British electricity traders enter the shopping season, but there are problems with the trading channels

Last year Singles Day, whether it is Ali Alipay reached the number of transactions 170 million, the transaction amount of 35 billion yuan, or Jing Dong 5 million orders volume, all let people on the power of China's power and consumers huge purchase ability feel shocked. Looking at these tens of millions of data, British businessmen repeatedly lamented the vast Chinese market.

But like the wild lilies there are spring, nearly two months after China's "Singles Day", the UK has also entered the shopping season, where consumers have been dormant for months in preparation for a shopping season before and after Christmas, and businesses are preparing for the shopping spree, especially since the one months of December 26, 2013, which the British electric trader called " Network Boxing Month ", is a comparable to China's" Singles Day "of the high light moment, the merchant prepared a large number of promotional items, buyers have already prepared the mouse. But at this juncture, suddenly happened "force majeure" let the buyers and sellers disappointed. The original is the trading channel out of the problem, the result is that consumers pay not paying, businesses do not receive money.

At a time of frantic buying, millions of of credit cards at Westminster and Royal Bank of Scotland suffered technical breakdowns, making them difficult to pay in the first year of the busiest shopping season. On the streets of shops and shopping sites, when consumers want to buy things, credit cards are prompted to pay the application is rejected. Online shopping people can only be helpless to the special products exist in the cart, as for will not be other hands people can only resign to fate. Shoppers in supermarkets were also forced to give up their full shopping carts, which, in contrast to the gas station's customers, were unable to return the oil they had added to the tank, leaving collateral to be embarrassed. Those well-dressed people who enjoyed candlelight dinners in fancy restaurants were even more depressed, and successive payments were rejected as a liar.

Cardholder's means of payment are almost all blocked, their cards on the machine can not be mentioned, those who have left behind, the credit card and mobile phone, also found that their usual handy smartphone, in terms of payment is not much better than a brick.

Of course, there are at least other uses for smartphones, angry cardholders venting their grievances on social media, and bank phone calls have been blown, but the system has failed to resolve them. It is not helpful for banks to come out and apologize to the cardholder, because the merchant knows the meaning of the inch.

Due to credit card problems, many businesses and consumers have missed a good time. Credit Card payment company Visa estimates that in the "online boxing Month" the first day of British consumption amounted to 450 million pounds, of which the online transaction amount of 7.7 million pounds, up 16% from last year. Amazon produced 3.5 million orders a day, and the British retailer Lewis also had 80,000 orders.

The British consumer was the most avid Internet shopper in the major Western countries. 88% of Britons buy Christmas gifts online, and Christmas gifts are the world's largest. By comparison, the number of online shoppers in the United States is 86%, and Germany is 84%. But after encountering payment difficulties, it is not known whether the British internet shopping enthusiasm will be hit.

If not, Britain's online shopping will doubtless be a little more beautiful this year. And businessmen and consumers are more angry, they have to the card issuing bank to claim. "Time is Money", which is the most compelling reason for their lawsuits.