What consumption traps have you stepped on in your life?

When we consume every day, we will face all kinds of temptations. There are so many offers such as free trials, discount promotions, gifts and so on. It is difficult to distinguish between true and false. It is difficult to guard against them. If you are careful, you will jump into the merchant's consumption trap, spend money in vain, and feel cowardly.

So we should learn to see through the disguises to see through the essence and guard against these consumption traps around us. So what are the consumption traps? Let me explain in details.

1. Pre-stored cards

Pre-stored cards are often encountered in our real life. There are many fitness services, catering services, beauty salons and bathing industries, photography and printing industries, decoration and decoration services, etc. After you finish depositing the card, some merchants will run away, and your money will be wasted.

2. Mobile phone discounts

Mobile phone users often receive short messages such as discount information, gambling, recommended stocks, low-price shopping, etc., allowing consumers to join and enjoy some together. For promotional activities, actually joining the group is only the first step. 90% of the people in a group are just trolls. You don’t know if they really bought it, let alone whether it will be effective after using it. What you see every day are screenshots of some customers making money, or some pictures of the products after using them. Evaluation: Over time, I have been "brainwashed", and it is inevitable that I will participate in it myself, and I will only realize that I have been deceived when I find out.

3. Seasonal Price Trap

Go to a restaurant to eat. We will see that seafood, poultry, and high-priced vegetables are often marked with current prices. Without prior consultation, consumers can easily fall into the trap of arbitrary pricing at checkout.

4. Coupon Trap

Nowadays, many restaurants provide customers with coupons that “reward as much as you eat”. However, when the customer presents the coupon next time they dine, the restaurant will Fang would excuse himself with reasons such as "This kind of coupon can only be used during a certain period of the day", "This kind of coupon is only useful for certain special dishes", and pointed to the "Usage Rules If Any" printed on the back. It is subject to change without prior notice" and "the right to interpret this coupon belongs to our store" to explain it, which makes customers suffer a dumb loss.

5. Free services

In life, we often encounter free services on the street. Operators often put forward many unfair conditions to force consumers to accept them after they accept the so-called "free services". "Free services" are actually bait in a trap.

6. Free Clinics

Criminals take advantage of consumers' urgent need for disease treatment and desire for health, and hold so-called "free clinic" activities in shopping malls and communities to defraud consumers of their generosity. Similar sales behaviors may evolve into new pyramid schemes or disguised pyramid schemes.

7. Bundled consumption method

When you buy a product, you will be given a discount and you have to go to a designated place for repair or maintenance. A common thing is that when buying a car, you will be given a certain discount at the time of purchase, but after signing an agreement, future repairs or maintenance of the car will be done at a store designated by the merchant. In the end, the merchant not only makes back your discount money, but also makes you more money.

8. On-site lottery draws

Some merchants will set up lottery activities on site. For example, as long as the purchase exceeds 200 yuan, a free lottery opportunity will be given. But after drawing the prize, he will tell you that you can spend 90 yuan to buy our exquisite tea set with the original price of 150 yuan. In fact, the original price of this exquisite tea set may not even be 80 yuan. Some people who are greedy for cheap get excited when they see the price. They don't care whether the thing is needed or not, and whether it is worth the price. The merchants say whatever they want, and they don't even know how they spent their money in the end. Again, first of all, be clear about your own needs. Whatever is unnecessary, no matter how the promoters use rhetoric to encourage people, you must treat it rationally and consider it carefully.

9. Online shopping flash sale trap

You can get a mobile phone for 1 yuan, which is a unique product in the era of online shopping. The online mall releases some ultra-low-priced products to attract buyers' attention, and then allows all buyers to click online to snap up the products at the same time. The products are sold out in almost a few seconds, and this is where "flash sales" come from. This kind of flash sale activity makes many people eager to try it. However, there is no pie in the sky. Some flash sales end as soon as they start. In fact, they are just to make people popular. The clerk operates in secret and "gives the product a second"; some sellers deliberately delay delivery, just hoping for buyers. You are impatient to wait and apply for a refund proactively; sometimes, after the flash sale is successful, you find that the order disappears, and then you are told that the system is faulty. This is a misunderstanding... What to do if there are many traps?

10. False advertising

Setting up false price reductions or price discounts to deceive consumers and promote so-called new technologies. The advertising promises of real estate developers are far from the actual situation.

11. Health lectures

I remember that I used to see a certain famous doctor giving health lectures on the street, and many grandparents would come in droves. Send eggs and then start brainwashing them about how good their product is. Many elderly people ended up being deceived into buying products worth thousands of dollars. In fact, many of these products are three-no products. Regardless of whether they are effective or not, they may be life-threatening.

12. Tricks in Discounts

We have noticed that items sold at discounts in shopping malls are basically non-returnable, and there are actually dangers lurking in them.

Merchants may use slow-moving or defective products for promotion, passing them off as good, and refusing to return or exchange them is a sign of guilty conscience. If you find a quality problem and you have to reason with them, you have basically no chance of winning, because the final right of interpretation always belongs to the merchant, and what they say is what they say, and there is absolutely nothing you can do about it.