#Laogao E-commerce Newsletter# [May 23 E-commerce Evening News Brief]

　　#Laogao E-commerce News# [E-commerce Evening News Brief on May 23] 1. The first fake merchant in the country was sentenced to apologize on Taobao homepage; 2. CCTV: Using Alipay to conduct over-the-counter transactions of Bitcoin accounted for nearly one-third; 3. Amazon blacklisted users of abuse of return policies; 4. Baidu official statement: The rumors of "Li Yanhong mistress" are false; 5. 600 new Starbucks released a five-year growth plan for mainland China in a year...

　　E-commerce newsletter

　　1. The first fake seller in the country was sentenced to apologize for Taobao Home Page

　　"Our counterfeiting behavior has harmed the interests of consumers and Taobao's goodwill. Here we apologize to the consumers of the platform, other merchants operating honestly, and Taobao."

　　On May 22, such an apology statement "appeared" on the bulletin board of Taobao's homepage, attracting attention. Xie and Zhang, who issued the apology statement, were counterfeit sellers, and Su was also the provider of counterfeit sellers.

　　In the statement, the counterfeiter said: "The cost of selling counterfeits is far beyond our expectations and affordability, and I hope other sellers will take it as a warning." (Beijing Youth Daily)

　　2. CCTV: Using Alipay to conduct over-the-counter transactions of Bitcoin account for nearly one-third

　　The video of CCTV Finance’s "Economic Information Broadcast" column shows that the national Internet financial risk technology platform has realized over-the-counter transaction monitoring, pyramid scheme currency monitoring, Bitcoin transaction tracking, Bitcoin offline distribution, Bitcoin cross-border monitoring, and ICO monitoring. Among them, over-the-counter transaction monitoring shows user ID and payment methods, and nearly one-third of the over-the-counter transactions are used for Alipay. (Sina Finance)

　　3. Amazon blacklists users of abuse of return policies

　　According to foreign media reports, Amazon blacklisted customers who abused the website's loose return policy.

　　“We want everyone to be able to use Amazon, but there are few people who abuse our services for a very long time,” a spokesperson for the tech giant said in a statement on Tuesday’s Daily News.

　　“We never make these decisions lightly, but with more than 300 million customers worldwide, we will act in due course to protect the experience of all customers,” the statement continued.

　　The statement does not state the breach or what actions the company has taken, but some customers claim they have started from the site simply to get rewards when damaged or lost items. TechWeb)

　　Internet news

　　4. More than 10,000 bottles of counterfeit perfume seized in Guangzhou are worth tens of millions of yuan

　　The perfume worth hundreds or thousands of yuan online is actually a fake product! The brand trademark of gold stamping is fake; empty bottles and raw materials are also fake. The so-called "personalized customization" is nothing more than casual blending of flavors and hand-filled in the "black den" in the rental house. A Xinhuanet reporter learned from the police in Haizhu, Guangzhou on the 22nd that recently, during the special operation of "Hurricane 2018", the Haizhu police destroyed a den that produced counterfeit internationally renowned brand perfumes, seized 10,272 bottles of finished products of counterfeit internationally renowned brand perfumes and a large number of counterfeit packaging materials and raw materials. The finished products involved were worth about RMB 11 million. (Source: Xinhuanet)

　　5. Baidu responds to reappearing high-quality hospitals: advertising blocking protects thousands of Grade A hospitals

　　According to Beijing Youth Daily on May 23, two years after the Wei Zexi incident, Baidu Medical Search has been paid attention to again. It is reported that Baidu has irregular problems such as private hospitals in search of public hospitals, multiple advertisements for searching for disease names, and intraoperative price increase in the hospitals found... Yesterday, Baidu responded to the above questions, saying that Baidu strictly conducted qualification review of medical advertisements and resolutely did not allow hospitals to place advertisements in the name and name of "Grade A hospitals". Baidu has blocked advertisements for 1,000 well-known Grade A hospitals. (Beijing Youth Daily)

　　6. Alibaba Cloud President Hu Xiaoming: Resolutely not touching customer data is Alibaba Cloud's bottom line

　　On May 23, at the Yunqi Conference and Wuhan Summit, Alibaba Cloud President Hu Xiaoming systematically explained the three lifelines that Alibaba Public L adhered to: adhere to the path of independent research and development, "'take the ideology' cannot build high-rise buildings, and independent research and development clouds can go further"; ecology is the gene flowing in Alibaba's blood, and Alibaba Cloud coexist with partners; reiterate Alibaba Cloud's long-standing commitment - resolutely not touch customer data. (NetEase Technology)

　　7. Baidu official statement: The rumor of "Li Yanhong's mistress" is false

　　On May 22, Baidu officially issued a statement saying that the recent rumors about Robin Li, his mistress and his family on the Internet are purely false.

　　Baidu stated in its official statement, "In the past, Mr. Li Yanhong had not pursued similar rumors in the attitude of being clear to the clear ones. Given the bad content of the rumor, the fierce incoming situation, and the great social impact of this rumor, it has seriously damaged the reputation of the parties and caused harm to the Baidu brand. We have collected evidence to report the case to the public security organs and firmly held the legal responsibility of the rumor-mongers and malicious disseminators. Finally, I beg you not to spread rumors or believe in rumors. Thank you for your concern and understanding!" (NetEase Technology)

　　8. 600 new Starbucks releases five-year growth plan for mainland China in one year

　　It is reported that at the Starbucks Coffee Company's 2018 Global Investor Exchange Conference held in Shanghai recently, Starbucks Coffee Company announced a growth plan spanning five fiscal years and specifically targeting the mainland Chinese market, which will add 600 new stores in mainland China each year. Currently, China is Starbucks' largest market outside the United States, with Shanghai having more than 600 coffee stores, ranking first in the global city distribution. Industry insiders have compared it to Starbucks' growth plan this time is like adding "one Shanghai" stores every year in mainland China, with a huge scale. (Xinhua News Agency)

　　Cross-border e-commerce

　　9. AliExpress: It will conduct a shift to the storage products, and illegal products may be removed, blocked or deleted.

　　Recently, AliExpress found that some sellers violated platform rules when selling memory products, and falsely marked the memory capacity, causing buyers to have a bad shopping experience. Therefore, AliExpress issued an announcement stating that it will strengthen supervision of such fraudulent behaviors that do not match the description from the date of the announcement, and severe penalties will be taken for illegal goods and accounts in accordance with the platform rules! Starting from June 1, 2018 (Beijing time), the platform will conduct a special investigation of storage products in the above industries. For sellers of storage products whose capacity does not match the description, the platform will impose the following penalties in accordance with the serious product misconduct rules:

　　1. Remove, block or delete illegal products;

　　2. If the circumstances are serious, the store will be frozen or closed, and the withdrawal function of the Alipay account and AliExpress account will be frozen;

　　3. Ask the seller to refund the buyer for orders involving illegal goods.

　　At the same time, in order to protect the legitimate interests of buyers and users, Article 78 of the platform rules has been revised to extend the period when the seller is frozen or closed due to serious store violations, the platform can freeze its withdrawal function. The revised platform rules will come into effect on June 1, 2018 (Beijing time).

　　10. Cainiao Network Cross-border E-commerce North China Headquarters Project Settled in Bonded Zone

　　The reporter recently learned from Tianjin Port Free Trade Zone that the Cainiao Network’s cross-border e-commerce North China headquarters project recently signed an investment cooperation agreement in Tianjin Port Free Trade Zone. The total investment of Cainiao Cross-border E-commerce Northern Headquarters project is US$32 million. It plans to set up a bonded warehouse in the Tianjin Port Bonded Zone and operate it in a bonded stocking mode. It relies on big data, the Internet of Things and intelligent technology to realize efficient and intelligent operations in warehousing, sorting, packaging, circulation processing, distribution and distribution of different commodity orders in the warehouse. (Binhai Times)

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