Of course, this trick of Ma Feng will definitely not be used for a long time. It will only be used for one year at most, that is, the whole year of 2002. In the future, when the social elite has digested it, the new target users will be relatively poor or unwilling to pay.
When paying monthly fees, Alipay's security has almost been upgraded to the level of "no need to bind the MAC address, you can download the client from the website and install it casually".
At that time, the installation cost of Alipay will be reduced to almost zero, and there will be no need to charge monthly fees. It can completely become a new e-commerce payment tool. By then, Taobao may have been invented by Ma Feng.
However, without charging monthly fees, Alipay's newly added users after 2003 will also lose the natural "Lanzhou visa financial exemption" convenience and become an ordinary Internet payment tool.
However, the social elites who have become Alipay users in 2001 and 2002 will directly become high V by then, which is equivalent to "opening the Sesame Credit points function after the revision. Old users in 2001 will directly default to 800 points to start, and old users in 2002 will
The default starting point is 750 points."
At that time, anyone with a Zhima Credit Score higher than 750 will still be able to enjoy benefits such as "exemption from financial review for visas to Lanzhou", and those with a Zhima Credit Score above 800 will have more privileges.
Even in the future, Gu Kun can use his influence and prestige in the tourism industry circles of various Asian countries to further push the Japanese and Koreans to exempt the financial part of the visa from those with a credit score of 800 or more.
In a nutshell, the sooner an old user gets involved with me, the more discounts they get and the more social respect they get.
These benefits are equivalent to what people paid for it in 2002 with a monthly rent of 30 yuan and 360 yuan a year. After passing this village, there will be no such store. New arrivals after 2003
To get such a high Sesame Credit score, you need to accumulate hard work and dedication, which will definitely be far more than 360 yuan when converted into RMB.
Just like how it only cost 50 yuan to open a high V in 2004, and it would cost 3,000 yuan a year to open a high V more than ten years later, Ma Feng must not let his early die-hard fans who paid him a 360 annual fee in 2002 suffer.
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"Among the new users of Alipay, there are now so many people who just want to make money if they don't have a date. They don't care about a few spare dollars, but just get an account for the convenience of visa and payment. No wonder there are now rich self-employed people.
and tourists with unknown origins, the growth is so drastic." After Lin Ying thoroughly understood the details of the cause and effect, she finally realized.
As she spoke, she re-examined the first-quarter reports of the hotel industry and shopping malls that she had just read with her newly opened perspective.
It doesn’t matter at this glance. As I looked at it, I discovered more surprises:
"Hey, husband, but have you noticed? I think that the average purchasing power of these new Alipay users in the first quarter seems to be much higher than that of old users. There are so many rich people in China who have unclear sources of money.
?
If you look at these tourist groups and the shopping statistics corresponding to these visas, each person buys at least millions of goods on average, and some categories seem not to even have exit tax refunds. Are they so rich? Look down on us in Lanfang.
Why don’t you bother to refund a few points of consumption tax? There are so many rich Chinese.”
Gu Kun originally just narrowed his eyes and didn't pay much attention. After hearing Lin Ying's emotion, he became slightly alert.
"Let me see. I haven't had time to pay attention to the results of traveling goods."
Gu Kun muttered to himself, and then took a few glances.
You know, only bystanders know. After being reminded by Lin Ying, Gu Kun suddenly felt that something was wrong with the numbers.
It turns out that the sales performance of luxury goods in certain areas in the last quarter of the report was also very good, and the growth rate far exceeded the growth rate of tourist numbers.
For example, in the first quarter, the performance revenue of all hotels owned by the Royal Family and Gu Kun increased by 41% compared with the fourth quarter of last year, and by 76% compared with the same period last year.
However, the luxury goods sales revenue reported by all luxury shopping malls and boutique stores that Gu Kun can manage increased by 68% month-on-month and 139% year-on-year respectively.
It is normal for luxury goods to grow slightly more than the hotel industry.
Especially in the hotel industry, after all, the state cannot monopolize it. The tourism industry in Lanzhou has been too hot in recent years, and too much private capital has entered the hotel industry. People who had a little money in Lanzhou are pooling money to obtain land planning approval rights and sharpening their skills.
These hotels are generally of lower quality and cheaper than those run by Gu Kun and the royal family. Tourists who are relatively poor tend to stay in poor hotels. Gu Kun can't count them, so it's normal.
But it is definitely abnormal for luxury goods sales to grow so much more than hotel industry turnover.
Just by looking at the financial reports occasionally in the past few years, Gu Kun knew there was something fishy going on.
When he took a closer look, he found that the problem was even bigger.
"There must be something wrong with this data. You see, especially in March, the growth of many products was simply a blowout. Several of our major luxury brands have grown year-on-year in January and February compared with the same period last year.
, that is, more than 80% to more than 90% respectively.
But what about March? Compared with March last year, sales increased by 260%! Even compared with February, it has nearly doubled! It seems like someone is stocking up on a large scale!"
"Did our people move orders at the end of the quarter in order to boost performance?" Lin Ying didn't have any more knowledge, so her first reaction could only be to think of this possibility.
Gu Kun thought it made sense at first, but then he felt that things were not that simple.
Gu Kun muttered to himself: "Is someone cheating on orders? This possibility cannot be ruled out. For example, in order to better complete quarterly sales tasks, some shopping malls suddenly misappropriated funds at the end of March and shipped out a batch of goods...
...This also explains why the consumption tax was not refunded on this batch of goods.
Because consumption tax refunds are handled when tourists leave customs, if Lanzhou citizens consume these luxury goods in their own territory, they will not be able to get tax refund preferential treatment. The tax refund is obviously less than the sales, and it is obvious that the goods are left in the country after being sold.
The proportion has become higher, and many things were sold but not taken out of the country."
Whether it is Lanfang or a free trade port such as Xiangjiang, there are no tariffs. But the absence of tariffs does not mean that there are no taxes. There is still a consumption tax. However, the consumption tax is only levied on things consumed within the country. Foreigners cannot buy
They only return the items after they have been taken away.
So in fact, Chinese tourists think that "everything in Lanzhou is tax-free and it is a shopping paradise". This is simply based on the premise that Chinese tourists will take the things they buy and take them abroad instead of spending them locally.
It is necessary to conduct a thorough investigation into where the goods that were sold explosively out of thin air have gone.
Gu Kun had a bad premonition, which quickly reminded him of the business model of Chinese shopkeepers in the past who went to Paris to open stores to prey on tourist groups - top brands such as Lv Brand and Gucci in later generations were also very strict about dealer management.
They will casually allow new Chinese immigrants to open these top brand specialty stores in Paris, and they may not necessarily accept Chinese as dealers.
But this cannot stop the Chinese people from wanting to defraud their compatriots, so many stores that collude with low-price groups actually purchase large quantities of goods from retail channels and then resell them at a higher price as second-rate dealers - anyway
Cheap group itineraries all specify shopping venues, so you can be scammed one by one. As long as someone does not fully compare prices online before going abroad, and does not know that the goods in these stores are compared to Le Fayette Department Store or other boutiques on the Champs Elysées.
If it's expensive, you can probably get it.
(If compared to others, these people are quite conscientious. At least they are selling genuine products. Some of those selling fakes in France are even more despicable. However, French fakes are not easy to leave the country when going through customs. The French care about this very much.
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Of course, this kind of trick has become almost rare after the 2010s. It was rampant for a few years in the early 20th century, because later on, e-commerce overseas shopping was too developed and the price comparison function was too powerful. As soon as Taobao's function of searching for the same style came out, such scammers
At least half of the living space will be cut off.
At this moment, it was difficult for Gu Kun not to think in this direction.