"Sneakers Futures" are mostly empty gloves, white wolves fry shoes and are deceived to defend rights
Counting on shoe-making for profit, it is easy to fall into the trap and become a catcher
"Post-95 buys a house in Hangzhou by speculating shoes" has just been searched. In the past two days, many shoe speculators’ circle of friends has been defrauded by more than 300,000 yuan by "Shoe speculators". Most of the victims are "post-95" and "post-00". "The article refreshed.
“There are actually very few who can be classified as fraud. The real crowd and the amount of deceived people are far more than this magnitude.” Wang Qing (pseudonym), a finance student at a university in Shanghai, is doing second-hand shoe trading part-time. He told reporters that only Take the "shoe circle" friends around him as an example. The accumulated amount of deceived by these people is more than 300,000 yuan.
"Are sneakers a stock or a drug?" Josh Luber, the founder of the American e-commerce platform Stock X, once said in a TED speech: "For many people, sneakers are a legal and low-threshold investment opportunity." In my country, the Chinese name of sneaker investment is "Fried Shoes".
China Youth Daily and China Youth Daily reporters noticed that with the increase in the consumption power of post-90s and post-95s and the increasingly popular sneaker market, there have been transactions such as "shoe futures".
However, these so-called "sales" often leave young people in scams because there are no basic rules to protect them, and there is no way to defend their rights.
Without a pair of shoes, I still fool you
In less than a month from the end of March to April this year, several “shoe-fried shoes” lovers in Shanghai were defrauded of more than 300,000 yuan of shoes by Yu.
"I took the money from my family and paid the debts of my family. I didn't have a pair of shoes on hand." Sun Xiaofeng of the Beicai Police Station of the Pudong Branch of the Shanghai Public Security Bureau was the police officer in charge of receiving the police. He told reporters that even the police were "almost" caught. The so-called sneaker seller Xiaoyu cheated.
It was a resident who reported to the police station at first, claiming that he bought more than 30 pairs of "coconut shoes" from Yu at a price of more than 3,000 yuan per pair.
"Coconut shoes" are "YEEZY sneakers" jointly released by Adidas and Kanye. Because of their novel styles and beautiful colors, they are popular among young people.
The main appeal of the informant at the time was that he spent money to buy shoes, and the seller was delayed in shipping them, and wanted to ask the seller for refund or shipment through the police.
However, Yu claimed that he had transferred the payment of more than 100,000 yuan to different homes, and there were good reasons why the “home supplier” could not deliver goods.
Sun Xiaofeng told reporters that the police initially judged that this was just a "sales dispute."
However, after careful verification by the police later, it was discovered that the so-called "home" that Yu transferred money was actually the "victim" who bought shoes from Yu but did not receive the goods, and that Yu transferred money to them only for a "refund".
The "Shangjia" who communicated with Yu's WeChat to provide the status of the goods was just a friend of Yu's, and received several hundred yuan from Yu to cooperate with the "acting".
There is no pair of shoes in Yu Mou's hands.
After he was detained by the police, more victims came to report the case, with a cumulative amount of more than 300,000 yuan.
But a "liar" like Yu was a little bit in the face of Jiangsu Dantu man Yin.
Yin rents two or three luxury cars for a long time to show off his wealth, with a monthly rent of 120,000-150,000.
Without a pair of shoes, he defrauded more than 40 victims with more than 6 million yuan of "expected shoes" by similar means like Yu.
The victims were mostly young people born in the 1990s and shoe-scrapers.
In the same way, Yin can only compensate a small part of the money given by the current customer to the previous customer every time, so he keeps "rolling money".
According to the relevant person in charge of the Shanghai Pudong Court, the victims in the aforementioned Yu's case were mostly born in 1995 and 00, and most were high school or college students.
One of the victims, surnamed Ren, was under 18 years old and was in his first year of high school. When he reported to the public security organs, he said that he and Yu met through a second-hand trading platform, and the amount defrauded by the time of the case was nearly 20,000 yuan. .
"Sneakers Futures" How to Empty the White Wolf
Xiaotian (a pseudonym) in the shoe market industry is a college student. He told reporters that in recent years, every time the “shoe-fried shoe family” was deceived, it would be widely circulated in the “shoe-fried shoe ring”. I am very concerned about how to prevent being deceived, but news of being deceived is still common."
Xiaotian introduced that new trades such as "shoe futures" have appeared in the "shoe market".
"Sneakers Futures" are sneakers with delayed delivery.
Take a pair of coconut shoes as an example. The seller sells it to you at a price of 3,000 yuan. You may have to wait several weeks or even months before you can get this pair of shoes.
Xiaotian has come into contact with many such "futures sellers", and they generally offer prices slightly lower than market prices to attract buyers.
But Xiaotian told reporters that 9 out of 10 friends who bought futures lost money.
A pair of futures shoes. A few months later, if the price of this sneaker has risen a lot, the seller will usually tell you "out of stock" and refund you; if the price drops and is lower than your purchase price at the time, then the seller Will ship to you quickly.
In this process, the seller decides when to ship and whether to ship.
Earlier, there was a "myth" in the "Fried Shoe Circle" that was born in 1997 in Chengdu, the boy "Biscuit Brother".
In 2019, the 22-year-old "Biscuit Brother" has become the "big brother" in the sneaker futures circle.
At that time, according to the statistics of the rights protection group, more than 200 people and 20 million yuan of funds were involved in the "Biscuit Brother".
This 22-year-old boy has all the high-quality attributes of a shoe industry boss-tattoos, famous watches, Ferrari, plus a trendy shoe store that he owns.
But when Dongchuang's incident happened, his physical store was closed, all the shoes were taken away by the creditor, and the people disappeared.
Xiaotian told reporters that the reason why so many people like to play "shoe futures" is that they are driven by huge profits and feel that they can easily make a lot of money. The second is that the upper family develops the next one, and the next one develops the next one. One link makes people feel "all acquaintances with oneself".
In fact, Sun Xiaofeng told reporters that all those who were deceived were "acquaintances."
"Some people have bought one or two pairs of shoes from the other party, or the other party has sent 10 pairs of shoes. He feels that the other party has the ability to supply them and can be trusted." He told reporters that the victims who were defrauded by Yu were all I once bought good things with “low price and good quality” in Yu, and these things are just “used goods” that Yu bought from second-hand platforms and refurbished.
A reporter from China Youth Daily and China Youth Daily noted that there is another important reason why these "shoe futures" players can accumulate hundreds of thousands of yuan or even millions of dollars step by step-the difficulty of protecting the rights of shoe speculators.
"I have a friend who came to Shanghai from Zhejiang to defend his rights. The value of the goods is more than 10,000 yuan." Xiaotian accompanied this friend to find a "shoe futures" player to defend his rights. The police found the person involved, but the person issued a certificate of "the goods have not been delivered". , Refused to repay the money, and eventually it would be nothing. "It doesn't necessarily mean that the cost of defending rights is too high to come to Shanghai for more than 10,000 yuan."
Xiaotian said that only judging from the “shoe futures” fraud cases reported in the current media, the real rights protection and fraud in this market are far more than this.
What is revealed is "at most one-tenth."
Young people are the easiest to be fooled, and no way to defend their rights is the norm
The reporter noticed that in the aforementioned cases, most of the so-called "shoe futures" players were out of stock. In the process of delaying delivery, they used all kinds of rhetoric that seemed "there is a picture and the truth" to convince buyers. Really in stock".
These chat screenshots and transfer screenshots are almost all made by these people.
These have brought a certain degree of difficulty to the police in solving the case.
Sun Xiaofeng said that in addition to the "empty gloves and white wolves" shoe speculators, the police will also encounter many cases of "goods and pictures inconsistent". In this case, it is more difficult to defend rights.
"Out of stock, it is purely the one who takes the money from the family and repays the amount owed by the family. Fraud is generally considered when judging the case; if the goods are available, the shipment is delayed for a long time, which is a transaction dispute, and they can go to the court for civil litigation; Yes, if there is no trading platform and only private electronic payment transactions, I’m afraid I can only go to the Consumer Protection Committee.” Sun Xiaofeng said.
He suggested that young people who are not deeply involved in the "shoe circle" should not easily trust any sellers and do not conduct private transactions and transfers. "You can pay after you get the goods, or you can trade in person. Don't transfer money easily. ".
If the amount involved is relatively large, in addition to face-to-face transactions, you should also have a certain understanding of the previous situation, such as their home address, store address, ID card information, etc., must be checked one by one, and sufficient for subsequent rights protection ready.
"In actual case handling, we often encounter people who don't even know the real name of the family, and they don't have any information. They just have a few transactions on several trading platforms, and we feel that the other party is credible." Sun Xiaofeng said .
"We should make a fuss about reducing the leverage of retail investors." Zhu Feng, a partner of Guohao Lawyers (Shanghai), believes that for some consumers with insufficient credit qualifications and significantly weaker repayment capabilities, financial institutions must issue consumer loans to them. Strictly review its qualifications and strictly prohibit large amounts of leveraged funds from being used for shoe speculation.
In this regard, Xinhua News Agency once quoted the opinion of experts that it is normal for young people to have individual needs, whether they are sneakers or skirts. However, do not follow the trend and hope to make profits. They will easily fall into traps and become the catchers. .
Recently, the People's Court of Shanghai Pudong New Area conducted a public trial on Yu's suspected fraud of more than 300,000 yuan, and made a first-instance verdict in court. Yu was sentenced to 5 years in prison for fraud and a fine of 30,000 yuan.
China Youth Daily·China Youth Daily reporter Wang Yejie Source: China Youth Daily