Breaking news! A seller on a cross-border e-commerce platform was permanently closed

Just as we entered 2022 , a blockbuster news broke out in the cross-border circle. The protagonist was Gearbest , which has been rumored to be a big seller in the past six months . At the same time, Global Easy Shopping's suppliers are still on the road to claiming payment for goods. One supplier is asking for 50,000 yuan in payment, and the news that the boss threatened to take 2 million yuan and sue until he went bankrupt also surfaced...

Gearbest platform sellers’ stores have been permanently frozen

A seller on the Gearbest platform said that he received an email from the platform a few days ago, and the content of the email showed:

We regret to inform you that your store has been frozen. To ensure that your store returns to normal operation as soon as possible, please contact our official email address in time to apply for unblocking. After the seller's store is frozen, the store's products will be removed from the shelves, and withdrawal operations will not be allowed .

From the email, we can learn that the reason given by the platform for the freezing is abnormal operation, and the freezing time column is displayed as "permanent freezing".

According to the seller, since January 10, 2022, quite a few sellers on the Gearbest platform have received this email, and most of them are high-quality sellers.

This news spread quickly in the cross-border circle, causing panic among sellers. Many platform sellers said they could not understand or believe the warning emails they suddenly received for no apparent reason. According to platform sellers, on December 31, 2021, many platform sellers also received emails from the Gearbest platform, informing platform sellers to apply for category renewal before January 6, 2022. The change was unacceptable to platform sellers in just a few dozen days.

The reason why sellers on the Gearbest platform were suddenly closed is still unknown, but what is known is that sellers who suffered losses due to the sudden closure of the platform are not isolated cases, and many sellers are worried about the "appeal" mentioned in the email.

Since the news that "Global Easy Shopping's debt crisis broke out and the company is facing bankruptcy risk" came out, various news about its brands have been reported frequently. In September last year, the Gearbest platform attracted the attention of practitioners because the website could not be opened, and some sellers asked whether the Gearbest platform was dead.

At that time, the editor tried to log in to the Gearbest website through different domestic and foreign browsers, but all failed. After downloading Gearbest from the APP Store and opening it, he found that all pages did not display any content. Some sellers revealed that Gearbest had been unable to withdraw money before this, and this statement frightened a large number of suppliers.

But just one month later, when a number of sellers and suppliers were still worried, some sellers were pleasantly surprised to find that Gearbest's website and app seemed to be back online.

As of this Friday, the editor found that the Gearbest website could be opened normally when searching and opening it; after downloading Gearbest through the APP Store and opening it, the page also displayed normally.

The Gearbest platform broke the news that the seller's store was permanently frozen. It is unknown whether the funds can be recovered, and it is also unknown how this incident will develop in the future. But according to the current situation, this will be another huge blow to suppliers...

In fact, it is not the first time that the news that Global Easy Shopping's suppliers cannot get their money back has been reported. As early as last year, Global Easy Shopping broke out into a debt crisis, and industry insiders said that more than 3,000 suppliers were owed more than 700 million yuan in payments.

As the overdue payment has not been recovered, many suppliers in the industry are still struggling to recover the payment...

The supplier demanded 50,000 yuan in payment, and the boss threatened to sue for 2 million yuan until he went bankrupt?

Supplier A revealed to Yien.com that when he was trying to recover 50,000 yuan of payment for goods from Global Easy Shopping , Global Easy Shopping filed a civil lawsuit against Supplier A on the grounds of "reputation rights dispute."

Judging from the contents of the lawsuit, the plaintiff Global Easy Shopping filed a lawsuit on the grounds that the defendant, Supplier A , posted defamatory information about the plaintiff in the " Global Easy Shopping Debt Collection Group 616 Site" and incited other members to disrupt the normal order of the plaintiff's office, as well as posted inflammatory and insulting words such as "Just like our boss wanted to suppress our commissions before, a colleague pretended to jump off the building, and another colleague shouted: Boss, so-and-so is going to jump off the building", and "The domineering richest man sternly rebuked the supplier who came to make trouble to collect a debt of 50,000 yuan ".

The plaintiff stated in the lawsuit that GlobalE-Commerce is one of the largest cross-border B2C e-commerce companies in China, and the defendant Supplier A's remarks seriously damaged its social reputation, resulting in the failure of the plaintiff to negotiate in multiple investment/financing projects and causing serious economic losses of up to RMB 2 million.

Based on the above-mentioned actions of the defendant, the plaintiff Global Easy Shopping requires the defendant supplier A to first apologize for its infringement of the plaintiff's right of reputation and bear the liability for compensation for the losses caused to the plaintiff. The amount of compensation is RMB 2 million.

But judging by the video sent by the debt collection provider, this does not seem to be the case.

When the supplier went to Global Easy Shopping to ask for payment for the goods, the following scene occurred at the negotiation table between the two parties: The boss of Global Easy Shopping said, "You are so excited because I owe you 50,000 yuan. You have wasted so many of our time", "Remember him, everyone sued him once. It takes up so much time. Let's see if I will sue you to death."

The boss of Global Easy Shopping issued an order to his company's legal department: " Legal department, remember him, take a picture of him, he doesn't have a penny of the 50,000 yuan, counter-sue him, I will use 2 million yuan to sue him until he is bankrupt ."

So the scene we mentioned at the beginning appeared. Global Easy Shopping filed a lawsuit against Supplier A as the plaintiff, but the result was unexpected: Global Easy Shopping did not pay the litigation fees, the court directly followed the simplified procedure and ruled that Global Easy Shopping lost the case.

Since ancient times, it is natural to pay back debts. However, the person in charge of a listed company uttered insulting and threatening words to suppliers who were asking for debts .

Many suppliers expressed their opinions on the incident in which Global Easy Shopping owed suppliers money.

Global Easy Shopping is committing contract fraud, and has not repaid the debt for two years, which violates the socialist values ​​of integrity;

Repeatedly swapping debt for equity has damaged Shenzhen's business environment;

We are still recruiting investors from the public, and more suppliers may join the game, which may be suspected of being a Ponzi scheme;

The listed company and its actual controller have no sense of social responsibility, are rich but unkind, bully small suppliers and are suspected of financial fraud;

arbitrarily transferring assets, evading debts, and promoting unethical practices;

Luxurious office space and professional security team, and embezzling suppliers' payments to create face-saving projects .

Moreover, regarding the earlier move of Global Easy Shopping to separate its independent website , an industry insider said: “Is it preparing to default on its debts ? By separating its only high-quality asset, how will it pay the hundreds of millions owed to suppliers and third-party sellers? ”

Due to multiple factors such as limited platform development and overdue payments from suppliers, many people in the industry are also paying attention: What will the future development situation of the big guys be like?

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