By lipeng, iChongqing News
Half a dozen unopened packages are placed on the floor of the living room. A box of chocolate protein bars is just opened on the tea table with a cooling fan that can be hung on the neck. In the owner's mobile phone, there are dozens of transaction records.
Kai is showing us his orders in Pinduoduo
Instead of a goods delivery point of some e-commerce platform, it's Kai's home, a Canadian foreign teacher of Chongqing Foreign Language School. After being hooked on Pinduoduo, Kai finds his house a little bit cramped to pile up all the things he bought online. He prefers Pinduoduo for the abundant, novel, economic, and handy products on it.
Another reason is that the gadgets on Pinduoduo are "very cool." For instance, the mentioned cooling fan is designed with a flexible plastic handle in the middle and a small fan separately connected at each end. Therefore, the breeze can blow on your face by hanging the device on the neck. During his trip to Europe, the device made Kai stand out since he attracted all European children's eyes wherever he went.
Children were curious to ask where to buy the devices, and Kai told them from Pinduoduo with standard pronunciation.
Kai is living in an apartment building for foreign teachers in the school. Having worked in Chongqing for more than five years, he could be deemed as a senior. Usually, foreign teachers rarely stay in a city for such a long time, and most of them would shift to another one every one or two years. Somehow, Kai fell in love with Chongqing, the hot pot and pepper-salted fried pork, then a Chongqing girl, hence happily lived here as the city's son-in-law.
Wang Xiaolin, Kai's wife, forthright in character, is a representative of Chongqing girl.
Affected by his wife, Kai has gone crazy about online shopping. Crazy how? Kai had a great time in Europe but ate so much good food, and he wants to get into shape, he used Pinduoduo to buy many nice things to get him set up for a good year at the gym building muscle.
Accurately speaking, Kai is fascinated by Chinese-style online shopping. He previously had the online-shopping experiences in the US and Europe, but what depressed him was that the goods sometimes failed to be delivered after the payment was completed. The communication was ineffective, as well. Both situations would never happen in China.
Another defect is the high price. When the goods purchased online arrive at home, he often finds they were made in China, with the amount several times higher than that sold in China.
A few days ago, Kai bought swimming goggles at Pinduoduo and then broke it. He managed to get a refund and buy a better, famous brand (LiNing) and is very happy with them.
Kai feels content that he can buy goods at Pinduoduo via WeChat Pay. Previously, it was inconvenient because he had to pay through his wife for everything. Now, he can buy whatever he wants from Pinduoduo without permission by his wife.
Speaking of this, Wang Xiaolin rolled her eyes, saying that "since he's obsessed with Pinduoduo, he has bought a lot of stuff". She went into the room and took out a heap of sports bags, hats, featured water cups, and several small fans.
But Kai thinks these goods are excellent and he likes them very much.
Kai has learned fast to share useful shopping information with his friends via social media. After purchasing an inexpensive but high-quality gym bag at Pinduoduo, he shared the links with his foreign colleague, a new gym buddy. Now they can hang out together carrying bags of the same brand. Cool!
Kai's Chinese is not so good, and he is still learning to use the functions at Pinduoduo such as Help to Bargain and Initiate Group Buying. Among them, Duoduo Guoyuan is his favorite. "If you water and fertilize the virtual fruit trees and carefully plant them via the smartphone every day, Pinduoduo will send you real fruit when the virtual fruit ripens." Kai was stunned by the introduction "How to play this game? It's so amazing, and I must have a try".
Kai is crazy about pepper. After completing the interview, he had a hot pot with the journalist. He seems delighted when receiving a text message informing him of the arrival of another few goods. Accompanied by his wife, excellent food and Chinese-style online shopping, Kai is enjoying a happy life in Chongqing.