Aunt Xizang Tourism Spends 18000 Yuan to Buy "Silver Bowl for Treatment"? The local city supervision bureau will investigate Ms. Chen | Lin Zhi | Ms. shopping | purification | water quality | tourism
Recently, Ms. Chen from Hunan posted that her parents went to Xizang with a group and bought a silver bowl priced 18000 yuan in a shop in Linzhi. "The trick is: they told my mom that this can cure diseases, it's different from ordinary ones."
On the 7th, the upstream news reporter contacted Ms. Chen. She introduced that she found a travel agency online for her parents, and her mother bought a bowl from a shopping store. "This bowl doesn't even have a certificate," she said. Currently, the store's handling result is a return and refund, but due to engraving, a fee of 300 yuan is required.
The silver bowl bought by Ms. Chen's mother. Image source/provided by respondents
According to the information provided by Ms. Chen regarding group travel agencies and shopping merchants. On the 7th, the reporter contacted a certain travel agency, and the staff said that although there were shopping spots during the tour, there was no mandatory consumption. The travel agency has not cooperated with merchants and has never required tourists to specify which shopping point to go to for consumption. Regular stores will provide receipts.
Subsequently, the reporter contacted the shop located in Linzhi Bayi district that sells silver bowls. A woman who answered the phone said that many tourists who come to travel will enter their store for shopping, and there will also be tourist groups coming. Regarding Ms. Chen's claim of buying a silver bowl for 18000 yuan, she stated that the bowl is 999 sterling silver, which has been certified by authoritative institutions to be of high purity and therefore expensive. The bowl priced at 18000 yuan weighs about 2 pounds, and the price has always been the same.
"The silver bowl mainly serves to purify and soften water quality, and that's what we tell our customers." She said that the customer has returned the bowl, and after purchasing it, they can return it unconditionally for a refund within 30 days, without forcing them to buy or sell. "We will also clearly inform customers of the price, and if they cannot accept it, they can choose not to buy. There are not many people who refund. Because the name is engraved, it is impossible to resell it to others, so a symbolic fee will be charged."
Regarding this matter, a nutritionist in Chongqing, Liu Li, said that if the heavy metal content in the water is too high, it may react with silverware, but whether it can purify the water quality and the effect are unknown. A senior junior high school chemistry teacher, Teacher Hu, told reporters that silver ions have antibacterial functions, but pure silver hardly separates silver ions in water and does not have the effect of purifying water quality.
The staff of the Linzhi Tourism Development Bureau who answered the complaint replied that if tourists encounter consumption disputes, they can provide feedback to the tourism department or report to the market supervision department. Regarding this matter, the Market Supervision Bureau of Bayi District stated that merchants promoting silver bowls as "capable of purifying water quality" may be suspected of false advertising. A preliminary investigation will be conducted into the store in the future, and if there is indeed illegal behavior, it will be dealt with in accordance with relevant regulations.
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