The reporter recently visited major shopping malls in Beijing and found that such lipstick machines appeared at the entrances where the flow of people was concentrated or at the entrance of movie theaters. The advertisements such as "Goddess Must-have" are very eye-catching, attracting many young people onlookers. However, the surface of the lipstick machine does not explain the gameplay, only one game can be played on the computer.

 

　　The reporter interviewed a staff member who was debugging the lipstick machine. He explained the gameplay: The lipstick machine game has three levels. As long as you pass it successfully, you can get a lipstick. The game mode looks similar to the lipstick, which is to insert all the lipsticks on the page into a rotating fruit, and cannot collide with the lipstick that has been inserted, otherwise it will fail.

 

　　After the staff member left, a consumer told reporters that he and his girlfriend had played on this machine many times. If you want to get lipstick, you have to play at least 20 or 30 rounds. That is to say, it is possible to get game prizes when it costs 300 yuan. He believes that this is designed by the merchants in advance and is opaque and unfair to consumers.

 

　　Like the claw machine, there are also many tips and strategy videos on the lipstick machine circulated on the Internet. However, it is worth noting that many consumers complained that they spent a few hundred yuan, even thousands of yuan, and the lipstick they got was fake.

 

　　The reporter searched through the e-commerce platform and found that many merchants are selling various types of lipstick machines. The price of each machine varies according to the shape, function, and grid settings. The selling price also ranges from 8,000 yuan to 30,000 yuan. The lipstick machines sold in the store have their own game programs and algorithms. Many sellers wrote on the platform such words as “costs can be recovered in an average of about 1 month”, “high income”, “easy profit making money artifact”, “join the taste of gambling, so that customers will never get tired of it”.

 

　　According to Mango Life Channel, some lipstick machine merchants even set the chance of winning the machine to zero, that is to say, no matter how much money consumers spend playing games, they will not win prizes. Even if some merchants set a higher chance of winning, the lipstick they get may not necessarily be genuine counters as the merchant advertises. Consumers basically do not have receipts or invoices for the products obtained from the lipstick machine, and even some lipstick packages do not even have Chinese characters, so it is impossible to trace the lipstick channel. A Guangzhou-based lipstick machine manufacturer said that if you put high imitation goods, it can be fake.

 

　　The odds of winning the lipstick machine can be adjusted, even if the lipstick caught is true or false, it’s hard to tell. From these two points of view, which rights and interests of consumers have been infringed? Qiu Baochang, a lawyer at Beijing Huijia Law Firm, believes, “First, it violates consumers’ full right to know. Whether consumers can catch it is a probabilistic event; second, Seriously infringed consumers' right to fair transactions. Consumers paid, some were caught, and some were not caught; in addition, is this sales model legal, and does it comply with the provisions of the Consumer Protection Law and other laws? People who pay money can’t buy goods. What they buy are opportunities and possibilities. This involves gambling and gambling.”

 

　　From the perspective of market supervision, should such game consoles be cleaned up and rectified? How should they be supervised? Zhao Zhanzhu, a lawyer from Beijing Zhilin Law Firm, said: "The first is in terms of operating qualifications. Many lipstick machine operators are individuals. Without a business license, even if there is a business license, its business scope may not have indoor entertainment. The second is that the goods in the lipstick machine are suspected of counterfeiting and inferior products, involving trademark infringement. In this regard, the local industry and commerce law enforcement departments have also investigated and dealt with Case. In addition, the odds of winning in this game should be clearly communicated to consumers in advance, and no false propaganda or misleading consumers should be allowed."