A Curse Mailer's Confession

Today, I unintentionally discovered a repentance of a curse advertisement email sender on Paipai. While deeply detesting it, I also felt some sympathy for this repentant person who did something foolish by deceiving the girl he loved. By pursuing the deeper cause, I realized that the current competition in online shopping has reached an unbearable level.

Address: http://511257424.paipai.com

"Please forward this story to every person who has touched your life. You must send out 20 copies of this letter within 96 hours. If you do so, you will have good luck within four days. This is not a joke. If you don't copy it, you will definitely encounter all kinds of unexpected troubles."

These types of advertisement emails usually require the recipients to forward them and generally provide the reasons for forwarding (such as: seeking help, curses, or simply saying "I was forced to do it") and requirements (such as: the number of people to forward to and the time limit for forwarding). The end usually contains the "effects after forwarding" and the "consequences of not forwarding." Many people have received such emails, which are very annoying. Not forwarding makes one feel uneasy, but forwarding feels like being deceived. People don't know what to do! In my view, the reason why these emails can be so popular is because their creators have taken advantage of us. What did they take advantage of? Our good wishes and our innate fear of death. We hope for lucky things to happen and certainly don't want to encounter misfortunes. Moreover, with the idea of "better safe than sorry," and the inclusion of many "real examples" in the emails, most people follow the requirements.

Many people have received "curse emails," some even more than once. Everyone finds them both annoying and helpless. If the first person to forward such an email needs to send out 20 copies, then by the second round of forwarding, 400 copies need to be sent, and by the third round, 8000 copies. Thus, "curse emails" form a vicious cycle, achieving the advertising purpose of the email sender.

As everyone knows, online shopping platforms like Paipai and Taobao have extremely fierce competition. According to surveys, online shopping websites already have tens of millions of active users. The competition on online shopping platforms is no different from the rules of the animal world: when spring comes, the weak members have all died, and those who survive become stronger and gain the opportunity to reproduce.

Some small stores, in order to survive, have to adopt various methods to attract attention and attract customers. However, major forums basically take a stance of blocking advertisements, and even forums on online shopping platforms like Paipai and Taobao, to some extent, are the same. The only reliable way to advertise is to pay money and cover the advertising costs.

I am also a store owner and have deep feelings about this. I rack my brains to promote my store. The first few months, or even the first year of opening a store, can be described as a nightmare, a kind of torment, and therefore many new stores exit halfway. I believe that if this continues, it will seriously discourage the enthusiasm of new users, and new users will gradually lose confidence in online shopping platforms. In the end, only big fish will remain in the pond, without any shrimps.

I suggest that online shopping platforms provide more advertising and promotional support to new users, refine services, guide new users in operations, let new users make solid profits, and restore the original color of online shopping platforms as entrepreneurial platforms.

Finally, I suggest that everyone can also shop at that small store and give the store owner some advice. I believe that the repentant person will surely stop doing such foolish things.