Another group purchase website closed down! Group purchase site failure rate of up to 80%

Another group purchase website closed down! A few days ago, a group called "The Peoples Group," the purchase site hung out the closure of the statement, because the aftermath of the problem has not been properly resolved, the site suddenly closed the site caused by consumers and suppliers dissatisfaction. Data show that so far the country has thousands of of group buying websites closed down, the rate of failure is as high as 80%.

Consumers and businesses are facing arrears

9th, many consumers found that the "People Group" Site page has been unable to access the normal, only on the page left a brief announcement: because the business relationship has not been normal to provide services, will be suspended from the immediate service.

Reporter inquires, the site's registered company name is Beijing Hao Cheng World Technology Co., Ltd., registered capital of 100,000 Yuan, the website began to run in 2010.

The site suddenly went out of business, and many consumers and businesses worried that their money would be a bubble. Some consumers complained on Sina Weibo that they bought a domestic tour in the national group last December later the travel agency said that people full, and then applied for a refund, but from this site phone will be difficult to get through, every three or four days can be opened once, each other said to inform the financial refund, so far, unexpectedly suddenly closed.

In this respect, the People's group 9th in the announcement said: "Some of the arrears will do their best in three years to pay off all, and please all the merchants will contact information and so on to a certain mailbox to confirm." Still, many users are doubtful about whether they can recover the debt.

Last year's failure rate was as high as 80%

Group buying industry once hot for a while, but in a few short years the industry from the peak to the bottom. Prior to this, there have been 24 coupons, Bao Bo and seated network, such as large group buying sites have closed down phenomenon. According to the relevant data, 2012, the number of group buying sites shrank to more than 2000, to 400 in the second half of 2013, the failure rate as high as 80%. and the highest peak when group purchase site has reached million home.

Some experts say the group buying market is still growing, but there will only be a few large group buying sites in the future. Data show that last year, the overall size of group buying industry estimated at more than 35 billion yuan, the year before the annual growth of 65%, the overall size of the group is expected to reach more than 50 billion yuan.

But the market has emerged the oligopoly of the fittest, from the Regiment 800 of the latest data show that the November 2013 United States Network, the mass Comment Group, litters group turnover of 1.728 billion yuan, 1.021 billion yuan and 336 million yuan, ranked the top three in the industry, in November market share accounted for the entire industry 81.4%.

Malpractice investment threshold too low pre-payment mode unconstrained

Why do group buying sites frequently "owed to run people"? Wang, founder of the United States network, said, "investment thousands of yuan can do a group purchase website." Moreover, the "advance payment" business model makes group buying sites are "playing with other people's money." This makes a lot of group buy website after bad, choose to walk away, consumer and cooperative merchant's money often ask for no door.

According to the relevant regulations, the business sector and the communications Department is the main subject of group buying website supervision. However, at present, the communications department is limited to the issuance of ICP License Audit access Management, the lack of approval of the site after the operation of the supervision. And the industry and commerce sector because of the lack of knowledge of e-commerce industry, professional management personnel, lack of professional management knowledge, to a certain extent, also caused to the Network Group Purchase management activities oversight vacancy.

Some experts believe that the current industry and commerce on the purchase site registration system is more appropriate way. For the conditional, large-scale group buying website to encourage the operation of a good business license under the premise of business registration. On the condition of the site is not mature to guide the industry and Commerce online record.

In addition, a third party payment company said that the payment process for the pre-collection of group purchase website, it may be considered to introduce a Third-party payment institution to enter the funds of both parties into a third party account, and then remit the funds to the website and the merchant's account after the consumption has been completed, so as to avoid the inability to refund the money after the payment or consumption is not satisfied.