Becoming Rich with Daily Scavenging APP-Chapter 573: Ice Cream Loophole

This competition has considered all aspects, from traditional sports competitions to modern commercial applications.

It has made the competition not just a commercial sports event but also a comprehensive test of all capabilities of the participating robots.

Such a setup not only allows large companies to showcase the performance of their robots.

It also allows many small companies lacking funds and investment to demonstrate their technology, attracting investments from large companies and investors.

"Yushu will put forth its best technology to participate in this competition," Wang Xingxing said, placing great importance on this competition as well.

Although Yushu has made significant progress in the commercial robotics sector and has gained profitability,

most of its profits still come from Yushu’s robotic dogs, while humanoid robots are still in a state of losing money to gain attention.

If Yushu can promote its humanoid robots through this competition, it would be perfect.

Seeing Wang Xingxing place such importance on this humanoid robot sports event, Chen Yiyang also plans to go to the Imperial Capital to watch the competition live once it officially begins.

Returning to his company, Chen Yiyang continued to pay attention to the current state of his Flash Sale company.

Currently, the most highly valued enterprise under Chen Yiyang is Yiyang Automobile.

However, without laying a foundation for three to four years, the automobile company cannot stand out in the intense competition among numerous car companies.

So Chen Yiyang doesn’t focus much on Yiyang Automobile.

But Flash Sale is different.

The offensive and defensive battles of Flash Sale are currently moving too fast, and burn a lot of money.

They often have to change the rhythm of offense and defense every few days, requiring a lot of effort.

Chen Yiyang’s recent business layout, whether in catering or fresh produce, is essentially to give Yiyang Flash Sale more chips to win the Flash Sale battle.

"Ugly Group recently launched a promotion offering free ice cream for seven days, likely to counter our previous discount ice cream campaign at Yiyang Flash Sale."

Zhang Sen reported the recent moves of Ugly Group to Chen Yiyang.

"Which ice cream manufacturer are they partnering with?" Chen Yiyang inquired.

"Ugly Group is not collaborating with an ice cream manufacturer, but rather sharing the costs with some ice cream shops for this promotion, with Ugly Group aiming to promote their platform and the vendors mainly looking to gain customers."

Zhang Sen explained the rules of the promotion launched by Ugly Group to Chen Yiyang, "After the promotion starts, Ugly Group will give users an ice cream coupon for free every day. Once the users redeem the coupons at the vendors, they can get a free scoop of ice cream."

"Can you only exchange for an ice cream scoop?"

"It seems you can exchange dozens of coupons for a whole tub of ice cream," Zhang Sen replied.

"Are they giving out a lot of coupons?" Chen Yiyang felt like there might be a loophole in this promotion.

"Ordinary users get one coupon a day, while Black Gold users get five coupons a day, and these coupons can be transferred."

"They can be transferred?" Chen Yiyang asked.

"Yes," Zhang Sen replied.

"Then Ugly Group is doomed," Chen Yiyang immediately laughed after hearing Zhang Sen’s answer.

After all these years in the food delivery sector, how could Ugly Group come up with such a loophole-ridden promotion this time?

Although Yiyang Flash Sale has not been established for long, Chen Yiyang has already accumulated a great deal of experience.

The most important piece of experience is.

Whenever setting up the rules for an activity, the first thought cannot be about the customers or the merchants.

It must be whether there is a possibility that the activity will be exploited by deal hunters.

In the country, deal hunters are a huge group.

A portion of them are pure opportunists making money off it.

But the majority are ordinary penny-pinchers.

They have countless groups where they communicate information with each other. Once there is a loophole or a deal, the information spreads quickly to everyone.

Then they skillfully use the loophole to fleece merchants for savings.

Therefore, these deal hunters are actually considered normal customers of the platform, but the premise is that there must be no loopholes in the rule-setting.

At first glance, the free ice cream promotion launched by Ugly Group seems fine.

But the first issue is, they are giving out too many coupons.

Black Gold users get five coupons a day, but they are human too, and unlikely to eat five scoops of ice cream a day.

So, such a rule setting will inevitably cause some Black Gold users to sell their coupons.

And although ordinary users also get one coupon a day, which is already quite a lot.

The extra coupons in the hands of Black Gold users will certainly be cheaply bought by many deal hunters.

The previously set rule also states that dozens of coupons can be exchanged for a whole tub of ice cream.

Chen Yiyang can already foresee the outcome of this activity.

Merchants cooperate with Ugly Group to introduce ice cream coupons, not because it makes money.

But to entice Ugly Group platform users to come and consume in-store, hoping that besides getting free ice cream, they will buy other store products through online or offline channels.

Ice cream is just a hook to attract customers, so losing a little money is acceptable as long as it can be earned back on other products.

But the rule set by Ugly Group allows for the coupons to be resold and does not limit the number of coupons used at once.

This allows deal hunters to seize the opportunity to acquire a lot of coupons at a low price, directly exchanging them for whole tubs of ice cream from the merchants.

Understandably, merchants would be dumbfounded.

They initially hoped to exchange free ice cream scoops for customer sources, but now not only did they not gain customers, but whole tubs of ice cream were snatched away repeatedly.

The merchants are unlikely to accept such losses.

After a few tubs have been exchanged, they likely refuse to participate in the promotion, using various reasons not to accept other regular users’ free ice cream coupons.

Things turned out just as Chen Yiyang expected.

Shortly after Ugly Group launched the promotion, deal hunters quickly realized the loopholes in Ugly Group’s rules.

These deal hunters rapidly acquired ice cream coupons from other users, then placed orders collectively online, directly taking away a whole tub of ice cream at once.

The merchants who initially participated in the promotion didn’t react.

Several tubs of ice cream were taken away for free.

But soon the merchants realized that due to the loophole in Ugly Group’s rules, the promotion didn’t bring them the hoped-for customer base but instead contributed to deal hunters for free.

Subsequently, when faced with customers’ orders, a large number of store owners claimed their ice cream was out of stock as an excuse to refuse accepting coupons for ice cream.

Then, Ugly Group’s promotion ended up ruining their own reputation.

Ordinary users couldn’t redeem ice cream with the coupons, and merchants spent a lot of money but didn’t gain any customers at all.

Only the deal hunters ended up winning.

And these deal hunters merely exploited the loophole, without breaking any laws, making it impossible for Ugly Group to hold them accountable.