Stronger by Paying Salaries and I Have 1 Billion Employees

At three o’clock that afternoon, Jingdong began canceling user orders in bulk. All orders with a quantity greater than one were canceled.

However, orders with a quantity of one were kept.

Liu Qiangdong’s stance was clear: the people exploiting the loophole weren’t real Jingdong users, but rather gray and black market operators.

In the end, they calculated that they only needed to bear a loss of just over 20 million to appease 99% of the users who had placed orders.

Although the loss was still significant, compared to 50 million, it wasn’t unbearable.

Furthermore, the bug incident on Jingdong’s Group Buy channel had trended on Weibo, driving a lot of traffic to the new product. They could just consider it money spent on marketing and promotion.

But those who had placed orders for tens, hundreds, or even thousands of items were not happy. After Jingdong canceled their orders, they were only compensated ten yuan.

Ten yuan?

What a fucking insult!

Instantly, the Yanjing City Supervision Association’s landline was flooded with complaint calls from Jingdong users across the country as soon as business hours began.

Among them, Li Chang, who had placed 3,000 orders, even appeared on the public affairs program *Jinling Close-up*.

Unexpectedly, instead of receiving sympathy, he was met with a barrage of criticism.

”3,000 orders? Is he crazy?!”

”Liu Qiangdong, fire your entire tech team.”

When Jingdong’s R&D staff saw this comment, their vision went dark, and they cursed under their breath, ’What the hell does this have to do with tech? This is the testing and operations teams’ fault!’

”Come on, you can’t be that shameless! Other people buy one, you buy 3,000. Is that reasonable?”

Of course, some people did support Li Chang. Their main issue was with Jingdong unilaterally canceling user orders, which made netizens feel that e-commerce platforms were too domineering and could manipulate user accounts at will.

In that case, was the balance they kept in Jingdong Pay even safe?

The direction of online public opinion quickly shifted.

Chen Yansen realized something was wrong. He immediately sensed someone was fanning the flames from behind the scenes—perhaps a bank, or maybe a financial company.

He immediately called Zhang Yinjia. After a discussion, Orange Pay’s operations department urgently issued an announcement: ”If you lose a single cent, we’ll pay you a million.”

If a user’s Orange Pay account balance was short by even one cent, the platform would pay out one million Hua Yuan in compensation.

It was an extremely forceful response!

Upon learning of Orange Pay’s response, Ma Liyun and Ma Wenteng immediately smelled a conspiracy. They reacted quickly, adopting the same strategy.

WeChat Pay announced publicly: ”If you lose a single cent, we’ll pay you five million.”

Wealth Treasure’s slogan was: ”If you lose a single cent, we’ll pay you ten million.”

Senlian Capital, Ah Li, and Penguin were powerhouses. As China’s top-tier internet companies, even though someone was trying to stir up trouble, the panic instantly dissipated in the face of their three statements.

In particular, Yu’e Bao’s ”Share 10 Billion in Trial Funds” event was completely unaffected.

The person at the top of the leaderboard already held over 30 million!

Second place: 29.7 million!

Third place: 28.4 million!

Fourth place: 4.9 million!

Evidently, there were currently three people vying to have lunch with President Chen.

The next day, the ”National Master,” Zhang Yimou, responded for the first time to accusations of violating the one-child policy.

It was like a single stone setting off a thousand waves. The news exploded across all major web portals, Weibo, and Toutiao.

The attention on the Jingdong bug incident rapidly faded.

Although Liu Qiangdong’s move was risky, it also won him some public goodwill.

Chang Wei of Little Yellow Bike also dodged a bullet. After successively launching the ”Instant Refund” and ”Top-Up Deposit” features, users slowly began to forget about the previous deposit refund scandal.

On March 11, Yiguan Data’s long-awaited Group Buy industry report finally announced the core data for February.

First place, unsurprisingly, was still Kuai Pao, with a monthly transaction volume of 1.76 billion.

Competitors couldn’t help but gasp when they saw the numbers.

You had to remember, February had the Spring Festival, meaning half the month was an industry-wide off-season.

How did Kuai Pao manage it?

’This growth rate is insane!’

Based on the February data, wouldn’t March break 2 billion?!