjust and plan to move to the cloud Computing and data center promotion.
Part 3 Investment Loan Pit
I bought “internal high-yield products” and lost all my one-year savings and year-end awards
Lin Pengju 28-year-old financial company employee
Our company is a private equity fund and many products are launched in private.
The product I invested was 100,000, with an annual interest rate of about 15%, which is much higher than the 10% yield of similar products. I also considered high-yield and high-risk issues at the time, but felt that I was an internal employee, and I could withdraw in time if there was a risk.
I invested in my savings and year-end awards last year. I wanted to make some money for my children’s education fund. I never expected to lose all of a sudden. In fact, after the policy was tightened, many of the company’s products were not recorded and could no longer be sold, and the capital chain suddenly broke. I submitted the application for redemption very early, and I have been reminded to postpone it, and I have not sent any information to the leader. Later, I was owed two months’ salary and left my job last month. I have applied for arbitration and am waiting in line for a hearing. It was not easy to find a job at the end of the year. When the child was spending money, he really regretted it. He believed in the company too much.
I think about the whole process, but there are some risks that I haven’t noticed myself. When I bought this wealth management product at that time, I didn’t sign a contract at all, but there was an electronic contract on the website, but now the webpage cannot be opened. Some customers have invested tens of millions, and the company has also pledged all the stocks they held, but I haven’t paid attention to them.
I would also like to remind friends who have read my experience that they must buy financial products from formal channels. Those products with high yields and unknown sources may really expose you to unexpected risks.
Money can’t be recovered, but the scammer is still holding her nose
Liu Li, 28 years old teacher
I started investing in the mutual fund platform that my husband introduced to me last year. I invested a total of more than 200,000 yuan, lost more than 90,000 yuan, and there are more than 100,000 in it that cannot be paid.
One day last year, I suddenly discovered that several investments on the platform were overdue. At that time, the first reaction was that it was only temporary and would survive. The customer service also called me to renew at that time, and I renewed it. I couldn’t mention it anyway. Thinking about it now, it’s still too optimistic.
Later, the platform delayed payment. At first, I felt that the platform could survive the crisis, and slowly realized that there was little hope of repayment. Call the customer service, the customer service said that the environment is not good, in their official group, the customer service is maintaining stability every day, answering some irritating questions and playing the official voice. Now that the platform is engaged in the mall, the price is twice as high as the market price, but I still choose to change something and get off. The amount of getting off through the mall is about 30% off the original value.
For a period of time, I read the Internet every day and added various groups, but later I found that these were basically useless. Some people say that debt collection is actually a liar; some people in the activist group asked to pay 100,000 security deposits to help defend their rights. Now think about it is also a liar; in the group, there are gangsters and navy soldiers in debt. Because of the different interests involved, each has its supporters, and we are led by our noses. In fact, different voices are making their own calculations, not for the majority of lenders to return funds faster. With so many deferred payment platforms, scammers are sure to succeed.
In the future, I still have to take care of myself. My IQ can’t analyze the situation clearly. I still trust the bank and Yu’ebao.
An acquaintance used a “word game” and almost lied to all my assets
Yu Fan, 36-year-old IT company founder
This year, the company’s operation has some problems and urgently used the money. I sold a set of school district houses in Xicheng District for turnover. Sun, who is a management company of a small money lending company, first borrows 800,000 yuan and pays 14,000 interest per month, and pays the principal and interest in a lump sum after three months.
We went to a notary office in Xicheng District for notarization, and signed another loan contract with another Xicheng District property in my name as collateral. He took a thick stack of documents at the scene and did not have time to read them clearly. There were many people behind him who could only keep signing and fingerprinting according to his instructions. We did not keep the contract documents.
In the first two months, we paid the interest to Sun’s repayment account on time. By the third month, he gave us an idea to raise the loan with a loan, and then loaned another 2 million. The partners inadvertently took a closer look at the contract and found that the contract could not be fulfilled on schedule, which is equivalent to the other party forcibly taking away all the real estate and assets in my name. The original mortgage owed had to be repaid by myself.
There are no days left until the final repayment date. We went to the notary office again and got the original contract documents, only to find that there were pits everywhere.
First, the repayment account number given to me by Sun is different from the repayment account number written in the contract, which is equivalent to the fact that I have not fulfilled the contract for two consecutive months without knowing it. If the final repayment date has passed, He canSell my house.
Second, the contract entrusted the property to 4 people I did n’t know. After the breach of the contract, any of them can sell my house and transfer it to the Housing Authority without having to know it Or agree.
The results are pretty good. We collected evidence of their crimes and survived the crisis. That document became more and more scared, all of which were text traps, which made me realize that society is as turbulent as the sea, and my experience only came from the swimming pool.
Family bought futures without any money. I bought a second-hand car with an inexplicable loan.
Zhang Qiang, 33, an entrepreneur in the advertising industry
At the end of the cold winter of the Internet in 2018, I was unemployed, the department I led was laid off, and the company was in arrears for the compensation promised to us.
After that, I lost my job for six months. I am an eight-year veteran, but I really couldn’t handle it early this year. At the end of March, I decided to return home to start a business. I packed all my luggage back home and bought a high-speed rail business ticket back to Xinxiang. The day I left Beijing, I posted a circle of friends on the high-speed rail, “Beijing, goodbye.”
After returning to my hometown, I mortgaged my house and started a business. Unfortunately, the entire market is in a slump, and so far I haven’t paid back. At the end of September this year, my parents secretly misappropriated 100,000 of my mortgage loan money and invested in a futures company.
In October of this year, I bought a used car from a used car dealer, with a down payment of 60,000 and a loan of 80,000. On the recommendation of the car dealer, I used Murray Finance to provide a loan service. Inform you that you only need to pay attention to the public account to repay.
A month later, the public account was abnormal, and it was pushed that its system upgrade could not be repaid normally. Later I learned that at that time, the news of the company’s founder being taken away by the police was already spreading on the Internet. In the second repayment month, I calculated the repayment amount and suddenly found that the borrowing rate was as high as 13%, which was very different from the 8% promised by the salesperson at that time. Contact otherstaff member.
When I called the customer service number starting with 400 again, no one answered. Later, I inquired and found that in addition to the normal car loan of 80,000 yuan in my name, an extra unknown loan of nearly 20,000 was added, and I did not know it at all.
I am going to report the case now, but I guess it will be difficult to recover. I really didn’t expect that I would win, and I blame me for being too brainless.
Part 4 Business Pit
Take turns on the pits of partners, landlords, and partners
Haifan, 27, Partner of Marketing Communications Company
I entered the industry in 2014. I mainly do self-media communication and communication business. I launched it on Toutiao, Weibo, Douyin and other channels. Brand mobile phone manufacturers are our main customers.
I’m interested in mobile phones. At the earliest, a big guy around me took me to do it, and said that I’m a partner. At that time, I was catching up with a wave of wind. In 2016 and 2017, I also made a lot of money. I generate at least 2 million revenue for the company every year, but only give me 5,000 yuan in dead wages each month. The two of us have always had a good relationship, and I have no embarrassment to say anything. By the end of the year, I offered to pay dividends or processing capital, and the two broke up.
Because there is no contract or the like, I left without a penny and started to do it myself with the resources at hand. I changed to another city and started from renting a house. When I signed the contract with the landlord, I did n’t register well. He originally had a few air-conditioned tables and chairs. At that time, we re-purchased a lot of things because of the shooting needs, and refurbished his house. Later, when checking out, the landlord said that all the electrical tables and chairs belonged to him, and the deposit was not refunded to me. After investing five to six hundred thousand, he was taken away.
After the business started, it also experienced many pits. It was said that when Jia Yueting ran, LeTV still owed us hundreds of thousands of dollars. At that time, in order to settle the payment quickly, we plugged some money for the company’s docking person. Please help us settle the account earlier. As a result, this person was gone. Once a Party A company let us bid for a proposal first. We spent a lot of effort on creativity. After mentioning it, there was no news. After a while, we saw that our proposal was used by them. Later, we adopted a prepayment system, collecting a portion of the money before making it to the other party.
This may be a pit that I will tread on the road to entrepreneurship, and gave me a lesson shortly after I entered this industry. In fact, it is very good, and it is a reminder to everyone.
Investing half a million dollars to make a big effort, as a result, the partners cross the river to tear down the bridge
Yueluo 30-year-old Internet entrepreneur
I have been in the Internet marketing industry for seven years. I started my own business in March this year. The company’s business is to provide customers with online marketing agency operations (bid account hosting). In April, I met the first client-the cooperation of a children’s programming agency. The two sides negotiated for the first time because the other party did not accept our request for a certain deposit, and the talks broke down. In May, the agency contacted us again. After the two parties communicated, they signed a 90-day temporary internet marketing account hosting service contract.
In the first month, we improved its performance to the expected effect. When we cooperated in the third month, our actual effect was three times higher than expected. So after the temporary contract expired, we signed a long-term contract for 365 days, further binding the cooperation between the two parties.
Afterwards, we started to recruit employees, change office space and lease staff quarters. And it recruited 5 SEM promoters and 6 online customer service for a cost of 160,000 yuan.
I’m a very conservative person, but in accordance with the good contacts with the partner before and the endorsement of the other party’s investors, I invested 500,000 yuan saved over the years into the company’s development. In September and October, our cooperation went smoothly, but at the end of November, I suddenly received news from the other party’s boss that the company’s recent financial pressure is heavy and it is necessary to reduce advertising. At the same time, I learned that the other party dug out a marketing director from outside to take charge of network operations.
The owner of the agency said that he expressed gratitude to us for improving our business in the early stage, was willing to give us some compensation, unilaterally broke the contract, and arranged for me to hand over to the new marketing director. But what’s dramatic is that after the compensation was settled, the new marketing director lost contact. Later, I found the owner of the agency, but after that WeChat voice call, the other party pulled my phone back and WeChat never responded.
I thought it was ridiculous at the time.