Jin Baobao's online store for testing and exposing scams via live stream.
The streamer, Jin Baobao, as usual, brought out a large stack of delivery boxes. Some were for products for which she had received promotional fees and would speak favorably about. The majority, however, were for new online stores she had either selected herself or found based on viewer recommendations.
She had built her reputation by helping people by testing and exposing scams.
To ensure she wouldn't completely fail, or at least not entirely, most of the online stores she tested on her live streams didn't pay her. Only when she wasn't paid could she speak the truth or nitpick.
This way, her viewers felt she was fair, unbiased, and wasn't falsely accusing or excessively praising anyone.
Among the large pile of deliveries she had made this time.
Was a fruit tasting gift box from Ding Yun's shop.
The so-called fruit tasting gift box was created by Ding Yun after seeing that other online stores had trial-size products. Coupled with the fact that her store's fruit prices were not cheap, and aside from friends, family, colleagues, and people they introduced, she rarely had other customers. Thus, she specially created a reasonably priced tasting gift box to sell.
She hoped people would buy it to try.
And then repurchase after finding it delicious.
To control costs, and also to prevent people from only buying the tasting gift box if they found it delicious without buying the full-sized product.
Although Ding Yun's gift box was very cheap, it contained very little. There were only nine types of fruit in total, and each type had minimal quantity. For example, a bunch of three to four grapes, two satsumas, one tangerine, one banana, one kiwi, etc. The total weight was just over two jin, and with the gift box, it was less than three jin.
The price was nineteen yuan and nine jiao.
Even at this price, Ding Yun could still make a profit. However, this kind of gift box was troublesome to assemble. And when calculated comprehensively, the fruit in the gift box cost less than ten yuan per jin, whereas Ding Yun sold grapes, satsumas, and tangerines at twenty to thirty yuan per jin.
Therefore, she only planned to sell this gift box for a limited time.
Once she had some regular customers, she would take it down.
Jin Baobao noticed that Ding Yun's shop sold ordinary fruits, yet the prices were comparable to some imported fruits, and some product reviews were quite good. She suspected the reviews were fake and intended to expose it.
So she specifically bought a tasting gift box.
However, this was just one of the products she had chosen and not important enough to be opened first. So she set the delivery aside, made a phone call, and then began to open the delivery boxes one by one according to the predetermined process, tasting or trying the products and sharing her thoughts.
Most of her evaluations were honest.
Only when she encountered products for which she had received promotional fees and whose quality was acceptable would she slightly exaggerate.
For instance, if a hand cream had an average feel on the skin, she would try not to mention the feel and instead say that the fragrance of this hand cream was exceptionally pleasant, like that of a top-tier perfume.
She'd say the scent was not cheap at all, but classy.
And she'd mention how many special ingredients were added to the hand cream, implying that the effect would surely be good.
Or, for example, a facial cleanser that had average cleaning power, and after washing, it felt like it wasn't completely clean, leaving a film-like sensation on the face.
She would then emphasize that the facial cleanser's ingredients were mild.
It wouldn't damage the skin and was particularly friendly to sensitive skin.
After washing her face, her skin wouldn't feel tight at all; instead, it would feel tender, as if a layer of lotion or cream had been applied.
In reality, her description of the experience was clear, but she simply rephrased it. This was the art of language.
Promotional products were mixed with ordinary products, those for which she hadn't received promotional fees, so it didn't seem that obvious. In fact, it even made most of the viewers think that the streamer was speaking from genuine experience. Those items she deemed good were likely truly good and worth buying.
After streaming for more than half an hour like this.
Jin Baobao picked up the delivery from Ding Yun's shop and said with a smile, "Friends, family, I've been streaming for over half an hour. I'm a bit hungry and thirsty. This package in my hand is from a fruit shop that opened not long ago but has good reviews.
Let me test the waters for you first and see if the fruits from this shop are as delicious and amazing as the reviews say, or if the shop owner is faking their reviews!"
With that, she began to open the package. At the same time, her assistant opened the comments section of some of the products in Ding Yun's shop and displayed them for the viewers to see.
After all, most of the people currently buying from Ding Yun's shop were relatives, friends, and even colleagues. Moreover, there were no issues with the products in the store, so the comment section was naturally filled with positive reviews, some even exaggerated, saying they had never eaten such delicious fruit in their decades of life, which indeed looked like fake reviews at first glance.
After the viewers in the live stream had seen dozens of comments, Jin Baobao had successfully opened the package and taken out all the fruits from the gift box, washed them, and arranged them.
"Everyone can see, there's not much in the gift box. There are quite a few varieties of fruit, a total of nine kinds, but the quantity of fruit is too little.
There are only four grapes.
Before I had my dental work done, I would have suspected if these four grapes could fill my cavities and gaps.
Hahaha, just kidding...
Actually, it's okay. Fruits are not cheap these days. I just weighed them, and these nine types of fruit together are at least two jin and two liang. Calculated, it's about eight to nine yuan per jin. This price is not expensive in many fruit shops, and it doesn't include shipping. So, I think the price is reasonable.
Next, let's see about the taste..."
Because nowadays it's hard to find very cheap fruits in normal fruit shops. Any fruit that is of slightly better quality and looks slightly more aesthetically pleasing.
The price is basically five to six yuan per jin and above.
Ten to twenty yuan per jin is common.
So, Jin Baobao couldn't really fault the price. After a brief comment, she started eating the grapes. At the same time, the criticism that was about to leave her mouth was immediately swallowed back by the astonishing burst of intense grape fragrance and the sweet and slightly sour taste that exploded in her mouth.
Then, as if she couldn't believe it.
She quickly picked up another grape and put it in her mouth. One after another, she quickly ate all four meager grapes. After finishing them, she looked regretful:
"Why are they gone? Why are there so few!"
Immediately after, as if she had forgotten she was live streaming, she directly took out her phone, found Ding Yun's shop, searched for grapes, and placed an order for ten jin, buying them at thirty-nine yuan and nine jiao per jin without complaint, for ten jin.
At the same time, the audience in the live stream was stunned.
The bullet comments exploded with complaints a few seconds later.