At present, the transportation department does not support paying fines for violations through WeChat, so there is no need to charge agency fees at all. However, WeChat belongs to a third-party agency, so the agency fee is officially charged by WeChat, not by the Ministry of Communications.

The "Securities Daily" reporter consulted Tencent customer service and learned that the amount of fines to be paid is subject to the local traffic control department, but a certain agency service fee is required for handling traffic fines.

Agency fees vary from province to province and from city to city, ranging from 15-40 yuan. However, for the specific amount of the charge, the customer service staff said that "it is not clear, subject to the agency fee found when placing the order."

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A user in Beijing told the Securities Daily that he was charged the agency fee of 33 yuan when he paid the traffic violation ticket in 200 yuan through WeChat Life Payment, which was equivalent to the agency fee of 16.5%.

In addition, the customer service staff also told this reporter that at present, mobile phone recharge cards also need to charge a certain fee for purchasing train tickets. The service charge rate of mobile phone recharge card is 5%. However, the customer service staff said that this fee was charged by the recharge operator.

At the beginning of the development of mobile payment, free has always been the biggest "selling point", and platforms such as WeChat and Alipay have quickly occupied the market that belongs to traditional financial institutions by virtue of their free characteristics.

However, in sharp contrast to WeChat Pay's frequent announcement of fees for various services, at present, most banks implement the policy of free electronic channel transfer, and traditional banks have played "free cards".

In fact, in recent years, bank fees have been "slimmed down", from the transfer and remittance fees charged for personal accounts and the fees for cash withdrawal in different places to the financing service fees and consulting fees for small and micro enterprises, and the efforts of banks to reduce various fees have been continuously increased.

Some insiders also said that WeChat and Alipay used to compete for the market share of third-party payment, but now with the cake being basically divided, the mode of subsidizing this burning money will end.

At present, WeChat has a variety of application scenarios, such as mobile phone recharge, wealth management, life payment, etc., but its user stickiness was originally weak. WeChat charges a certain fee in many links, which is intended to increase the cost for users to transfer funds and keep users inside for scene consumption and financial management.

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