Smart Mob in China for Retailer Discount

taweili writes "The Economist has a story about Tuangou in China. Tuangou, roughly translated into group purchasing, is basically a smart mob who arrange the meet up over the internet and show up at a retailer at a specific time and use their number to negotiate a discount with the retailer. In the story, a Tuangou group of 500 show up in Gomei (largest home electronic retailer in China) at 4pm on June 16th and negotiate a 10 ~ 30% discount for the group. Gomei not only closed the door to the normal customers but also prepared goody bags for these Tuangou shoppers. Now, that's Power to the People!"

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[PatTheGreat]

Trouble with the bartering to avoid taxes is that there are taxes associated with bartering. So you really are evading taxes.

Ah, wonderful tax fraud.

I know, you see, because my mom owns a tax business.