Love business? A year’s youth with 1000 yuan will end in nothing.
Beijing, Feb. 21st (Yao Lu) What do you choose, love or bread? Users of the love bank APP said: to make money with love, you must have both.
Love Bank APP is a chat APP for young couples to show their love. The main gimmick is "365 days, cash out 1000 yuan". That is, couples punch in for one year, and the platform promises 1000 yuan’s bonus.
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However, the original simple sign-in rules are now tricky. Love remains the same, but the platform is not willing to give money? The love bank APP is facing a collective crusade by couples, and a small number of netizens who are justified by the APP on the Internet are also accused of "trusting".
The sign-in was unsuccessful!
It’s like love without results.
"Don’t hold the stopwatch for 10 seconds and 60 seconds. After this hurdle, there will be 520 seconds and 1314 seconds and titles waiting for you." Hugging on the love bank APP has been the insistence of many couples for more than a year. Recently, this enthusiasm has been poured a pot of cold water by the strange rules of the merchants.
Love bank APP is a QQ space exclusively for couples in the eyes of many users. One year after its launch, this APP has captured nearly 5 million users. The data shows that in September 2018, there were 1 million daily users, which once topped the social ranking of Apple App Store.
In the past year, love bank has been ranked well in the social (free) list of App Store. Source: Seven Wheat Data
However, recently, this exclusive space sought after by couples has been "uprooted" by couples because the check-in rules are too difficult, and it has even ranked third in the black cat complaint list, second only to ofo sharing bicycles and enjoying riding a motorcycle.
1314 seconds is equivalent to 21.9 minutes! For nearly half an hour, couples need to hold down their mobile phones at the same time, during which they will fail to sign in if they are stuck, delayed, overtime or less. Try again and again, an hour, a few hours passed, and the clock rang at zero, and the sign-in failed.
If you fail to sign in, you will quarrel, if you fail to sign in, you will break up, and if you fail to sign in, love will have no result … … If it was the result of a failed check-in 100 days ago, it was acceptable, but it lasted for one year. In the end, it was difficult for many couples to let go because of the sharp increase in the difficulty of signing in.
User comments. Source: Webpage screenshot
"Love doesn’t have a result if you stick to it." The netizen teased that the failure to sign in the love bank APP looks like what love should look like. The love bank APP, which originally symbolized witnessing love, may have become the executioner of a relationship.
Make money with love?
1,000 won’t fall from the sky.
Behind the 1000-yuan sign-in fee, not only a couple of users, but also everyone around them. In the rules of the game, once the sign-in fails, you can make up the sign-in by inviting your friends to send a sign-in card.
In the rules of inviting friends to send a replacement card, it is not mentioned that you get a replacement card on a specified date. Source: Webpage screenshot
"But the replacement cards are all on the specified date. Getting a replacement card after you invite your friends may not be able to replace the day you missed, so you need to continue inviting until you get a replacement card on the date you need." Zhuzhu is a junior. Unlike other couples, she is registered to play with her roommate.
At first, she thought that playing this game would not be addictive compared with couples and good friends playing together. "At least I won’t break up for failing to sign in!"
It was not until the check-in lasted for more than 300 days that Zhuzhu found that it might be the attraction of the upcoming check-in gold, and she became more and more persistent about the check-in. Just a few days ago, my roommate missed the day’s check-in because of the party, so they had a big fight and almost broke up.
"Long-distance relationship, we had a fight for the first time because we missed the signing", "The signing failed all the time, and she said we were not suitable", "We made an appointment to show up after signing for one year, and the ending stopped on the day when the signing failed for 344 days" … … Couples also have conflicts because of the failure to sign in.
On the second-hand trading platform, there are many goods that sell replacement cards on specified dates, and the selling price ranges from several yuan to dozens of yuan; On social platforms, many users also said that they can exchange replacement cards with others on the corresponding dates. Asking for help everywhere is like chasing a missed love.
Replacement card transaction on the second-hand trading platform. Source: Webpage screenshot
With the increase in the difficulty of signing in and the number of missed signing, many users find that 1000 yuan will not fall from the sky.
A user who signed in for 318 days was asked by the software to press the screen for 60 seconds at the same time with his girlfriend on January 31, but even if he connected the video with his girlfriend and used a stopwatch to time, the sign-in failed all the time. Later, he took out his other mobile phone and boarded his girlfriend’s account to try to operate with both hands at the same time. He struggled for more than five hours for this 60-second sign-in, and finally ended in failure.
After the sign-in rules are revised, some users are still trying to abide by the new rules, but some users’ mobile phones directly show that their accounts are blocked and they can’t log in, and they don’t even have a chance to try the new rules. Some users who were banned said that they had not done anything illegal before.
In addition, inviting friends and signing in to get a red envelope has become a hanging "pie".
Is it a scam?
Customer service is missing, and the phone is not answered.
The reporter contacted the customer service through the Love Bank APP and didn’t get a reply. Calling its affiliated company, Shanghai Chat Network Technology Co., Ltd. was also unanswered. The official micro of Love Bank also closed the user comment function a month ago. In desperation, users can only relieve their inner anger through complaints.
"According to 5 million users in September 2018, assuming that only 1% of users have signed up for one year now, the current love bank needs to pay at least 5 million signing fees to users." An industry insider analyzed that as a social software that already has a good reputation, it may be a problem of capital flow to openly provoke anger at this time.
It is worth noting that "in the Love Bank APP, you will have the opportunity to get RMB cash in 1000 yuan by kissing for 5 minutes and 20 seconds." The rules of the game disclosed by Liu Yan, the chairman of Love Bank, are the only rules of this software, but there is no more detailed introduction to the rules during the use.
In a rights group, many users reported that it was more difficult to sign in after the new version was updated on January 31, and there was no warning.
In the past year or so, Love Bank has successively launched members, shopping malls, advertisements and other means of realizing money. In the eyes of users, it has already received corresponding income from itself, but in the end it is unwilling to give back the signing fee, which can only explain one problem: it did not intend to give money at the beginning.
Love bank APP opens screen advertisement.
In the love bank APP, there are dozens of posts showing their successful cash withdrawal information, which is pitiful compared with the love bank with 5 million users.
On the other hand, the bystanders started the mocking mode: "If you sign in, you can get 1000 yuan. How many Ponzi schemes are this standard template? Why would anyone believe it?" Love makes people stupid? "
Yes … … Does love really make people stupid? After 325 days of failure in signing in, Mr. Z, the user, was unable to refute this. He doesn’t deny that it was originally for 1000 yuan, but slowly, signing in became a daily ceremony for two people.
It doesn’t matter whether you can get 1000 yuan or not. It is the place that makes him sad that this ceremony finally becomes the laughing stock of others. (End)