At almost the exact same moment, the owner of Xiangwei Restaurant, far away in Sichuan, received a notification on the platform.
Product listings removed. Payments frozen. The original 100,000 yuan security deposit now had only a little over 70,000 left.
It was obvious that Pinbei, in order to handle customer complaints, had directly deducted the compensation from the security deposit and transferred it into the buyers' accounts.
"What the hell is going on? Why can't I even withdraw the money?!"
Seeing this, Zhang Minxiao panicked and called his operations manager over to make a withdrawal.
"Boss, the payments have been frozen by the platform. We probably won't be able to withdraw anything until all the customer complaints are resolved."
The operations manager shrugged, a helpless look on his face.
He had tried to talk his boss out of it when he'd first decided to use alcohol to wipe the production dates off last year's old stock and re-ink them.
