What should I say if my friend goes abroad and wants to purchase on behalf of others?

When studying abroad, it is inevitable to help relatives, friends and acquaintances to buy things on their behalf. Unknowingly, I have become a purchasing agent in the eyes of others

The sadness of purchasing on behalf of others is that no one knows who is doing it. If you talk about it too much, you will shed tears.

The following 8 points are for children’s shoes that are about to be purchased by international students, and also for international students who are about to become a purchasing agent.

1. Helping you is a favor, not helping you is a duty!

Helping you with purchasing is a favor. There are tuition expenses for studying abroad, and living expenses for daily life, but purchasing on behalf of others is not included. In addition to the above monetary costs, there are also time and labor costs. The purpose of studying abroad is to learn knowledge and experience life, but purchasing on behalf of others is a waste of learning and social resources to a certain extent. Buying for friends is not originally about making money. Most of the time, you still get paid. Do you think the purchasing fee of tens or hundreds of RMB is a lot? In fact, based on the exchange rate, it is less than the local minimum wage level of one hour. If you don't realize that you are owed a favor by asking a friend to purchase on your behalf and you just treat it as a business, then please pay more for the purchasing agent.

2. Don’t take advantage of your friends

When calculating the exchange rate, please consciously add 0.01. When many people give money, they use Baidu’s current exchange rate to calculate the money, even to 4 decimal places. number. Do you know the concepts of bank cash selling price and spot exchange selling price? Do you know the international remittance fees? Do you know the real-time exchange rate of VISA credit card? Do you know the risk of RMB depreciation? If you know, then please consciously calculate the exchange rate. If you don't know, please pay 0.01 extra. If you don't know, please Baidu it yourself. Moreover, your friend has to pay handling fees when he exchanges RMB for foreign currency. If your friend has never mentioned this to you, please thank him for his care

3. Purchasing on behalf of others is physical work< /p>

It needs to be specially sent, and transportation and postage are reimbursed consciously. Foreign transportation expenses are not like the 2 yuan domestic bus ride at the bottom. The main transportation is buses and trams. For example, in Australia, even if you have a student ID card, you cannot ride for free. From the time you queue up at the post office to the final delivery, you spend money and take time. All these expenditures are added together, and your friend will spend close to a hundred yuan for you. Don't think that your friend won't care about "this little money". No one's money comes from the strong wind. Besides, who doesn’t want to have a rest day to give themselves more rest? From buying things for you to going to the place where you mail things, it’s impossible to understand how many times it takes to transfer and transfer without experiencing it yourself.

4. Don’t use your friends to make money

Don’t be greedy for petty advantages and use your friends to make money. If you want to save money, it is understandable to save hundreds or thousands of money by trusting a friend, but buy one. A box of hand cream that is only 10 yuan cheaper than in mainland China is really... Some even ask friends to go all the way to buy something that costs 20 yuan... This kind of mentality of using friends to save money is somewhat acceptable. I understand, but using friends to make money is the most intolerable situation for all international students. When iPhone 6 came out, how many people wanted to get one from overseas "friends" whom they had not contacted for several years and sell it to other "friends". So I bought it from an Australian friend who only got one a few days ago, and then said he would use it himself, and finally resold it to other people. This kind of behavior of using friends to make money is really unethical!

5. Friends are not cheap movers

Planning to purchase N boxes of things? Friends are not movers. First, don’t treat them as friends. As a cheap porter, even if he is strong enough and doesn't mind, he will be inspected by the customs if he carries a large box of stuff through the border. If the customs finds that your items exceed the scope of personal use and are unopened and still valuable, this is smuggling. And this kind of behavior will be recorded, and those who repeat the crime will be blacklisted. If the consequences are more serious, please go to Du Niang to learn legal knowledge. In addition, if you ask a friend to mail it to you, please also add the taxi fare or gas fee. No one can hold N boxes of things or a heavy box of milk powder and mail it to you on foot. You know, the highest paying job abroad is labor.

6. If you don’t trust someone, don’t ask someone to buy on your behalf

Since you don’t trust them, why bother looking for a friend to buy on your behalf? Some people must ask for invoices or shopping receipts out of a sense of self-protection. But do you understand what signal you send out by doing this? You are telling your friend who has worked hard to buy things for you: I don’t trust you, because I am afraid that you are making money from me, and that I am afraid that I will suffer a loss. Since you don’t believe anything, you must find a friend? And if you attach a receipt when mailing it, it is very likely that the customs will consider it as a commodity sale. At that time, not only will your own goods be detained, but your friends may also be implicated. So since you choose to let a friend purchase on your behalf, you still need to have at least some trust.

7. Don’t regret returning the product

Pay the bill first, and don’t regret returning the product. If you really want to, please pay first. Many people get the things that others have worked hard to buy, but after comparing them with the counters, they feel dissatisfied, or the price is higher than expected, and they say they don’t want it anymore. If you ask someone who helps you to give you money and so much time, do you know how much your friend is worth for an hour there? For example, a salary of 1,000 yen per hour in Tokyo, Japan, is equivalent to 60 yuan in RMB. How do you calculate the time lost in buying things for you before and after running? If you are dissatisfied in the end and say no, then your friend will have to repay the money himself. So, no one will do such a thankless thing.

So if you want your friend to bring something, please pay the bill first!

8. Be grateful

You are friends, please be grateful. If you see this, you still don’t know how to be grateful. If so, then please don’t look for friends, but go to Taobao for professional shopping! You are afraid that Taobao is fake, so you think of asking friends to bring you genuine goods. Since you asked others to help you, you should sincerely thank them. You don’t want others to help you bring the goods, but you still go back and tell others that "your friends have earned your money", that is really too much.

Finally, let us take a look again, what are the differences between countries? How to deal with overseas students purchasing on behalf of others?

In Australia: Purchasing on behalf of others may be deported!

A Chinese student was reported by the security guard for over-purchasing Australian milk powder! The police rushed to take note of it! She issued her student ID card! And notified her school and the Immigration Bureau! The Immigration Bureau has issued a deportation warning to her!

If she commits the crime again, she will be deported immediately!

In South Korea, it is illegal for international students to purchase on behalf of others!

Except for individual international students (F-2, F-4, F-5, F-6, etc. residence status), most international students in South Korea hold Some residence statuses are "study abroad (d-2)" status. (commonly known as 'study visa') is a residence status issued to those who receive formal education or engage in specific research at educational institutions or academic research institutions above specialized universities.

In some cases, students’ purchasing behavior is to help relatives and friends, and occasionally buy some goods to mail to China. Since the activity is not continued for a period of time for the purpose of profit, it is not illegal. However, it is illegal for some international students to purchase some goods in large quantities for a long time and mail them to domestic customers through logistics.

In Japan, purchasing original drugs on behalf of others will be punished

Wang, a doctor studying in Japan, together with his wife in China, purchased and sold "Ota Weisan" and "Ota Kampo" online. Gastrointestinal medicine", "New Vitamin U Xinghe S" and other Japanese original medicines have been found guilty of selling counterfeit medicines by the court, and both husband and wife were sentenced.

The judge said that it is illegal to purchase authentic foreign medicines that have not been registered. The law has expanded the identification of counterfeit drugs, especially foreign drugs. Due to the lack of Chinese labels and reasonable medical instructions, it is difficult for domestic patients to grasp the properties and dosage of the drug when taking the drug, which poses certain safety risks.