China E-commerce platforms actively crackdown on illegal merchants
During the pandemic period in China, most of the e-commerce consumers complained about the severe imbalance between the supply and demand for pandemic prevention products. Besides, there are many businesses take advantage of Urgency aspects of consumer psychology, selling expensive and fake prevention products, some businesses even provided false information on the internet to earn impropriate money.
Therefore, the biggest e-commerce marketplace Alibaba with 4 other platforms cooperated together to share the “blacklist of the pandemic” for preventing the market. Once the party was “blocked” by one of the platforms, the entire network would be suspended in all online businesses.
In order to create a better online business environment, the Beijing Bureau of Market Supervision announced that it has established a cross-platform joint prevention regulation work with Alibaba（阿里巴巴）, JD.com（京東）, Pinduoduo（拚多多）, Weidian（微店）, and Suning.com（蘇寧易）, the well-known national e-commerce platform enterprises, to set mechanism for epidemic-related disease.
For merchants who have been cleared by one of the platforms due to serious illegal activities such as driving up prices, false propaganda, and selling counterfeit products. The Market Supervision will transfer the merchant’s information to other platforms for preventing illegal merchants jointly. They called the policy “Once clearance, close shop everywhere.”
According to the report, Alibaba announced the permanent clearance of 15 mask shops in February. On the other hand, 5 e-commerce platforms had found and cleared 47 illegal cross-platform merchants in March. The merchants will no longer be able to open the online shop through those platforms.
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