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A series of actions by Taobao caught ebay by surprise. Shao Yibo was going back to the United States, but since eBay was sold to eBay, he moved to the United States. He has been running on both sides, and now he has to stay.

Faced with the network channel being strangled by the Dafeng Group, eBay is almost the only channel left with Yahoo. After all, Taobao would go to some personal small websites to advertise. As an international company, eBay wants to save face. Therefore, we can only increase the investment in TV advertisements and outdoor advertisements. In the face of Taobao’s 100 million share activity, eBay also immediately launched a limited-time red envelope activity, with a maximum of 68 yuan in red envelopes. develop.

It's a pity that there is one more thing that ebay didn't grasp well.

Since the end of May, when you turn on the TV, you can indeed see a lot of eBay advertisements, but at the same time, there are also a lot of eBay news.

"Hi everyone, here is 1818 Golden Eye. Mr. Li bought 5 USB flash drives with a total value of 780 yuan on eBay. However, he did not receive the goods after waiting for half a month. When Mr. Li contacted the seller again, he found that his mobile phone It has been shut down and the information has been erased from eBay. When Mr. Li appealed to eBay, eBay told Mr. Li that he could pay him 300 yuan.

But Mr. Li said that he could not accept the platform's solution. Let's see what Mr. Li said. "

"I think ebay is completely shirking responsibility. I bought things on ebay because I saw ebay's advertisements. ebay clearly stated in the advertisement that it has a strict review mechanism for sellers. Consumers can rest assured on ebay Purchase products on.

Now the seller is cheating through eBay. I have followed the instructions of the platform from the beginning to the end. As a result, after being cheated on the platform, the platform can only pay me less than half of the money. This must be unreasonable, right?

And I was really cautious when I bought things. I looked at ebay for a long time, and there was no risk warning at all. If you say that we are just a platform from the beginning and do not guarantee the security of transactions, then I I won't ask you for compensation, the problem is that you keep saying it's safe, but now it's not safe, and you say you can only be a little more responsible? "

"Mr. Li hopes to get a more reasonable solution from the eBay platform. For this reason, we connected with lawyer Jin from Hangzhou Tianliang Law Firm to see what lawyer Jin has to say."

"As a platform for publishing product advertisements, eBay must abide by my country's "Advertising Law". The law stipulates that if false advertisements are published to deceive and mislead consumers, and the legitimate rights and interests of consumers who purchase goods or receive services are damaged, the advertiser shall be responsible. Bear civil liability in accordance with the law; advertising operators and publishers who know or should know that the advertisement is false but still design, produce, and publish shall bear joint and several liabilities in accordance with the law.

The online fee trading area set up by the Internet is similar to the big market in real life. If a customer suffers a loss by shopping at a stall in a big market, the big market itself must bear joint and several liabilities.

In terms of joint liability, depending on the specific circumstances, eBay said that I will only pay part of the compensation, which is fine, but in this case we must see that the more important point is that eBay's own advertising is obviously misleading and untrue. eBay is no longer just a matter of joint liability, so Mr. Li can ask eBay for additional compensation for his own losses. "

Similar news suddenly broke out during this period, and it was spread on TV and on the Internet.

eBay adopts the method of setting up a security fund to solve the problem of merchant fraud. The so-called security fund means that the platform will lose money to you if the user is cheated, but no matter what the situation is, it will not fully compensate, but only pay according to the circumstances. According to the entire transaction process , Some pay more and some pay less, but users must bear at least 100 or more losses, that is, fraud within 100, eBay does not pay.

Obviously, users don’t buy it, because at this moment in 2005, most consumers’ online shopping products cost tens of dollars, and people really dare not buy things that are too expensive online, and they will go to physical stores to buy them. .

Shao Yibo's head is getting bigger recently, the company has a lot of lawyers' letters every day, and the media block the door, he made the decision to introduce PayPal in China, but after communicating with Whitman, this is not a short-term Even if things are done, even if they are to be done, just one approval will be exhausting.

However, eBay's recent decline from market share to market reputation is a bit unbearable. In early June, Shao Yibo was directly interviewed by the relevant department.

The requirement of the interview is to solve the problem of a large number of fake merchants on eBay, find a way to protect the property safety of users, or pay in full, but full compensation is obviously unrealistic, and full compensation can kill eBay .

Shao Yibo, who returned to the company, was even more tired. Recently, there were news about eBay scams on Fengxin's hot search every day. The key is that Dafeng Group can't be bought with money at all. What's more, it happened to be Huaxia in 2005. Advertisements have been cracked down for years, because there were too many messy and false advertisements in the past few years, which caused public grievances, and the country can no longer control it.

Then, ebay went directly to CCTV as a model of false propaganda.

On June 15, Meng Qian paid attention to the situation of eBay and Taobao from time to time as usual.

"Mr. Meng, I feel that you are in a good mood every time you watch eBay news." Su Tianyue, who was tidying up at the side, couldn't help but tease.

Meng Qian didn't hide it, "The Dafeng Group has been bullied every day in foreign competition these years, and it's hard to fight against these international companies in the base camp, so that they can taste what home court advantage is."

"Dong dong dong." While talking, He Yating knocked on the door and came in, "Mr. Meng, Shao Yibo just contacted us and said he wanted to see you."

"Shao Yibo?" Meng Qian quickly recalled some information about Shao Yibo, "Ask him to have dinner tonight."

"good."

Shao Yibo, the founder of eBay, may not be very familiar to many people, but he is indeed a legendary figure. He is known as a big-headed prodigy. He was exposed to mathematics at the age of 3, and began to learn calculus and linear algebra at the age of 5. He won more than a dozen national mathematics competitions in middle school. He received a Harvard scholarship in the second year of high school and went directly to Harvard to study. After graduation, he was invited to Boston, one of the two most famous consulting companies in the world. In just two years, he became the youngest and best Chinese employee in Boston's history.

After returning to China in 1999, he founded eBay, and founded Jingwei Huaxia in 2007. Its investments include well-known companies such as Anjuke, Baofengyingyin, Bona, Liepin.com, Ele.me, and Momo.

Ma Yun once said in an exclusive interview with "Fortune Life" that if Shao Yibo hadn't sold eBay, he would definitely not have done Taobao, because he couldn't win, and he succeeded by stepping on Shao Yibo's shoulders.

No matter how polite Boss Ma's words are, being able to comment on Shao Yibo in this way in a public interview, coupled with Shao Yibo's own resume, shows that this person is capable.

Although netizens in later generations judge heroes by results, many netizens belittled Shao Yibo as worthless.

The most people ridicule is how can such an awesome person sell eBay? Whether it is his own statement or others in the circle, it is because he loves his wife too much. He returned to China in 1999 to accompany his wife In 2003, I sold eBay and went to settle in the United States to accompany my wife, and I returned to China for the second time to accompany my wife.

Later, the reason why he became an investment company instead of starting his own business was to give more time to his wife and children.

Shao Yibo did lose in eBay, but looking at his life history, Meng Qian would still label him a talent.

That night, Meng Qian met Shao Yibo face to face for the first time.

After some courtesies with each other, Meng Qian's first impression of him was indeed like rumors, a bit Buddhist, a bit literary, not much talk, but he was straightforward when he spoke.

Meng Qian felt quite comfortable chatting with Shao Yibo, and they chatted for a long time until Shao Yibo named him, "Mr. Meng, we want to buy your Taobao shares."

Meng Qian deliberately smiled, Shao Yibo spoke directly, and Meng Qian followed suit, "Mr. Shao is joking, right? We have just cooperated with Ali, and now you want me to stab a knife in the back?"

"Mr. Meng is serious. It's just a normal business transaction. When Microsoft and Linux had the worst fight two years ago, Intel also opened up the interface for Linux. At that time, many media used the word betrayal, but now Microsoft and Intel, Isn't it still the strongest alliance in everyone's eyes?

For the commercial development of an enterprise, it is impossible to completely sever ties with other enterprises just because of a certain cooperation, right? "

"Mr. Shao's analysis is reasonable, but I don't think I have any reason to sell Taobao's shares to you now."

"10 billion." Shao Yibo directly quoted.

"Mijin?"

"Mr. Meng doesn't have to tease you on purpose." Shao Yibo laughed.

In less than two years, 300 million has changed to 10 billion. This is the reason why Sun Zhengyi wanted to sell it to eBay. However, Meng Qian's expression became serious and he didn't care. The value that Taobao can create for me in the future is definitely more than 10 billion soft sister coins, if the unit is not Mijin, to be honest, I am not tempted at all.”

Shao Yibo seemed to be confirming the authenticity of Meng Qian's words from Meng Qian's eyes and expression, "What if you add eBay's shares?"

Now Meng Qian found it a bit interesting, "Ebay is willing to give us shares in Dafeng Group?"

"Mr. Meng, if Dafeng Group's cooperation with Taobao is really for international competition, why don't you choose to cooperate with eBay? EBay's ready-made international market is there. Even if Taobao can continue to develop in China, how about in the international market? Do you really think that Taobao, which has lost its local advantages, will be competitive in the international market?"

Meng Qian just wanted to answer that he suddenly realized something was wrong. Although it is normal for allies to be a little bit betrayed, after all, the enterprise is mainly based on its own self-interest, but how long have the four empires cooperated? Ebay spent a lot of money to find me to buy Taobao However, it doesn’t make sense to take the initiative to find yourself for global cooperation and give up the shares to yourself. eBay has not been forced to do so at all, and eBay has developed well in the international arena. Well, his cooperation with Microsoft is also going well outside of China.

Reminiscing about Shao Yibo's character history, Meng Qian suddenly recalled that Shao Yibo's negotiation today may be carrying private goods, and Shao Yibo who can speak straight to the point is so tactful, if Meng Qian's guess is correct, it can be seen that he Also really don't know how to speak.

Meng Qian suddenly said softly, "Boss Shao looks very tired."

Meng Qian switched accounts, and Meng Da flickered and went online.