According to the statistical report on the development of China's Internet, by June 2017, the number of users of shared bicycles had reached 106 million. It is estimated that the number of deposits in the whole bike sharing industry may have exceeded 10 billion yuan based on the average deposit of more than 100 yuan for users, excluding all kinds of unused balances that users recharge in advance.
How many users' deposits have been floated? Director Huang will calculate them according to the public information.
Wukong bike: the deposit has been refunded
On June 13, 2017, Wukong bicycle announced its withdrawal from the shared bicycle market.
By the time of exit, there were about 10000 users of Wukong bicycle, and the average usage frequency of each vehicle was three to four times a day. After the operation was stopped, Wukong bicycle returned all the deposit to the users, totaling about 1 million yuan.
On August 2, 2017, Nanjing tiebai Network Technology Co., Ltd., which operates machimachi bicycle, was included in the list of abnormal enterprises because of illegal fund-raising and broken capital chain, and the company lost contact with Qixia industrial and commercial bureau.
Ding Wei, founder of machimachimachi bicycle, said that more than 10000 users who can't return the deposit still want to return the money, or each person can get a bicycle with a cost of 1800 yuan, according to the Beijing Youth Daily on October 31.
In July 2017, Xiaoming bicycle users reported that the deposit was hard to be refunded, which led to the outbreak of user refunding.
On October 26, Xiaoming bicycle employees told China times that the deposit owed by Xiaoming to users is about 50 million yuan, roughly calculated by the deposit of 199 yuan per user, involving about 250000 users in arrears. At the same time, he said, Xiaoming bicycle now only has a refund channel on Weibo.
Since August this year, the difficulty of refunding the deposit of Kuqi has continued to spread, and the complicated relationship between Kuqi and P2P platform credit loan has also alerted the outside world.
Since the middle of September, the branches located in Shenyang, Hefei, Zhengzhou, Xi'an and other places have been exposed as "empty".
In an article on November 21, 21st century economic report pointed out that there are still 700 million yuan of deposits not returned to users.
In September this year, Xiaolan bicycle was exposed to the phenomenon of overdue deposit.
On October 20, Xiaolan bicycle announced that the refunds that users applied for before October 30, 2017 will be returned before November 10, 2017.
By the middle of November, the refund period promised by Xiaolan bicycle had passed, but many netizens had not received the refund.
According to media reports, at present, bluebike is in arrears with suppliers of up to 200 million yuan, involving more than 70 suppliers. Most suppliers are in arrears of about 1 million yuan, and some suppliers are in arrears of up to 8 million yuan.
Although there is no accurate data about the user deposit in arrears of Xiaolan bicycle, the official data of Xiaolan bicycle shows that the number of registered users is more than 15 million. Based on the deposit of 99 yuan per person, the scale of this deposit pool is not small, and the risk cannot be underestimated.