Can't get the ofo deposit? I was taken to the United States to buy someone free coffee!

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Do you still remember ofo ofo?! Maybe the deposit you paid in the past has not been refunded! Right! The return of more than 1.5 billion deposits is still a long way off, and its founder, Dai Wei, was exposed yesterday that he had gone to the United States to start a new business, this time in the coffee field! ☕️

On May 16, the news that # ofo founder Dai Wei started a business again hit Weibo's hot search list, and netizens can't sit still as soon as the news comes out. At the bottom of its hot search blog post, shout crazily: return the money! Refund!

It is understood that ofo founder Dai Wei opened a coffee shop called About Time Coffee in the United States. its signature product is chilled Pearl Coffee, which is packed in cans and sells for $4 a cup. According to several media reports, the company opened three coffee stores in Manhattan as early as April 2022 and now has five coffee stores in New York, with a market valuation of $200m (RMB: about $1.34 billion).

The funny thing is! About Time Coffee to attract customers, as long as new users download the app registered with About time coffee, they can get a cup of coffee for free! Ah. This is... Do you feel a little familiar with this "routine"? that's right! It is the same as the customer acquisition routine of domestic ofo ofo app earlier, 🤯?

When they saw that the marketing point of About Time Coffee was when new users signed up to buy free coffee, some netizens hit the nail on the head, saying: "is it true that rounding equals that the coffee drunk by American users now is a deposit that Chinese users have not returned?"

I believe that when it comes to ofo ofo, many people in China should have heard of it. It can be called the ancestor of bike sharing 🚴, but there may also be some friends who are not very clear about its development process. Let's talk about ⬇️ briefly.

In 2015, Dai Wei's OFO shared bikes began to appear on the campus of Peking University. after 10 days of launch, the average daily order exceeded 1500. With its steady development, OFO shared bikes have gradually flowed into the society from the campus. Ofo launched a rapid expansion in 2016, with total orders exceeding 10 million in just one year and more than 20 million registered users in 2017.

A new rule for ofo bike sharing was introduced in the second half of 2017, which is to charge a deposit. At that time, ofo officially announced that the deposit would be returned to the user's account within 90 days. If the deposit has not been returned within this time limit, you can contact ofo customer service for processing.

It is understood that if an old user accumulated enough credit points at that time, the deposit fee charged was 99 yuan, while the fee for new users to register was 199 yuan. Many people did not think much about the convenience brought by the shared bike and bet on it. Anyway, they paid a deposit of more than a hundred yuan because they would return it at that time.

But by the end of 2017, ofo ofo began to be exposed that the capital chain was broken and misappropriated user deposits. At that time, founder Dai Wei also came forward to "emergency fire fighting", saying: "pure rumor"! Soon after refuting the rumor, users found that ofo App began to fail to put up a deposit, and thousands of people began to ask for a refund of the deposit.

In September 2018, due to a series of problems, such as the induced consumption when returning the deposit, the repeated extension of the deposit cycle and so on, it officially stopped operation!

By February this year, the ofo ofo client had been completely unable to log in, WeChat Mini Programs could not use it, and the official phone could not be dialed, so he really packed up and ran away.

Now, after the news that ofo founder Dai Wei started his business again was posted on popular search, netizens are not most concerned about its coffee start-up project, but more about refund and repayment, questioning how to solve the deposit problem, wondering if Dai Wei has restricted high consumption, why can he go abroad? ‍

Some netizens said: "the deposit will be refunded first" and "Geneva David will refund the money."

Some netizens sighed: ⬇️

"he really knows how to spend other people's money."

"take our deposit to start a business?!"

"these are the people who are restricted to high consumption, and the restricted people can go to the United States, and their start-up projects are valued at hundreds of millions of dollars!" .

Some netizens expressed doubts: "can I fly?" Did you swim to the United States? " .

According to APP, the legal representative of Beijing Baiklock Technology Co., Ltd., the date of the latest consumption restriction order is Feb. 2, 2023.

The restrictions roughly include the following: they are not allowed to fly, soft berth or ship second-class or above; they are not allowed to spend too much in hotels, hotels, nightclubs and other places above the star level; they are not allowed to buy real estate or build, expand or decorate high-grade houses.

However, the question of how Dai Wei got to the United States mainly depends on how the court responds to the restriction on high consumption-- as long as the person subject to the restriction of consumption engages in the aforementioned prohibited consumption activities because of the necessity of life or business, apply to the court for approval.

In this regard, some media contacted the people's Court of Luohu District in Shenzhen and the Haidian District Court in Beijing, which issued a "restriction order" to Dai Wei and his company, but as of press time, they have not yet received a response.

Now it seems that the refund of the deposit is really a long way off, ah, this has all been used to buy Americans free coffee! So, have you refunded your "ofo" deposit?!

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