making money

There are lots of people making money on the side, pre-booking wedding
banquets on traditional popular dates in May and October and special
dates that sound "lucky".

This year, October holiday is from Oct 1 to Oct 8. The 60th
anniversary of C0Mm!e lifestyle and the mid-autumn festival. People
usually pre-book wedding banquet venue at least six to eight months
prior. There are people out there specialize in booking large venues
around the city. Then as time gets close, they will post "adverts" in
local wedding websites. One headline would read "Because of family
emergency, we cannot get married, interest party of our wedding
banquet venue please contact... ", Right.... Another one would said
"we have splitted, need to cancel banquet booking..." All sorts of
excuses.

Prior to booking a banquet hall, the venue booking manager would have
already negotiated a fixed price for the banquet. So, "interested"
parties taking over a pre-booked venue will have to pay more. So....
these "Huang Nue" or "Yellow Cow" so to speak, locked in a price and
they don't care how expansive, then jack up the rate for a "real
couple" to take over. Easily a profit of RMB 11,000+ per transaction
with no effort.

The venue knows it can get a fake but who cares, it gets paid in the
end. So who gets screwed? The parents of the real wedding couples.
Now, they are paying for a wedding with artificially inflated price.

Anything can make money here. It's how much you are willing to pay.