Hong Kong "sharing" is not easy gobee.bike 1 year collection | Lugang Economy and Trade |

set up in April last year Hong Kong shared bicycle gobee.bike, because of the huge expenses of Bicycle maintenance of the past year, which made it difficult to operate and found no investors, announced that it would end Hong Kong 's business next Wednesday. It is reported that there are currently more than six shared bicycle companies in Hong Kong, Fellows are not optimistic about the prospects and do not rule out the closure of the company.

According to a full press report, gobee.bike yesterday released a statement that it has not been profitable for more than a year, with huge maintenance expenditures making it difficult to pursue business activities and the appointment of a temporary liquidator. The company has stopped the new user application and accounted for the value stored yesterday, and the user can continue to use the bike in a week until next Tuesday, after which the bike will be locked. The user can request a refund of the deposit (guarantee) within one month, but the balance of the account can not be returned.

Gobee.bike's director, Raphael Cohen, explained that the Hong Kong market was small and the number of peers was increasing, bicycles were starting to age and maintenance costs were high.

Gobee.bike lost to the Hong Kong market, and French business also suffered a bottleneck in February of this year. Raphael Cohen said at the time that bicycles in France were stolen and destroyed several times: in the past three months, 1,000 bicycles were stolen, 3,400 were destroyed and another 6,500 needed repairs. .

Ta Kung Pao reports that in one of the shared bicycle hotspots, parks and bike paths near the Tseung Kwan O Bike Museum were visible on the scene, shared bicycles were parked everywhere, and pedestrians on pedestrians.

Guan Yuzhao, director of the Center for Commercial and Economic Research Guanzhong, believes that five main reasons explain the failure of gobee.bike operation: first, the public transport network Hong Kong is perfect, bicycles are rare and the demand is low. Third, the initial investment cost is too high, the number of gobee.bike bicycles is too large (last November, there are 7,000 vehicles), the fourth is that users do not cherish, everywhere the fifth expensive, operating costs increase. According to reports, in addition to gobee.bike, Hong Kong has at least five bicycle companies, including Hoba Bike, OBike, Locoke, OFO and Ketch`Up Bike, which charge between HK $ 3-6 per half hour. (about 0.38 to 0.76 dollars). ).

million. Board member Henry Chen said the threshold for entry into the bicycle industry to share is too low and it is recommended that the government issue a license to ensure the quality of its services.

Because gobee.bike has announced the completion of the company, although the user can refund the deposit, but the balance of the stored value is not refundable, a large number of users on the gobee.bike social platform page "wash" to recover, roar money. The Consumer Council said that as of 5 pm yesterday, it had received 8 complaints and 11 inquiries. Members are concerned that if the bicycle is not properly handled, it will occupy the road and block the streets.

Democrats of the Legislative Council of DAB Ge Yifan worried that thousands of bicycles became scrap, which aggravated the situation in the street. Liu Yaocheng, president of the Hong Kong Waste Recycling Industry Association, said each bicycle was worth only 10 to 15 Hong Kong dollars (about 1.3 to 1.9 dollar) and that the body was mixed with a lot of rubber. Song Hsien, the founder of Hoba Bike, said he'd welcome gobee.bike to sell bikes.

The same industrial ambitions

ofo Ali financing Huba Bike push electric car sharing [19659017] Last year, a total of six shared bicycle companies settled in Hong Kong, the Hoba Bike launched in June last year Song Xianbang, the founder of 4,000 bicycles, said that he should reach its break-even point in September this year, and the next step is to launch a joint venture of electric vehicles.

Ta Kung Pao reported that Ketch`Up Bike was inviting users to invest in "car owners Zou Jianhong, general manager of the company, said the company has recently made money and that the local market for shared bicycles is still not saturated.

ofo at reacted last night, which is a shame for competitors to withdraw from the Hong Kong market, but the company believes that Hong Kong is a major market with potential and optimistic prospects. In March, it won the E2- financing round 1 of Alibaba. With a scale of 866 million US dollars, he is confident to make more profit. According to reports, in the traditional bicycle rental shop, Mr. Zheng, the owner of the bicycle shop that operated next to the Tseung Kwan O Bike Pavilion the previous year, said that after the 39; appearance of gobee.bike, the activity dropped from 40% to 50%. M. thinks it's good news: "The Hong Kong market is small and there are too many bicycles to share." I hope the government will strengthen supervision.