"A knife is poor, a knife is rich, and a knife makes you wear linen", this sentence is about the "gambling stone" in the jewelry industry. On online platforms such as **, there are many merchants who carry out live broadcasts of "cutting jadeite roughs", and say that "out of the green" can get money, so as to attract consumers to "get on the car". As everyone knows, after "getting on the bus", an interlocking "routine" has just begun. Recently, Mr. Liu, a consumer, reported to Shanghai Legal News that he bought jadeite rough in the live broadcast room of a platform and "lost" more than 400,000 yuan. After repeated appeals, some of the losses were recovered, but most of the losses remained unrecovered.
The overdraft credit card "lost" 400,000 yuan
At the beginning of 2022, Mr. Liu accidentally swiped a live broadcast room selling jadeite rough on a certain platform, so he clicked on it and found that the anchor opened a lot of "treasures" in the live broadcast every day. "In the beginning, newcomers can make you a few hundred or even thousands of dollars, and sometimes, they can even make you earn a week in a row. After earning a few thousand yuan, he placed more than 20 orders in the live broadcast room in just two months, spending a total of more than 400,000 yuan, half of which was placed through an overdraft credit card.
Once, a rough stone was sold in the live broadcast room, and the anchor partially cut it for analysis and offered to sell it, 10 people "shared the car", and Mr. Liu paid 110,000 yuan in several times in two days. The anchor said that the stone is too heavy to be expressed, and it is bought by 10 people, and it can be placed in the store for 1.5 million to 2 million yuan ** consignment, and everyone will share it after selling. A few months later, the anxious Mr. Liu asked about the sale, and the anchor said that many customers came to see it, but the stone was not cut after all, and the customer felt that the risk was relatively large, and if it was cut, the value could skyrocket to tens of millions. A few days later, the anchor came to persuade him again, and the other nine buyers all agreed to the incision, and persuaded Mr. Liu to agree to the incision. Under the constant urging of the anchor, Mr. Liu had no choice but to click agree. Then the anchor said that the cutting result was not as expected, and the wool was cut down. "When you make money, you can make hundreds or thousands of dollars and taste the sweetness, but when you invest a large amount of money, they will make you lose all at once, and you will lose all your money. ”
After the payment is placed, the customer service sends a private message to send the following paragraph: Once the jadeite rough you purchased has been windowed, peeled, cut and polished, it will affect the secondary sales, so it does not support return and refund. Only when the consumer sends the word "agree", the anchor will cut or open the window on the spot, but once it is processed and becomes a so-called customized product, it cannot be returned. The store's customer service said that for the cut stones, in addition to receiving or authorizing the merchant to discard, these cut rough stones can also be consigned. When Mr. Liu asked about the consignment, the customer service perfunctorily delayed the time on the grounds that "the market is not good, and the merchant is more cautious". Mr. Liu successively received more than a dozen rough stones in the mail from merchants. "I took these materials to ask a knowledgeable friend, and they were all tens of yuan a kilogram of jadeite rough 'kilogram material', which was not worth anything at all. Mr. Liu said.
Over the years, there have been many difficulties in defending rights
Uncle Li, who lives in Shanghai, had the same experience. Late one night at the beginning of 2022, he entered a live broadcast room selling jadeite on a certain platform, and on the same day, his head was hot, and he bought a jade bracelet "worth 100,000 yuan" for 9,000 yuan. The next day, an anchor added his WeChat. The anchor told him that the bracelet he bought had gone up and that some buyers were willing to pay a higher price for it. not only returned 9,000 yuan to him, but also transferred 2,000 yuan directly to him. The next day, he entered the live broadcast room again and earned another 2,000 yuan. Since then, Uncle Li has continued to place orders to buy rough stones in the live broadcast room, plus more than 100,000 yuan borrowed from relatives and friends, a total of more than 300,000 yuan. 1.80,000 yuan, 20,000 yuan, 50,000 yuan ......I paid again and again, but I didn't get a good material at once.
Since then, the anchor has kept calling me, saying that I have lost so much, and I must be allowed to return to my capital. In the live broadcast room, the anchor also shouted passionately, "This time I must let Brother Li return to his roots" and "From now on, embark on the life ......of a rich man".What stimulated Uncle Li even more was that once he hesitated and did not participate, a "buyer" offered 10,000 yuan to "share a car" to buy a rough stone, and the anchor gave him a "dividend" of 500,000 yuan on the spot. The anchor's excited words, and the boldness of the anchor's transfer on the spot when the good news was issued, made him sink again when he was eager to return to his capital. "Later, I learned that the screenshots of the transfer of these dividends were generated by software. They also said that they could pay some processing fees, about 300-500 yuan each time, to make wool into beads and brands, and I paid nearly 10,000 yuan in processing fees one after another. But the things they sent, I went to the market to find experts to learn more about, and they were bargains worth dozens of yuan. ”
In the past two years, in order to recover losses, Mr. Liu and others have continued to defend their rights and complain. They complained to the online platform, and the platform said that they could not refund it, and the reason was that "after verification with the merchant, the original stone products could not support refunds after being authorized to open windows, cut and other operations, which affected the secondary sales", and suggested that they complain to the location of the live broadcast room or call the police. Because the store seller was registered in Ruili, Yunnan, Mr. Liu and others complained to the Ruili Market Administration Bureau and consumer platforms, but they did not recover their losses.
The reporter learned that after the complaint, several of the live broadcast rooms involved have been suspended, but Mr. Liu suspects that these merchants have changed stores and continue to broadcast live on the platform.
In the past two years, I have tried everything I can try. "After repeated appeals, with the efforts of many parties, Mr. Liu and others recovered some of the losses, but most of the losses were still not recovered. "It's lucky to be able to get some back, we have a large group of hundreds of jade rights defenders, and many people in the group have not returned a penny, and even their families are ruined. Mr. Liu said.
It is understood that the parties in the article have signed a refund agreement containing a "confidentiality clause", and for the sake of protecting the interests of the complainant, the article has changed the names of both parties and dealt with some details.
"Cut up" and "cut down" anchors have the final say
The reporter found that on the black cat complaint platform, there were many complaints about the "original stone live broadcast", most of which questioned the existence of trust in the live broadcast room, and induced consumers to privately transfer "gambling stones" on the grounds that there were good materials. The reporter recently entered a ** jade live broadcast room, and the anchor was holding a flashlight to analyze a "green" stone. As soon as he entered, the anchor shouted the reporter's screen name among many viewers and shouted at the reporter to "get on the bus and make a fortune together". Subsequently, he actually took out a piece of label paper, wrote the reporter's screen name, **100 yuan, and date, and asked the reporter to receive the newcomer's benefits. Several "old fans" who were active in the comment area echoed the famous "This ** has been picked up, and the ugly stone is a miracle". In addition to **, in the live broadcast rooms of some online platforms, the reporter also asked the customer service to add WeChat "send benefits". In addition, the reporter found that in order to evade supervision, some anchors will also guide the audience to add WeChat and pull them to the exclusive live broadcast room in the mini program to "get on the bus".
The reporter learned that the management of jade online sales at the national level is constantly strengthening, and previously, the public security departments in many places have cracked down on such live broadcast rooms. In July 2023, Hubei Wuchang** defeated a "jade rough" fraud gang in Ruili, Yunnan. After investigation, the gang sold jadeite rough by opening a live broadcast room, through the live broadcast of the anchor, and at the same time arranged for the water army to cooperate with the hype, using dozens of yuan a kilogram of jadeite rough "kilogram material", through veneering, spray painting, lighting and other means, pretending to be a high-quality jadeite rough worth tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of yuan, luring the victim to buy much higher than the original stone itself.
Through the confession of the leader of the gang, the truth about opening an online live broadcast room to lure others to "gamble on stones" surfaced. During the live broadcast, the anchor has the final say on the "cut up" or "cut down" of the rough stone, and the anchor generally uses some small materials to say "cut up" to the victim, and once the victim invests a large amount of money to buy it again, the anchor will say "cut down" and lose money. When the victim is very hesitant or feels that the ** is too high, the anchor will ask the assistant to pretend to be other buyers in the live broadcast room and offer to "share the car" together, but in fact, only the victim will pay.
[**Shanghai Rule of Law News].
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