"From two or three yuan an hour to five or six yuan an hour, the price has increased too much", "charging is too slow", "easy to rent, and difficult to find a place to return"... Charging with a shared power bank is better than bringing your own power bank when you travel. , The charging cable saves a lot of trouble, but more and more users, the shared charging treasure is getting more and more expensive, and many minor problems have been exposed.
With the popularity of mini power banks and fast charging, are you still willing to be "harvested" by shared power banks?
6 yuan an hour, mobile phone charging is more expensive than buying water
"I only drink water for 5 yuan a bottle, and charge the phone for 6 yuan an hour!" Ms. Hao said with a smile, the "consumption level" of the mobile phone has surpassed her for a holiday trip.
Ms. Hao said that although the price of shared power banks has generally risen, most shopping malls in Nanjing cost 2 yuan for half an hour and 4 yuan per hour. The price is acceptable for emergency charging when you go out.
Last month, she rented a power bank next to a music space in Olympic Sports, and found that there was an hourly charge, starting at 5 yuan an hour, which was more expensive than a shopping mall.
During the Dragon Boat Festival holiday, she went to Xiamen to play and found that the shared power bank on Gulangyu generally costs 3 yuan for half an hour and 6 yuan for an hour, which is more expensive than cold drinks in the scenic area.
"Charging is slow and the capacity is small. This is the way to make money with shared power banks." Ms. Hao noticed and found that using shared power banks for half an hour, the phone's power increased by less than 15%, and the capacity of shared power banks is generally only 5000 millimeters Ann, the battery is exhausted and the two phones are not full.
Seek "it" in the public thousands of Baidus, easy to rent and difficult to return
“Unless you stay in place, it’s too difficult to return the power bank.” Ms. Hu said, even in the same shopping mall, different stores may have different brands of power banks, and some power banks “hide” outside the store. Hidden corners, follow the navigation and look for them carefully.
Since there are so many brands of shared power banks, businesses can't even figure out which brand of power banks they have.
On one occasion, she found that the return location indicated was actually a green belt, and after another turn, she discovered that the actual location was about fifty meters away.
If you are in a pedestrian street or a larger scenic spot, it is even more difficult to return the power bank. A few days ago, Ms. Hu rented a certain brand of power bank during shopping. Because there are fewer return points nearby, she doesn’t want to go back. When the power bank was exhausted, there was no place to return it, and 15 yuan was deducted when returning it. She laughed and laughed and found that the rental time was 2 hours and 8 minutes, and the time without electricity was also deducted correctly.
Ms. Hu calculated an account: the general shared power bank deposit is 99 yuan, and the cap charge is also 99 yuan, which is 3 yuan for half an hour, which is equivalent to 16.5 hours of charging, but in fact, the effective charging time is far from that long.
She believes that the shared power bank does not have a common charging interface, and users will not deliberately fail to return it. This capped price is unreasonable.
Charging is easier, will you still use a shared power bank?
When the shared power bank was first launched on the market, many people were not optimistic about it, but as everyone's daily life is increasingly dependent on mobile phones, and the need to maintain power anytime and anywhere, the shared power bank is fully deployed in scenic spots and shopping malls.
Some netizens said that shared power banks started to "harvest" when they saw a large number of users, but shared power banks were not a necessity, and the price-performance ratio was too poor, and they would be eliminated by the market.
A reporter from the Yangtze Evening News found that many ordinary power banks on the market are already eager to compete with shared power banks: ordinary power banks are too big, too heavy, and inconvenient to carry. Various brands have launched mini-sizes that can be held in the palm of the hand; some people will forget To replenish the power of the power bank, there are large-capacity power banks of 30,000 mAh, 50,000 mAh, and even power banks equipped with photovoltaic cells that can be charged by solar energy... Moreover, these large-capacity, small-sized power banks, The price is not high, a certain brand of 10,000 mAh capacity, mini-sized power bank, the price is even lower than the deposit of the shared power bank.
The size of the power bank is "in one hand", and the way to charge the power bank is becoming more and more "various". When charging becomes easier and easier, will you still use a shared power bank?
Yangtze Evening News/Ziniu News reporter Liu Liyuan