What does shedding wool mean?

Gathering wool originally followed Aunt Baiyun’s practice of “gathering wool to knit a sweater” in the Spring Festival Gala sketch, and was defined as “gathering wool”. The so-called profiteering refers to online earning people using various online financial products or red envelope activities to promote offline sales to make money. It also generally refers to collecting preferential information from various banks and other financial institutions and various merchants to achieve the purpose of profit. This type of behavior is called fleecing.

For now, the definition of "harvesting" is not limited to the Internet financial field, but has penetrated into all areas of society, including takeaway coupons, reductions and exemptions, free phone bills, free data and many other activities. It can all be called wool.

Extended information:

Generally, there are the following types of people who collect wool:

1. Smoothly collect wool. This kind of people don’t know the existence of the card circle and simply participate in the bank’s wool activities. For example, during the Double Eleven period, the online shopping platform cooperated with major banks to swipe rebate activities, or the bank organized rebate activities, such as China Merchants Bank’s 10 yuan storm. , Xingye brushes up every week, Bank of Communications has the hottest Friday, etc.

2. Buddhist style. This kind of people know the existence of the card ring, but they have not studied the strategy of collecting wool in depth. However, there are too many wool projects in major banks, and it seems that they cannot collect a lot of money, so they become intermittent and casual, and it is easy to collect when they see it. of wool, start harvesting it.

For example, I don’t show up at Walmart on time every Friday to participate in Red Friday, Starbucks coupons always expire, and I generally don’t bother to participate in the Union Quick Pass full discount event...

3. Make money while lying down. In view of the vast amount of money, some people are specifically aiming to earn money, such as applying for a bunch of airline co-branded cards to collect airline miles, or applying for some high-end cards to enjoy five-star hotel accommodation rights. Most of these people are quota partisans and believe that quota is king and wool is just wet and shredded.

4. Gather carefully. The major banks never lose their wool and work tirelessly to improve the quality of life, save money and make money, and achieve the supreme state of integrating people and cards. Baidu Encyclopedia - Wool Collection