Chapter 95

This world has no love or hate without a cause.

The mechanical engineering chair has sold over six hundred units, and to date, not a single customer has complained about quality issues to customer service.

On the contrary, they all praised the mechanical engineering chair, saying that although it cost as much as a domestic car, the product quality was on par with imported vehicles.

The payment confirmation was very smooth, and the positive reviews were overwhelming.

And now, a Weibo influencer with over two million followers, who is also a senior mechanical engineer, is maliciously defaming this mechanical engineering chair on his Weibo using many things that insiders can easily see through.

Without a motive, is this possible?

The mechanical engineering chair is very complex. To disassemble it requires a lot of time and careful recording of the disassembly steps for each part, so that the large pile of parts can be reassembled.

This influencer, however, chose to quickly and violently disassemble it from the beginning, first cutting the leather and memory foam to shreds, and then dismantling the chair into pieces.

This certainly attracts many viewers, but it also means that the 88,000 yuan will be lost.

Ye Qing flipped through his previous Weibo posts.

For many expensive mechanical products, he chose very gentle disassembly methods, clearly intending to reassemble them after disassembly.

Only a few cheap items did he choose to disassemble violently.

The price of the mechanical engineering chair is clear. He chose to disassemble it violently to attract attention, which is against his usual behavior. Without a purpose, is this possible?

Most of the comments on his previous Weibo posts were still somewhat reasonable, but this time, he ignored professional knowledge and went all out to defame the product. This must be done with ulterior motives.

With this in mind, Ye Qing felt more at ease.

The saying "the tallest tree in the forest is the first to be felled by the wind" has been around for thousands of years.

The mechanical engineering chair Ye Qing created is not just the tallest tree; it is flying above the forest.

Getting envy is very normal, and the other party must have a motive for doing this. They won't just defame it; there will definitely be a series of follow-up actions.

The other party seems to be using tools to violently disassemble the chair, and the Weibo updates have temporarily paused.

The customer service team has not yet reported any issues, but after this mechanical pioneer disassembles the chair and defames it, the customer service will likely receive user inquiries.

Ye Qing began to search for the name of the mechanical pioneer on Baidu, hoping to find some clues about him online.

A Weibo influencer with over two million followers cannot be unknown.

The first few pages were mostly links to his Weibo content. Ye Qing patiently continued to search and finally found a news article on the seventh page.

["JieLi Company sues well-known Weibo influencer Mechanical Pioneer for publicly defaming their vacuum cleaner product online."]

Clicking on the news revealed a message from last year. The reason was that the Mechanical Pioneer had disassembled a vacuum cleaner that could be controlled by a smartphone in his Weibo post, harshly criticizing its internal structure, which led to a significant drop in sales of the vacuum cleaner.

The manufacturer sued him for defamation, demanding a public apology and 1 million yuan in damages for reputational loss.

Ye Qing thoroughly searched this news, but the final verdict was disappointing.

The case dragged on for more than half a year, and the final verdict was that the plaintiff's evidence was insufficient. The defendant, as a public figure, did indeed have inappropriate remarks, and was ordered to delete the original post and issue a public apology.

Defamation requires evidence, but the Mechanical Pioneer chose to attack areas that were indeed problematic for other manufacturers, making it very difficult to gather evidence.

He is very skilled, and his topics always revolve around amplifying the flaws or deliberately ignoring the strengths of the products, focusing only on the weaknesses.

This case had the opposite effect. Although the Mechanical Pioneer apologized and deleted the Weibo post, many uninformed viewers saw it as the manufacturer being enraged and using dirty tactics to force the Mechanical Pioneer to submit.

If the Mechanical Pioneer's statements were not wrong, how could pointing out the flaws in the product be a crime? If the product is not good, they will only think of underhanded methods. Who would buy such a product in the future?

Why don't you deal with those who make videos to defame newly released domestic movies?

After apologizing, the Mechanical Pioneer's followers increased dramatically.

If Ye Qing chose to pursue legal action, he would first need to gather evidence of defamation and then prove that his own product did not have such issues, to take him to court.

This is not realistic. A single memory foam involves many aspects, and one sentence from the other party would require Ye Qing to run around to gather evidence.

JieLi Company is a large company, much larger than Ye Qing's current scale. They spent over a year in court and only managed to get the Weibo post deleted and an apology.

Ye Qing would not act rashly and hire a lawyer to sue him.

Ye Qing wanted to use the most direct method to show this guy what it means to face the anger of a monster.

His name is Lu Tianjun, and his specific address could not be found. He also has no formal job.

Ye Qing asked Xu Xiaohu to print out all the transaction records and then checked each name to see if Lu Tianjun was among the users.

He could only have bought the mechanical engineering chair from Ye Qing.

If there was no such person, it would be fine, but if the user record contained this person, Ye Qing would immediately set out, bringing the monster to give him a vivid physical education lesson.

The result of the verification was disappointing. There was no such person in the records, indicating that he was very careful and knew how to hide himself.

At this moment, Ye Qing received a call from Yan Zhaoge, the CEO of HuanShi Company.

"The website is ready for you. We used a mature commercial forum template and rented server space from Alibaba Enterprise Server. Their technology is good. I'll send the website control panel address to your email."

Ye Qing, in a bad mood, forced a smile and said thank you.

"I'm also following the Weibo situation," Yan Zhaoge comforted him. "I know Mechanical Pioneer; he has defamed our company's products before."

"Of course, he was much more subtle then, not as vicious as this time."

"Those things can only fool laymen. The quality of the mechanical engineering chair is evident to all, and it is the highest quality product I have ever seen. This time, he is likely being paid to post, and there must be a competitor in the chair industry behind this."

"I understand. I'll see which competitor jumps out," Ye Qing did not make any harsh statements to Yan Zhaoge, but he would not tolerate this silently.

"In this era of internet coverage, whoever controls public opinion has the right to speak." Yan Zhaoge gave Ye Qing a gentle suggestion, saying that if it doesn't work, he could choose to tolerate it, contact him, and offer a gag fee.

"Someone who can be paid to post can also be paid to delete posts."

Ye Qing said he would consider it based on the situation. No matter what method, he would resolve this issue as soon as possible.

Not long after hanging up, the Mechanical Pioneer updated his Weibo again.

This time, there were over forty pictures, fully displaying the internal structure of the mechanical engineering chair.

The mechanical engineering chair is a perfect mechanical product, meticulously crafted by countless engineers using processing techniques that they could never achieve in a lifetime.

The Mechanical Pioneer understands better than anyone the advanced nature of this chair.

However, he lied openly, writing long paragraphs of text in the same style as before, using flaws common in other industries but impossible in the Monster Factory to defame the mechanical engineering chair without restraint.

In his words, the mechanical engineering chair is worthless except for its high price.

Moreover, all the purchased parts inside are domestic, which is the focus of his defamation.

In his view, a truly high-end product must be assembled from high-quality imported components.

At this point, the customer service team began to receive inquiries from users.

Many people who were not even potential customers directly berated the customer service, saying that they were crazy for profit, using substandard materials to deceive people.

The only thing that made Ye Qing feel relieved was that, apart from a few users who had placed orders but not yet received their shipments and applied for refunds, none of the users who had received the product requested a return.

Some customers even specifically comforted the customer service, saying that the mechanical engineering chair was a miracle and they were using it very well.

As Ye Qing hesitated about whether to issue a statement in the online store, using the precision of the parts and the purchase price of the memory foam to prove his case, a close-up of a servo motor in the many detailed photos posted by the Mechanical Pioneer suddenly caught his attention.

This was a close-up of a 24V 60W brushless servo motor, clearly showing the brand label of the motor.

The brand label on the motor made Ye Qing tense up.

This motor brand is called Precision Planetary, a well-known motor brand in China.

The issue is that Ye Qing only ordered this motor yesterday.

Ye Qing has been using this brand of motor, which has a good reputation. Some unscrupulous merchants counterfeit this motor to pass off inferior products.

To prevent this, Precision Planetary added many anti-counterfeiting technologies to the label.

The anti-counterfeiting label changes periodically. The motors that arrived yesterday had just changed to a new anti-counterfeiting label.

The motor in the picture in the Mechanical Pioneer's post had the new anti-counterfeiting label.

Ye Qing remembered that the mechanical engineering chairs made with the new motors that arrived yesterday were shipped in the afternoon, a total of six units.

The fastest delivery would take at least a day. The chairs shipped in the evening of yesterday would not have been delivered by the afternoon of today, as the delivery person had not started work yet. Therefore, the Mechanical Pioneer must have received the chair in the morning.

The situation suddenly became clear.

Ye Qing quickly entered the system backend and opened the spreadsheet, filtering according to the shipping records from yesterday.

It was easy to select the six chairs that used the new anti-counterfeiting label motors from the over two hundred shipping addresses from yesterday, as each chair had a serial number, and the last six serial numbers were the ones with the new anti-counterfeiting label motors.

The six serial numbers were quickly found, and they were shipped to various parts of the country.

The distance determined the different delivery times. Three of the six serial numbers were for cities far away, and it was impossible for them to receive the chairs by the morning of the next day.

Ye Qing checked the logistics status of the six chairs one by one, and indeed, only one address showed that the user had signed for the package that morning.

Shanghai City, Yunhe District!

The recipient, Ma Lidong, was clearly a fake name.

Shanghai is an international metropolis with a very developed logistics industry. It is only about 200 kilometers from Zhongyun, meeting the condition of receiving the package in the morning.

Ye Qing noted the address and went downstairs, getting into the Lagonda.