Sellers beware! This kind of agency operation is tricky, so be careful!

The following is the original text shared by the blogger:

Dear bosses, please be careful to prevent such part-time operation scammers.

Recently, three friends, who didn’t know each other, came to me and told me the same thing: they might have encountered a scammer.

Friend A wants to find an operator for Alibaba International Station;

Friend B wants to hire an Amazon operator;

Friend C wants to hire a 1688 operator.

They all have one thing in common: they are all local bosses of OEM factories who have transformed themselves. They are all relatively old, over 40 years old, and do not understand e-commerce operations very well, but they very much hope that their team can successfully transform into e-commerce.

They then started operational recruitment on multiple platforms, but received very few satisfactory resumes.

After a while, I received a request for a related position on Boss, but the resumes were unauthentic and there were no profile pictures. They all asked for an account number to make a diagnosis first.

I looked at the one on 1688, and it is actually the same as the store backend diagnosis. (But the local boss doesn't know, and thinks the diagnosis report they give is very professional)

Almost every friend is very interested in continuing the conversation after getting the diagnosis report, and they definitely want to invite the other party for an interview. They will give you various reasons, such as family matters, not resigning, or other things. In short, they are not in the local area and cannot interview you, but they will continue to talk to you about store operations.

I'll leave you alone for a day or two.

Then they would say that they cannot come to work this month, and ask if I can try part-time for a month, and they promise that they will not let me down. And the price they offer is not high, 3000-3500 or so.

▲ Conversation between sellers and part-time agent operators

The three friends who were eager to recruit talents were not spared and all agreed to the request of online part-time operation for one month. They all thought that this amount of money was not high, and if they were really talented, they would earn it.

Then they opened sub-accounts for those people with confidence.

In fact, when these friends mentioned this to me, my first thought was whether they had encountered a fraudster. (Later, it was confirmed that my guess was correct.)

Whether it was Alibaba, 1688, or Amazon, they all received a promotion plan a few days after the cooperation. The core content was just one thing: spending money. The one who spent more than 20,000 yuan among the three of them, and the one who spent less also spent several thousand yuan.

There is nothing wrong with spending some money on promotion, but if there is no output, that is a big problem.

Especially the daily content is just the optimization of titles, descriptions, and pictures. In fact, there is no work to do every day, just post some data, and then ask for money. Every now and then, you have to pay for advertising and compete for the bid.

Among them, off-site promotion is easier to manipulate, and the ratio of on-site and off-site promotion is almost half and half, and the budget is basically tens of thousands of yuan. There are also fake orders, looking for partners that you are familiar with, and then taking the money and running away without giving it to the previous party.

In short, the money was spent, but the performance was really bad. Not to mention conversion, even the exposure didn’t see much improvement.

The cooperation had not even started for a month when I secretly complained. What I lost was not only the 3,000 yuan salary, but also the considerable advertising fees. More importantly, I wasted the recruitment time.

If I'm not mistaken, this is a new type of scam used by agency operators.