Life is good when you have a sucker. Is life bad without a sucker? Lokh is a village in the Novoburassky district of the Saratov region

What a blue sky

We are not supporters of robbery:

A greedy man doesn't need a knife,

Show him a copper penny -

And do with it what you want!

As long as there are fools in the world,

Therefore, we can live by deception.

What a blue sky

We are not supporters of robbery:

A fool doesn't need a knife, You'll lie to him like three boxes -

And do with it what you want!

From the song of the cat Basilio and the fox Alice.

Hello! We are starting a seminar “How to earn a million rubles in one day.” Question for the audience. How much did a ticket to the seminar cost?

Thousand rubles.

How many seats are there in this hall?

Thank you, the seminar is over.

While surfing the Internet, using social media. Networks often have to deal with enticing advertisements for easy money. Offers pour in like a cornucopia through banners, advertising sites, directly in personal messages, no, no, but they will offer you earnings without investment.

“It is today and right now that you have a chance to get your hands on the unique experience and knowledge of a person who, as a simple worker, in just a few months created his capital of a million rubles, without being a professional in any field of activity!” (the author’s spelling and punctuation have been preserved)... – one of the options for a welcoming speech on one of the sites of successful entrepreneurs.

Let's figure out what's behind the fabulous prospects that mysterious businessmen so frantically draw for us. What kind of self-interest drives hundreds of people every day to persistently offer technologies to earn millions?

Who is hiding behind the banners with fans of five thousand dollar bills?

MLM technologies.

Network marketing arose in the 60s in America, and entered our country in the 90s on the wave of the transition to a market economy. During this time, more than 450 projects were officially registered (about 100 more are at the opening stage or are operating illegally). Some of them came to us from Europe, Asia and America, some were formed in the CIS countries.

Now, with the advent of the Internet, the possibilities and tools of network marketing have expanded, and so-called MLM technologies have appeared. MLM is a product distribution system. They lure people into it with stories about the opportunity to develop a business. MLM technology tools include:

thematic portals;

Naturally, each MLM company has its own advantages and disadvantages. Only for some it is a slightly inflated cost of products or a lack of information support from distributors, and some companies use network marketing only for their own enrichment and do not even try to produce a quality product.

How it works?

Principles of involvement in MLM technologies:

Simple and clear perspectives that are obvious and attractive to the general public. Designed, as a rule, for financially illiterate people.

Simple operating techniques that should be understandable to everyone. So that anyone can learn and repeat them to attract and train new participants.

Company loyalty. They will say that you only need to work for this company, not to give up, and again and again they will talk about the business opportunity. Those who offer something else are advised to immediately and firmly refuse. (This is necessary, firstly, because it turns out that the majority initially cannot sell or attract someone. Secondly, those who have some abilities may decide to direct them in a more profitable direction)

Withholding information. Very often the goal of “training” is to sign a new participant up for an expensive package, but if you tell him this straight away, he won’t agree. After all, the person initially intended to earn money and not spend his money.

Regular purchase of products. Otherwise, where will the company's turnover come from?

Social isolation. Goal: so that the environment does not prove to the newcomer that he is doing nonsense.

A person who worked in network marketing with MLM technologies says:

Start. Usually you receive an offer on the Internet, something similar to: “do you want to make money? follow the link, there...” Usually the information is not disclosed right away, since the goal is for you to come somewhere and listen on the spot. They gather a large audience: the crowd is easier to manage and the speaker’s impact makes a strong impression.

Presentation. They will tell you how profitable it all is, how much money you can earn on a unique product, give examples from the lives of millionaires and quote Kiyosaki about the importance of building a network and finding opportunities. They will also say that they will teach you how to sell and agitate people.

Next, their task is to get you to sign up immediately. They know that if you don’t engage now, then the likelihood of attracting someone after some time, when a person can think logically and “cool down,” is negligible. Therefore, you need to act quickly: “get involved, start making money, otherwise you’ll be late! No money? Lend it! It’s for business. You’ll earn money in a month, you’ll pay it back!” Very often it turns out that the starter kit is inexpensive - 20-50 dollars, but to start properly, you need to invest 300-600. You also have to pay for the training, which is often marketed as leadership training. In Moscow it is more expensive, in the regions it is cheaper to take the path of a budding millionaire, with discounts.

If you join, your task is to recruit new people and train in the company. They teach simple things - write to a person on social media. networks: do you want money and a lot? If he says yes, give him a link, and then pester him until he sends or registers. This will have to be done many times, since the work is statistical - offer more, more people will agree. When meeting live, say something like this: “my name is..., I am..., and I also have my own business!” And then the same thing - the more you offer, the more likely it is that someone will agree.

MLM technologies include leadership seminars. How does this happen? Usually the leader starts saying that it is very important to create a business and then for 20 minutes he will talk about why and give examples, then he will say that he earned a lot in this company - another 20 minutes. then he will say that those who haven’t earned it simply don’t know how to do it, but they need to study - another 20 minutes. And finally, he will say that you need to invite at least 1 person every day.

The key qualities in MLM are a wide social circle and psychological impenetrability. Every day you need to offer a large number of people the opportunity for a profitable business, otherwise you won’t get any money. Some will react aggressively - you should not pay attention. After they have bought a product from you, for example, when selling dietary supplements, you need to “not abandon” the client, get in touch after a while, ask what the reaction to the drug is, whether he is satisfied with the result. Whatever they call it, the MLM operator says it’s good: diarrhea - your stool returns to normal, constipation - your metabolism improves, your health has worsened - before improvement there is always an exacerbation... If you succeed in recruiting, then you need to teach the newcomer how not to break through. If he doesn’t succeed, then encourage him, encourage him, say something like: “Nothing, some people didn’t succeed for 5 years, and then within a year they became millionaires.”

The field of network marketing can be roughly divided into:

conscientious companies that distribute their goods through distributors and really give you the opportunity to earn your own income (income that is not measured in millions, alas)

companies that use MLM technology schemes to create a financial pyramid. Income under these schemes is received by those people who managed to rise to the top of the pyramid after the organizers.

Multi-level financial pyramid

A multi-level financial pyramid is based on the fact that each new participant makes an entrance fee. This payment is distributed between the participant who invited the newcomer and those who invited the inviter (earlier participants in the pyramid). After the contribution, the newcomer is obliged to invite several more people, their contributions will go to his benefit. This continues from level to level. According to this scheme, financial pyramids bring income up to 500% and higher, depending on the rules that a particular financial pyramid has established. The reason for the collapse of the financial pyramid is that the number of participants in it must grow exponentially, and at this rate, even the entire population of the country will not be enough to cover the first 7-10 stages. As a result, investors who were unable to bring in new participants are left with nothing.

If you think that investors’ money always ends up with the organizer of this whole scheme, then you are mistaken. He himself may go bankrupt as a result of his activities. Naturally, not to such an extent that it would go around the world, but just to such an extent that he did not have the means to pay profits to all participants in the scheme. Naturally, when it starts to “smell something is fried,” the organizer prefers to hide, and the financial pyramid stops working.

Financial pyramids according to the Ponzi scheme

This scheme is named after one inventive Italian - Charles Ponzi, who created the first financial pyramid in the United States.

A financial pyramid based on a Ponzi scheme does not oblige the client to attract new participants. The creator pays the first investors with personal funds, after which people learn about a new option for highly profitable investments and the financial pyramid begins to receive money. The organizer pays investors with the money of new investors, and this scheme works for a certain period of time.

Investors expect to receive more money than they invested, but the company does not conduct any other activities other than collecting money, and when the number of investors begins to fall and the financial pyramid collapses, the organizer appropriates all previously made deposits and disappears.

10 signs of financial pyramids. (material taken from the site aferizm.ru)

1. Lack of product.

Network marketing, first of all, implies the promotion of a specific product. If the organization to which you are invited simply does not have any product, then this is a financial pyramid. Or the product may be items that have no material value. A striking example is the well-known “MMM” pyramid, which featured “vouchers” - actually pieces of paper that were worth nothing.

2. Profit by attracting other people.

If the main goal is to attract other people and your income consists of the money that these people bring (whom you invited along with you), then such a company very clearly fits the definition of a financial pyramid.

3. There is a product, but almost no one uses it.

From this point the most interesting thing begins and what inexperienced people are most used to doing is disguised financial pyramids. They seem to have the product, but for some reason only 1-2 of all distributors use it.

Most often, these can be discounts on some services through the “club system” (elite vacation is a very good example of this), training programs: computer literacy, foreign language, yoga, tap dancing on Japanese oak parquet, etc. There is nothing bad in these products themselves (and quite often nothing good), but the fact that the company and its partners, posing as MLM, allegedly promotes these products, actually receives income only from the money of newly arrived people - this is already Not good.

And based on this, you should safely conclude that such a company can be called a financial pyramid, albeit with the postscript “disguised”. But this does not add honor to her, and she should be feared no less than usual.

4. Overpriced “miracle product”.

You may be offered to buy (and sell to others) some kind of miraculous plant for about 500 dollars, which is collected on plantations in Zimbabwe, from which all your ailments will go away, etc. In fact, dried plantain, which costs 5 rubles per kg, can act as a miracle plant. This is just an exaggerated example, but it reflects the essence very clearly.

5. Subscribe early - get more! Without even doing anything!

Very common slogans of “pyramid schemes”. Here they themselves seem to be telling you: “Subscribe quickly, otherwise everything will soon collapse.”

Don't give in.

6. Incomprehensible marketing payment plan.

In MP (the system by which you should receive money) nothing is clear and confusing. “Matrixes” appear most often.

7. Buying a part of something.

They offer to buy a square meter from the apartment, and after a year get the entire apartment. But to get it you have to attract a lot of people, from whose money you may get an apartment.

8. Not a word about top management (leadership).

They don’t tell you the names of those people who are at the origins of the company. Or there are foreign names absolutely unknown to you. As a rule, in normal companies everything is transparent.

9. Offshore registration. (Singapore, Seychelles, Cyprus, Panama Islands...)

It implies many legal nuances that allow financial pyramids to still obtain registration. Decent network companies usually do not register in an offshore zone.

10. Endless motivation.

Constant empty talk about financial independence, freedom, etc. Deviations from specific issues, very loud promises that have no basis.

But it is precisely on emotions that people are led into deception. As a rule, motivators are very good speakers who really know how to lull vigilance, so here you need to be extremely careful.

These were the main signs of financial pyramids. Now you know them all and won’t let scammers deceive you.

Don't let emotions and money take over you, manage them yourself!

Only the lazy did not write about unfortunate agencies that do their work haphazardly.

They milk gullible customers. And so I come, all superhero, and open the client’s eyes to their hack work. I do everything cool, and the saved businessman thanks the savior almost with tears in his eyes.

Yes, a whole plot for a comic! And it would be funny if it weren't so sad.

Every freelancer has at least once remade hack after others. Often these situations are:

The customer wanted to do everything himself, but he did such a thing that you feel like Hercules in the stables, raking it all. It's easier to start from scratch than to dig up what you already have.

The customer hired a shkololo in order to save money. The amateur, of course, also did THIS, and you sit and remember him in a kindly, quiet word, delving into the project.

The customer fell into the flow of yet another cool agency. I even made an agreement with them! I even received reports! But for some reason, over the course of a year, money goes to the subscription fee, but sales do not grow. He is overcome by vague doubts, and he turns to you... You delve into it, take your head, congratulate the client on the fact that he is in a stream of similar cash cows, and redo everything from scratch. Sales have started - the client is satisfied and vows to work with agencies more.

And you sit and think - well, if in the first two cases everything is clear, the client was greedy and got what he deserved... Then what’s wrong with the agents? Where do people put their conscience when they do such hack work for good money?

What's the problem with agencies?

There are now a lot of Internet agencies of different kinds. It’s prestigious because to be called not just Vasya Pupkin, but the owner, founder, director of an Internet marketing agency.

Not all such companies do well. There are good ones, with responsible performers and a smart leader who has set up the work properly, hired good people and demands results from them. Who really, as it is written on his website/landing page, created a team of professionals in their field.

But more and more agencies of a different type are appearing. They have the same name, they write the same thing on their websites, some even differentiate themselves from their competitors as best they can. They may even have a logo and corporate identity. And a lot of clients.

But their services, when tested, turn out to be of terrible quality.

Why?

There are several factors here, and several lines of plot development.

1. The agency, in essence, is a group of schoolchildren who have watched enough lessons on YouTube, put on more pathos, and make money.
2. The agency was founded by a smart specialist, but in order to save on labor, he hired cheap performers. He pays them pennies, they do the job haphazardly. Thanks to his talent for persuasion, he sells these services under the guise of “everything is fine, that’s how it should be” and makes money.
3. The agency employs good specialists. But they have such a flow of clients, 40 pieces for three people, that they simply don’t care how everything is going. An insatiable boss collects more and more orders, but does not want to expand the staff - he saves on wages and taxes. As a result, people become exhausted and do their work haphazardly.

The client ends up in the so-called “flow”. Pays money, receives reports. And the result is zero.

Because all three types of agencies described above did not care about the client’s business. They only worry about their business.

The clients are spinning – the laveha is spinning, to paraphrase the famous ma’am.

For them, a customer who cannot control the process, who is not competent in matters of Internet marketing, is a real gold mine. You can pull the wool over his ears and sell those services that he didn’t even get for free.

Good agencies:

They have a large staff;

They have been on the market for a long time, they have their own office;

They value their reputation;

They charge dearly for their services.

That’s why representatives of small businesses are in no hurry to turn to them - that’s because they are very expensive. It’s easier to hire a good freelancer or go to a cheaper agency.

Why is it better to hire a freelancer?

I am not writing this now because I myself am a freelancer, and thus I want to protect my honor and reputation, and the reputation of others like me. I am writing only because lately I myself have been involved in projects “after agencies”, and I hear a lot of bad things from my colleagues about the haphazardly provided services.

I don’t want you, dear customers, to waste your money and be disappointed in Internet marketing in general. Here you can sell, here you can look for clients quite successfully. But a lot depends on the contractor you hire.

The same is true in all areas of our lives. You invite an electrician - after his work, the socket continues to short out. Another one comes and fixes everything in half an hour, and the problem is forgotten.

These are all people, and everyone has their own attitude to responsibilities. Some people try, but others don’t care about getting money. And there are inexpensive and good agencies - as a rule, when a good specialist is just starting his business and has not yet become greedy.

There are also schoolchildren and hacks among freelancers. It depends on your luck. But hiring a free specialist remotely is more profitable:

You are working with a person, not a faceless brand;

As a freelancer, you don't have a huge flow. He is physically unable to lead many projects. There are unique people who connect the software and manage 20-30 customers. But these are mainly targetologists-directologists. A designer, web developer or copywriter can rarely handle more than 5 projects at once if he works well;

A freelancer promotes his name and takes care of his reputation. One bad review can derail your entire career;

Freelancer services are usually cheaper.

Many articles have been written in our magazine about how to avoid falling for a bad performer. Use the advice, look for a responsible employee. There is nothing stopping you from replacing the agency with the permanent services (or from time to time) of your own team of freelancers. Find a developer who will monitor the health of your site on an ongoing basis. Separately – a copywriter and an SMM specialist. You rarely need a designer at all. And you will be surprised how much more effective and cheaper this agency is than your external IT office. But yes, you will have to manage the processes - make one call, and you won’t be able to wait for the result.

And to lead fully, you need to learn, you need to delve into the processes. You need to at least be interested in Internet marketing at some basic level. Otherwise you will continue to be milked.

But it's worth it, trust me. I have seen more than one such example in real life, when working with permanent remote performers brings real results.

Good luck with your business. And let all performers be responsible and concerned about YOUR business.

Elections are a complicated thing, especially presidential ones. Here you can not only lose and lose your position, but you can’t even be left without a head, there are plenty of precedents, not everyone is in such good shape as Yanukovych that they would quickly run away. Here it’s “either master or bust,” there is no other way, and no one wants to disappear, much less risk their heads, so those in power have come up with many ways and tricks to “eat fish and sit in the Kremlin.”
The easiest way is to fool the people, as the “white people” used to fool the savages, exchanging various “nice things” for mirrors and beads. Do you think this number won’t work now? It will get through, it will get through, don’t even doubt it.

He climbed into Russia in August 1991. Then the “New Gentlemen”, eager for power, promised the people a lot of everything. For the especially advanced, free travel to “Foreign countries”, sale of “samizdat” in hard cover and freedom of speech, from now on “melya Emelya” is all right and not even in the kitchen. For the simpler people, there are 50 varieties of sausage, branded jeans in every store, chewing gum and porn on cable TV. The people, in the hope of impending happiness, rejoiced and unanimously lost all the conquests of their fathers and grandfathers.

Something similar happened in Ukraine in February 2014, where cunning guys hungry for pennies (where there is power there are pennies) fooled the people with fairy tales about a happy magical country called Europe. There, they say, you can live comfortably without working, pensions are given for nothing, and pensioners usually travel around the world with their pensions, and medicine is at such a level that people live until they get tired of it. They love Ukrainians there and will gladly accept them into their big family, because Ukraine is CE EUROPE! And everyone there wears lace panties and all this happiness will be available to every villager as soon as these guys are elected to power. The Selyuks could not resist lace panties. They chose him as an uncle. More than three years have passed. European reality, it turns out, has nothing in common with fairy tales. Now the Selyuks are angry, sitting with bare asses on the third Maidan, hearing how the next “uncles” promise them a heavenly life, as soon as they come to power.

Political strategists have come up with many ways to fool the people so that the elections go “as they should” without getting too burned out. This includes administrative resources and the creation of an “emergency situation” in the country, when the people must rally around their leader and radical reforms, naturally for the good of the people, and they don’t change horses in midstream (ayy, older generation, remember!) and much more. cunning.

In any HONEST election there is an alternative, and no matter how hard political strategists try to promote the candidate they want, everything can be covered with a “copper basin”, there were precedents. The electoral masses are not predictable, they will vote “wrongly”, maybe out of stupidity, maybe they won’t trust the candidate, or maybe just out of spite, they’re tired of it and that’s it, we want something new. It’s like the wife’s “quirks”: she wants new shoes for big thousands, but she hasn’t worn out the old expensive ones yet, she’s tired of them after 10 years, but what do years have to do with it? She wore them only 10 times and wore them on major holidays.

In short, I have a suspicion that the next elections will not be like usual, with violations, fraud, “carousels”, admin. resources and other usual crap. The new elections in 2018 will be held extremely honestly, with the participation of 100 thousand Western observers and the subsequent X-ray check of every squiggle on every ballot. You don’t need much to do this, you just need to put the right opponents against the right candidate.

The most correct ones are Zhirik, Zyu-zyu and Mironych; in the long-term struggle for power, they have proven more than once that they don’t need this power even in X.., they don’t feel bad anyway. So these frames are reliable and there will be no hassle with them. But this trinity on duty alone is somehow not enough, the people may even turn sour and not go to the elections, and the “foreign” partners will make a sour face and say: “Fee!” Volodya, this is not karasho!” In general, we still need extras, but reliable ones that will not exceed the percentage allotted to them, and will provide the appearance of democracy and freedom of alternative views.

Simpler ones for people:
Nastya Volochkova, she is almost an oppositionist, left the United Russia party and has her own view on CRIMEA!
Nikita Dzhigurda, although he has no political leanings, he is very cool; if something happened, we would scare the whole world with him like with our Eskanders.
Maltsev and Navalny go without saying, there are no options.
There may be a hitch with Ksyusha Sobchak, she started too early, I’m afraid she’ll have played enough by the time of the “opposition” elections, and it would be a pity if she stirs up any new project.

All these guys may be freaks, but they are freaks promoted by the media and not only here. Even over the hill they believe that they represent something of themselves in Russia. For a more difficult public, who consider themselves personally offended by the authorities and to make it more convincing that everything is “to the letter” with us, you can register a couple of real oppositionists to the current regime, but those whose support among the people will be close to zero.

Two Mishas, ​​Khodorkovsky and Kasyanov are ideal for this and voila! The elections will go as it should for the Kremlin, those “over the hill” will rage in impotent anger, and the electorate will scratch their “turnips” in surprise and wonder: “How did it happen? They didn’t seem to want it, but this is how it turned out...”
I don’t know how correct my guesses are, maybe I underestimate the Kremlin lads and their tricks will be more sophisticated, or maybe I overestimated their intellectual abilities and they will act using the old proven method, in general, time will tell, we won’t have long to wait.
Wait and see….

(to traffic police officers)

Beware private traders
Me at full height
When I'm on holidays
Took up his post.

They didn’t even congratulate-
And for my flight -
They put on a picket line
Right for the New Year!

Your case is deaf
Shish past me
A fly won't fly by
The mouse will not slip through.

I am any mug-
I'll cheat you like a sucker,
Well, what a shame

Ha ha ha.

If it smells like fumes -
If a snowdrift moves,
It's me sneaking around with the radar
He pulled his hat down over his forehead.

My ass is freezing -
I already feel
My balls have become
Like Faberge.

Where are you freaks?
I have to make a plan,
Have a drink for the holidays
At least one glass.

I am any mug-
I'll tell you like a sucker -
Well, what a shame

Ha ha ha.

Feel free to drive under the brick
Move more boldly in the oncoming lane,
I will cut your cabbage
My lost sheep.

The conversation will be short -
I will put everyone on treason -
Even if you get caught by a prosecutor,
I'll strip him down to his shorts.

At least from the State Duma, a deputy,
Yes, even the Minister of Defense,
I will be happy with everyone today
Special coupons will not help you.

I am any mug-
I'll tell you like a sucker in a minute,
Well, what a shame

Ha ha ha.

And here you can watch and listen to this killer song
with guitar performed by the author of Captain Hurricane...
http:///youtube.com/watch?v=QApGBDe2RLc

Reviews

Moving out of the way
All DPS outfits-
Raises the alarm
Helicopters of the Ministry of Emergency Situations.
Because, as if passing the market,
Having made your face like a brick,
A blonde is driving -
Natural at that.

She doesn't care about all the signs, -
The markings are not a decree for her,
She's like a pitbull on the attack-
He puts pressure on the gas.
Flies out of shoes
Half a meter pedestrian
This is how the blonde parks -
Reversing in icy conditions.

If you are at a traffic light -
Someone took a tasty ride in the ass,
You'll hear about yourself soon
From the window a choice swear word.
From such a fight -
Don't let sadness gnaw at you,
Well, think about it, blonde-
I mixed up the pedal.

It’s like an oncoming lane, like a fork in the road,
What a continuous stripe
The main thing is for a blonde
Close your eyes in time.
And huge tears
It will rain for half an hour
Apparently the blonde remembered
Why does she need brakes?

She has reasons for this -
She doesn't care about the rules
Men owe her
Keep giving way.
If you don't push the tires
The moral here is this:
You just need blondes -
Take away everyone's rights.

The verse is incomparable, and the commentary and remarks are even funnier, I don’t even want to cover up such charm!
Thank you!
With deepest sympathy!

The daily audience of the portal Stikhi.ru is about 200 thousand visitors, who in total view more than two million pages according to the traffic counter, which is located to the right of this text. Each column contains two numbers: the number of views and the number of visitors.

“The company billed me for 6 fines for 3.3 thousand rubles. each, for a total amount of 19.8 thousand rubles,” says Muradyan. - This amount, in addition to the fines themselves of 3,000 rubles each, included a certain paid service, which cost 300 rubles. from every fine. “As the company explained, this is a service fee that Delimobil charges supposedly for “supporting the payment of a fine,” says the interlocutor. “Although what exactly this service consists of and what the cost part consists of has not been clearly explained.”

On the same day, Delimobil nevertheless provided clients with STS data, although it had previously refused to do so.

“A month has already passed since the violations,” the interlocutor clarifies. - Thus, they left me no opportunity to pay these fines at a discount.
Having received the STS number, I checked through the official portals of the State Services and the traffic police portal whether the fines were actually paid, as a company employee assured me in correspondence. The curious thing is that neither of these sites displayed these fines at all, as if they simply did not exist.

Moreover, the car sharing service was never able to show me scans of payment of these fines.

In response to all my questions about it, Delimobil sent me a very interesting fragment from a 36-page contract, judging by which the company has the right to pay the fine itself within 20 days for 50% of the cost, but charge the client the full cost of the fine, and then add another 300 rubles on top.

Muradyan believes that since Delimobil works according to this scheme with all clients, side income from fines can be significant. “I have every reason to believe that Delimobil earned at least 10,800 rubles from my fines alone (9,000 due to a discount on fines + 1,800 rubles as a commission),” he calculated.

Delimobil told Gazeta.Ru that they do not have the technical ability to pay fines during the grace period.

“The traffic police or other authorized government bodies initially send decisions on administrative offenses to the owner of the vehicle,” explains service representative Ashkhen Petrosyan. - Then the owner sends the original resolutions to Delimobil. After this, the client receives a notification by email, which he specified when registering and joining the agreement. In the vast majority of cases, it is technically impossible to meet the 20-day deadline. Theoretically, the owner can pay fines during the grace period, but in the current car sharing business model this is difficult to achieve.”

It is noteworthy that, according to a company representative, in the case of Muradyan there was such an opportunity. “However, Mr. Muradyan did not respond to our notice. As it turned out later, he did not check the email specified when registering with the service. The client was sent a notification with documents to the email address specified in the contract, and was also asked to verify the information about payment of the fine through the Autocode system, for which there was appropriate confirmation. “Delimobil” cannot comment on the non-display of information on the traffic police website or the government services portal,” explains “Delimobil”.

As for the service fee, the company clarified that it “includes a billing payment, a fee for processing and systematization of fines, and bank commissions.”

However, Muradyan assures that he did not receive any notifications or confirmation of payment of fines to any of his mailboxes, including the one indicated in the contract. According to him, fines for violations committed by him are also not displayed on the Autocode portal. Now Muradyan intends to sue the company if it does not cancel the fines.

“I have prepared a pre-trial claim and will send it to them soon,” he says. “The lawyers explained to me that my civil rights were violated. I wanted to get half the fines paid, but after this I don’t want to pay them anything at all.

I never paid the fines, so now every day they charge me a penalty in the amount of 0.5% of the amount owed. No matter how the dispute is resolved, I will definitely not use Delimobil again.”

Let us remind you that Delimobil had previously found itself at the center of a scandal when it issued a bill to a client for a car damaged in an accident that exceeded the cost of a new car. Then thousands of service users suddenly found out that they faced serious financial liability if the rented car was broken through their fault. Clients accused the company of vague language in the contract and threatened to start using rental cars from competing companies.

As a result, Delimobil, which for a long time insisted that it was right, nevertheless made concessions and abolished high fines for damaging cars.
It is worth noting that Delimobil investor Vincezo Trani, even at the start of the project, predicted the appearance of a large number of competitors on the capital market. In a conversation with Gazeta.Ru, he noted that the struggle with new players for the client will also be about who can provide the consumer with higher quality and convenience of service.

At the same time, while the capital’s largest carsharing company surprises customers with rental terms not for the first time, other companies are meeting consumers halfway, at least in terms of paying fines on preferential terms.

So, in AnyTime, where more than 60 thousand users are registered, you can pay a fine at a discount. “We also have the owner of some of the cars – a leasing company,” company representative Maria Perekatova told Gazeta.Ru. - But we have an agreement with them that allows us to pay fines during the grace period. Of course, you need to understand that large companies may be less flexible in such matters.

The recently launched car sharing service BelkaCar in Moscow, which currently has only 100 cars, also allows customers to pay fines at a discount.

“We immediately pay fines at a discount, and the client pays only 50% of the fine. We don’t have any additional commission,” service representative Ekaterina Makarova tells Gazeta.Ru. - But I do not rule out that in the case of Delimobil, the owner of the vehicle sends them fines in paper form 20 days after the violation, thus depriving them of the opportunity to pay it at a discount. The problem may lie precisely in the procedure: if there are a lot of cars, then the company itself must be connected to the services and promptly learn about fines. Giving the client the opportunity to pay the fine himself is difficult, this is wild processing, but depriving him of the opportunity to save is not loyal.”