Reborn Millennial Gamer

Chapter 765: Group buying is dead, Huabei is here to stay (4k)

On March 3, Yangma’s annual consumer rights protection and anti-counterfeiting party was launched as scheduled. In addition to exposing unknown consumer traps in many industries, the program also named the companies involved. This time, it’s the turn of Group buying field.

Lashou.com, Meituan.com, Koubei.com...

The leading group-buying websites have been criticized, and small and medium-sized companies are not doing well either. The reputation and credibility of the entire industry are in crisis.

"Some expert analysis said that if group buying websites do not take action to solve the problems mentioned at the 315 Party, not only users will abandon them, but capital will also abandon them, which will eventually lead to financing difficulties in the entire group buying field, and winter is coming."

"Oh my god, how could this happen?"

Zhang Ying was holding the fruit plate, and her eyes immediately shifted from the TV to Lu Yun's face, and she saw that he had a gloomy and solemn expression.

"Snapped!"

He raised his hand and was so angry that he wanted to smash the remote control on the ground, but he still controlled his emotions and forced himself to calm down.

"Don't be angry yet. The doctor said you can't get angry."

Zhang Ying was excited and quickly dissuaded her.

"Huh, huh."

Lu Yun's face was flushed, and his chest was rising and falling.

After recovering from his illness, he was discharged from the hospital. He focused exclusively on the business expansion of Yipay. Focusing on "rural areas surrounding the city", Yipay reached exclusive cooperation with most group buying websites, pulling them all into their own camp to compete with the domineering Caifubao and Caifubao. Penguin Pays.

But they never expected that the loose alliance formed after "bloodshed" would be hit head-on before they could attack.

"Will it particularly affect Yipay?"

Zhang Ying was worried.

"It's not special, it's very! Didn't you realize that except Meituan, the others are all important customers of Yipay?"

Lu Yun clenched his fists tightly, "It can't be a coincidence! Damn Lu Fei, it must be this bastard who caused trouble again!"

"No way? Wasn't Meituan also criticized by name?"

Zhang Ying took out the medicine, just in case.

"You don't understand. Meituan is just a mild criticism, but if you look at the positioning criticism of websites such as Lashou.com and Manzuo.com, the mild ones need to be investigated and rectified, and the serious ones may have to suspend operations. I really feel that this move It’s so familiar, it’s not like I haven’t been fucked by Lu Fei during the 51.net live broadcast!”

Lu Yun gritted his teeth.

I have experience being bullied and suppressed by Lu Fei!

"What should we do?" Zhang Ying was nervous.

"What can I do? If I were still the chairman of Ali, I might be able to help. The key point is that I only have Yipay now. I can only watch these group buying websites being suppressed by Lu Fei. As expected, 99% The group buying website may die."

Lu Yun hated himself in his heart, and hated Lu Fei even more.

"If you want me to see it, let's stop. How can Yipay compete with Caifubao and Penguin Pay without the group buying website? Instead of being so aggrieved, we might as well sell it while Yipay's valuation is not bad." Drop it?" Zhang Ying suggested weakly.

"Sell it to Yipay?" Lu Yun looked in disbelief.

"Yes, as long as we have money, in the future, whether you want to live your own life safely or start a business again, it's fine! But we can't be tied to Yipay, the ceiling of the payment industry, like now. It’s really too low.”

Zhang Ying grabbed the back of his hand.

"The question is, if I sell, who will buy?"

"What, are you worried that you won't be able to buy it?"

"Now the whole world knows that Yipay has signed a settlement agreement with Ali, SoftBank and Yahoo. After Yipay goes public, 37.5% will be handed over to them. If you think you are interested in entering the payment field, you are willing to buy an Yipay Pay, or establish a payment platform on your own?" Lu Yun smiled coldly.

"But a few days ago, I heard Peng Lei say that the company received a lot of calls for financing and acquisition of Yipay?"

Zhang Ying was puzzled.

"Yes, yes, but do you know what those companies are?" Lu Yun answered directly, "It is P2P, a private lending company! There is no serious financial institution or venture capital."

"Ah! That won't work. Yipay can never do P2P, and P2P can never take shares of Yipay."

Zhang Ying was furious and firmly opposed.

"Of course, they are all here for the license approved by Yipay, but..."

Lu Yun crossed his arms and fell silent.

Seeing his look, Zhang Ying, as his wife, suddenly understood what he was thinking and reminded: "You don't want Yipay to switch to P2P, right? You are crazy. You forgot that during the subprime mortgage crisis, P2P evaporated. How much, hundreds of billions of dollars!"

"I just thought about it."

"No, I can't even think about it."

"Don't worry, even if I really do P2P, I won't be able to make private loans with low or even no threshold. If I want to do it, I will make an online credit card model with credit points or collateral. I also thought of a name. .”

Lu Yun smacked his lips and said, "Let's call it 'Ant Huabei'."

"What about Huabei, scallops, it just doesn't work!"

Zhang Ying's eyes widened.

"You don't understand the current P2P situation."

Because of the phone harassment and bombing from P2P companies, Lu Yun did some homework, but realized that P2P is indeed a development direction of Yipay. P2P these days is not as "wild" as later generations, with a total of no more than 30 Home.

To stay safe, we either act as an information intermediary, operate purely on credit online and do not provide any guarantees, or we require mainly local borrowers to conduct comprehensive on-site inspections of the borrowers regarding the use of funds, sources of repayment, and collateral.

It even created a risk reserve model.

If Yipay adopts a credit card model similar to P2P, it can bypass Caifubao and Penguin Pay and find another way.

"Whether I understand it or not, I don't agree."

Zhang Ying shook her head and said: "I would rather you become an e-commerce platform and be the second Ali Baba than do P2P."

"Hey, I didn't say it was now. I have to wait until next year." Lu Yun swallowed the medicine and his blood pressure was controlled.

"Why next year?" Zhang Ying asked curiously.

"Yipay must win next year's Spring Festival Gala red envelope event!" Lu Yun's eyes flashed fiercely.

At this moment, another call from a P2P company actually hit his mobile phone, hoping to work together.

Seeing Lu Yun's polite refusal, Zhang Ying was relieved. At the same time, she felt something was wrong, but she couldn't tell what was wrong.

Their eyes fell on the TV involuntarily.

On the screen, Yang Ma’s 315 party was being broadcast.

At the same time, a storm of consumer rights protection and anti-counterfeiting swept across the entire group buying field. As far as businesses and individuals were concerned, relevant personnel were summoned for investigation and would be severely punished in accordance with relevant laws and regulations. All of a sudden, a major earthquake was triggered. .

Group buying went from prosperity to decline in 2011.

As the group buying industry recedes and reshuffles, it is clear at a glance who is swimming naked. They suddenly encounter a cold wave of financing. Many group buying websites that burn a lot of money either freeze to death immediately or are on the way to freeze to death. The capital market no longer cares about and See you soon.

In just one year or so, from the explosion of everyone's popularity to the collective pessimism of the media, it is only one year.But the arsenic of others is the preserve of mine. Online shopping websites are at the mercy of others, but it is the decline of one and the other that allows Meituan to take the lead.

Capital has withdrawn from Lashou.com and Manzuo.com, vying for Meituan’s D round of financing. Mr. Lu, do you want the money?
As long as you open Chrysanthemum, I will send you money immediately!

After Feigou has secured its position as the world's number one e-commerce company, Meituan has also secured its position as the world's number one group buying company, with its valuation skyrocketing.

Surpassing Ali Baba, ranking second in China’s e-commerce!
"Wang Xing has apologized and accepted the rectification suggestions. Hehe, it depends on how other group buying websites will take the initiative."

On the phone, Xu Lei sounded particularly proud.

"This is conspiracy."

The corner of Lu Fei's mouth curled up.

Meituan, as the number one group buying website, has accepted the criticism obediently. What kind of class do you think you dare not to cooperate?

If you cooperate, competing websites will be severely damaged.

If you don't cooperate, you will fall into their trap.

"That's the power of role models."

Xu Lei smiled and said, "By the way, you arranged for someone to pretend to be a P2P or private lending company and call Yipay, saying that they would come to discuss acquisitions and financing. This is really a very damaging move."

"Otherwise, how can we remind him that there is a P2P path?" Lu Fei said with a smile, "What's Lu Yun's attitude?"

"Although I rejected it, I didn't reject it completely. I was struggling. After all, we have destroyed the payment entrance of the group buying website. Yipay urgently needs new business."

Xu Lei gloated.

"Wait, wait, when P2P develops into a new trend, maybe Lu Yun will fall into the trap without us forcing him."

The corner of Lu Fei's mouth raised slightly.

"The outlet? Can P2P really develop?"

Xu Lei was stunned.

"Why not? Don't forget that private lending in Wenou has developed rapidly, with a scale of more than 1000 billion. Such a big bubble is likely to explode, and it is only in one place. What if the whole country?" Lu Fei analyzed carefully. "At that time, offline private lending will definitely enter a trough period. If you want to develop, you can only go online."

Taking a sip of water, "Isn't P2P a good new carrier? From the privatization of Yipay, we can see that Lu Yun is not only ambitious and courageous, but the legal and moral bottom lines are very low." , do you think he won’t be tempted?”

"I'm sure I'll be tempted, but I'm sure I won't get anything out of the fire."

"So, the top priority is to block Yipay's other options and force it to go down the evil path of P2P. In the end, for Lu Yun, there are only two options left, either go with P2P or sell Yipay and get out of the payment market completely. ."

"He definitely won't sell it. Yipay made him lose control of Alibaba. It can be said that he lost everything. He won't quit just because he said quit. Besides, he still has listing commitments with Yahoo and SoftBank. He just throws his pick and leaves. He is completely finished."

"Yes."

"Hey, Lu Yun has a bad reputation in the investment circle now. No one is willing to finance him. Not to mention, private loans may have the funds." Xu Lei laughed sadly.

"You let people continue to keep an eye on Yipay and Luyun. If you take any actions, report them in a timely manner."

After Lu Fei finished speaking, he hung up the phone.

Just as he was standing in front of the courtyard, absently looking at the vibrant spring scenery, Gao Yuanyuan's voice came from behind:

"Fly! Fly!"

"what happened?"

"My sister-in-law asked if we have enough salt at home?"

"Salt? What salt?"

Lu Fei was confused, what was going on.

When I asked Gao Yuanyuan, I learned that the neon had leaked, which suddenly aroused public opinion and made people panic. There was a "salt war" and salt hoarding occurred in many places.

I am just worried that there will be problems with the production of sea salt made from seawater!
"Nonsense! Even if our Chinese salt is eaten openly, it will take hundreds of years to eat. There is no need to rob it."

Lu Fei rolled his eyes.

"But my sister-in-law has already bought it. She has directly ordered a several-ton salt mountain and is distributing the salt one by one on WeChat and Q group."

Gao Yuanyuan stuck out her tongue.

"Oh my god, how can I finish eating this?"

Lu Fei slapped his forehead; he was speechless.

"I said the same thing, but my sister-in-law is just afraid. There are rumors about noses and eyes on the Internet. Some say that the iodine in iodized salt can protect against radiation, and some say that there is something wrong with sea salt, which is scary."

Gao Yuanyuan opened Weibo.

Lu Fei took a look at the hot search list and saw that the title "Many places are competing for salt, and the price has been increased by 10 times" was ranked first. "This is the collective panic caused by information asymmetry, wait and see."

After that, he called Cao Guowei and Lu Huateng.

At this time, New Wolf and Penguin must control public opinion and must immediately contact relevant experts to popularize science.

With the order, WeChat, Weibo, Penguin News, New Wolf Portal, QQ Browser and other channels issued clarification articles one after another, and the popularity of "grabbing for salt" slowly dropped.

Then, another call was made to Liu Edong and Wang Xing. Now that the price of salt is artificially high, Jingdong and Meituan decisively released a batch of affordable salt to stabilize prices, gaining both word-of-mouth and traffic.

Seeing Lu Fei strategizing, Gao Yuanyuan's eyes widened, fascinated, and filled with admiration.

"Yes, sister-in-law, don't worry about it. It's okay!" Lu Fei comforted, "Salt? Now that you bought it, don't return it. It won't go bad if you leave it. Keep it and eat it slowly."

"How about it?"

Gao Yuanyuan blinked.

"Let's go to eldest brother's house for dinner tonight, and bring back some salt to help share the burden." Lu Fei shook his head and laughed.

"Go! You have to go! If we're not here, my eldest brother might say that I'm leaving behind my sister-in-law." Gao Yuanyuan said half-jokingly.

"I should say a few words. My sister-in-law is usually such a shrewd person. Alas, this is really a mistake for being smart." Lu Fei said.

"What's the matter? I was almost cheated."

Gao Yuanyuan rolled her eyes, "There is so much information on mobile phones and the Internet now, I don't know which ones are true and which ones are false. If there is someone who can push me what I want to see and what I want to ask, in short, what do I want?" News can give me anything.”

"Do you want the kind of news feed that's tailor-made for you?" Lu Fei reached out and scratched her nose.

"That's pretty much what it means."

Gao Yuanyuan looked sideways and saw him startled, "What's wrong? Can Mr. Lu, who is so powerful, be able to do it?"

"What's the matter? Just wait."

Lu Fei raised a smile at the corner of his mouth, and suddenly thought of such a thing, Today's Toutiao, but there was a problem——

Do you want to find Zhang Yiming?

(End of this chapter)