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According to the article they are charging 19 yuen for something that costs (presumably at scale) 60 yuen and have no real way to ensure they don't get stolen t
by IE6 9y ago
According to the article they are charging 19 yuen for something that costs (presumably at scale) 60 yuen and have no real way to ensure they don't get stolen this way. Not sure what they really expect :\
- wodenokoto 9y agoNo they are not. It is a deposit. The price is 1 yuan per hour. (50 jiao per half hour)
- evadne 9y agoI would think it should be 5 jiao per half hour, as 1 jiao = ¥0.1
- beagle3 9y agoA deposit is something you get back when you return the item. A price/cost is something you never get back because you do not return the item. Regardless of what the credit card statement or receipt says, you pay 20 yuens and get to keep an umbrella, so "price" is the right description.
- rwallace 9y agoWhy the hell was this comment downvoted? It has correctly summarized the problem: the company is effectively selling umbrellas for 1/3 the wholesale price. Increase the deposit to 70 yuan and you don't have to mind if people keep the umbrellas.
- cctan 9y agoI would like to upvote that comment many times. The price point for the deposit is important, why is this so hard to understand? The reason it failed is because of this simple use case: You want to return it just after you arrived, and it is still raining outside (this is why you rent an umbrella in the first place). If you wait for the sky to be clear to go out, you won't remember the umbrella. But if it is raining again when you go out, why would you want to return the umbrella???