Are Pony cosmetics good to use? Pony Taobao store sells fake products

Pony is a very famous Korean beauty blogger. Many people like Pony very much. Pony's makeup tutorials are very useful and her makeup skills are also at the god level. Many of Pony's imitation makeups are very similar. So are Pony's cosmetics good to use? Pony's Taobao store sells fakes.

Are Pony cosmetics good?

Today let’s talk about the cosmetics brand created by PONY herself. Is it really as cheap and effective as rumored?

Pony Effect is PONY's own makeup brand. Combining his many years of experience and professional knowledge in beauty, the main concept is to make you look brand new before and after makeup. The That Girl series was launched in Korea last year and attracted a large number of die-hard fans as soon as it was launched.

Advantages: good prices, good reputation, and a great master. Whether it is cosmetics or makeup tools, they fully consider the needs of makeup novices. The cosmetics are easy to apply and the tools are also easy to operate. The products can be bought at MEMEBOX, so you don’t have to worry about searching for them, and you don’t have to worry about fakes.

Disadvantages: Although it is not expensive, the cost performance is not high, and the product quality is also low. It looks low when you open it. It is more suitable for beginners to practice. If you have used a lot of big-name products, then PONY's makeup will mostly make you laugh.

Is the Pony Taobao store authentic?

News about fake online celebrity cosmetics has been frequently reported. What shocked me the most was the news I saw today about the great Pony, whose Taobao store was found to be selling fakes. What's the matter with Pony's Taobao store selling fakes?

When I learned the truth, tears fell from my eyes. There are two Taobao stores introduced by Pony on her Weibo. One is a Taobao store called Pony Makeup that sells her own brand Pony Effect, and the other is the Taobao store called PONY TIMES that was exposed for selling fake goods.

There may be many netizens who don't know Pony, but you can completely understand it if you look at the pictures posted by Kaitao editor. Drawing double eyelids with bare hands and applying plastic surgery-level makeup are all done by this amazing Korean girl.

Pony now has more than two million fans on Weibo, and I am one of them.

I forgot when Pony's Weibo started to push advertisements of Pony's Taobao store to all fans.

The editor felt something was wrong at first. Does such a big tree need to be pushed? This is the goddess in the hearts of all girls with clumsy hands! It turns out that Pony has opened a Taobao store. However, this Taobao store does not sell its own brand Pony Effect, but sells a large number of beauty tools and skin care products that appear frequently in the video.

This Pony Taobao store is really popular with girls. It is well-known and sells affordable products. The best-selling item sold more than 8,000 in a second. It's amazing~

But after that, a girl discovered the trick. First, the items in the shopping cart that have not been ordered yet are displayed as "the seller is being punished". In response to this, Pony responded on Weibo that it was a network failure. Netizens were really running wild.

Secondly, some people who bought it revealed that it was not shipped from Korea but from Zhejiang. In response, Pony responded on Weibo that it was shipped directly from Korea to Zhejiang, but netizens did not buy it. Many netizens directly dug out the shipping place of the previous fake Internet celebrity and found out that many goods were shipped from the same area~

Third, careful netizens who took a look at Pony’s Weibo discovered that the personal messages and store promotion models were different, so many netizens have doubted the authenticity of the person operating the Weibo. It may be that the agency is controlling the marketing of Weibo.

Fourthly, if you look carefully at the opening time of the Taobao store, although there are two red hearts now, the store was opened in 2014, and it has been two years. Therefore, it is impossible for Pony to take out the account and start selling goods again two years later even though he has been popular for so long.

Moreover, there are only four reviews for a mask with over 8,000 sales. I feel like the world's trust is collapsing.

The truth always appears among the crowd. Finally someone dug out the cooperation agreement between Pony and the company.

As for the authenticity, I have no way of knowing, but I know that Pony has another Taobao store on Taobao that sells its own brand, Pony Effect, which was promoted on Pony's Weibo in April. So the Pony Taobao store that was exposed to sell fakes is not the only Pony makeup store as advertised, which is really suspicious.

The dark secrets of Korean purchasing

Duty-free shop: "Duty-free shop" is a word often mentioned in the purchasing agent industry. Compared with the counters in the city, the prices of the duty-free shops in the airport are lower, but they are usually large sets, and you must provide a return ticket within 30 days when purchasing. In the counters in the city, foreigners with status, such as those studying abroad or long-term residents, can apply for membership cards and get a 30% discount. The purchasing agent can earn the difference in the middle.

However, it should be noted that specialty counters and physical cosmetics stores are two different concepts. The quality of specialty counters can naturally be guaranteed, but there are also physical stores in South Korea that sell cosmetics from unknown sources. For example, the Red House located in Ewha Womans University in Seoul, which has been reported by many Korean media, expressly prohibits local Koreans from buying, but opens its doors to foreign tourists, especially Chinese. The products sold in this store are basically priced lower than those in specialty counters.

Therefore, even if the purchasing agent guarantees that the goods are purchased in Korea, it cannot directly prove that the purchased goods are authentic.

Cosmetics samples: When buying cosmetics in Korea, the BA (Beauty Advisor) will give away samples much more generously than in China. On the streets of Myeongdong, you can even get a few samples just by walking around the store, even if you don’t make any purchases.

These will be sold at a clearly marked price by purchasing agents. There are even stores on Taobao that specialize in selling samples, but the number of free samples is definitely far from enough to meet the sales volume of Taobao sample stores.

There are two main sources of samples sold in this kind of store. One is the samples produced in Guangdong. Their smell and viscosity are quite different from the authentic ones and are easier to distinguish. The second is the samples made from expired authentic products in South Korea that are processed into samples domestically. This type is very difficult for ordinary consumers to distinguish.

Live-streaming purchasing: Live-streaming purchasing is a new concept that became popular in 2016. Through platforms such as Taobao and Weibo, buyers can directly see the entire overseas purchase process of the goods they ordered. More and more people regard live-streaming as a criterion for testing whether the seller is selling genuine products. So can this method completely avoid buying fakes?

This is not the case. The items that the sellers bought from the major counters during the live broadcast are genuine, but in Korea, you can return the goods unconditionally within two weeks with the receipt, so the unscrupulous sellers can return the goods to the counters after the live broadcast, and then send you the fake goods they got from other channels.

Wholesale price and agency price: Korea no longer has such an agency model. Since last year, Korea has stopped granting agency rights to individuals, so whether it is Taobao or WeChat business, as long as the purchasing agent claims to be an agent and has a wholesale price, it can basically be determined to be a fake.

The source of Korean counterfeits

So where do all these fakes sold to Chinese people come from? This can be divided into three main categories:

The first category is made in China and shipped in China. The products made by small domestic workshops are very crude, and there is a certain gap between the packaging and the quality of the products and the genuine products. However, the prices are relatively low because of this, and they are targeted at people with average economic conditions who have never used genuine products. The cost of such products is often only a few yuan, but because they are labeled as purchasing agents, their value immediately rises to dozens of yuan.

The second category is manufactured in China and shipped from South Korea. First of all, the craftsmanship is slightly better than the first category. This is what is often called a high-end imitation. This type of product is sent to South Korea and then returned to China. The selling price is often higher than the first type. If the first type is only sold for a few dozen yuan, the second type may sell for hundreds of yuan. If the buyer needs it, we can also provide the so-called direct mail service.

Many sellers on Taobao who sell goods on behalf of others at prices lower than those in Korea and also give away a lot of gifts are doing this second type of business.

Another category is products manufactured in Korea and shipped to China.

The third category is counterfeit goods made in South Korea, which are mainly sold in places where young people gather, such as Dongdaemun, Sinchon, Ewha University, and Daelim. They are often purchased by purchasing agents from physical stores and then carried back in person. This type of product is very similar to the genuine ones and the selling price is similar to the genuine ones. Most of them are only slightly lower than the price in duty-free shops. They target people with a certain purchasing power who have used genuine products. The similar texture and price will dispel their doubts and make them think they have gotten a bargain.

Therefore, believing that you get what you pay for is the ultimate truth to avoid buying fakes. Although the truth is simple, in today's China where one-yuan treasure hunts and Taobao's same-item products are popular, and the market economy has been in place for so many years, many people still fantasize about pie in the sky when they have to pay for their own money. Wake up, fans, those fashion gurus and Internet celebrities you admire will actually make your wallet bleed in the end!