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這兩年可謂是共享大年，從共享單車，到共享汽車，共享電動車，共享充電寶，共享雨傘，甚至共享房間，似乎只要和共享二字沾邊的物品，都能夠成為資本追捧的香餑餑，媒體引爆眼球的熱點，市場關注的對象，摩拜單車，OFO們已經在資本領域和市場火拼的如火如荼，而其他共享的概念也是五光十色，層出不窮，共享究竟是為了解決廣大用戶的需求，還只是對資本市場的遊戲而已？
關於共享雨傘的討論，重點無非是關乎於人的素質，是不是又是一個商家失敗的項目。如果從另外一個角度而言，商家可能醉翁之意不在酒，不在於雨傘，（大批量採購雨傘的價格能有多少呢？）而在於借雨傘所交付的押金，雨傘上的印刷廣告才是最終的目的，對於雨傘的丟失，商家在原本項目之初早已經考慮過了。
#Sharing firm loses most of its 300,000 umbrellas#
A Chinese firm that allowed people to rent umbrellas via an app has said thousands of them have gone missing.
Sharing E Umbrella had left 300,000 brollies in public places in 11 cities, including Shanghai and Nanjing.
Customers pay a 19-yuan (£2.15) deposit to unlock the umbrellas after scanning a code with their smartphone. Every half hour of use costs a further half yuan, though users must top up in order to keep being charged. Each brolly costs the firm 60 yuan to replace, but it is undeterred - 30 million new umbrellas will be introduced to the scheme, it has said.
Sharing E Umbrella was launched in April and the initial supply of umbrellas had been distributed to public places, such as railings next to bus and train stations. The umbrellas were probably taken home by people, suggested the firm's founder Zhao Shuping in an interview with Chinese website, the Paper.
He added that Sharing E Umbrella plans to rely mainly on profits from adverts, some of which may be printed on the umbrellas themselves.
"Umbrellas in China are generally quite cheap," said Kerry Allen, a China analyst with BBC Monitoring. She pointed out that the ones distributed by Sharing E Umbrella would have stood out. "They were pretty fancy, you could tell the quality was good - the ones you usually get at subway stations tend to be small and very simple."
- 詞彙短語
1.brollies n. 英口 雨傘
2.deposit n. 保證金
3.unlock v. 解鎖
4.top up v. 充值
5.replace v.替換
6.undeterred adj.未被嚇唬到的
7.launch v. 發起
8.railing n. 欄杆
9.distribute v. 分發
10.stood out v. 脫穎而出
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