Elephant News reporter Shen Zizhong.
Recently, Ms. Zhang of Yucheng County, Shangqiu, Henan Province, reported to Elephant News that she spent 45,000 yuan to join a local agency that sells "true beauty" body clothes. As a result, none of them were sold for two years, and later she learned that this model "may be suspected of pyramid schemes", so she wanted to quit, but the other party has been dragging on not returning the franchise fee.
Narrated: 45,000 yuan to join the sale of body clothes, and then suspected of straying into the "pyramid scheme".
Ms. Zhang said that at the end of 2021, her cousin often asked her to go to a local quality life experience center for tea and chat. The person in charge of the center, surnamed Wang, told her that this is a branch of Jiuji Zhenmei Company.
The center displays shaping underwear, which is expensive, a set of 6510 yuan, which is said to be able to reshape the body and has a certain health care effect. Ms. Zhang said that later, Mr. Wang took her to Guangzhou to attend the annual meeting of Jiuji Zhenmei Company. The meeting lasted for two days, and "there were thousands of people". People from different professions came to the stage again and again, telling their inspirational stories and sharing successful experiences, "The meeting process looks very 'tall', Mr. Wang keeps arranging people to communicate with us and persuade us to join, and the lowest franchise fee is 45,000 yuan." Ms. Zhang recalled that at that time, she thought twice and paid 8,000 yuan for the intention to pay.
After returning to Yucheng, she borrowed more than 40,000 yuan from her mother to make up the "franchise fee", thus becoming her cousin's "downline".
But the situation since then has not been as rosy as Ms. Zhang thought.
It's really beautiful, a set of clothes is 6,510 yuan, a men's ** is more than 200 yuan, and a set of high-end cosmetics sells for more than 7,000 yuan. Ms. Zhang said that she didn't have many connections and couldn't sell at all, and the final "sales performance" was, "My mother and I wore it alone." ”
Ms. Zhang said that she later found information about the ninth-level Zhenmei company through the Internet, and learned about it through various channels, and she thought that she "may have strayed into a pyramid scheme".
Progress: After many failed negotiations on refunds, the lawyer suggested that the police could be called
Because the family has a mortgage and a child who is more than a year old, he is in urgent need of money in all aspects. Since October last year, she has been negotiating with the person in charge of the True Beauty Quality Life Center to return the money.
Mr. Wang of the center once talked to me and said that he could apply for a refund from the headquarters on my behalf, but it would take three or five months, or it could be longer. But in the end, I was persuaded to keep doing it. According to Ms. Zhang, the Quality Life Center in Yucheng County recently moved to Nanjing West Road, Shangqiu City. This made her even more worried that her money would be difficult to recover.
In response to Ms. Zhang's appeal, the reporter contacted Ms. Wang, the person in charge of the Zhenmei Quality Life Center, who said that she was attending a friend's opening ceremony, and then called back. At about 11 o'clock, Ms. Zhang reported that she was removed from the WeChat group by the person in charge and left a message to her, "Don't complicate things".
Zhang Shaochun, the chief lawyer of Henan Chunyi Law Firm, analyzed that if Ms. Zhang believes that the investment project is suspected of pyramid scheme fraud, it is recommended to report to the public security organ as soon as possible, and recover her complaint losses in accordance with the law after filing the caseIf the police do not file a case, Ms. Zhang can request the other party to return the investment money according to the written contract between the two parties. If the negotiation fails, Ms. Zhang can also sue in court to protect her rights.
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