"7 seafood dishes cost as high as 9746 yuan"
"A family of three in Sanya eats seafood, and are overcharged nearly 4000 yuan for three ordinary dishes"
"A fish costs 6000 yuan"
Recently, the much publicized incident of exorbitant seafood prices in Sanya, Hainan, which was exposed by a Weibo user, has finally come to an end. After investigation by the Sanya Administration for Industry and Commerce and Price Bureau, it was confirmed that there indeed exists severe price fraud in Sanya's seafood market as strongly reflected by netizens. The Sanya Administration for Industry and Commerce plans to revoke the business license of Fulin Fish Village Seafood Restaurant. The Sanya Price Bureau will impose an administrative penalty of a 500,000 yuan fine on Haodao Fish Village Seafood City. Moreover, Sanya is currently carrying out a three-month seafood market rectification campaign. For seafood restaurants with prominent issues such as deceiving customers, extortion, etc., a firm "zero tolerance" policy will be implemented, resulting in "one-time death". The legal liabilities of illegal operators will be resolutely pursued, and the legitimate rights and interests of tourists and citizens will be resolutely safeguarded.
This handling has been applauded by a large number of consumers. The legitimate rights and interests of consumers have finally been protected, and justice has been served. Sanya's decisive and strict "zero tolerance" policy towards cheating behavior serves as a strong deterrent against various fraudulent behaviors in the market and unscrupulous merchants. It effectively maintains Sanya's market environment and city image, and also has reference significance for handling illegal behaviors in other regions and industries across the country.
In China's redwood furniture market, there also exist numerous illegal behaviors that deceive consumers for excessive profits. Compared to the blatant methods of cheating customers, extorting money, and forcing sales in Sanya's exorbitant seafood market, the cheating behavior in the redwood market is very concealed and not easily understood by the general public, forming many "unspoken rules". For example: fake internal structures of furniture (assembled instead of mortise-and-tenon joints); using harmful "glue polishing" to make furniture look better; hyping unique designs; hyping the concept of single-board materials; astonishing kickbacks! (kickbacks for interior designers, sales discount kickbacks); material fakes (coloring, painting), etc. Consumers would never imagine how many dark secrets this industry actually harbors, facing traps at every step and feeling constantly alarmed.
Because these unspoken rules in the redwood furniture industry are hidden and not widely known by the public, they have not attracted widespread social attention. However, their harm exceeds that of being cheated by exorbitant seafood prices in Sanya. Consumers lose thousands each time when cheated by exorbitant seafood prices, at most tens of thousands of yuan. But in the redwood furniture market, known for its luxury and high cost, once encountering the harm caused by these unspoken rules, losses can range from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands or even millions of yuan, causing huge losses to consumers. Furthermore, due to factors such as lack of industry standardization, numerous small and medium-sized enterprise brands, weak supervision, etc., consumers' rights and interests often cannot be protected, and losses are difficult to recover.
The numerous unspoken rules in the redwood furniture industry have seriously disrupted the normal order of the redwood market, affected consumers' confidence in purchasing redwood furniture, and have become the most unfavorable factor restricting the great development of the redwood furniture market under the prosperous contemporary economy. Therefore, some brand-strong, consumer-responsible large enterprises in China's redwood furniture industry strongly call for a "zero tolerance" policy towards the unspoken rules in the redwood industry, exposing these unspoken rules to the world, and restoring a clean sky to the redwood market! (Editor: Yaya)