Source: Nangoku Jinbao
Last summer, "Ice Cream Assassin" was hotly debated by the public,
Few people have noticed,
This summer,
It is regarded as a "lifesaver" by many people when the mobile phone runs out of battery
Shared charging treasures are becoming the new "price assassins".
In the past two days, Hangzhou citizen Ms. Gao unexpectedly found that a shared charging treasure rented in the urban area last month, charged for more than 1 hour and 30 minutes, and in April, she used the shared charging treasure of the monster charging brand twice in a row, and the total deduction of the two charges was as high as more than 50 yuan, What made her puzzled was that she obviously did not rent for a long time, why the cost was so high, by comparing the prices over the years, she found that the price of the shared charging treasure has increased, and it has risen rapidly.
So, what is the current situation of shared charging treasures on the market? In the past few days, the reporter visited many shared charging treasure use scenarios such as business districts, street convenience stores, hospitals, and popular scenic spots in the main urban area of Hangzhou, and investigated the prices of 12 different brands of shared charging treasures.
Main urban area:
Most shared charging treasures start at 4 yuan per hour
After investigation, the reporter was surprised to find that these 12 shared charging treasures, hourly rental fees, basically starting from 4 yuan, and the maximum price every 24 hours ranges from 20 yuan to 50 yuan.
The reporter scanned the code in the main urban area of the national city square and found that the shared charging treasures here are more densely distributed, mainly concentrated at the entrance of the passage and at the door of the store, the main brand is small electricity, and occasionally you can see several Meituan brand shared charging treasures. The rental price of the small electric charging treasure here is 4 yuan per hour, while the price displayed by the Meituan brand shared charging treasure in the Guoda Drum Rice Noodle Store is 2 yuan for 30 minutes, so the rental price is 4 yuan per hour. Merchants in the NUS told reporters that this price has been around for some time.
In the investigation, the reporter found that some charging treasure merchants do not write the price of 1 hour when marking the starting price, but mark 0.5 hours or 30 minutes, often giving users a "piercing not deep" illusion, a convenience store on Xinhua Road monster charging station, the rental price is displayed as 2.5 yuan for 30 minutes, and the maximum is 50 yuan every 24 hours. Some users who came to rent the charging treasure said that this price is indeed a little expensive, at first glance it looks like 2.5 yuan an hour, but they are all for emergencies," Expensive can only rent. ”
Popular Scenic Spots:
The capped fee per 24 hours varies
In popular scenic spots, will the rental price of shared charging treasure change?
Subsequently, the reporter came to the store at the entrance of Sudi on Hangzhou Nanshan Road and found that there is also a shared charging station here, belonging to the street electricity (search for electricity) brand, the rental price here is 3 yuan per 0.5 hours, less than 0.5 hours according to 0.5 to calculate, here to borrow an hour of charging treasure, it costs 6 yuan.
The battery car less than 100 meters away from the store is also placed with a shared charging station of the same street electricity brand, and the price here rises to 0.5 hours 4 yuan, that is, 8 yuan an hour, that is, not the same brand of charging treasure rental price in the same area will be the same.
According to the reporter's observation, the shared charging treasure here is not only a higher rental unit price, but also a maximum price every 24 hours, but also expensive to "piercing". The reporter visited and found that the shared charging treasure of the above two points has a maximum price of 70 yuan per 24 hours, with a total cap of 99 yuan, which is the highest 24-hour cap price of the shared charging treasure in the region. Secondly, the monster charging at the door of a nearby public toilet (Lanxin public toilet) is capped at 40 yuan every 24 hours, and the caller charging treasure in the Sudi Commissary is cheaper, with a 24-hour cap fee of 30 yuan.
Tourist Ms. Chen also complained to reporters about the bad things she had encountered in renting a charging treasure here before - according to Ms. Chen, she rented a charging treasure before, and did not pay attention to the 24-hour cap fee at that time, and as a result, at the return point near her home, Ms. Chen did not find the shared charging station of this brand, "It was not paid back at that time, but the next day I saw that I was deducted a full 70 yuan, and it was enough to buy a new one." ”
The service keeps up with the speed at which prices do not rise
The rapid rise in the value of the shared charging treasure has also been a matter of the past two years. Looking at the records of the use of shared charging treasures over the years, it is obvious that from 1 yuan and 1.5 yuan per hour in 2021 to 4 yuan today, the price of shared charging treasures has increased by as much as 3 or 4 times, which indeed exceeds the psychological expectations of many people.
The price is high, has the service kept up?
According to a survey by the Hangzhou Consumer Protection Commission, 84.7% of respondents felt that the billing price of charging treasures had risen sharply in recent years, and 56.0% of respondents said that they had encountered problems with different charging standards in different scenarios. 26.7% of respondents said that there is a problem of excessive collection and transmission of personal information without explicit or consent.
The issue of the "cost performance" of the charging treasure has always been controversial, and citizen Ms. Zhou expressed dissatisfaction with the charging speed of the shared charging treasure. "These shared charging treasures are not the same as those they bought, always feel that the charging speed is very slow, only charge a little after charging for half a day, not returning it is equivalent to users spending more and more money, and returning it feels that they have not charged much at all."
Citizen Ms. Yang also believes that she used up all the power of the power bank, and as a result, the mobile phone was only charged with 30% of the battery, and if you open big applications such as video and map navigation, the charging speed may not be able to keep up with the speed of power loss. "Once I rented a charging treasure in a restaurant, and only after eating the meal did I charge 10%, and only then did I leave the restaurant, and even the taxi was dropped without powering up, which is equivalent to throwing a sum of money in vain."
Why can the shared charging treasure be expensive to "sting"?"Arbitrarily deducted the fee, scanned the code in Lingshan Village, Shuangpu Town and borrowed a shared charging treasure, and after lending, I found that the charging treasure could not be charged, and it was returned in 4 minutes, but it was displayed that it had not been returned, and the order deducted a deposit of 99 yuan."
"I returned it and said that I didn't pay it back, I was deducted the total cap, and I found out about the deduction a month later, and the customer service said that it was not accepted for more than 30 days."
"The APP map showed that there was a place to return, but when I went to the East Station, I saw that there was no contact, and the customer service could not be contacted, and finally I was deducted money for 4 hours."
On the black cat complaint platform, the reporter saw that there were more than 100,000 complaints about the charging treasure. Looking around, it is not difficult to find that "price" has become a high-frequency hot word in the discussion.
An industry insider told reporters that because it involves direct sales points and agent points, there is actually no unified price for shared charging treasures, and as early as 2017, there have been a large number of business sharing or admission fees in the industry.
"In order to occupy the market, we have to give merchants a share." It is revealed that at present, for small businesses, charging treasure companies adopt a sharing model. Under the competition, increasing the final price of sales to users is also the most direct means.
Netizen comments
To this phenomenon
Many users have said:
It's almost out of use
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Do you use a shared power bank when you go out?
Is it acceptable for today's prices?
Source | Xiaoxiang Morning News Qianjiang Evening News
Duty Editor| Wang Tao