“‘post-95 ‘public officials embezzled public funds to buy top online game equipment” and “bidding for the original owner of 87 million yuan of game cards”
The case of Zhang Yujie recently disclosed in the TV feature film zero tolerance has attracted attention again that rapidly soared the starting price of game cards from 80 yuan to 87.326 million yuan .
Are thin cards really so “fragrant”? What are the hidden consumption traps behind it?
embezzled nearly 70 million and squandered
The fifth episode of “always on the road”, a TV feature film “zero tolerance”, jointly produced by the Publicity Department of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the State Supervision Commission and the Central Radio and Television Corporation, recently aired, which disclosed in detail the corruption case of Zhang Yujie.
Zhang Yujie is a staff member of Chuzhou real estate registration center in Anhui Province. He was born in 1995 and was detained in March 2020. his specific work is to receive citizens at the window of the hall of the government service center, collect house purchase custody funds, fill in the custody agreement, and issue bank deposit certificates and fund custody certificates. according to the investigation, in more than three years from 2016 to 2019, he successively embezzled more than 69 million yuan of public funds by means of non recording the collection and forging the collection facts.
The reason why he had the idea of embezzling public funds was related to playing online games. one day in 2016, a buyer took tens of thousands of yuan in cash to handle fund custody. As he can only pay by card according to the regulations, Zhang Yujie went through the formalities for him first, deposited the cash in his card, and planned to help him pay by card the next day. Who knows, when playing the game that night, I couldn’t control spending all these tens of thousands of yuan because of recharging to buy equipment.
What makes Zhang Yujie unable to stop is the completely different game experience after recharging. In the online game world, as long as you are willing to spend money, you can become an invincible and invincible strong man.
Zhang Yujie by constantly recharge to buy top-level equipment, boarded the top of an online game ranking in a competition area. He indulged in the sense of achievement bought with money in the virtual world, and then developed to meet various desires with money in the real world.
the investigation found that nearly 70 million yuan embezzled by Zhang Yujie was almost squandered at the time of the crime. A few were spent on games, and most were spent on various high-end consumption. he made three girlfriends successively, bought clothes, watches and jewelry of various luxury brands for them, traveled everywhere and experienced various luxury enjoyment together. The most expensive luxury undersea suite in a hotel in Hainan is 100000 yuan a night. Zhang Yujie and a girlfriend stayed here for four nights.
1 card bid 80 million
In June 2021, a judicial auction detonated a hot discussion on the Internet. For a game card without any actual function, the bidding price was raised to more than 80 million yuan. This game card was once owned by Zhang Yujie.
At that time, Chuzhou intermediate people’s court in Anhui Province auctioned the property involved in a corruption case. Among them, a game card called “blue eyed white dragon” is only a souvenir of an online game and has no actual function, but because it is limited to 500 copies worldwide, the market price alone has reached more than 100000 yuan .
In the subsequent auction process, according to Alibaba auction data, the auction price of the card soared from the starting price of 80 yuan to 87.326 million yuan .
Subsequently, the auction was suspended due to the serious inconsistency between the auction and the actual bidding price, and there may be malicious speculation and bidding behavior.
The case that game cards are auctioned or sold at high prices is not emerging in recent times. In August 2019, it was reported that a set of “fairy treasure dream” cards were sold at an auction at a high price of 107000 US dollars .
huge appreciation space
Why can a small game card be sold at such a high price?
“Card friends” Mr. Jean (a pseudonym) told reporters that because some cards have been out of print, if you like them, you need to spend a lot of money to buy and collect them.
Mr. Jean further introduced that buying game cards also depends on the appearance, and the value of good appearance will be many times , “At that time, when the cards were just released, they were all played by children. They didn’t pay attention to preservation and were greatly worn. Therefore, the number of cards with good appearance is very small now. for the same card, the card with bad appearance can only sell for 700-800 yuan, while the card with a higher grade may sell for 7000-8000 yuan , and the price increases ten times.”.
Moreover, the appreciation space of game cards is also regarded as a “bottomless hole”.
Mr. Jean told reporters: “two years ago, I had the opportunity to receive a brand-new big head (Altman card) at the price of 5000 yuan, but I confiscated it at that time. Now if I want to buy it again, the brand-new price has reached 50000 yuan. In addition, Jinsha aubu sp (Altman card) could receive a brand-new one at 10000 yuan two years ago, but now it has risen to 300000 yuan .”
There is no doubt that the consumption potential of game cards is constantly released, and in the face of the huge consumer market, all kinds of capital have already heard the wind and entered the game one after another. In June last year, YUNYONG holdings submitted a prospectus to the stock exchange of Hong Kong for listing on the main board of the Hong Kong stock exchange. The company’s main business is to sell collective exchange cards in Hong Kong, Taiwan and other regions of China. In 2020, the revenue of collective exchange cards reached HK $478 million . Similarly, Guangzhou Wahlap Technology Corporation Limited(301011) , Altman image cards alone can achieve annual sales of tens of millions of yuan .
hype prices, piracy
While the game cards continue to show their gold absorption, the hidden dangers behind them gradually appear.
Zhang Jingcheng, director of China Creative Industry Research Center, believes that the appreciation space of items such as game cards lies more in spiritual value. Under the hype of the general environment, some people will have speculative psychology, and some young people and children will have curiosity seeking psychology for such products, which promotes the existence of unreasonable prices to a certain extent.
What is more noteworthy is that with the popularity of IP such as baokemeng, Altman and game king, some criminals do not hesitate to take risks, so that now a small piece of paper can also become the “hardest hit area” of piracy .
According to the news of magic eye microblog, in November last year, the customs of Shanghai Pudong Airport seized a batch of counterfeit cards of Baoke mengpicchu, weighing more than 7.6 tons.
Jiang Benwei, a partner of Beijing Gaowen law firm, said that consumers had better buy goods through formal channels and don’t be greedy for a temporary bargain to avoid being deceived. If piracy is found, it may complain to the relevant departments about the fraudulent acts of business operators, and the administrative departments shall impose penalties
