On June 16, 2004, Penguin was listed on the Hong Kong stock exchange.
At that time, the stock price was 2 Hong Kong dollars.
This price was much lower than the price of 3.7 Hong Kong dollars when Penguin was listed in Lin Xuan's previous life. It was almost halved.
The main reason for this was the emergence of a dark horse in the instant messaging market.
This caused companies such as Penguin's stock underwriter, goldman sachs, to lower their expectations for Penguin.
Naturally, the stock price of Penguin was far lower than that of the original space-time.
This time, Penguin issued 400 million shares and raised about 800 million yuan.
However, at this moment.
Yuanhang. com, Du. com, and Sina.com all reported on PenPenguin's improper collection of Mobile DreamNet, as well as issues related to sexual propaganda.
In fact, DreamNet's SP business was currently in a state of chaos.
There were many problems. Even TOM, which was listed in Gangjiang and Pretty Country at the same time in March, was playing.
This company, which was controlled by Li Jiacheng's family, relied on the income of deducting text messages. It surpassed most of the Internet companies at this time
and was even called the "King of SP"
. However, most SP businesses had the problem of collecting fees for non-operating Internet.
Many SP even promoted their business through websites related to prostitution.
It was not uncommon for people to induce consumption and deceive consumption.
As early as March 15 this year, Yang Ma reported on SP's unreasonable charges and gray areas in response to consumer feedback.
In fact, the country was already preparing to rectify the businesses related to Mobile DreamNet in the second half of the year.
However, it was reported by the newly established Yuanhang Network, Du Niang, Sina.com, and other new media.
As the internet spread, more and more people knew about this matter.
"No wonder my mobile phone bill is rising!”
"Yeah, mine too. Using mobile QQ requires a monthly function fee of 5 yuan and a message fee of 0.1 yuan per message. Although it looks cheap, I always feel that it's more expensive than using text messages every month!”
"Sigh, I don't even know when I decided on the QQ ringtone and QQ news.”
"This is unreasonable charging. Yuanhang. com has already reported it. Penguin is too disgusting.”
"Yeah, the most important thing is that you don't even know what's going on. The money was deducted from the phone bill. I don't even know how to cancel these messy services!”
In the TT chat group, countless netizens were complaining about QQ's unreasonable charging.
On Penguin, countless netizens were in the QQ group, and there were even customer service calls asking for a refund.
"Trash penguin, refund my money!”
"You black-hearted companies secretly booked such a business for me. Hehe, I wouldn't have known if I hadn't checked.”
"Refund me, refund me, or I'll go to your company!”
The Penguin customer service girl had never seen such things before. In the past, she had also complained about them.
However, that was not a lot.
But now, it was almost non-stop. The customer service phone was exploding.
The contents of the phone call were all kinds of things, such as scolding and insulting.
In short, they wanted Penguin to compensate them.
This was a serious threat to Penguin's operations.
At this time, Wu Xiaoguang, who was in charge of tackling the problem, didn't take it seriously at first.
In his opinion, the person who asked Penguin to refund the money was looking for trouble.
Mobile value-added services weren't just for Penguin.
According to the 85:15 ratio between penguins and movement, movement would still require that portion.
Why, why don't you guys go to China Mobile to get the money?
If they could move the money, Penguin would naturally have no problem getting a refund.
As a result, Penguin made a statement
that all of the mobile QQ's businesses were legal and legal.
All of the businesses were based on the user's own purchases and had nothing to do with Penguin. Naturally, there was no problem of induced consumption and obscene publicity on the Internet.
In short, the penguin picked itself clean.
However, the consumers didn't buy Penguin's statement.
Soon after, Yuanhang published an article on June 21st, which thoroughly intensified the conflict.
"Eighty-year-old man, monthly mobile phone bill as high as 136 yuan"
This article was about a widowed old man living in an alley in the capital, Uncle Li.
Uncle Li was 84 years old and had a son and a daughter.
As his children were working in other cities, Uncle Li bought a mobile phone to make it easier for him to contact them.
In the end, after using it, he realized that his phone bill had hit a new high every month.
From the initial 50 to 60 months, to now, it was more than 100 months.
He was a retired worker, and his monthly retirement salary was only a little over 1,000 yuan. He had already spent one-tenth of his mobile phone bill.
The more Uncle Li used it, the more he felt that he couldn't afford it.
In the end, the Yuanhang Network reporter found Uncle Li.
In his phone, he found six mobile QQ charging items, including ringback tones, news, and so on.
Even if Uncle Li did not use these services every month, he still had to pay 60 yuan.
If he accidentally clicked on these items, the fees would be even more expensive.
What made people even more speechless was that there was almost no prompt for these charging items, asking Uncle Li if he was willing to order.
However, Uncle Li himself did not know anything about this.
In addition, if you wanted to cancel the order, some even had to go to the mobile lobby.
At the end of the article, the author called on Penguin to be a company with a conscience and not to make money with evil intentions.
Following the appearance of this article, many people on the Internet felt the same way.
After checking their parents 'cell phones, many children found that their parents' cell phones more or less had such value-added services.
Most of them had no idea how the users had signed up.
The old man himself didn't understand at all. They only felt that their phone bills had become faster, but they didn't think about anything else.
Just like back then, Sanzhu oral liquid collapsed because it killed an old man in the countryside.
As this article was reprinted by major media outlets, the Penguin Empire suffered the biggest crisis in its history.
(P.S.: New book, flowers, review tickets, your support is the author's motivation)
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