Hong Kong group buys company suddenly stops operation office building empty Police intervene investigation

According to the Hong Kong newspaper, Wen Wei Po, Hong Kong has more than 20,000 members of the group buying company Jigocity, suddenly announced restructuring business, no longer to introduce new concessions and the withdrawal of tokens, a co-operative restaurant Darts 1 Bar Restaurant has also been completed earlier, the group purchase coupons can not be cashed. A police spokesman confirmed that 42 of the affected consumers had reported to the police that the amount of money involved was about $21,000, and the police had listed them for investigation. In the popular purchase consumption, in the first 2 months of this year, the Consumer Council has received a total of 210 complaints involving group buying, with an average of more than 100 cases per month, which is 1 time times more than last year, and the Consumer Council refers to the limited protection of consumers by group buying, and consumers may suffer losses if group buying sites fail.

In Singapore, Taiwan and many other businesses have a network of jigocity, recently announced the "Business reorganization" after the site immediately ceased operation, is located in Admiralty Office is also empty, some customers refer to coupons have been deactivated, the estimated number of thousands of affected people. Netizens have set up a "recovery jigocity refund Major Alliance" group in Facebook, including customers who have purchased the Darts 1 Bar Restaurant Seafood Buffet and another restaurant "mouth" sweet meal voucher, as the two restaurants have closed down and the Internet users have met to report collectively.

Netizens also through the group Exchange Shop News, Netizen Lai Mei Tong said, earlier for friends to buy 2 Italian evening package, has been unable to make an appointment, to Jigo City to apply for a refund, March 23, the reply is a refund, the netizen then according to the instructions to hand over the account data no reply , and last week to buy 128 yuan Japanese sashimi coupons, has been the merchant to Jigo city has not yet "find a number" as a stop discount. has bought the nail service netizen refers, the shop side has not cancelled the service, but is extremely difficult to make an appointment. In addition to consumers, there are also business owners who co-operate with the network to lodge a complaint that the mantissa is owed and thousands of yuan is involved.

The Consumer Council said that it would monitor the situation closely and that consumers could lodge complaints with the CC if they had any problems. From January to February this year, the Consumer council received a total of 210 complaints involving group buying, with an average of more than 100 cases a month, more than 1 time times the average monthly over 45 cases.

The information of the Consumer Council shows that group purchase complaints from the 2010 2, a sudden rise to 548 last year, it will remind consumers, group buy network to consumers Limited, if the group purchase site closed down and "walk number", consumers may suffer losses, and because the operation of group buying site is not limited by the region, Local consumers can contact the site does not necessarily need to make business registration in Hong Kong, in the event of disputes, consumers may not be able to contact the group purchase site, to the site to recover or legal proceedings, also face a lot of obstacles.