Chapter 283: 284. The Walkman Hits the Market

284. Chapter 284: The Walkman Hits the Market

The next day, the enthusiasm of the citizens of Hong Kong grew even higher.

After all, this gadget represented trends and fashion, stirring up a competitive mentality among young people; simply put, if you have one, I cannot go without one.

Therefore, the sales figures for the second day once again hit a new high.

This strange scene naturally attracted the attention of quite a few big shots.

For example, Baron He Wei.

It must be said that he had suffered a major loss in their last confrontation.

It even reached the point where he had to take the initiative to show goodwill and demand that Chen Jiajun call a truce.

Seeing that Shenzhou Technology Company was once again related to Chen Jiajun, He Wei's expression was extremely subtle.

He had already held this young man in high enough regard, but he did not expect that after a period of time, he would create another surprise for him.

Unlike the game console from Titan Electronics, this time Shenzhou Technology seemed to have reached its hand into another industry.

The Staff Member smiled and said, "There is no need for illegal means; commercial means alone will suffice."

"Walkmans, give me ten of every color."

This truly gave the salesperson a shock.

If it were someone else, He Wei could use coercion or bribery, and it would not be impossible to get what he wanted.

The fact that a device like a tape recorder could be shrunk to this extent shows that the Shenzhou Technology that Chen Jiajun invested in in Brunei must have mastered certain high-tech technologies.

The term "Scalper" first emerged back home, and then slowly spread to Hong Kong.

The Staff Member smiled and said, "We only need to invest in some Scalpers so that they have no goods to supply. By then, the first shot from Shenzhou Technology will become a dud; how could they possibly develop further?"

Just as He Wei was worrying, his Staff Member delivered a document.

He Wei recounted the recent events involving Shenzhou Technology: "With such explosive sales, I feel that Hong Kong will have another uncontrollable behemoth."

"No matter what the stock is, give me twenty units."

"No problem, Baron," the Staff Member said with a smile.

He Wei was in no mood to look at it at this time; he tossed it aside and sighed.

This was a standard Scalper.

After all, they could get a commission for every Walkman sold.

As long as Shenzhou Technology did not court death, becoming a new commercial miracle was already a certainty.

"Tell me specifically?" He Wei hurriedly asked.

But for Chen Jiajun, this tactic had already been tried and simply did not work.

The Staff Member said confidently, "Then you can imagine, how many people are there in Brunei? Even if they all went to work, how many of these electronic products could they manufacture in a day?"

"That's right. According to the information I found, this kid learned to be smart this time and put the production factory directly in Brunei; otherwise, I wouldn't be having such a headache," He Wei said helplessly.

Hearing He Wei's frustration, the Staff Member chuckled and said, "Since we can't have it, why not destroy it?"

The Staff Member smiled and said, "You said his factory is established in Brunei, right?"

This young man's counterattack was even quite terrifying, to the point that He Wei did not want to provoke him during this period.

Opening their mouths to buy everything made these salespeople very happy.

This was exactly what the stagnant England lacked most.

A group of Scalpers rushed directly into the shopping mall, heading straight for the Walkman counter.

He feared that if Chen Jiajun were provoked, some unpredictable things might happen.

The feeling of being able to see it but not get it was like having a cat scratching at one's heart.

After two days of explosive sales, some Scalpers had gradually been spawned.

And it could also leave Chen Jiajun speechless.

"How many do you have in the counter? I'll take them all."

Then they would mark up the price and sell the acquired Walkmans at a high price.

Previously, they only resold things like tickets, but now, seeing that Walkmans were so popular, they set their sights on this good business.

Early in the morning, just as the mall opened.

With the sponsorship of others, these Scalpers became increasingly bold.

These guys ran to the mall early in the morning to line up, rushing ahead of everyone else to sweep up the first batch of goods directly.

"Hmm?" Hearing this, He Wei's eyes lit up, and he then warned, "Do not attempt to use illegal means; this Chen Jiajun is very difficult to deal with."

The Staff Member curiously asked the reason for He Wei's sigh.

This matter gave He Wei quite a headache; the industries already in Chen Jiajun's hands were tempting enough, and now there was this piece of fat meat, Shenzhou Technology.

"That's right." He Wei suddenly realized: "A sparse population is Brunei's fatal weakness."

"Hahaha, good." He Wei laughed heartily: "Leave this matter to you to handle."

It was just that both of their smiles appeared very sinister.

If it were in Hong Kong, he would have ten thousand ways to deal with Shenzhou Technology.

Since that was the case, who was it not okay to sell to?

Furthermore, these Scalpers were extremely generous, unlike ordinary customers who were annoying because they wanted to test and pick through the products.

So, they simply sold all the goods in their hands to the Scalpers in one go.

After these Scalpers cleared out one mall, they rushed to the second one without stopping.

By the time normal business hours arrived, when ordinary customers traveled long distances to the mall, they found that the Walkmans they wanted to buy had long since been sold out.

Not even a single packaging box was left.

This caused ordinary customers to grumble and complain incessantly.

This continued for several days, and some customers could no longer stand it and began to file complaints directly.

So, a week later, while Xu Jiawei was still immersed in the joy of success.

A phone call reached his office, and a subordinate explained the situation.

"Manager Xu, we have recently received hundreds of complaint calls, all saying that our Shenzhou Technology Company is playing games with people." The subordinate reported with a nervous expression.

Xu Jiawei was stunned on the spot: "How is this possible? The goods provided by the Big Boss are sufficient."

After hesitating for a moment, the subordinate said to Xu Jiawei: "Manager Xu, I heard reports from my subordinates that there are scalpers on the market selling our Walkmans, and the price is almost 30% higher than our set price."

"30%?" Xu Jiawei jumped up from his chair: "Exactly which link went wrong?"

"It seems to be a problem with sales," the subordinate said helplessly. "These scalpers don't know where they got the funds; as soon as the shopping malls open, they start sweeping up the stock early. It's been like this for several days."

"Who allowed them to do this?" Xu Jiawei roared immediately.

Although the money earned hadn't decreased at all, Xu Jiawei knew that this situation was far from what Chen Jiajun had hoped for.

In Chen Jiajun's vision, making money was secondary; the most important thing was to establish the brand of Shenzhou Technology.

With these scalpers causing trouble, the money was made, but what about the Shenzhou Technology brand?

When ordinary citizens eventually bought high-priced Walkmans from scalpers, what benefit would that be to their Shenzhou Technology?

Thinking of this, cold sweat broke out on Xu Jiawei.

After hanging up the phone, Xu Jiawei paced back and forth in the office, muttering to himself: "No, I must find a way, I must find a way."

Unfortunately, after pacing in the office for an entire afternoon, he still had no good countermeasure.

Instead, those scalpers became even more frantic.

They felt that the speed of sweeping through shopping malls was too slow, so they simply found the distributors and demanded goods from them.

They even paid a premium for every batch of goods.

How could distributors who could make money care about such things, especially when they could earn even more?

So they very readily handed over all the goods in their hands to these scalpers and made a huge profit.

When Xu Jiawei learned of this, he was completely dumbfounded.

Fortunately, Chen Jiajun had already returned to Hong Kong from Brunei at this time.

Xu Jiawei had never handled such a matter and immediately sought help from the Big Boss.

"So, you mean there are scalpers planning to monopolize?" Chen Jiajun said with a frown.

Xu Jiawei wiped his cold sweat and nodded: "I don't know where these bastards got the funds."

Hearing Xu Jiawei's report, Chen Jiajun immediately felt that this matter was not simple.

Scalpers in Hong Kong had not yet developed to the terrifying level of later generations, nor should they have developed into that state.

After all, a Walkman is not an epoch-making product like a Fruit Phone.

And Shenzhou Technology Company did not have such powerful influence.

No matter how one looked at it, it seemed like someone was pushing this from behind, and the target was himself.

Chen Jiajun went through those enemies in his mind; it seemed everyone had such a motive.

They were not trying to stop him from making money, but wanted to ruin the brand of Shenzhou Technology.

"How insidious," Chen Jiajun sneered and said: "But still too green."

Hearing Chen Jiajun's words, Xu Jiawei's face lit up, and he hurriedly asked: "Big Boss, do you have a way?"

Chen Jiajun nodded and said: "It's very simple. Start limiting purchases. Everyone must present an ID card, and one person is limited to one unit. Tell those distributors that if they don't follow our requirements, they won't get a single hair from us."

"Ah?" Xu Jiawei did not expect the Big Boss to use such a simple and crude method.

Limiting purchases was not something Xu Jiawei had not thought of.

But the consequences of doing so were also significant.

For Xu Jiawei, this was a last resort, but he did not know why the Big Boss would do this.

"Big Boss, is this matter..." Xu Jiawei intended to use a tactful tone to remind Chen Jiajun.

But Chen Jiajun seemed to see through what he wanted to say and smiled: "I know what you are thinking, don't worry, the matter is not over yet."

"At the same time, you find a way to leak to those scalpers that if they need to take a large batch of goods, come directly to the Pier to get them. I will give them as much as they want."

"What?" Xu Jiawei was stunned: "Can our supply channels keep up?"

Chen Jiajun waved his hand lightly and said: "You don't need to worry about this. Just do as I say."

The reason Chen Jiajun was so confident was not because of the robot factory.

After all, the factory's output could keep up, but those components also needed to be imported from Japan.

It was because Chen Jiajun was gambling, gambling that this guy's funds would not exceed his own source of goods.

Chen Jiajun had seen plenty of such things, for example, the few acquisition cases he had presided over.

He had used almost the same method to acquire the Kadoorie Family's hotel group and the China Light and Power Company.

If Chen Jiajun had not had enough money at the time, and the Kadoorie Family had chosen to sell all their shares to Chen Jiajun, they would have lived to see Chen Jiajun choked to death.

Such things are very common in business; it is just a matter of who has more guts.

Clearly, in this regard, Chen Jiajun was not afraid at all.

Even if the Shenzhou Technology brand was not established, so what? He still had Beast Technology in his hands; he could just create a new product and start over.

Could these people in the shadows dare to snipe him every time?

Then Chen Jiajun would have to thank these suckers.

Soon, Shenzhou Technology issued a statement.

Although this move made countless ordinary consumers applaud, it made those distributors even more dissatisfied.

Some even came to the door, intending to ask Xu Jiawei what exactly he meant.

Looking at the distributors blocking the door of his office, Xu Jiawei appeared exceptionally calm.

After all, the Big Boss is backing this matter up, so what does a wage earner like him have to be afraid of?

If he loses, at worst he can just start over as an intern; he is still very young, after all.

Therefore, when facing these distributors, Xu Jiawei was completely free of the panic he had felt just a few days ago; instead, he said quite calmly and loudly, "If you all speak at once, I can't hear a single word. Why don't we go to the conference room, sit down, and have a proper talk?"

Seeing Xu Jiawei say this, the others found it difficult to continue making a scene, so they came to the conference room to see what Xu Jiawei had to say.

After all, this matter of purchase limits was blocking them, the distributors, from making money.

No one would be happy about such a thing happening to them.

After everyone sat down, he sat on the other side of the distributors and said, "Everyone, you can state your demands now."

"General Manager Xu, why did such a notice that doesn't conform to business logic suddenly come out? You didn't even discuss it with us beforehand."

"That's right, General Manager Xu. If we had known you had this rule, I definitely wouldn't have accepted the Walkman."

"That's right, our request now is very simple: cancel this purchase limit rule."

Xu Jiawei looked at these greedy fellows before him indifferently and sneered, "As for the specific reason, don't you all have any idea in your hearts?"

This sentence immediately made the expressions of these distributors somewhat awkward.

Xu Jiawei continued, "If you all want to bring up the contract, it seems you were the ones who broke the contract first, right? Working with scalpers—do you know how much damage this has caused to the brand image of our Shenzhou Technology?"

"What the hell is brand image? Don't bring up these things we've never heard of. We're asking you right now what should be done." A hot-tempered distributor said impatiently, "If you at Shenzhou Technology still insist on having some kind of purchase limit, then forgive me for not being able to accompany you."

Xu Jiawei did not stand on ceremony either; having been by Wei Li's side for so long, he had learned a bit of presence.

He lit a cigarette and then made a gesture of invitation: "Fine. You can leave right now."

"You..." The distributor had originally wanted to incite the others to make things difficult for Xu Jiawei and force him to compromise.

But he hadn't expected Xu Jiawei to be so tough, telling him directly to get lost.

Now that the other distributors were not speaking, he was stuck in the middle, feeling awkward.

Xu Jiawei did not stand on ceremony either and said indifferently, "If anyone else wants to leave, you can follow him and leave now too."

Unfortunately, after waiting for a long time, not a single person moved.

Instead, the fellow who had been clamoring to break up earlier sat down with a dark face.

No one here was a fool; since Xu Jiawei said they were holding a meeting, there would certainly be a way to resolve it.

Otherwise, they wouldn't have come into this conference room to talk this nonsense.

Xu Jiawei looked at everyone and said, "No one wants to leave?"

"General Manager Xu, things have to be resolved eventually." A calm distributor tapped the table and said.

No one would give up benefits they had already obtained, and these distributors were no exception.

After all, the Walkman was selling like hotcakes right now, and there was money to be made by following Shenzhou Technology.

They could even eat this meat for a long time.

That was why they had come to Shenzhou Technology to make a scene.

If there were no profit to be made, they would have left long ago.

Xu Jiawei said indifferently, "Since the conversation has reached this point, I will give you a suggestion."

"Please go ahead, General Manager Xu," the distributor said with a smile.

"I can continue to supply you; for one channel, you must supply the major shopping malls for limited-purchase sales," Xu Jiawei said with a sneer. "As for the other channel, I will supply you with as much as you can handle. But there is one condition: we won't talk if it's less than one thousand Walkmans."

Hearing Xu Jiawei's words, everyone's eyes lit up.

This was indeed a very good method; one channel would provide stable supply to the major shopping malls.

For the other channel, they could sell at a markup to the scalpers.

Either way, there was money to be made on both sides, and the channel supplying the malls could be done long-term; in any case, these distributors wouldn't lose out.

So, one by one, they agreed impatiently.

Xu Jiawei emphasized, "This is the last time our Shenzhou Technology will compromise. If you all pull any more stunts next time, don't blame me for not being polite."

"We won't, we won't."

"Rest assured, General Manager Xu."

"We have always supported you."

Having obtained what they wanted, these distributors left one by one.

Xu Jiawei also let out a sigh of relief, then went to report to Chen Jiajun.

"So, they all agreed?" Chen Jiajun asked with a smile.

Xu Jiawei nodded: "They have all agreed, but Big Boss, if we do this, I estimate we won't be able to hold out for long."

"It's true we can't hold out for long, but I believe they can hold out even less," Chen Jiajun said with a sneer. "Just wait. I estimate it won't be long before they come running back to beg you."

Although Xu Jiawei felt that Chen Jiajun was talking nonsense, he couldn't say much, so he could only go back to being busy with his own work.

After all, many ordinary customers still hadn't been able to buy a Walkman, and the complaint calls were almost blowing up the lines. (End of chapter)