Nearly 3,000 group buying website 70% "Half closed" left outstanding arrears to be solved

24 Coupons last weekend officially closed station founder and CEO walk away

The 4-month purchase site 24 coupons officially closed last weekend, the company's founder and CEO Du Yinan also announced "to leave", leaving behind 300 employees and 60 million yuan debt to be resolved. Group buying site "sudden death" phenomenon has not been a case, in the current nearly 3,000 group buying sites, only 30% sites in the ongoing operation, most of the group buying site has been in the semi-closed or close to close the state. Wen/table reporter Xue

The report yesterday, 24 coupons website address has been unable to open, 400 customer service phone is always in a busy state. The official closure of the 24 coupons is not sudden, as early as last year, the sudden closure of 24 coupons triggered the industry shock.

A large legacy remains to be resolved

24 coupons are no longer "back to the dead" because the contradictions between the company's management and investors have not been resolved. Earlier, the 24-voucher founder Du Yinan accused investors of wooing management team members, illegally taking out the company's funds, during which, still less than 1.69 million yuan of creditors in the company to the court for compulsory claims, 24 coupons decided to suspend all business.

Du Yinan said in Friday that he had given up all the proceeds of the founders and that all the company's business had been transferred to the investors. At present, 24 coupons have accumulated financing of 50 million U.S. dollars, in addition to the previous arrears of tens of millions of yuan supplier accounts, 24 coupons monthly loss of hundreds of thousands of.

The highest peak group purchase network has been reduced by nearly half

After nearly three years of development, group buying sites rely on financing wantonly enclosure, only the pursuit of scale growth, while ignoring the consumer experience, homogeneity of the phenomenon is very serious. The investor lightly expelled the founder and the "Big blood transfusion", and then stopped injecting capital and shutting down the site.

By the end of November last year, the number of domestic group buying sites remained as many as 2,857, reducing by about 43.5% compared with 5,058 at the highest peak. Hu Chen, founder of the group 800, said that even in this nearly 3,000 group buying sites, there will be many in the semi-closed state, that is, its updates and online local service groups to buy a very low frequency. According to the group's 800 recent survey of 24 popular cities in 1085 group buying sites, access to abnormal, suspended operation, has been transformed the site has 768, the Web site has a group purchase products in the sale but one months and no updates of the website 17, the last one months there are Group buy product updates only 300 sites. Even the latter two categories are counted as active sites, with a total of 317, and only 29.2%, down 14.3% from last May.

Partial group buying website closes or closes

Last year, as the largest shareholder has decided to give up, one of the top ten groups of group buying site Treasure net capital chain suddenly broken, pay employees, to debt merchants door-to-door, on the verge of failure.

Last year, due to poor control, the originator of the United States Group purchase site High in China soon on mass layoffs and withdrawal of the station, a year after the Tencent holdings of the Group F disguised merger.

Media reports, "Jinan handle Network", Jinan "wo passenger network", such as a group of small and medium-sized group purchase site due to poor management, capital chain rupture, the failure or even the volume of the run of the phenomenon, resulting in the legitimate rights and interests of consumers are infringed.

500 Active websites end up with 1%?

Domestic to maintain a certain degree of activity and focus on local services category group buy station about 500, and the number of U.S. group purchase site in 2011 is comparable. But with Groupon and LivingSocial two bigger, in 2011 the United States had more than 170 group buying sites closed or sold, that is to say, the 500 sites will last only 1%, it is difficult to conclude. At the same time, the United States network, the mass Comment Group, litters group, such as first-line group buying site in the industry has mastered a larger market share, the vast majority of opponents are unable to compete with their national scope.