#Laogao E-commerce Newsletter# [E-commerce Morning News on January 5] 1. Master announced that he is AlphaGo; 2. Tmall supports local brands to hold pig reading styles, so you can eat the freshest local products in the New Year; 3. How to arrange delivery and after-sales service during the Spring Festival holiday? Taobao announces the latest Spring Festival shipping rules! 4. New local regulations have been introduced, and delivery guys are also going to take the job exam? 5. Consumption tax adjustment, imported cosmetics will eventually be reduced after New Year's Day.
1. Master announces that he is AlphaGo
On the evening of January 4, after winning 59 consecutive games, Master said in the message version, "I am Dr. Huang from AlphaGo." This statement also confirms previous speculation that the Master that has been invincible in the past few days is AlphaGo. "Dr. Huang" who runs AlphaGo's full name is Aja Huang, a senior researcher at Google DeepMind and one of the core R&D members of AlphaGo. In the man-machine battle last March, it was him sitting opposite Lee Sedol to play the "facade" of AlphaGo, helping it win the game.
Comment: Artificial intelligence is getting more and more awesome.
2. Tmall supports local brands to hold pig reading styles, and you can eat the freshest local products in the New Year
According to January 5, in the past two years, Alibaba New Year's Festival has helped more and more local specialty sales, allowing farmers to enjoy the dividends of the e-commerce era. It not only drives a large number of local villagers to find employment and get rid of poverty, but also broadens a new path for targeted poverty alleviation in rural e-commerce. On the morning of January 4, to celebrate the entry of local pigs in Xiangxi, traditional cured food and rode the "Ali New Year's Festival" to enter thousands of households. A novel and prosperous "pig reading style" was happily staged with the participation of all villagers.
Comment: New Year’s goods festival is another big battle.
3. How to arrange delivery and after-sales service during the Spring Festival holiday? Taobao announces the latest Spring Festival shipping rules!
According to January 5, Taobao issued an announcement on the 2017 Spring Festival delivery time and transaction timeout adjustment, and made special regulations on the 2017 Spring Festival (January 20 to February 5, 2017) sellers' delivery time, transaction timeout, etc. (including PC and wireless). In terms of adjustment of delivery rules, in addition to the delivery time agreed by the buyer and seller, orders paid by consumers during the Spring Festival in 2017 (00:00:00 on January 20, 2017 to 23:59:59 on February 5, 2017), except for specific categories of global shopping, home decoration main materials, basic building materials, residential furniture, home appliances, and maternal and infant industries, the seller must ship the goods before 23:59:59 on February 8, 2017. The delivery time shall be based on the time recorded in the express company system. In terms of refund/after-sale timeout adjustment, the timeout timeout was extended respectively. For example, on the refund timeout (before the transaction is successful), the timeout for waiting for the seller or buyer to confirm and modify is uniformly adjusted to 15 days; the buyer has returned the goods, and the timeout for waiting for the seller to confirm the receipt is uniformly adjusted to 20 days (the regular mail remains unchanged); the timeout for the buyer to confirm the receipt of the re-issue product is uniformly adjusted to 20 days. On the after-sales timeout (after the transaction is successful), the timeout that waits for the seller or buyer to confirm and modify is uniformly adjusted to 15 days; the buyer has returned the goods, and the timeout that waits for the seller to confirm and receive is uniformly adjusted to 20 days; the timeout that waits for the buyer to confirm and complete the timeout that the buyer can adjust to 30 days.
Comment: Sellers should pay attention to informing buyers.
4. New local regulations have been introduced, and delivery guys are also going to take the job exam?
On January 5, the newly revised "Regulations on Punishment of Road Traffic Safety Illegals in Shenzhen Special Economic Zone" emphasizes the need to strengthen the management of non-motor vehicles in the express delivery and food delivery industry; traffic police in Shanghai, Qingdao and other places have successively carried out special rectification of electric vehicles in the express delivery and food delivery industry. This means that takeaway and express delivery practitioners may become the next key targets.
Comment: It must be standardized, but it cannot become bloated and increase industry costs.
5. Consumption tax adjustment, imported cosmetics finally reduced prices after New Year's Day
According to January 5, the new policy on cosmetics consumption tax will be implemented from October 1 last year. Ordinary beauty and modification cosmetics are exempt from consumption tax, while the consumption tax rate for high-end cosmetics has been reduced from 30% to 15%. More than three months after the new policy was announced, some big-name cosmetics have finally quietly lowered their prices after New Year's Day. The reporter visited several shopping malls and found that some cosmetics have indeed started price adjustments, with varying adjustment ranges.
Comment: The reduction in the consumption tax rate will lead to a reduction in the price of high-end cosmetics abroad. The price gap between domestic and foreign cosmetics will be narrowed, reducing the burden on consumers and helping to guide consumers to flow back. At the same time, it is likely to affect the purchasing agency industry.
6. Mobike's new round of financing exceeds US$200 million, led by Tencent and Huaping, and new shareholders such as Ctrip and TPG entered the market.
On January 5, the smart shared bicycle platform Mobike announced that it would complete a new round of (D round) of US$215 million (approximately RMB 1.5 billion) equity financing. Tencent and Warburg Pincus led the investment in this round, and newly introduced strategic and financial investors include Ctrip, Huazhu, TPG, etc.; existing shareholders such as Sequoia and Hillhouse all followed up on this round of financing. Huaxing Capital, a leading domestic full-business investment bank, provides Mobike with exclusive financial advisory services in the shared bicycle industry. Wang Xiaofeng, co-founder and CEO of Mobike, said: "In the new year, we will accelerate domestic and overseas expansion, export Chinese local innovation to the world, and bring the gift of Mobike smart shared bicycles to more cities and users around the world."
Comment: Shared bicycles are the hottest capital battlefield at present.
7. The WeChat public account’s praise funds will be adjusted to settlement in 7 days
According to January 5th, in order to better protect the interests of Praise users, starting from January 11, 2017, Praise funds will be adjusted to settle in 7 days. During the settlement period, if any violations such as abuse of the appreciation function are found in the account, the platform can freeze the appreciation funds in a timely manner, protect the rights and interests of the appreciation users, and improve the security of the appreciation funds.
Comment: Affected by the Roll incident?
8. JD Finance joins China UnionPay, and the two parties plan to cooperate in multiple fields
On January 4, China UnionPay and JD Finance signed a cooperation agreement in Beijing, announcing that JD Finance’s payment company has officially become a member agency of China UnionPay’s acquisition. It is reported that after this cooperation, JD Finance’s payment company Online Banking Online will officially become a member institution of China UnionPay’s collection of bills and can carry out online and offline collection of bills for UnionPay cards. According to the cooperation agreement, the two parties will also cooperate in payment product innovation, joint cards, rural finance and other aspects, and will seek cooperation in more fields such as big data services and international business.
Comment: Can JD Finance pose a threat to Alipay?
9. Pornographic information is spread through online stores and Baidu network disk, and thousands of G updates are updated every day.
According to January 5th, recently, a reporter's investigation found that Taobao online stores and Baidu online disk still have a large number of behaviors of spreading obscene information. The reporter spent only 65 yuan to purchase more than 6,000 videos, more than 80,000 pictures, 1,100 text novels, and 4,362 audio novels from multiple Taobao stores. Most of the content is pornographic information, with a total data volume of 4,509GB.
Comment: Relevant platforms should take the initiative to shoulder the responsibilities of supervision and cleaning up.
10. AliExpress will clean up fake capacity batteries on sale on the platform starting today
According to January 4, from today (January 4, 2017), battery products will be switched to special inspections, and sellers whose sales capacity does not match the description will be severely punished. According to the announcement of AliExpress on December 30, 2016, the platform will strengthen supervision of the capacity of Consumer Electronics > Accessories & Parts > Batteries industry, and severe penalties will be imposed on illegal products and related accounts in accordance with the rules of "inconsistent description and serious product incorrect version".
Comment: There are more and more cleaning up and rectification, which is a good thing for honest merchants.
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