Sales trick of 'giving gifts' to the elderly appears in Quy Hop

Nearly 80 years old, with no income, living dependent on her children, Ms. Ngo Thi L., residing in Le village, Chau Quang, had to spend nearly 16 million VND to own a mattress from KOREA MART Quy Hop One Member Limited Liability Company in Block 13, Quy Hop town without knowing about it.Origin and quality of the productthere.

Like Ms. L., Ms. Truong Thi Th., residing in Quy Hop town, had to spend 10 million VND to own a pillow and a mattress from KOREA MART Quy Hop One Member Limited Liability Company after hearing the company advertise the "uses" of the product.

The exhibition booth of KOREA MART Quy Hop One Member Limited Liability Company located at Block 13, Quy Hop Town. Photo: Phan Giang

Having no income, but until now, Mr. Dao Ngoc Q., Block 7, Quy Hop town, still cannot explain why his relative spent nearly 12 million VND to buy a Korean mattress from KOREA MART Quy Hop One Member Limited Liability Company. When he learned that his relative bought a product beyond the family's financial capacity, Mr. Q. brought the product to the Company to request a return and a refund.

Mr. Q. said: “My mother bought bedding from this company. People told her that bedding can cure all diseases. She saved up about ten million VND and spent it on the so-called cure-all. Now I am taking the product back to the company because firstly, this product is beyond my family’s financial capacity, and secondly, whether it can cure all diseases or not, everyone probably knows.”

Not only Mrs. L. or Mrs. Th., but through research, many people (mostly the elderly) in a mountainous district like Quy Hop are willing to spend a lot of money to buy these products.

The company's product price list. Photo: Phan Giang

Mr. Ngo Duc D., block 13, Quy Hop town said: “I saw her go to the conference at Tam Nga every day, very punctual, getting up at 6am, arriving at 1pm, first was toothpaste for 600,000 VND, when she got home she checked online the actual price of the product was only 60,000 VND. Then she bought a pillow for 2 million VND, saying it had silver fibers, gold fibers, and activated carbon to treat headaches and insomnia. When she got home she didn't say anything and she asked to buy a mattress for 20 million VND. Seeing signs of something unusual, the family forbade her from following, and this morning they brought the pillow back and got 2 million VND back.”

Just sit and listen and you will receive gifts, taking advantage of the people's psychology of receiving gifts and to strengthen people's trust, a group of people from KOREA MART Quy Hop One Member Limited Liability Company rented a space to display and introduce products including functional foods, charcoal mattresses, charcoal pillows, etc. By doing this, along with sweet words that, during the product promotion process, the company does not force customers to buy, and can exchange or return any product. However, when the authorities came to work at noon on November 3, 2022, the company representative, Mr. Phan Van Phong, admitted that the company's products have no medicinal effects.

Authorities came to check. Photo: Phan Giang

At the time the authorities were working, KOREA MART Quy Hop One Member Limited Liability Company had not provided the police with value-added invoices when selling goods and other related procedures. At that time, many people who had purchased goods, mainly old men and women, sadly carried the previously purchased goods to KOREA MART Quy Hop One Member Limited Liability Company in Block 13, Quy Hop Town to return the goods. But when there were no authorities there, returning a product required a depreciation of up to 50% of the used product.

With the trick of giving gifts and the gullibility of the elderly, this company has easily exploited the greed of the elderly to sell low-quality products at very high prices. Many "victims" of this form of business are currently in a "half-crying, half-laughing" situation because many people have hidden their relatives to borrow money, even selling their gold savings to buy products of KOREA MART Quy Hop One Member Limited Liability Company.