Chapter 79: Money-Printing Machine

Watching the 100,000 electronic pet machines being boxed and then loaded onto trucks, sent to the retail stores he had contacted all over Guangzhou, Chen Zuhan breathed a long sigh of relief, but his heart couldn't help but feel as nervous as a big girl on a bridal sedan chair for the first time.

He who gets Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou gets the world. Regarding whether a product sells well or not, you only need to test the waters in these three cities to know the winner!

In the domestic market, if a product can sell well in one of these three cities, it means that this product is already a big seller. If it can sell well in two of these cities, it counts as a hit.

And if it can sell well in all three cities, then there is no need to test the waters anymore. Just lay out the goods on a large scale and sell them in various cities in the country. By the way, prepare enough money-counting machines, because... you don't need a money-counting machine for the money you collect; you simply can't count it all!

Success or failure lies in tomorrow. For Chen Zuhan, tomorrow is the first appearance of electronic pet machines in the country, and it is also the moment that determines his fate.

"Tomorrow, isn't Li Zong of Dongling High-Tech coming?!"

In the evening, Zhang Ao rushed to Guangzhou, representing Dongling High-Tech to attend the debut of electronic pet machines in Guangzhou tomorrow. After three rounds of drinking, Chen Zuhan couldn't help but ask Zhang Ao.

Zhang Ao glanced at Chen Zuhan and shook his head slowly. For agents like Chen Zuhan, tomorrow was a matter of great importance, but for Dongling High-Tech, which had already experienced the machines being snapped up frantically abroad, it was far from that exciting.

"Li Zong has more important things to deal with tomorrow!"

Zhang Ao said to Chen Zuhan. He didn't lie to Chen Zuhan. Li Dongling really had things to deal with tomorrow and was going to the Hanxi provincial capital. As for what exactly, it was not something Zhang Ao could ask about, let alone Chen Zuhan.

"Tomorrow at Guangzhou Department Store, the whole of Guangzhou will know your name, Boss Chen!" Zhang Ao raised his glass and said to Chen Zuhan.

Electronic pet machines will be sold at the electronic counter of Guangzhou Department Store tomorrow. For the release of electronic pet machines, Guangzhou Department Store even vacated multiple counters and specially equipped many sales personnel.

Regarding the debut of electronic pet machines in the country tomorrow, there is no such thing as a lukewarm scene. It is either a big victory or a big defeat. You can only choose one of the two!

Almost sleepless, Chen Zuhan, with a pair of dark circles under his eyes, didn't have time to eat breakfast and drove his Jetta to Guangzhou Department Store.

On the way, Chen Zuhan felt nervous. He didn't know how many customers would pour into Guangzhou Department Store today, and how many people would come to the electronic pet machine sales counter. And today was not Sunday, which was what Chen Zuhan was most worried about.

However, when he drove into Xihu Road where Guangzhou Department Store was located, Chen Zuhan felt that this road today seemed to be a bit more congested than usual. And until he arrived in front of Guangzhou Department Store, Chen Zuhan couldn't help but open his mouth wide.

Guangzhou Department Store was one of the largest shopping malls in Guangzhou at present, with 300 specialty counters, over 1,500 domestic and foreign brands, and over 130,000 types of products sold. Now the annual revenue could reach 500 million. During several holidays, the single-day revenue could break 5 or 6 million. Placed in this era, this number was already quite astonishing.

But what appeared before Chen Zuhan now was that in front of the Guangzhou Department Store gate, which had not yet opened, a long line had already formed. Chen Zuhan didn't know what the scene was like before Guangzhou Department Store opened, but the crowd lining up now had 700 or 800 people, and the number of people lining up was still increasing.

"Are these people all here to buy electronic pet machines?!"

Chen Zuhan looked at the crowd of young people lining up and couldn't help but ask himself. No one gave him an answer, but the crowd lining up seemed to have already given the answer.

"I am a reporter from Guangzhou Television. I am now in front of the Guangzhou Department Store building. You can see on my right hand side, a long line has already formed here.

May I ask, what product are you lining up to buy today?!" The reporter from Guangzhou Television asked a couple lining up.

"Electronic pet machine," the couple said without hesitation. "We want to buy an electronic pet machine. I heard it seems to be very popular abroad!"

"I have a classmate in Japan who asked me to buy one and mail it to him!"

"Want to buy an electronic pet machine to see what it looks like!"

The reporter interviewed several people lining up one after another, and without exception, they all claimed they wanted to buy electronic pet machines. Some were couples giving gifts, some were playing for themselves, and some were sending them to overseas friends, etc., but most were influenced by media reports, seeing the sensation caused by electronic pet machines abroad, and came to take a look today with curiosity.

When the audience of Guangzhou Television saw the pictures appearing on the TV, they were also a little surprised. This was the first time they saw that a product of a domestic brand could also make people line up in such a long line.

Not only in Guangzhou, but also in Yanjing and Shanghai, the main places selling electronic pet machines also had lines, just with different numbers of people.

The gate opened, and the crowd began to pour into Guangzhou Department Store. Chen Zuhan also walked into the department store building with a nervous mood.

When Chen Zuhan arrived at the counter selling electronic pet machines, he saw that a long line had already formed. The salesperson was still explaining, and the users were still experiencing it.

Seeing that not a single order had been made yet, Chen Zuhan was anxious, wishing he could go up and buy this first order himself.

"We want this color!"

This sentence was like a signal, making the crowd suddenly become noisy, and then Chen Zuhan saw electronic pet machines being sold one by one.

"Ship another 20,000 machines over. There is not much stock left now, only less than 20,000 left!"

Near five o'clock in the afternoon, the supervisor responsible for sales in the department store building hurriedly found Chen Zuhan, who was using a brick phone to make a call. After six o'clock, it would be the time for the real hard battle.

"Sold 30,000 machines?!"

Chen Zuhan couldn't help but show joy on his face when he heard this. There were over 50,000 electronic pet machines shipped here, and more than half had already been sold.

This also surprised the supervisor of the department store building. Who would have thought that this thing would be so popular? Today, the revenue of the department store building was estimated to hit a new record. Just selling this batch of electronic pet machines, the sales volume had already reached 3.4 million.

If they could sell a few more machines, plus other products in the department store building, then the single-day sales volume of Guangzhou Department Store today might break 10 million. This was almost setting off a big satellite in the domestic retail industry!

"This, now the goods have all been scattered, I don't have any goods in my hand..."

While excited, Chen Zuhan couldn't help but feel helpless. In order to sell more machines today, he had scattered the goods all over Guangzhou. At this time, it was not so easy to collect the goods back, and it also broke the rules.

"Boss Chen!"

Facing the opportunity of breaking 10 million in revenue today, the supervisor of the department store building couldn't give up. "No matter what, help dispatch another batch of goods today. We have already found the media and reporters. The fact that Guangzhou Department Store's single-day sales volume broke 10 million today must be reported in the news. Consider it that we owe you a favor!"

"Okay, I'll think of a way!"

Since it had come to this, Chen Zuhan could only agree. As one of the largest shopping malls in Guangzhou, he couldn't offend this shopping mall no matter what.

After six o'clock in the afternoon, when schools in various parts of Guangzhou began to let out, the streets where Guangzhou Department Store was located were visibly congested with cars, bicycles, and pedestrians gathering, and finally completely blocked.

Around seven-thirty in the evening, Guangzhou Department Store had to hang up a sign saying "Electronic pet machines sold out."

And then Guangzhou Television reported the news that "Guangzhou Department Store's sales volume broke 10 million today," which shocked the whole of Guangzhou. When department store buildings in various cities in the country heard this news, they were all quite shocked!

"Electronic pet machines sold over 81,000 units on the first day in Guangzhou, with sales volume breaking 5.5 million!"

Local media in Guangzhou took the lead in announcing the results of the electronic pet machine's test of the waters in Guangzhou. Out of 100,000 machines, over 80,000 were sold!

Following closely, news also came from Yanjing and Shanghai. Yanjing sold 73,000 machines, with sales volume breaking 4.96 million, and the sales volume in Shanghai was astonishing, directly breaking 90,000, which could be called scary!

The results of Dongling High-Tech electronic pet machines testing the waters in the country were also released. A total of 244,000 machines were sold, and the total sales volume broke 16.59 million.

This sales volume and revenue were enough to prove that electronic pet machines did not have any water and soil incompatibility in the country. It was the top stream of the domestic electronic industry today, none other!

And Chen Zuhan and the others who distributed electronic pet machines in the three cities of Guangzhou, Yanjing, and Shanghai also made a fortune this time. Selling 81,000 machines, the profit belonging to agents and distributors also reached 2 million. Even if they split it in half, he could still get 1 million.

This was just testing the waters. In the future, there would be more machines starting to be sold in Guangzhou. The 1 million-plus agency fee and deposit that Chen Zuhan spent were earned back by more than half in just one day today!

The test of the waters of electronic pet machines in the three major cities today made a group of agents crazy, calling Dongling High-Tech one after another to urge shipment, and some even ran directly to Hanxi, squatting outside the industrial park waiting to pull goods.

The entire electronic pet machine production line of Dongling High-Tech began a new round of production capacity increase again. With the orders from home and abroad added together, the production line was almost smoked.

However, regarding today's sales volume, Zhang Ao's sales department found some tricks when organizing the data, especially in Shanghai. In the afternoon, there was almost a phenomenon of snatching goods, with people buying dozens or hundreds of machines at once. It was clearly scalpers running over to join the fun, wanting to hoard goods and sell machines at high prices.

But Dongling High-Tech couldn't stop this kind of thing. The inability of production capacity to keep up was a fatal flaw, and the appearance of scalpers was inevitable. But the big sales of electronic pet machines in the country could already be seen!

While Dongling High-Tech and electronic pet machines occupied media reports again, Li Dongling came to the joint laboratory in the provincial capital.

Three chapters of 10,000 words updated tomorrow!

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