Original title: Is it reliable for nearly 100 car owners to pay for the "car purchase" network

"Without leaving home, you can buy a new car cheaper than the local 4S store without having to shop around". The seemingly cost-effective "auto purchase agency" business is popular on the Internet platform, which claims that the car buyer can help the buyer buy the car model with the lowest price at a consultation fee of only 1000 or 2000 yuan.

Recently, the company affiliated to the Internet blogger "Car Price Information Station" with more than 100000 fans was instructed not to start the car after receiving the purchase money, involving nearly 100 consumers. The operator of the "Car Price Information Station" said that the money consumers spent on buying cars was used to repay other debts. Is such operation suspected of fraud? How to solve it later?

A car purchase agent uses the consumer's money to repay debts

It is difficult to collect the car after nearly 100 car owners have paid

The latest updated program of the blogger "Car Price Information Station", who has more than 100000 fans and more than 10 million broadcasts on the Internet platform, was on April 27. Fu, who called himself "the stationmaster", introduced that he could buy a car from them at a great discount.

"The national resource shunting, where the goods are cheap, where they can get the goods, low in, high out and earn the price difference, is not controlled by the car enterprises."

As a fan of the "Price Information Station", Mr. Lin from Guangdong contacted Mr. Fu last month. After paying a consulting fee of 1000 yuan, he participated in the so-called "Spring Festival Series Super Tour" and signed a contract.

△ The chat record between Mr. Lin and Mr. Fu from the "Price Information Station"

Soon, the staff of the "Price Information Station" told Mr. Lin that the preferential models had been found and pictures of cars had been taken. Then Mr. Lin transferred the purchase money to Guangzhou Buying New Car Technology Co., Ltd., the operator of the "Price Information Station", but the car could not wait.

Mr. Lin said that after he paid the final payment, he asked where to pick up the car, but he didn't get a reply. After repeated inquiries, the other party gave him a contact information for the 4S store. "I called the 4S store to ask if there was any registration information for my name, and the 4S store said no; then I asked if Guangzhou had any cooperation with them when buying a new car, and the 4S store replied that it had never heard of this company. I was completely clear that this was a hoax!"

△ Mr. Lin's chat record with "Car Price Information Station"

Mr. Wang from Chengdu, Sichuan, also encountered the same situation. In the middle of April, after paying the consulting fee and deposit, the "Price Information Station" promised to transport the car to Chengdu soon, but the follow-up staff replied to Mr. Wang that the car was in Hebei and Henan for a while, but it was impossible to get to Chengdu.

Mr. Wang: On April 14, after I signed an electronic contract with them, I made full payment in succession. On the 20th, I asked what progress had been made. The other party said that the vehicle had been sent logistics, and I asked for invoice and other specific information, but the other party kept dragging.

Later, Mr. Wang joined the "Price Information Station" group, and found that the specific conditions of the car buyers were different, but they could not get the car. Mr. Wang said that many of them had bought a car for the first time, and they did not know what the process was and what the gateways were.

As for the problems reported by the car buyers, after the incident, Fu responded via live broadcast that he had failed in business before and had been burdened with debt, hoping to give him time to repay the money, but stressed that he had no intention of illegal possession. "Because of the failure of the last project, my personal savings were all invested, including housing mortgage, and the whole cash flow behind it has been quite serious."

At present, many consumers have gone to Tianhe District Branch of Guangzhou Public Security Bureau where Guangzhou Buying New Car Technology Co., Ltd. is located to report the case, and the Economic Investigation Brigade has accepted the case.

Expert: Determine whether the enterprise constitutes fraud

It is necessary to prove that the other party has the purpose of illegal possession of money

An insider who has been engaged in the car buying business for many years said that the car buying business actually originated from the platform intermediary of the first level car trading company serving the county. With the development of the Internet, the intermediary began to serve more consumers. "This industry has existed for decades. In the past, we sold cars to comprehensive showrooms, one or two salesmen were responsible for a brand, and searched national channels to serve dozens or hundreds of automobile trading companies."

The insider believes that the online purchase of cars is the price, not the car. Who has the lower price and who has the advantage. The "price information station" should not charge consumers for their car purchases. The normal process is to let consumers directly pay the 4S store, and the platform only charges consulting fees.

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Zhao Zhan, a special researcher of China University of Political Science and Law, said that to determine whether the enterprise constituted fraud, consumers need to prove that Fu had the purpose of illegal possession:

From the current point of view, the other party is in breach of the contract and did not buy the car as agreed in the contract; If the other party signed the contract in order to defraud the consumer's money at the beginning, and did not intend to buy a car but to repay the debt, it may be fraud, and the consumer needs to provide evidence; Whether consumers can get money mainly depends on the property preservation. It is suggested that property preservation should be carried out at the beginning of the lawsuit, and the execution should be carried out after the successful judgment.