How long will it take to get your money back if you spend 400 yuan on cigarette box recycling?

Do you know about cigarette box recycling? Starting from cigarette box recycling, this article introduces in detail the situation of cigarette box recycling on the platform, the profit of recycling cigarette boxes and the idea of ​​WeChat business. It is recommended for students who want to learn about WeChat business.

Cigarette boxes can also be recycled. If I do well, it won’t be a problem for me to earn 30,000 or 50,000 yuan a month.

This is the content that some people have seen recently on channels such as TikTok.

I have seen several similar live broadcast rooms for cigarette box recycling. Many people are desperately interacting and consulting in the comment area. It seems that they have finally found a stable, reliable and easy business to make money.

The village chief has written about the profitable business of selling cigarette butts before, so today we will talk to you again about whether the cigarette box recycling project is reliable. 60,000 yuan/ton, can cigarette butt recycling really make money?

1. Does anyone really recycle cigarette boxes?

The first time I heard about recycling cigarette butts, I didn’t find it strange, because the materials at the end of cigarette butts do have applications in some scenarios. It’s just a question of how much money can be made from recycling.

But when I first learned about cigarette box recycling, I couldn’t help but wonder: if a cardboard box is recycled, could there be something valuable inside?

Because the packaging of a cigarette box is mainly composed of cigarette lining paper, trademark paper, sealing paper, cigarette packaging film, pull strings, etc., there are only a few things in a paper box, no matter how much they are refined, they are not very valuable.

Therefore, it is obviously not as reliable to extract something from recycled cigarette boxes as it is to extract something from cigarette butts.

In order to get a slightly more official verification, I tried to consult the local tobacco bureau and ask them whether they have any programs or channels for recycling cigarette boxes.

The answer was no, which deepened my doubts.

2. Recycling cigarette boxes for the purpose of exchanging points with tobacco companies?

Some business promotions claim that major cigarette manufacturers officially provide point rewards in order to encourage users to repurchase.

Users can redeem related products through accumulated accumulation.

Indeed, I have seen that some brands’ official accounts have their own H5 malls and channels for redeeming points.

But there are a few questions here:

Firstly, there are so many cigarette box brands on many cigarette box recycling apps, but there are very few brands that actually have shopping malls on the market. So what are the other cigarette box recycling points for?

Secondly, some people say that they recycle from users and then look for brands to redeem them. So, have so many brands already connected their systems?

In fact, it is very simple to verify this point. Most big brands have official websites and phone numbers. You will know the answer by just calling them.

3. Can you really make money from recycling cigarette boxes?

Based on the clues from short videos online, I downloaded several APPs.

a. Some mini-programs have been banned and some apps are temporarily unavailable.

b. When registering for some apps, you need to fill in an invitation code before you can use them. Of course, there are a lot of such apps on the Internet.

c. Different platforms have different points redemption mechanisms for cigarette boxes. Some platforms require 100 points to redeem 1 yuan, while others require 1 point to redeem 1 yuan.

d. But no matter which form of points redemption is used, it is actually quite difficult to redeem 1 yuan.

Taking a certain platform as an example, Yuxi nephrite can only be exchanged for 2 points, and one dollar can be used to pick up 50 cigarette boxes.

Therefore, those cigarette packs that cost only a few cents or a few dollars are actually very rare, because due to sales volume and price, it is difficult to find cigarette packs at such prices.

e. There is also a strange phenomenon. Not all cigarette boxes are universal. A certain cigarette box can be scanned successfully on platform A, but not on platform B.

This actually proves once again that if the tobacco brand has its own points redemption system, all platforms should be able to support QR code scanning.

f. Several platforms have membership registration models, that is, you can pay a fee ranging from 99-499 to open a membership, your points can be doubled, and you can also invite others to enjoy the points income of others.

g. Not all cigarette boxes can be exchanged for points. Some brands do not support it, and some do not have two QR codes. Therefore, the probability of exchanging cigarette boxes for points is slightly reduced again.

h. After finding the cigarette box and scanning the QR code, you still need to go through an audit by the platform before you can earn points.

But until here, I still don’t understand what the point of redeeming points is.

4. Re-application of WeChat business ideas

From the little information I have, what I want to tell you is that this cigarette box recycling points exchange project is more of a micro-business agent model of cutting leeks.

First, if you want to double your points, you need to pay a fee ranging from 20 to 100, which is different for each platform.

Secondly, you can also pay 199-499 or even more fees to obtain VIP and partner-related benefits and enjoy the write-off rewards from your subordinates.

This is the previous head fee model of micro-business and pyramid schemes. You pay 399, and your superior can get a cash reward of 100, 200 or even more than 300.

The reason why this project is attractive enough is that everyone thinks it is too simple. There is really no need to ask others to place orders like social e-commerce. It can even attract other people to inquire actively.

This project actually takes advantage of two human natures: greed and laziness.

Because it is very easy to exchange cigarette boxes for points, many people around me smoke, and you can pick them up on the street. There is no cost of stocking up. You just need to find the cigarette box and scan the code. It is such a simple thing.

But whether this thing can make money depends on whether the person is diligent or not. Blockage is a high-probability event.

As I said just now, most cigarette boxes are only a few cents. One dollar can buy 50 cigarette boxes, 10 dollars can buy 500, and 100 dollars can buy 1,000 cigarette boxes.

If you pay 400 yuan, you have to find 4,000 cigarette boxes and make sure that every cigarette box can be scanned successfully.

So, how many cigarette packs do you think you can find in a day? 1,000? 500?

How much time do you think it would take to find 500 in a day? Even if you go to a chess and card room, they have to smoke 500 packs of cigarettes a day and give them all to you.

But even if you get all 500 cigarette boxes, it would only be a dozen dollars.

You only make a dozen dollars after working hard all day, and you need to have some connections to work in the chess and card room.

Guys, how long do you think you can last?

Therefore, this forces some people to find someone to pay the partner fee of 399 or 499, so as to make money by cutting the leeks.

But there are not many people who actually earn points by redeeming cigarette butts.

But for the platform, it doesn’t seem to be cheating.

Because the platform neither said that it was an activity organized by the brand, nor did it say that it would not pay money, nor did it involve distribution above the third level.

What they are betting on is the membership fees that most people want to make money from but cannot persist in doing, and it has a firm grasp on human nature.

So I hope you can be more rational. There is no quick, good and easy way to make money in this world. Protect your wallet.

Author: Village Chief

WeChat public account: "Shili Village"