The $10 billion consumer vouchers are up for grabs, and some people are indeed using them to cash in.
As a result of the new crown epidemic, a large number of businesses were unable to operate and suffered very high losses. In order to stimulate consumption, the government issued a large number of consumer vouchers, and by May 8, according to the State Council, provinces and cities across the country had issued 19 billion yuan of consumer vouchers. However, just when ordinary people are thinking about how they should use these consumption coupons, there are some people who have a crooked mind and use these consumption coupons to cash in. So, how do these use the consumption coupons to cash in? In fact, it is very simple, we know that now the consumer coupons mainly have ten and fifty dollar denominations, to ten dollar denominations of consumer coupons, for example, as long as you find the support of the consumer coupons of the merchant, and then through the Alipay, WeChat and so on to the merchant transfers of thirty dollars, and then coupled with the merchant's consumer coupons, the merchant actually received forty dollars, and then the merchant returned about thirty-five dollars in cash. In this process, the merchant's net income of five dollars, and the consumer also cash five dollars, which is the so-called consumer vouchers "cash", to put it bluntly, is the joint merchant's no-cost arbitrage.
There are also people who said in an interview with the reporter that some merchants will take the initiative to remind the "cash" trick, once, he only spent sixty dollars on food, but paid the merchant eighty dollars in two installments, of course, two times on the ten-dollar vouchers, in which case he actually paid sixty dollars, and the merchant transferred the extra twenty dollars back to the merchant, which was the only one to pay. The merchant then transfers the extra twenty dollars back to him. In this way, the vouchers have been cashed out.
While it is a rule everywhere that vouchers are not transferable for sale, there are still a lot of people transferring vouchers to others at a 50% discount. The face value of a single consumption coupon, some as much as two hundred yuan, the value of this kind of consumption coupon is the largest and most favored by the market, especially the consumption coupons issued by Kunming City, there are many face value of one hundred yuan of tourism coupons and fifty yuan of restaurant coupons, these consumption coupons are not set a minimum threshold, and the use of the coupon is also more convenient. Therefore, in the black market of consumption coupon trading, consumption coupons from Kunming City are also the most convenient. Of course, most of the areas of consumption coupons are issued in the form of vouchers, some places are "full of 200 minus 80", this kind of consumption coupon discount is quite strong, the value is also very high.
There are some unscrupulous people who try their best to get the vouchers, and even write programs to grab them. Because of this, it is difficult for ordinary citizens to grab the vouchers. Consumption coupons, after all, is to stimulate consumption, not a tool used by lawless elements to make profits. For the government, it should not only control the issuance of consumption coupons, but also control the use of consumption coupons, and crack down on the use of consumption coupons to cash in on these behaviors. If the vouchers can not be used rationally, but will become a tool to grip the government "wool", causing economic losses to the government, it can be said that the losses outweigh the gains.
In short, the vouchers are for consumption, not for "cash", it should bring tangible benefits to the people.