In recent years, the entertainment industry has been in chaos, from the tax evasion of stars such as Fan Bingbing-Zheng Shuang-Weiya-Deng Lun to the fines imposed on suspected pyramid schemes by zhang Ting and his wife, all of which seem to tell us that China is not an extralegal place.
According to the exclusive news of Red Star News, Red Star Capital Bureau learned from informed sources that the secret operating entity of the TST Court has been determined by the market supervision department to constitute the illegal act of organizing and planning pyramid schemes, and has been confiscated 19.2799 million yuan of illegal gains and fined 1.7 million yuan.
Hubei Baokang County Market Supervision and Administration Bureau determined that from January 1, 2018 to July 2021, the revenue of related companies in the main business involving pyramid schemes totaled 9.171 billion yuan and the profit was 19.2799 million yuan.
On April 7, a person who had been a secret dealer of the TST Court revealed to the Red Star Capital Bureau that the Baokang County Market Supervision and Administration Bureau had imposed an administrative penalty on the operator of the TST Court secret in September 2021.
The pyramid scheme has only been exposed now, and it is related to the pyramid scheme model of Zhang Ting and his wife
According to public information, the main company operating the brand "TST Court Secret" is Shanghai Dalway Trading Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Dalway Company"), which was founded in 2013 by celebrities Zhang Ting and Lin Ruiyang, focusing on cosmetics and skin care products. The bonus system developed by Dalway distinguishes members into temporary card, blue card member, and red card member. Temporary cards can only purchase products, Blue Card members are general consumers, and there is no pyramid scheme in the bonus system for Blue Card members.
However, the bonus system implemented by the red card members of Dalway Company requires the developed personnel to develop other personnel to join, form an up-downline relationship, and calculate and pay the up-line remuneration based on the sales performance of the downline, which is the situation referred to in the relevant provisions of the "Prohibition of Pyramid Scheme Regulations" and is a pyramid scheme.
There are four criteria for determining whether it is a pyramid scheme
One: Illegal pyramid schemes to pull people's heads for profit. The blue card and red card have in common that they enjoy an additional reward of 160 yuan for the first time when they have a single monthly performance of 2500 yuan. However, the bonus system of blue card and red card is far from the same, so the agent will strongly recommend the newcomer to upgrade to the red card agent in the promotion process.
Among them, only the red card agent is divided into A, B, C, D, E, F six levels, the salary is composed of three parts: individual performance commission, team batch zero difference bonus, and self-media education promotion award. The deceived mothers can only fall deeper and deeper in the pulling of people's heads.
Two: There is no high entrance fee. In illegal pyramid schemes, participants are encouraged to join by any means to earn profits by paying high entry fees or being required to subscribe to a certain number of products first as a condition of paying high entry fees in disguise. The company's profits are also mainly based on entry fees, which is actually a disguised financing behavior.
Three: whether to set up a store to operate. Operators of illegal pyramid schemes engage in shopless or "underground" business activities through the development of personnel and the organization of networks.
Fourth: whether the remuneration is distributed according to work. Illegal pyramid schemes solicit personnel to engage in disguised pyramid schemes by using high returns as bait, and the participants' uplines are paid from the offline entrance fees or so-called performances.
TST claims that there is no need to hoard goods, but in fact, it is easy for agents to consume and hoard goods in order to maintain sales qualifications and commission ratios; TST claims zero cost, but to become a high-level agent, is it necessary to constantly develop people and expand performance? This does not get rid of the problem of "pulling people's heads".
MLM and moms are deeply involved
After the storm, it had to be pyramid schemes layer by layer, resulting in more and more people being deceived
In the TST agent group chat, Xiaohua said that there is a taboo in the group chat, that is, it cannot be said that the "negative energy" such as TST products are not easy to use, and if it is said, it will be kicked out of the group immediately. Once, in the "founder" group of Zhang Ting and his wife, someone pointed out the company's problems and was immediately kicked. Later, the man privately apologized to Lin Ruiyang before being pulled back.
Zhang Ting and his wife's pyramid scheme has to be said to have a set, two in life, two in three, three in life, claiming to earn money for children and grandchildren.
In TST, a person's income comes from the team's sales performance rebate, the sales performance is divided into F, F1, E to A and other 7 levels, each person's income is composed of three parts: personal sales performance rebate, batch zero difference after the first and second level of downline sales and media promotion bonus.
Take the D-level team leader as an example, such a team performance requirement is 7,000 yuan to 20,000 yuan per month, the overall sales commission of the team is 26%, if the team performance in a certain month is 10,000 yuan, of which the team leader sold 2,000 yuan, the first and second level downline sold 8,000 yuan, then the 2,000 yuan part, the team leader can get 26% of the commission, 8,000 yuan part is also 26% of the commission, but according to a certain proportion to the first and second level downline, the rest of the money belongs to the team leader, that is, the so-called batch zero difference. In addition, as a team leader, you can also get 5% of the overall performance as a media promotion award.
Xiaohua's online line told her that as long as she becomes a founder, she can make a lot of money, but becoming a founder has sales performance requirements, so Xiaohua can only swipe credit card loans to buy the next level of goods, that is, hoarding goods. After becoming the founder, I found that the founder also has a performance appraisal, to sell 100,000 yuan for several months, otherwise it will be deprived of the founder's membership, so this time can only continue to fission the next level of people, if you can not reach the performance of the sales, you take money to buy goods until you reach the performance.
Later, the ordinary team calculated the performance of the model from three levels to two levels, that is, the performance of the "grandchildren" in the "grandchildren" is no longer counted into the performance of the team leader, when the state stipulates three levels of non-compliance with this rebate model, this operation down the TST rebate model looks flawless, but the TST internal 7 level rebate standard has never changed, which actually makes it more difficult for us to make money, so everyone can only be more crazy to let the people below buy products. It is possible that a person only needs to paste a mask a few times a week, but in order to achieve sales performance in a crazy way, so major e-commerce platforms are advertising that it is necessary to paste several pieces a day to have an effect.
Popular reviews and many complaints about TST's products are doomed to extinction
According to the "Consumer Report", a number of consumers complained to it, saying that after using TST live yeast products, there were different degrees of allergic reactions, and abnormal symptoms such as hard pimples and acne appeared on the face.
The Beijing News also reported that a netizen named "Happy Zhou Yaya" on Weibo was "disfigured" after using TST for three consecutive months, and the hospital diagnosed skin allergies and inflammation, but Shanghai Dalway Company claimed to be detoxifying. When it was guided by its doctor to restore its skin health, TST claimed in the publicity that it was recovering after using its company's products.
"Consumer Report" found that Shanghai Dalway in the State Food and Drug Administration of 43 products, a total of 30 products marked "not recorded", 13 of the 30 products that have not been filed are in normal sales, and another 31 products are marked with "order correction".
According to the interface news, on September 11 this year, consumers complained on the black cat: on September 1, TST products were signed, No. 3 began to use, No. 4 skin appeared slightly itchy, No. 6 and No. 7 began to expand the pores of the whole face, and the facial skin itched and reddish; No. 9 could not accept the tingling sensation and stopped using, but the problem did not improve significantly. On the 10th, the customer service was requested to solve the problem, and since then the customer service has been letting wait. As of now, the status of this complaint message is still "processing".
However, in the official website of TST's e-commerce platform, such as the Taobao TST Court secret enterprise store, the comments of related products are peaceful, and few negative reviews are revealed.
On the Little Red Book, a formulator jiang Xiaozi, who is certified as a popular science author of Lilac Doctor, questioned the formula of TST products.
Jiang Xiaozi proposed that the TST brand focuses on live yeast, but the industry clearly stipulates that live probiotics cannot be added to cosmetics, because adding this ingredient can not effectively prevent embalming, and may also cause other microbial pollution to irritate the skin and cause rotten face.
In addition, the "collagen rebound" claimed by TST products is only an illusion created by thickeners and skin-sensitive regulators (modified corn starch, carbomer). The patents that the brand has been promoting are only directly mixing the raw materials of each family. Such a patent is more like applying for an agent to see. All kinds of ear-covering behaviors have made TST products continue to enter the eyes of female consumers.
The star effect and the clever "brainwashing" party of Mr. and Mrs. Zhang Ting
Celebrities have always been a positive image in the eyes of the public, everyone has their favorite stars, and the products endorsed by celebrities are often trusted, which has a great role in the rapid development of TST.
In 2014, Fan Bingbing and Liu Tao sent a Weibo to help Zhang Ting publicize the use of pictures of live yeast masks, and in the same year, Xu Zheng and Tao Hong directly interacted with Zhang Ting and @Ting on Weibo, and since then the two couples have been deeply tied.
Around 2018, stars such as Lin Chiling, Luo Zhixiang, Ming Dao, and Wang Dongcheng all stood on the platform of the brand. In 2019, TST also specially sponsored the variety show interface "Extreme Challenge".
Some lawyers said that if the celebrity knows that the TST court secret has a pyramid scheme nature and still endorses it, then it will also receive legal responsibility.
It is rumored that TST's secret brand side will hold a national event about every two months, sometimes the brand's annual meeting, sometimes a cruise ship tour, sometimes a celebrity concert. Looking back now, these are all gimmicks, in fact, let you listen to those people on stage to share, how they secretly changed their lives through the TST court, and even the fate of the entire family has changed. Those people are very eloquent, and they are in tears, really crying while talking.
Under this kind of "chicken blood", the agents and mothers who are deeply involved in it have completely lost the ability to judge.
The collapse of the micro-business empire and the past of Zhang Ting and his wife
Zhang Ting was already a little red in the film and television circle before doing micro-business, I remember the role she played in "The Legend of Wu Meiniang", before which she appeared in the same drama with multiple stars, Zhang Ting became a messy "costume first beauty" in the early 21st century, a well-known "dimple goddess".
The drama she played, it is no exaggeration to say that she occupied the childhood of the post-90s.
As for Lin Ruiyang, don't look at him now full of white hair, when he was young, he was Qiong Yao's royal male protagonist, "Taiwan's first young student." ”
The most famous role is Chu Lian in Chen Derong's version of "A Curtain of Dreams".
In the year of Zhang Ting's debut, Lin Ruiyang met "Taiwan Xiaohua Dan" and "Student Lover" Zeng Zhezhen.
Zeng Zhezhen, who thought that Lin Ruiyang was blocking their mother and son in front of them in the wind and rain of life, turned his head and was ruthlessly pushed away by her husband.
In 1998, photos of Lin Ruiyang and Zhang Ting traveling to Beijing together were exposed, and public opinion was in an uproar.
In order to throw the pot, Lin Ruiyang's agent called Zhang Ting "spider spirit seduced Tang Sanzang", forcing Zhang Ting to develop a press conference to complain, "I just want to work well, why bully me, don't you see me working so hard?" ”
Lin Ruiyang, who is firmly divorced from his ex-wife, said, "I will not marry another woman in my life."
Zhang Ting, who pretended to be innocent and pitiful, declared, "I will never marry Lin Ruiyang in my life."
However, ten years later, Lin Ruiyang and Zhang Ting secretly received the certificate and the face was cracked.
Lin Ruiyang even said, "Whoever says that Zhang Ting is Xiao San will definitely sue him in court." ”
But according to the summary of netizens at that time, things do not seem to be the same thing
The exposure of MLM is thanks to Li Xu's anti-MLM team
Anti-MLM activist Li Xu and his team have been asked at least two years ago about whether the companies owned by Lin Ruiyang and Zhang Ting are suspected of pyramid schemes, but they have not been able to understand them in depth because they have not had detailed information for a long time. In April 2021, Xiaohua (pseudonym), a user who had joined the team for more than 5 years, consulted Li Xu's team and reported it to the relevant departments. On December 23, Li Xu wrote a letter to the Shijiazhuang Yuhua District Market Supervision and Administration Bureau to verify and received a reply. Subsequently, after media reports, this incident appeared on the hot search.
In fact, at the end of last year, the secret of the TST court was already in jeopardy, but due to the investigation and notification of the superiors, it has not been determined until now.
People's Daily once commented that Zhang Ting and his wife's company were suspected of pyramid schemes, requiring relevant institutions and network platforms to strengthen technical screening, tear open the packaging vests to govern various online and offline pyramid schemes, and strike hard and cannot be stopped, digging deep to see results.
Only the current public data seems to be so unreal, in the main business involving pyramid schemes on the total revenue of 9.171 billion yuan, profit of 19.2799 million yuan. This data no one dares to believe, more than 9 billion profits are only such a little, one thousandth of the profit, do you dare to believe?
If it is only this data, then even if the micro-business empire collapses, Zhang Ting and his wife still have a large number of assets to spend the rest of their lives happily.
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