Xinjiang cotton was boycotted by Western brands because of the forced labor issue involved, followed by a collective boycott campaign of foreign goods by Chinese Communist Party officials and official media. Well-known brands such as Nike, Adidas, New Balance, Puma, etc. were affected. However, it was then rumored that Chinese domestic brands including Li Ning and Anta started the speculation, including Li Ning brand a reference price of 1,499 yuan (RMB. The same below) sneakers “Wade Way 4 generation”, was speculated expensive to 48889 yuan, a price increase of more than 31 times. In response, the official media rushed to “put out the fire”, claiming that “shoes are for wearing, not for speculation”.
The shoe speculation incident (so-called “shoe speculation”, simply put, is to buy the shoes back, do not wear, wait until the price rises when sold. The term “shoe speculation” has become a buzzword on various social media platforms again, this time not for Nike and Adidas, but for Li Ning and Anta.
Comprehensive land media reports, because the Chinese Communist Party through the Xinjiang cotton incident to incite people to boycott many European and American brands, domestic well-known brands of shoes are speculated, many explosive models either out of stock or price increases, the original price of hundreds to more than 1,000 yuan (yuan, the same below) of sports shoes are speculated more than 30 times more expensive.
In an App, the reference price of 1499 yuan Li Ning “Wade Way 4 generation” silver and white models, the page shows only 42 yards in stock, and the price is up to 48,889 yuan, an increase of up to 31 times. The shoes have now been removed from the shelves.
But on the App, from the price changes of other Li Ning shoes can still be seen: this Li Ning sneakers on sale price of 699 yuan, but the current price of 39.5 yards has been as high as 10,389 yuan, the lowest price of 42 yards is also in 5299 yuan.
According to its recent purchase records, it can be seen that from March 28 to April 5, the price of the sneaker has risen from about 4,000 yuan to 5,000~6,000 yuan.
On social media, many netizens have heated discussions about the current price hikes and shortages of well-known domestic shoes. Some Chinese netizens were quoted by the mainland media as lamenting that “domestic shoes are now unaffordable”. Some netizens bluntly said: “Patriotism” is really a good business! There are also netizens who say: this “patriotism” is actually fooled by the party.
The financial briefing suggests that the possible existence of illegal fund raising, illegal public deposit taking, financial fraud, illegal pyramid schemes and other illegal economic and financial problems behind the “shoe speculation” industry is worth being alert to.
In this regard, CCTV News reported under the title of “Domestic shoes originally priced at 1500 speculated to 49,999? The myth of “speculation on shoes” and the push of the capital market have made the market of “speculation on shoes” more and more crazy. Some industry insiders pointed out that “shoe speculation” is not “gold everywhere”. Behind the overnight riches of a few people is the loss of many more people. We need to be careful. Don’t become a “live leek”. This crazy practice of “shoe speculation” must be curbed.
The official media “People’s Daily” published a commentary article, emphasizing that “shoes are for wearing, not for speculation”.
However, some observers believe that the recent trend of boycotting foreign goods has been fueled by the official media from the beginning, and now the official media has panicked when the businessmen started to speculate on national products.
While the Communist Party’s official media is threatening to say that domestic brands are supported by the pinkies, some Chinese netizens believe that Chinese consumers prefer Western brands. A netizen who checked China’s famous trendy clothing app “Get Things” said on Weibo, “Just looked at the super fierce sale of Nike (Nike), the transaction volume is only increasing, and people are refreshing the transaction interface every minute.” By and large, Nike and Adidas transactions are increasing, and some of the shoes are even sold out.
Netizens have said: “Nike sales skyrocketed! Boycott a lonely”, “laughing, only know sniping stars, but the buy or buy ah, I thought how tough it is”, “online boycott happy, the reality of a large number of people buy, the fact is that ah”, “good guys, this is the boycott of the star, but the buy ah. “Good guys, this is a boycott, the mouth of the boycott, right? The real life is faster than anyone else”.
As a representative of the so-called “war wolves” in the acting world, Wu Jing was also found to be using the American cell phone brand iPhone, surrounded by “pinkies” and mocked by the calm onlookers, “Why not use Huawei ah! ” “Bitchy or not, how many bullets does this phone have to make for the enemy? We Chinese do not eat this, please hurry to change Huawei, or you are false patriotism, true rare (traitor).”
Some netizens also dug up photos of Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying playing tennis in the past with a full body of foreign goods, questioning her just “saying one thing, the body is honest.
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