The reporter of "Financial Investigation" learned that some businesses sell pets through online live broadcasts, and the pets in the live broadcast room are very energetic, lively and cute, but there will be problems about 7 days after buying home, such as vomiting, coughing, blood in the stool, and even death.
Buy fans, make jokes, and fake bargaining
The live broadcast room of pet sales is full of routines
Many consumers reported on the Internet that they had bought a "pet of the week" in the live broadcast room, and the pet passed away within a week after arriving home.
The reporter of "Financial Investigation" came to the pet market in Pei County, Jiangsu, where many purchasing agents engaged in online pet trading gathered.
The purchasing agent told reporters that in their industry, if they want to make money, the health of pets is not important, the key is to make short videos of pets.
These daigou admitted that most of their jokes were bargaining in the process of performing Taogou. In the pet market in Pei County, an online purchasing agent is "bargaining" live broadcast, and the price has been cut from 1,400 yuan to 900 yuan. However, the lady who seems to be a merchant in the camera is not the boss, but another purchasing agent who cooperates with the acting.
Daigou emphasized that it is not important how to really choose a healthy pet for consumers, buying fans, making jokes, raising accounts, and pretending to be an experienced daigou is the first step for them to successfully embark on the road of selling pets.
Experienced purchasing agents told reporters that in order to make money, they have to act like they are on the side of consumers, and the people in the market are all actors, and their acting skills are very high.
When bargaining on behalf of the purchase, the merchant shouted that the price was inflated, and then told the purchasing agent the reserve price through gestures that could not be seen on the live broadcast camera, and the two tacitly performed the bargaining drama between the high price and the reserve price, setting a trap for the buyer.
The purchase agent will collect a deposit before negotiating, turning the audience in the live broadcast room into friends in WeChat. Before selling your pet, the agent will ask if you want to do a pet health test at your own expense. If the consumer spends money on the test here, if the pet is found to be unhealthy within 24 hours of landing, it can be returned and exchanged. If you don't do a health test, only ensure that your pet is healthy and doesn't die on the road. The cost of the three tests is only 18 yuan, while the purchase price is 120 yuan.
In order to show the authenticity of the physical examination, some purchasing agents will also film the entire process of the physical examination.
Falsification of medical examinations and false claims of vaccination
Daigou and merchants join forces to deceive consumers
In the process of filming pet physical examinations, it was clear that the results of "canine parvovirus" and "canine coronavirus" were positive, and the purchasing agent turned a blind eye and gave the conclusion that the pet was very healthy in the video, blinding the buyer.
After the agent left the store, the merchant told reporters that the test results just now were adjusted by themselves, this kind of test is actually a show, no matter what the test results are, the agent will give a healthy conclusion.
Doctors in regular pet hospitals pointed out that young pets have an incubation period after being infected with viruses such as canine plague and parvo, and the pets that look lively in the video may not show clinical symptoms until a few days later, and then gradually worsen.
In addition to the sales of words, the fraud of pet physical examinations, in the process of live webcasting, some pet online purchasing agents will also lie about the vaccination status of pets.
In fact, about the real situation of vaccination, the purchasing agent himself does not know, does not care, and has no way to track it.
Not only did the live broadcast room lie about the vaccination status, but some pet purchasing agents would also falsify the pet's vaccination record in order to better promote the small pets in their hands.
The reporter came to the Huakang Pet Hospital inside the pet market in Pei County, where the staff carefully took out a blank vaccination record book from the bottom of the shelf, and asked the reporter about the pet's date of birth, gender, and breed, and wrote the date of injection, and pasted the vaccine sticker, signed and stamped, and sold it to the reporter at a unit price of 5 yuan, and stressed to the reporter that the vaccination record book should not be declared to the outside world that the vaccination record book was purchased from him.
At the Pei County Pet Market, not only pet hospitals are selling vaccination record books, but also shops are selling vaccination record books.
A pet network purchasing staff told reporters that in the pet market in Pei County, healthy pets generally account for only three percent, buyers receive sick pets, looking for purchasing theory, purchasing agents will generally use procrastination routines, three months later and then send new pets past. Generally, consumers forget about it when it drags on for three months.
The online shopping business is booming, and the reporter found some farmers in Pei County. Farmers told reporters that because of the good sales of the purchasing agents, their pets will be sold when they are about a month old, and because the pets are too young, farmers generally will not vaccinate their pets. also told reporters that when selling pets, the smaller ones should say that they have received two shots, and the older ones will say that the vaccines are complete, in short, they can't tell the truth.
Take risks and make profits in violation of regulations
Pet transportation is dedicated to night travel Pet health is full of hidden dangers
According to the reporter's observation, in the Pei County pet market, once the buyer pays the amount, the purchasing agent will immediately send the pet to the transportation point here. Every evening, the pets are transported around the country in airtight vans by transport merchants.
For the health of the transported pets, whether there are hidden dangers that threaten the health of pets during the transportation process, the transportation business does not care at all.
The mainland has strict regulations on the transportation of pets.
The reporter found that there are about 5 transport businesses in the pet market in Pei County, and every evening, these merchants will load the pets sent by the purchasing agents into a closed van, and then transport them to the transfer station not far from the market. Whether it's a long-distance bus station or a wholesale market for small commodities, animals are being transported secretly.
Without any anti-epidemic testing and no registration, these transport operators know that their actions are illegal, but in order to seek profits, these car owners will choose night transportation to avoid supervision.