摘要
On January 20, Pinduoduo, a Chinese ecommerce platform where buyers can get discounts by shopping as an online group, announced that it had suffered losses of millions of yuan due to an uncontrolled avalanche of discount coupons online. Due to a glitch in the company’s computer system,users were able to top up their phones by 100yuan ($14.74) while paying only 0.4 yuan ($0.06)and many users used this opportunity to top up their phones multiple times.
