Chapter 547: It's Just This Big!

The amount is very large?

Xiao Cui looked at the young man in front of him, focusing on the bag the other party was carrying on his back, though he didn't feel much of anything.

Although complaints are all made online nowadays, if someone comes to file a complaint in person, one must certainly receive them; it's just that doing it online saves everyone time.

Of course, if those staff members from the Guangming District law enforcement agency were here, they would definitely say to Xiao Cui, "Young man, did you see that bag on his back? Now look at our hair..."

"Alright then, comrade, what would you like to complain about?" Xiao Cui asked.

He didn't think too much of it; individuals who come to the Market Supervision Department to complain usually have minor disputes.

Then, the several staff members present watched as that handsome young man placed the backpack on his back onto the table with a *bang*.

It was only because the desk in the Consumer Protection and Market Transaction Supervision and Management Section was of good quality; if you don't believe it, try swapping it with the Legal Section next door—it would have shattered long ago, okay?

Xiao Cui swallowed, and before he could speak, he heard the handsome young man in front of him open his mouth.

"I want to file a complaint against that A-Fu Company in our Shenzhen; they are engaging in Price Fraud!"

As he spoke, Zhou Yi opened his backpack and began pulling out materials, saying as he did so: "Take a look, just this—they advertised a forty percent discount, but if you compare it to the lowest transaction price within the seven days prior to their promotional activity, you can see that it doesn't reach such a large discount at all!"

Xiao Cui took the materials and began to look through them, feeling a bit curious as he read, because these evidentiary materials were prepared in extreme detail, and the explanation for the complaint was also very sufficient.

It even reached a point where they couldn't find any faults even if they wanted to.

However, Xiao Cui prepared to ask, "You haven't mentioned how large the amount is."

But he saw Zhou Yi opposite him pull out another set of materials: "Look here, this is my purchase record; I bought about four million plus worth of goods..."

*Pfft! * A colleague behind him spat out the tea in his mouth, looking stunned as he said: "Little brother, you said you bought how much?"

"Four million plus? You call this amount 'a bit large'?"

What kind of international joke is this? In business-to-business transactions, four million plus really doesn't count for much; a single procurement amount can be outrageously large.

But in individual purchases, four million plus is definitely not a small sum!

No need to think about anything else; if fraud exists, "Return One Compensate Three"—this would reach an eye-popping figure!

The other few colleagues couldn't bother to look at online complaints anymore; with such a large transaction scale, they must conduct a full determination, and it can be said that the determination from their Market Supervision side is extremely important!

This is Lawyer Fang's line of thinking: see if the Market Supervision Department considers this fraud, and Article 55 of the Consumer Rights Protection Law has clear provisions; as long as fraud exists, it should be applied.

Note that here it is "should" and not "may"; these two terms have completely different concepts in law.

Although there are times when the administrative department's determination differs from a Court judgment, regardless, Lawyer Fang feels the advantage is on this side.

However, Zhou Yi's words were not yet finished.

"Oh, and there's also these; for the time being, I have collected evidence from about a dozen online shops, and they all have similar behaviors."

These online shops include those selling gold, clothes, and luxury goods; the variety is very complex, and their company locations are all in Shenzhen.

Basically, they all have the behavior of using a Strikethrough Price to create a Fictitious Original Price during promotional activities.

Each one claims how large their discount is, but you can find the problem just by comparing it to before the activity.

Xiao Cui looked at Zhou Yi as if looking at a pervert...

Zhou Yi really wanted to explain that his System Task didn't tell him to do this; it was just that when Lawyer Fang was collecting evidence for A-Fu, he felt the atmosphere had reached this point, and it would feel unsatisfying not to get more.

And there's no need for "Return One Compensate Three"—that's the business of those consumers; he is only responsible for reporting here.

Thus, Lawyer Fang just conveniently collected all this evidence; herding one sheep is the same as herding two, it's nothing more than losing a bit of hair, a small matter.

Xiao Cui and the others silently took the materials, and then stared longingly at Zhou Yi's bag; they really wanted to know what else was in this guy's bag.

Zhou Yi looked and finally smiled: "Alright, that's all the complaints I have for now."

This is called "a little"... Xiao Cui's mood was very complicated; he already had a premonition of the overtime work to come.

"Very well, this comrade, we have received your complaint; we will give you a receipt now, and we will notify you after the specific Case Filing and investigation."

Holding the receipt, Zhou Yi left the Market Supervision Department with a happy face.

Xiao Cui looked at his colleague and sighed: "Report this to the leadership; this matter has blown up."

Returning to the hotel, Lawyer Fang still hadn't returned; it seems he went out to have fun again. Instead, Zhou Yi had nothing to do for a moment, but that didn't matter; he might as well ask Zhou Xinran how their case was going.

Zhou Xinran had been busy in Lincheng for a long time with a team of lawyers, and the evidence was almost collected; what needed to be done next was to file the case and go through the procedures.

Of course, the System would not cover this matter, so Zhou Yi had to pay for it himself.

Time came to January 26th; Zhou Xinran finished packing, called two other lawyer colleagues, and set off for the Changyi District Court.

She had checked the date today; it was a suitable time for a Lawsuit, very good.

At the entrance of the Changyi District Court, Zhao Yu and several other colleagues were chatting while walking inside.

"Sigh, someone else has resigned here; the work pressure is really high. Fortunately, it's almost the New Year, and there are relatively fewer cases to be heard, otherwise I feel like I'm going to die from overwork," Zhao Yu said there.

A judge colleague nearby smiled: "We in the Criminal Division are doing alright, we don't have as many cases as you, otherwise my hair would have fallen out too."

However, just at this moment, Zhao Yu glanced casually and saw that the situation nearby was wrong!

"Hey, hey, hey, you guys wait a second, look over there, look at the entrance of the Case Filing Hall, what are those three people doing, why are they carrying such large bags!"

Hearing this, the judge from the Criminal Division joked: "Three big bags, these wouldn't be materials for filing a case, would they? Ha, hahaha..."

As his voice fell, he saw the several colleagues beside him looking at him with expressionless faces.

"That, just a joke, don't take it seriously..."

Since there was nothing to do anyway, the few decided to go take a look.

Zhao Yu felt his eyelid twitching faster and faster.

Entering the Case Filing Hall, the few were dumbfounded, because those three people were heading straight for the Case Filing window with those three massive bags on their backs!

"Holy crap, no way?"

The same words also popped out of the mouth of the staff member at the Case Filing window.

Looking at the quite pretty girl in front of him, the staff member said with a blank expression: "Are you sure you want to sue for all of these? This, this is a bit too much!"

On the civil side, the Defamation of Reputation Litigation involved 3,863 people, and that was that; there weren't as many involving Criminal Private Prosecution as before, only 400 plus people...

Of course, the scale of this time could not compare to the scale of Zhou Yi's previous large-scale Litigation; after all, the popularity itself was not as high as before, and Zhou Xinran also knew after collecting evidence that Zhou Yi's previous few Lawsuits had very large effects.

After a few times, fewer and fewer guys who don't believe in evil remain.

Of course, the ones bearing the brunt are still those guys called lawyers; compared to ordinary people, this kind of person is truly impossible to wipe out!

One after another, for the sake of traffic, for the sake of making money, they rush onto this path one after another.

Zhou Xinran can understand this kind of person, and at the same time, she also knows that no matter how large a scale Zhou Yi creates, such people will still exist.

It is just like how the Criminal Law sends so many people in to be Treading the Sewing Machine every year, and even sentences so many to the Death Penalty, yet there are still people who will take the risk.

Regarding this, Zhou Xinran smiled and said, "It's not that many, comrade. You should hurry up and start the review, or I'll leave first, and you can notify me once the review has a result."

Sigh, Lincheng hasn't seen the world. Look at the Guangming District Court; even if someone went there one day with evidence to file a Lawsuit against 100,000 people at once, they would still calmly accept the evidence and then complain about it for a while after no one was left.

The staff member didn't know what to say; she felt that this female Lawyer seemed very experienced, having even said the very words she wanted to say next.

She could only wave her hand and say, "Alright then, you... you all go back first. We need to review this for a few days."

Done. Zhou Xinran turned and left. She had an appointment with Mother Zhou to go shopping at the mall today and didn't have time to waste here.

After all, compared to Jingzhou, Lincheng is a small place, and the Changyi District Court is even a grassroots Court; when had they ever seen such a spectacle?

Thus, in a very short time, this matter spread throughout the Court.

In the office, Zhao Yu almost lost his breath. He touched his hair and said, "Are you sure there are really that many? Is their evidence very sufficient?"

The staff member in front of him nodded. Zhao Yu even felt that there was a hint of schadenfreude in this guy's eyes.

However, after the staff member described today's situation, Zhao Yu instantly thought of the three people he had seen today.

Damn it, that dog thing in the Criminal Division next door really was a jinx!

He stood up quickly; he wanted to go see which pervert had done such a thing.

Not long after, he saw those Indictments. The name in the Plaintiff section looked very familiar.

It was the Defendant of the case he was about to open a trial for...

Zhao Yu gasped. If they were making things so serious for these people on the internet, he didn't even dare to imagine what the consequences would be for A-Fu Company.

Lincheng was temporarily fine. Only the case where Mother Zhou was the Defendant and the Counterclaim filed needed to go to trial. This time, Zhou Xinran didn't even plan to go; she was preparing to go to Shenzhen, and she simply sent a Lawyer to act as an agent for the case.

Anyway, for this case, you could lead a dog up there and it could still win; the only difference would be how much Liability for Breach of Contract is awarded.

Two or three thousand would be enough.

Besides this, the large-scale Litigation in Lincheng and the complaints in Shenzhen were all under review.

Finally, the Lincheng case went to trial.

Xiao Zhenliang felt he performed extremely well; although the fellow on the opposite side was also quite skilled, he was still no match for him.

What's more, his evidence was very sufficient.

Thus, the court delivered a judgment: the contract was revoked due to a Major Misunderstanding, but because of Liability for Breach of Contract, the A-Fu side had to pay three thousand yuan in compensation.

Xiao Zhenliang was very satisfied listening to the judgment. He specifically confirmed that the other party would not Appeal, and then walked to the side to make a phone call; he had to report to his leader immediately.

"Hello, President Gao, yeah it's me. Our lawsuit had a judgment result today. The contract was revoked, but we have to pay three thousand yuan in compensation because there was Liability for Breach of Contract..."

Gao Yuxia's voice sounded on the phone: "The other party didn't Appeal, right?"

"No, President Gao. After the verdict was announced, that Lawyer left directly."

"I thought something would happen, with all that back and forth before. Alright, let it be then. Just wait for the judgment to take effect."

In Shenzhen, after Gao Yuxia finished speaking, she hung up the phone. Of course, she wasn't willing to pay the three thousand yuan for Mediation, because the other party was opening their mouth like a lion; they had asked for ten thousand before.

But since the judgment had come down, that was that. An Appeal would basically result in the same outcome.

Not long after, Gao Yuxia stopped thinking about this matter. Their event this year was held very successfully!

The promotion was very well-executed; after all, the discount intensity in the promotion was very high, so it attracted a lot of people's attention.

It was also thanks to the heat this time that they gained a lot of traffic for nothing.

…………

In Lincheng, after Xiao Zhenliang finished his report, he immediately dialed Lin Liqing's phone number.

"Hello Liqing, yes, the judgment came down today. Do you want—oh, what's our relationship, it's a small matter. Alright, I'll take a photo and send it to you."

On the other side, Lin Liqing was very excited looking at the judgment sent to her phone.

She had already tasted the sweetness. Because of her previous actions, her follower count skyrocketed, many advertisers came knocking, and her income was growing by leaps and bounds compared to before.

If she went out to take cases, looking at her current situation, it would be impossible to earn this much!

When many practicing Lawyers first start independent practice, because they lack case sources, their lives are much harder than many people imagine.

You can make money just by posting a video, so why go out and take cases so arduously?

After carefully reading the judgment, Lin Liqing had a plan.

"Hello everyone, regarding the bizarre case I told you about last time—the auntie who takes advantage of others—there is now a judgment. To be honest, I personally do not agree with this judgment."

"Although the judgment says the contract was revoked due to a Major Misunderstanding, because the other party filed a Counterclaim, according to Liability for Breach of Contract, it also ruled that the A-Fu side must pay three thousand yuan in compensation. It is foreseeable that this three thousand yuan will definitely be borne by the Employee who made the mistake, and they might even be fired."

"So everyone think about it, this auntie bought things, which is equivalent to not spending a cent, and she can inexplicably get three thousand yuan. Really, this speed of making money is too fast!"

"I don't want to say much more now. Anyway, the judgment is already out, but I really can't stand the behavior of this kind of auntie, because there are too many people like this who take advantage of others..."

After finishing the video, there were no problems, so she uploaded it directly.

In Shenzhen, the District Market Supervision Bureau had already reported the situation, because this matter involved too many companies.

It was no longer something they could handle on their own.

And after many days of investigation, the Shenzhen Market Supervision Department decided to initiate a Case Filing!

Only one chapter today.. No more nonsense, I'll make up for it tomorrow..

(End of this chapter)