How harmful is the blind box?

At the beginning of this year, KFC launched the "Dimoo Joint Blind Box Package". The probability of rare hidden items is 1:72. In order to collect blind boxes, a large number of consumers spend 10,000 yuan on set meals, and even throw away endless food. This phenomenon has aroused heated discussion in the society. The name of China Consumers Association is "inducing excessive food consumption with blind boxes and boycotting".

The craze and appearance of blind box economy is not unrelated to the lack of supervision in related trading markets. There is a huge compliance risk hidden behind the fanaticism, and some blind box products have touched the legal red line.

Some merchants inject three-no products, defective products or unsalable products into the market in the form of blind boxes, but the special attribute of "one-time disassembly and identification" has become an excuse for bad merchants not to return goods and a fig leaf for problematic products, which has seriously damaged consumers' rights and interests and violated the Consumer Protection Law.

A large number of blind boxes are mainly potential users of minors, which induces them to repeatedly buy and compare consumption, endangering the physical and mental growth of minors, and some product ingredients may endanger human health and violate the law on the protection of minors.

Under the trend of "everything can be blind box", some commodities prohibited from circulation and those with special provisions on transportation, use and storage by law have also become the contents of blind box sales. For example, the live pet blind box that caused heated discussion will eventually become an animal "dead box", and its sale and transportation will cause serious animal epidemic, animal death and abandonment, which violates the Animal Epidemic Prevention Law and the Detailed Rules for the Implementation of the Postal Law.