One day in early June, in a newly built commercial building in Lanfang City, a certain floor could only be reached directly through a dedicated elevator and could not be accessed through a public elevator.
The environment was smoky and depressing.
In front of the rows of counters, there are crowds of people and tourists. The environment, which has no windows, no central air-conditioning, and only some cabinet machines with low cooling power, is becoming increasingly stuffy. Everyone wants to leave as soon as possible.
Moreover, these cabinet air conditioners are placed inside the counter, behind where the store clerks stand. Counting the area of the counter, the straight-line distance between visitors outside the counter and the air-conditioning outlet is at least five meters.
The distance between the store clerks and the air conditioners can be controlled within two to three and a half meters. If the store clerks feel that it is too hot and there is no one to buy anything and need to be greeted, they can walk back and lean near the air conditioner vents to cool down and wait for customers.
If you want to buy something, go ahead.
Charles Young, who had a yellow face, was also among this group of shopping tourists. He was tortured by the environment, but he was excited inside.
Because he had a small candid digital camera in his handbag, and a small slit was secretly opened on the edge of the bag, which allowed him to capture the chaos in front of him completely.
In this mission, he got involved in the "Lanfang Zero-Fee Shopping Tour Group" organized by a newly established unknown Internet travel platform, and wanted to follow up and report on the shady story of this low-life tour. As for his employer,
Of course it was Mr. Iprasin's people from Dibba - of course a big shot like Iprasin would not personally hire such an undercover reporter, so in fact, it was subcontracted by two or three people.
Mr. Iprasin’s original intention was to find a black group from the Biancheng Travel Network that they supported to take pictures. But now that the situation seems to be out of control, darker groups have also appeared to follow suit, and Lan Fang seems to be so...
He is obsessed with making money and neglects supervision, so there is no reason why he shouldn't take more photos of the dirty material that comes to his lips, right?
After these materials are filmed and confirmed by many parties on the Internet, the current chaos of the tourism industry of Lanfang people will be completely exposed and stunk! Let’s see if those high-end tourists who claim to be upper-class nobles will come in the future! Let’s see if Lanfang will still come
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Charles Young's real surname is Yang, and he is of course Han Chinese in terms of ethnicity. However, his nationality was not Chinese from the beginning. He was born in Xiangjiang during the colonial period, and he sharpened his head and became a Breton when he was young. Charles is
The English name he got when he went to Australia to study. He studied journalism in Australia, and later joined some cloth-based media.
However, before coming to Lanzhou, Charles Young did not work for Roadside News or the BBC, but had an experience working for English media in the Middle East - in many of those countries in the Middle East, Mad Dog Lawrence was working for Britta
Colonies seized by Nigeria, so whether it is the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, or other small countries, there are still many remaining white forces of the cloth family.
Even if those countries have modernized, the Cloth family is still very powerful. Therefore, even if Chinese faces are rare there, you can always find a job as long as you graduate from a university with the top five schools.
Charles Young spent his early career in that country, which meant that he didn’t know much about Lanfang’s news media market before he came, so he dared to take the job regardless of whether he was a newbie or not. In fact, if he had done a little more homework,
Knowing how those fellow journalists from the BBC/Roadside Press who sneaked into Indonesia, a neighboring country in Southeast Asia, to interview fishermen and slaves died, if we investigate more about the accidental death rate of Burundi journalists in Indonesia, maybe he will not dare to come.
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There are rumors in the world, but no roadside social BBC dog can make it out of Lan Fang alive.
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"When the air conditioner is set to such a high temperature, it doesn't have much cooling power at all. The temperature in the tourist area is at least 35 degrees Celsius. If the crowds are too crowded, it may be close to 40 degrees Celsius. What the hell is this kind of air conditioner?
The store clerk is quite cool. It is estimated that they are standing at the air conditioner outlet, which must be lower than 30 degrees. The inside of the counter is at most 32 or 3 degrees. The air vents are specially oriented downward to reduce air circulation. I hope it can be used.
Try your best to seal off the sinking air conditioner at the counter. The shopping experience is too bad.”
While taking candid photos, Charles Young was not afraid to observe, analyze, and speculate on all the dark chaos in this shopping place with the worst malice and the professional perspective of a reporter, and he was drafting the report in his mind.
Compared with other real tourists, he comes well prepared, and he analyzes nature more clearly and sees the essence through phenomena.
For example, with regard to a mere air-conditioning design, he realized that this was an attempt by a businessman to force tourists to become unbearable in the heat, and then become upset and lose control of their emotions, so they could buy something and leave as soon as possible.
According to Lanfang's laws, forced buying and selling are still illegal. If the store is forced to buy, if the situation becomes serious, the store can be raided by the regulatory authorities, suspended for rectification, or revoked of the business license.
However, if there is an agreement in the travel contract between the two parties before coming, such as how long to stay in a certain shopping store, how much time to leave when the time is up, or how much the purchase amount is, this is legal, which means that travel is allowed.
The group takes enough time without being forced to buy.
Among the tourists in the same group as Charles Young, there were soon a few who liked to take advantage and bite retired aunts who refused to buy - the kind that everyone usually sees in supermarkets who can sprint for 100 meters to grab discounted eggs.
After getting on the bus, the frail aunts who needed to give up their seats couldn’t stand the stuffy heat of the environment, so they started making noises and asked to leave:
"Tour guide! It's too hot in your place! Can the air conditioner be turned down a little? Who can stand to stay in such a store for four hours? We are not leaving, let's go to the toilet and corridor to get some fresh air in the main office!"
Of course, this unreasonable request was rejected by the tour guide: "No! This is a contract stipulated by both parties in black and white! You have zero group fee for this trip, and you haven't spent a penny! All air tickets, hotels, food, drinks, and transportation are free for you.
What else do you want? Really, five or six thousand yuan is definitely not enough!
The time limit for each shopping point is clearly written. You can go out in advance to cool off. It is also written in the supplementary terms. There are a total of eight must-go shopping points this time. If you don’t go to each point, you have to pay a thousand yuan.
After paying off the tour fee, you can go out and enjoy the cool air with the air conditioner. This is very reasonable, you signed it yourself."
When a group of people came, they only wanted to take advantage, and the aunt who didn't read the terms clearly shouted at Qu: "You are so shameless! You also said that the cost is only five or six thousand, and if we all leave the group at eight points,
Don’t you have to pay 8,000 yuan! It’s two to three thousand more expensive than a normal full-price tour! It’s a shady store!”
The tour guide's face darkened: "The company doesn't want profits? Just provide you free service? The cost is five to six thousand, which is the hard cost paid to the airline and hotel. Can't we sell it to you for eight thousand? We, the service staff, have obligations to you."
labor?
Besides, is our purpose to collect your withdrawal fee? Can you clarify the legal nature? The nature of the withdrawal fee is punitive liquidated damages for your breach of contract. If the liquidated damages are the same as the cost, what deterrent effect will there be?
?This is punishment!
Besides, can you guarantee that those of you who don’t buy anything will be paid for leaving the group? If there is one of you who is really as thick-skinned as a bastard and can withstand the heat, hibernating on his stomach and spending four hours with us without moving, then that person’s money is not ours.
Is it a net loss? We must not make up for it from other people who can’t help but feel hot?
Is our purpose to collect your departure fee? Our purpose is to let you buy good things! Everyone can leave immediately after buying 10,000 yuan at each stop, there are many! You can take these things back to your country, if you can find what you need
As discerning buyers of luxury goods, you won’t lose money! You can also resell them and make money! Why not buy them?
I'll just leave it here. Today I want those who are afraid of the heat to pay for the shameless ones who are too hot. It doesn't matter if you even sit down, or if you have the nerve to persuade the customers who buy a lot to give you some sales.
, I also want to leave early!"
If you were a tour group ten years later, you would definitely not dare to say this, because at that time the law had already made zero group fees illegal, but obviously it was not so stipulated in 2002, so verbal insults and the like did not matter, as long as
There is no forced buying or selling, and it is not easy to bite.
Under such toughness, those aunts who wanted to take advantage had to find another way after trying several times to break through without success.
Some of them pretended to have fainted due to heatstroke, but unfortunately the unselfish tour guide and store security saw through it after just pouring cold water on her. In the end, they just allowed her to bury her face near a vent to take a few breaths, and if the people behind wanted to occupy this
There were so many queues for a seat that the tourists were fighting each other to get a seat.
Seeing that pretending to have heatstroke didn't work, these people turned to begging some big buyers in young and fashionable clothes in the group - the goods in these shopping spots, to tell the truth with conscience, are not black, all luxury goods, because of the tax-free relationship,
It is definitely much cheaper than domestic products, so many people are sincerely buying a lot of them, as long as they have access and channels to ship them.
The reason why those uncles and aunts refused to buy it was just because they didn’t know the relevant circles when they were in China, they didn’t meet so many people who needed luxury goods around them, and they were timid and afraid of getting their hands dirty.
As a result, several of the aunts who took advantage of them pestered one who looked like a flight attendant. She looked like a fashionable girl with many purchasing connections, and begged for mercy: "My niece/little girl, please help me. I see you."
I’ve bought tens of thousands of them, so if I give out ten or twenty thousand, it can be considered as aunt’s purchase, okay? Now that aunt has completed her share, everyone can leave early.”
The fashionable woman who looked like a flight attendant was not unkind: "Then why don't you just buy it yourself? I took the risk when I bought the goods. There is no reason for me to advance the deposit and you will take advantage of it. If you want to do this, I will promise you at most
You buy it yourself now, and if I have a shipping channel by then, I will help you sell it in and out, and I will introduce you to a buyer for free.
It's impossible to buy it for you. If I break the rules, they won't accept me next time, and I'll be at risk of advancing the money."
Those who are in the purchasing agency business are also very smart people. They dare not say that 100% of the goods they buy will be sold. Sometimes in order to maximize profits, if there are not enough sisters who pre-order, they must put down a little money.
Now that someone comes to ask for help, of course they have to share the risk of advance payment and not be in vain.
The situation of all living beings, each for his own benefit, was displayed bloodyly in front of reporter Charles Young's candid camera.
Some unsteady-minded aunts who took advantage could not bear the expected heat for so many days and chose to temporarily cooperate with stewardess-type women with sales connections, taking the risk of advance capital.
There are also those who are extremely conservative, who cannot afford to suffer any losses and do not want to take any risks. They choose to endure the heat and suffocation until the end without buying anything for a single dollar.
All living beings were photographed in this way.
"It's so exciting. No one cares about this. It seems that the Chengcheng Travel Network has stepped up its efforts. Then the program will definitely be more exciting. Fortunately, I am a Brittany nationality and a Chinese.
There are too many people who are greedy for petty gains." Charles Young muttered proudly in his heart.