Is Yunji Weidian a scam? Is it a pyramid scheme?

Yunji Weidian has been punished for online pyramid schemes, please treat it with caution.

On August 22, 2017, the Zhejiang Provincial Administration for Industry and Commerce website announced the top ten typical cases of the 2017 Zhejiang "Red Shield Online Sword" special law enforcement action, including the penalty results for unfair competition in the "Yunji Weidian" APP . Yunji Weidian carried out online pyramid schemes through the behaviors of "paying entry fees", "pulling people" and "compensating for the team", and was fined 9.584 million yuan by the market supervision department.

After investigation, the mobile shopping platform "Yunji Weidian" APP developed by a Zhejiang Internet Technology Co., Ltd. began its trial operation on February 12, 2015. Starting from March 26, 2015, the parties concerned The operation mode of the online micro store is set as follows: each person pays an annual platform service fee of 365 yuan per year, and can become a store owner of the "Yunji Micro Store", but does not actually open a store. After becoming a so-called "store owner", you can invite other people to join and become new store owners.

According to the promotion system formulated by the parties, a store owner can directly develop 30 new store owners and indirectly develop 130 new store owners to join before he can become a mentor; when the number of store owners recruited by the mentor team reaches 1,000, he can apply to the company Become a partner or cultivate a partner to form an up-and-downline relationship with each other.

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Identification of MLM characteristics:

First of all, pie will not fall in the sky. You should be wary when describing your career or rewards in an exaggerated way. High returns must come with high risks.

Secondly, no matter how the form of MLM changes and develops, its essence is still to pay the entry fee by purchasing shares, developing downline personnel and recruiting people to form a hierarchy, and the "performance" of the downline personnel is used as the basis for profit.

Therefore, to identify MLM, you need to look at three characteristics:

1. Entry fee

Whether it is necessary to subscribe for goods or pay a fee to obtain qualifications to join or to recruit others to join Qualifications to seek illegal benefits;

2. Pulling people

Whether it is necessary to develop others to become one's downlines, and the number of people to be developed will be based on the number of people to be developed directly or indirectly on a rolling basis To seek illegal benefits based on the payment of remuneration;

3. Remuneration method

Whether remuneration is calculated based on the sales performance of direct or indirect development personnel to seek illegal benefits.

If it meets the above characteristics, it may be suspected of pyramid schemes.

People's Daily Online-"Yunji Weidian" was fined 9.584 million for online pyramid schemes

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