Except for the scalpers who mixed into the residential herd
And unreliable logistics drivers
The most tiring thing for the regimental commander
In fact, it is still the attitude of the residents
After half a month of sealing, Fiona stepped down as the head of her own community and instead only did what she could for a small group purchase for the neighbors in the building.
"The community has become a small society, how complex human nature is, I have clearly realized in the past two weeks."
The tiredness of the regiment leader is not only for the group purchase statistics, collection of money, and receipt of goods.
This was also the first time since she was so old that she felt that lack of food could have such a great impact on her body and mind.
Here's What Fiona said:
01
Scalpers mixed into the community
Unauthorized PS official poster price
Our community belongs to Jing'an Temple Street, a very small old community, the whole group is only more than 100 people, so it is difficult to form a group at the beginning.
In my observation, most residents are still too optimistic, and only prepared food for four or five days when the lockdown began on April 1. The elderly will be slightly better, and there are more at home.
So on April 6, there was no sign of unsealing, everything in the house was eaten, and some young people were obviously anxious and began to ask if there was any group purchase. My own refrigerator was very small, and at that time, things were almost consumed, so I began to help everyone buy in groups.
At first, I didn't want to be the leader of the regiment, but I found that no one really stood up to do it, and the bolder people launched the solitaire, but what did the dragon do after the dragon? How to count, pay, and pick up goods? No one in the group dared to speak, and in the end it was impossible to buy.
I am still more cautious, in Shanghai to find some formal group buying channel posters, sent to the group to ask everyone's intentions, study how to use the fast group to collect money.
Soon, the first order was formed, it was a 160 yuan beef set, the threshold was relatively low, and 30 pieces could be ordered.
Those few days were just the fire of group buying, and many things were chaotic. Residents are in a hurry, and some people are in a hurry to go to the doctor, and it is easy to fall into the trap of scalpers.
There have been similar things in our community.
A resident sent a lot of links to the group, bread, eggs, vegetables, fruits, milk these categories are covered, said "have friends" can help us buy, can be urgent delivery on the same day.
One of his links was a group purchase package from an established local bakery with a price tag of 78 yuan. But in fact, the bakery released in Shanghai on the official channel, the same package as long as 58 yuan.
This matter was discovered by another resident of ours, the screenshot was sent to the group, but the information was brushed up and no one saw it, but this "regiment leader" must have seen it - the next day he sent out the "official poster", 58 yuan was obviously PS into 78 yuan.
We later realized that this is the scalper middleman taking advantage of the chaos to raise the price, sent to our kind of elderly community, many people do not understand, or will feel that a little more expensive it is a little more expensive, can have to eat.
This happens again and again, 98 yuan of vegetable sets, the price P into 138 yuan to take in the group; a few oranges a few oranges plus a box of cashew nuts, to sell 220 yuan a box ...
Not only do I have to polish my eyes when docking external resources, but I also need to guard against such barbs and undercovers around me at any time, and scalpers will infiltrate the residents through this method and take the opportunity to make a big difference.
02
"The chickens are too late to lay eggs"
Dough beef turned out to be a show off?
The risk of these scalpers mixed in is very large, we later stipulated that you can not just take a link and throw it in, you must check the qualifications of the enterprise, if you really can't find a middleman, you must also have transfer records and identity information.
In this way, you can find a lot of cats, some "merchants" shown screenshots are very absurd, material certification documents, car passes, logistics intermediaries are different companies, this is very untrustworthy.
As the leader of the regiment, the workload in the middle is actually very large, and I have to deal with various external channels every day, and at the same time, I have to reply to the information in the group, and I have to be busy with my own work, and the energy consumption is very terrible.
But most other residents, they are still happy to be a simple consumer, do not want to study these complex processes of group buying, how to charge fast groups, nor do they want to study the prices and logistics that fluctuate every day outside.
It wasn't until after a one-time dangling that the old people understood.
Eggs are just needed, another "regiment leader" opened a high-priced egg ball, everyone waited for the arrival of the goods, but did not come for a few days.
Everyone asked the regimental commander, the regimental commander on all kinds of prevarication, one will run out of goods, one will be the driver sent the wrong goods, and even said such a surprising thing as "the chicken is too late to lay eggs", everyone cried and laughed.
After further interrogation, it turned out that this regiment was not opened by himself, but by another middleman he had found.
Finally, after waiting for 5 days, the eggs did not come, and he was forced to refund everyone under pressure.
Some scalpers will also use the "barb" to spread panic news in the residents, saying that it is so expensive outside now, and if you leave the group now, you will not be able to buy it.
I would be very serious with him: if you make the price clear, it is better to say which part is an urgent markup. But it is very excessive to create panic in this way.
Because some older people are easily intimidated, they rush to pay money and help maintain these traffickers:
"Eating fruit is good, good for the skin, the little girl should not be so angry." "Why are you still so picky?" It's good to be able to buy it. ”
I'm helping to protect everyone's rights and interests, and I'm really angry to hear these words.
In the process of becoming the leader of the regiment, I have suffered a lot of grievances. Some are misunderstandings, some are brainless rumors, and every day you can feel unexplainable malice.
Once, when I was in a ball of beef, an old man in the group actually said, "At this time, you still have to eat such expensive beef, it is almost like eating your own meat!" We should now buy group necessities, you can't use group buying as a channel for luxury and show off. ”
At that time, I was very confused, first of all, this beef is not very expensive, 160 yuan including slices of meat shredded meat, cowboy bones and a kilogram of grilled wings, it is quite cost-effective. Secondly, you don't eat it yourself, and you can't assume that everyone doesn't need it, right?
According to this logic, are fish and milk considered necessities? It is a necessity for families with young children. Men don't need sanitary napkins, but they are a necessity for women. Many people will lack such empathy and empathy.
This old man, who was also one of the people who was deceived by the egg ball just mentioned, did not wait for the eggs to come for 5 days, and was anxious.
In the end, I opened a group to help everyone buy eggs with relatively normal prices, then his attitude eased a lot, and he also took the initiative to apologize to me, meaning that there was no reaction at that time, I did not expect that Shanghai has become like this now.
In the first few days of group buying, some residents' mentality was still relatively "optimistic", "Now everyone is helping each other in the neighborhood, I think it is also very good, if there is no rice, ask the neighbors to borrow it..."
When we are busy before and after, some people will say cool words, "Find resources, I can come." ”
Then the resources he found were all the temporary products of the imported food supermarket near our community, such as a bag of chicken breast meat discounted for three or four yuan, and now it is sold for 22 yuan.
After touching the wall a few times, they knew how troublesome this matter was, so they shut up and enjoyed the joy of following the group, and it was still only me who continued to work hard.
03
Young people do their part
Rely on the alarm to rush the goods
Of course, there are enthusiastic neighbors, several group purchases, and several young people gathered around, just like a small team.
They are also elite in their respective industries, including china construction engineers, private equity fund managers, and a brand marketing like me.
The leader of the group and the group buying are like opening a company, everyone has their own strengths, I and another girl is responsible for channel development, price comparison, judging each other's qualifications, etc., the other two boys, one is responsible for data statistics, one is responsible for coordinating the distribution of volunteers, the efficiency is very high.
One of the boys, a native of Sichuan, said that in 2008, he was not so aggrieved in Shanghai this time, "There is really no food at home." ”
I also grew up so big that for the first time I felt the huge psychological impact of food scarcity.
As for group buying, the whole process is really very similar to entrepreneurship, it is from 0 to 1, and someone must be the first to stand up, so that everyone has confidence in group buying, so that more people can participate in it and unite to save themselves.
We really can only rely on ourselves, the street has eaten twice so far, once is a bunch of vegetable leaves with soil sponsored by an e-commerce platform, the second time is a small biscuit and a small can of lunch meat, what if there is no group purchase?
In this process of self-help, the relationship of trust between the residents and the regiment leader is very important, but whenever there is a problem in any link outside that causes everyone to not eat, this pressure and responsibility is very large.
The most dangerous one was that I helped everyone to group vegetables, a total of more than 60 parts, and said that they would be delivered at 4 p.m. the next day.
By the afternoon of the next day, the volunteers had begun to go downstairs in advance to put on protective clothing and prepare the killing tools, which required time to prepare in advance. I couldn't go down in the sealed control building.
As a result, the shadow of the truck was never seen, and we took turns calling the driver and never answered.
The people at the vegetable company have been sending me back messages, saying that every district intersection is checking passes, and it takes a lot of time to queue up. After a while, he said that the driver had just unloaded the goods from another residential area in Huangpu, and the next one would come to us.
As a result, we waited from 4 o'clock until 7 o'clock in the evening, and before we came, I called the police.
Strangely, I called the police at 7 o'clock, and the vegetable company immediately called to say that the driver had 20 minutes to go.
After 20 minutes, a cart of vegetables arrived "on time". Everyone began to move goods, kill, and distribute again, and there was a false alarm.
I was in a large group of regimental leaders in Puxi, and some people also encountered such a situation, according to them, it may be because the driver happens to have an empty car on the way to deliver the order, and some people will take private orders and make a lot of money.
I don't want to speculate like this, but I just hope that this situation will not happen again after that, it will really make people sweat.
It is because of the experience of all kinds of "human truths" that the leaders who were active in the early days of this group of leaders have all stepped down from their posts a few days ago.
I also gradually retreated, not wanting to carry the problem of eating hundreds of people in the whole community on my shoulders, but taking care of our small team, a small range of neighbors is enough.
In Shanghai today, every community has become a small society, and the complexity of human nature is undoubtedly revealed, and I deeply feel this.
I don't know how long this situation will last, but I only hope that I can quickly resume normal life and no longer rely on group purchases to eat enough.
I still have to stare at the logistics of delivery at any time, and I keep staring at my mobile phone indoors, and my eyes hurt.
Turning my head to look out the window, the sun was shining brightly today.
Text, Editor/Cardi C
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