Buying low and selling high to earn the difference in price is a regular operation of businessmen. However, a man in Shaoxing did the opposite, and finally "earned" 1 million yuan. What is this operation?
Riddled with debt, he is "in a hurry".
In March 2022, the man, Chen, rented a small warehouse in a village in Shaoxing and started a textile company engaged in the business of reselling textiles. Because the early debts were included in the list of dishonest judgment debtors by the court, Chen found a friend to serve as the legal representative of the company, and the company was actually operated by himself. I wanted to rely on this company to make money to pay off my debts, but I didn't expect that the business would not be able to do it at all. The company has been open for 3 months and has almost no business income.
In June 2022, Chen, who was riddled with debt, suddenly had a plan: to buy goods from upstream ** merchants, and then sell them at ** below the market price. "There will definitely be people who buy it at a low price, and when the time comes, if you delay the payment of the goods, you will have capital turnover in hand. Chen thought to himself.
Under the introduction of the middleman, Chen met Liu Moumou and Xia Moumou, salesmen of a knitting company in Shaoxing. After he found a good home to collect cotton yarn at a price lower than the market price, he contacted Xia Moumou to purchase a batch of cotton yarn. On the same day, the knitting company sent the cotton yarn to the next warehouse designated by Chen.
Due to the lack of funds on hand to pay for the goods of the knitting company, Chen asked the next family to pay the full amount on the day of the arrival of the goods, and at the same time postponed the payment to the knitting company for several days on the grounds that the online banking operation and transfer transaction failed at night.
Although it was delayed for a few days, Chen still paid the full amount as promised. This successful transaction allowed Chen to successfully gain the trust of the knitting company. After that, he deliberately created the illusion of the company's integrity and good management, and successfully persuaded the knitting company to change the payment method from the original full payment on delivery to pay half of the payment in advance and the remaining half within 30 days after receipt. Since then, the business has been profitable.
Embezzlement of money and defrauding people of money.
It's so easy to get your money!"The low price** has really attracted a lot of buyers. After more than 2 months, Chen contacted Liu and Xia to place 5 orders. Each time, Chen first collected the full amount from the next family, and then paid half of the payment to the knitting company, and the remaining payment was in arrears for various reasons such as the time required for the mortgage of the house and the debt collection in other places.
It is common to delay payment for goods in business, considering that they are all transactions on corporate accounts, and Chen is a native of Shaoxing, so he thought there should be no problem at first. Liu Moumou said. It wasn't until the end of August 2022 that Chen had accumulated more and more unpaid final payments, which aroused the suspicion of the knitting company.
Seeing that the lie was about to be exposed, in order to stabilize the knitting company, Chen invited Liu Moumou and others to visit his company. "These cloths are all from my company, worth more than 10 million yuan, you can rest assured. Chen showed Liu Moumou and others the company's operation and inventory, and happily reconciled, promising to pay 400,000 to 500,000 yuan after half a month. Liu Moumou and others saw that there were people in Chen's company loading and unloading, as well as machines and finished cloths, so they listened to Chen's words. Unexpectedly, after the new payment deadline arrived, Chen not only did not return the arrears, but also lost contact.
Liu, who noticed the abnormality, went to Chen's company again to look for Chen, and Na Cheng thought that the company did not have Chen at all. At the beginning, Chen specially borrowed the venue of other companies to deceive Liu Moumou and others. From the first order, they fell into Chen's **. Liu Moumou, who came back to his senses, immediately called the police.
Soon, Chen was arrested and brought to justice. As of the time of the case, Chen defrauded the knitting company of about 74 tons of cotton yarn, with a total value of more than 200 yuan, deducting part of the performance and recovery of money, and more than 100 yuan was used by Chen for personal debt expenditure, gambling and daily consumption.
Recently, after the People's Procuratorate of Yuecheng District, Shaoxing City filed a public prosecution, Chen was sentenced to ten years and four months in prison and fined 50,000 yuan for contract fraud.
*: Zhejiang Rule of Law News.
*:Jiangsu**.