Listing turned into a dog! A large number of stores were closed! Something happened to the spittoon seller...

Everyone knows that in the past two days, traditional Chinese spittoons have been selling for $61 on Amazon.

But what you don’t know is that the seller in the spittoon incident didn’t know that this thing would become popular . In the past two days, someone found the seller. It is reported that he had already put the spittoon product on the shelves in October 2019. It was not because of a sudden whim, but his original idea of ​​selecting products was traditional Chinese specialty products, such as mahjong, porcelain, etc.

He wanted to sell the spittoon as a normal product, not a spoof. It has been on the shelves for such a long time, but it has not been very popular. I suddenly saw a related video on Douyin these days, and then I knew that my product was actually popular. A large number of people flocked to his product link to watch, bringing tens of thousands of visits, but because most of them were just there to watch the fun, there were very few real buyers, all of whom asked questions through Q&A or private messages, and the conversion rate of the product was actually very poor.

Why did the spittoon become so popular overnight? Foreigners like to use the Double Happiness spittoon, which was a best-seller in China in the 1980s. Whether drinking beer or using it as a fruit plate, they believe that the big red "Happiness" character on it has auspicious meanings.

Foreigners use Chinese spittoons to drink beer

Cheers with a spittoon

Use a spittoon to hold fruit

After the spittoon became popular, many sellers followed suit and hyped up its products, and many competing products immediately appeared on Amazon.

After all, the cost is only about 10 yuan, but it can be sold on Amazon for 61.96 US dollars ( equivalent to about 400 yuan ), a premium of more than 40 times . No wonder so many people sell it.

However, a manufacturer who claimed to be a factory direct seller said that the cost of a spittoon was only a dozen yuan before, but now the ex-factory price of a spittoon is 36 yuan , and the number of sellers inquiring about this product has increased significantly recently, and this product in their factory is already in the order queue.

Just when many sellers were trying to get rich, they didn't expect that the clown was actually themselves...

The popularity of traditional Chinese spittoons has sparked heated discussions among netizens, and various information about the seller has been circulated. Some netizens speculated that the seller may have stolen other people's business license information to open a store .

It is reported that the situation has been reported to the seller management team. The staff said that because it is an international business, the investigation and feedback time is one to two weeks. For the situation of using other people's information to open a store, once it is verified, the most serious one will be closed.

It is understood that Amazon has begun to remove spittoons from its shelves. All of them have been removed from the Spanish site, and Chinese spittoons from other sites are also being removed one after another. The listings of many spittoons have become delisted.

Now, if you search for keywords such as spittoon, fruit plate, champagne bucket, etc. on various Amazon sites, you will basically not find any Chinese spittoons.

However, in more serious cases, some sellers’ stores have been closed . According to Xiaozhi, many spittoon sellers have received warning letters from Amazon.

From the email, we can see that the reason for the store closure was that incorrect information was provided to buyers .