Alipay denies charging next year

Letter News (reporter He Wenhua) December 24 night, Alipay announced "on the change of the Alipay service agreement," the announcement has aroused wide concern.

Announcement from January 1, 2009 onwards, on the Alipay website on the use of "I want to collect", "I want to pay" function, and through the "Ali Wangwang" use of "AA collection" function of Alipay users, in accordance with the type of Alipay account to provide 5000 yuan, such as the amount of free transaction flow, If the actual transaction amount exceeds the free transaction flow, a certain proportion of the service charge is charged.

The announcement, a lot of people think this means that Taobao buyers and sellers will be charged. In this respect, the reporter to pay treasure public and customer communications director Chen Liang learned that this measure with the user to use Alipay online shopping without any relationship, the user through Alipay Taobao or any other cooperative shopping is completely unaffected.

Chen Liang explained that the monthly use of the bulletin said the relevant services more than 5000 yuan of free users only occupy less than 0.01% of the total number of Alipay users, for this part of the special group to charge a certain service fee on the average user does not affect. Moreover, Alipay is about to charge the object is limited to the use of Alipay's large station transactions, the so-called site transactions, and users in Taobao shopping behavior has nothing to do.

Alipay company said that 2009 will continue to be free for ordinary users. Industry insiders believe that, after the modification of the service agreement, Alipay to normal shopping in the process of money circulation is not charged any fees; The charges are only for large sums of cash and transfers of people, while the cash and transfer service charges are normal.