Rebirth 98, the rise started from ripping off Microsoft

Chapter 738 I'm Unlucky to See You 【Ask for a monthly ticket...】

The next-door neighbor Sun Jiatong mentioned was Li Haiyan, the school's psychological counselor.She does not attend regular classes, but only has a lecture on mental health in the middle of each month, and she is also responsible for counseling students on mental health.

Because there are few classes, she has a lot of spare time. Every night, she must have her share in the square dance under the dormitory building, and she is never absent from the mahjong game.

Li Haiyan entered the room, glanced at it, and said with a smile, "Hey, how about eating?"

Zhu Hanwen said enthusiastically: "Just as the bowls and chopsticks were served, Teacher Li came over to sit down and eat together."

Li Haiyan quickly waved her hand and said, "It's no big deal, I've eaten it, you can eat it."

Then, she pulled Sun Jiatong and said, "Mr. Sun, there is a new thing called online shopping recently, do you know?"

Before Sun Jiatong could reply, Li Haiyan continued: "I heard about this yesterday. It is said that a computer can open a shop and make money. You don't need to buy goods or pay rent. The money you make is yours. I don't think this is a no-cost business." Is it right? I learned from that teacher for a whole morning today, and he told me to open a shop. You said that as teachers, we have a lot of free time, and we don’t need to invest in an online shopping store anyway, and we can subsidize our family if we make money. .”

Zhu Hanwen asked: "You don't need to purchase goods, you don't need to pay rent, and the money you make is still yours. This is a great thing."

Li Haiyan hurriedly said: "Isn't that right, Mr. Sun, the company is called Yibei, and it is a big company in the beautiful country. I asked, and it is said that the company has more than 2000 billion, more than 2000 billion. What is that concept? It absolutely depends on Spectrum. Now when you open a store in the past, you can still enjoy various preferential benefits. The benefits are too many to count. Teacher Sun, you should hurry up and open one. This kind of good thing of free money will not be available after passing this village store."

When Li Haiyan first said it, Lu Yiming thought she was talking about Taobao.Because only Taobao is free to open a store, and Jack Ma also followed Lu Yiming’s advice to him and made Alibaba into a supply chain, which is dedicated to finding sources of goods all over the world and supplying individual sellers on Taobao.

In the end, Li Haiyan was talking about Yibei, which made Lu Yiming feel a little shocked.

Is eBay even doing free store opening?

Could it not stand it?
Thinking of this, Lu Yiming almost laughed out loud.

EBay is really awesome now, after all, it has a scale of [-] billion, this is not a joke.If you want to burn more money than eBay, then Taobao will definitely not be able to compare.

However, as the saying goes, "Those who learn from me will live, and those who resemble me will die", don't look at Taobao for free, but in fact everything else costs money, such as traffic promotion, selling store templates, and supplying goods from Alibaba... plus The money that was burned was still the investor’s money. This time, there were going in and out, and Ali was in trouble.

If eBay doesn't realize this, and just spends money on the market, even if it can beat Taobao in the end, it will hurt its vitality.

You know, Lu Yiming still has Luming Mall, will Yibei, who is dying, be able to handle it?

Sun Jiatong smiled and said to Li Haiyan: "I didn't expect Teacher Li to be so trendy, and he has learned to open an online store. Well, today I also opened a Taobao store with the help of my niece and your teacher Zhu's students. I this The store sells women's clothing, so what does your store sell?"

When Li Haiyan heard that Sun Jiatong had opened a store on Taobao, she was taken aback for a moment, and then said with a look of disgust: "I, my store sells extracurricular tutoring books, all of which are carefully selected by me. How can you open a store on Taobao?" What? Let me tell you, eBay is a big international platform, more reliable. Isn’t it said that Ebay is competing with Taobao now? Once Ebay exerts its strength, Taobao will definitely be over.”

"Ah this..."

After all, Lu Yiming was sitting here, and Sun Jiatong was still so shocked by Li Haiyan's words that he didn't know what to say.

Unexpectedly, at this time, Lu Yiming actually smiled and said: "Mr. Sun, I think Mr. Li talked a lot. Anyway, opening one store is also opening, and opening two stores is also open. Isn't it free to open a store on Ebay? It's not cheap. Occupy it or not."

Li Haiyan said: "That's right, it doesn't matter, just move the store to eBay. As long as you submit the application, someone will help you solve all the troubles. I will write you a number and you can call Just ask and you’ll know.”

Afterwards, she looked at Lu Yiming and said approvingly: "This young man is really discerning and sensible, and he will definitely be a material for great things in the future. Mr. Sun, is this your relative's child? Oh yes, you signed up for an eBay account Remember to fill in my nickname in the recommender column. My nickname is..."

Sun Jiatong felt a little confused and asked, "Why did I fill in your nickname when I registered?"

Li Haiyan was not hypocritical, and said directly: "Because I recommended you to register and open a store after writing it, and I also have a small benefit. You can also do the same after you successfully register, recommend others to open a store, and use you as a recommender. You You can also get rewards."

"Oh okay."

Li Haiyan picked up the pen on the table and wrote her ID, then said, "Remember to fill it in. Alright, I'll go back and wash the dishes first."

After Li Haiyan left, Sun Jiatong felt that Monk Zhang Er was confused, and asked Lu Yiming, "Why did you let me open a store on eBay?"

Lin Yuzhen also said: "I remember that Ebay is a competitor of Taobao, but you actually asked your aunt to open a store on Ebay? Isn't this an enemy?"

Lu Yi understood her with a glance, and said, "What kind of enemy? I don't like to hear your words. I am a person with a pattern, understand? I definitely don't do that kind of thing. But I remember eBay opening a store It used to cost money, but now it’s free, and a recommender system has been set up, it seems that this is going to be a big game. Let’s see what’s going on first.”

"Okay, then I'll call and ask?"

"Well, just ask."

Sun Jiatong dialed the phone number left by Li Haiyan, and then verified her real identity and Taobao ID. After chatting for a few words, she said that she added QQ operations.

After adding QQ according to the process, and after another half an hour of fiddling, eBay said that it had opened the store for Sun Jiatong, and also sent a store address.

Sun Jiatong clicked on it and was stunned. He said, "Hey, isn't this my Taobao store? Did they send it by mistake?"

Lu Yiming took a closer look, and found that it was indeed exactly the same as the webpage he designed just now, but the URL was eBay's URL.

He understood right away, this eBay was originally playing plagiarism, copying and pasting without even modifying the layout?
Are they going to beat magic with magic?
"I'll take a look."

Sitting in front of the computer, Lu Yiming first opened Sun Jiatong's Taobao store and looked at Sun Jiatong's eBay store. Except for the different URLs, there was no difference at all.

He went into other eBay stores and compared them with Taobao, and found that there were indeed many stores that were exactly the same.

Not only that, but he also saw that in eBay's store opening benefits, it is written that if people from Taobao come to open a store, they will be paid directly on the basis of their head, and each will be given 200 yuan, and the more sellers they attract, the richer the rewards will be. .

"It's no wonder that Teacher Li is so warm-hearted. She came here and asked you to open a shop. It turns out that she can get cash directly."

Lu Yiming smiled, then took out his mobile phone, made a call to Jack Ma, and told him about the operation of eBay.

When Jack Ma heard this, his teeth were itchy with anger, and he said in a deep voice: "They are really shameless, plagiarism is fine, and they still want to draw money from the bottom?"

If it is an ordinary user that eBay recruits, Ma Jieke is not so nervous, but it is a seller who is recruited, which is different.

After all, most users choose Taobao Mall because there are many sellers here and there are more types of goods that can be provided, so they can fight back against eBay.

If there are no sellers, will buyers still choose Taobao Mall?
Although it says in the name that you can open a store on Taobao or eBay, but eBay directly throws away benefits, regardless of anything, and gives 100 yuan first. This operation is still too rich.In addition, after the opening of the store, eBay will do a lot of promotion, and the starting point will be that the seller will give up Taobao and focus on eBay?

As long as the time is long enough and the money is spent enough, such a transformation is certain.

The most important thing is that there has never been a free lunch in this world. EBay can use this method to kill Taobao first, and then recover the money from the seller or buyer.

Jack Ma tentatively asked, "Boss Lu, why don't we give some head money too?"

Now Taobao is developing well, and there are many people queuing up to bring money to Taobao to burn. Jack Ma has a lot of confidence now, and he wants to start a price war with you, eBay.

Lu Yiming comforted and said, "Don't worry, we will definitely follow up with the way of eBay, but it won't affect much. After all, we don't charge any handling fee, because Alipay is our own, and the handling fee is waived by the bank after signing the contract. Ebay can’t do this anyway. So, don’t look at the rapid increase in the number of their sellers. When the sellers get the benefits promised by Ebay and want to continue doing business, they will still choose to come back to Taobao. Unless EBay can make them more money than Taobao, but that's impossible."

Although some people invested in Ali and made Taobao have money to burn, but in the face of eBay's [-] billion volume, the money still seems a bit lacking in confidence.

But they are all less money. In terms of experience, the two websites are quite different.

First of all, Taobao's server is in China, and there is no obstacle to domestic access.However, eBay's servers are located abroad, and data access must go through domestic transfer stations and switches. In an environment where the performance of this equipment is generally at an "adequate" level, this perception is quite obvious—for example, the same overall Click Seckill, Taobao probably has already successfully jumped to the payment interface, and Ebay probably hasn’t even loaded the background image yet.

For any Internet business, experience and price are crucial.Unless your price is so low that people ignore the sense of experience and hold their noses to save money.

And if the price does not reach the gap in experience that makes people ignore it, many people would rather choose Taobao that is a few cents more expensive than buy a eBay website that crashes every now and then.

Afterwards, Taobao also launched a campaign to attract people to open a store and give money, and on the other hand, it also directly sued eBay for plagiarism, not only stealing people, but also tarnishing eBay's reputation.

Under Lu Yiming's manipulation, the number of registered members of Taobao quickly broke through the 300 million mark, a year-on-year increase of more than 10 times, and the single-day turnover even rose to 900 million yuan.On the other hand, eBay's share is constantly shrinking, and it has fallen into a half-dead situation.

As for eBay, just as Lu Yiming expected, many stores first went to eBay to open a store to get the benefits, and then turned around and ran to the Taobao platform to continue doing business, which made Meg Whitman half dead. .

Because Sun Jiatong has opened online stores on both eBay and Taobao, she can better understand how different the atmosphere of the two platforms is.

Yibei is dead, and there are not many living people at all.On the contrary, on Taobao’s side, chat reminders in the background will sound from time to time, and many people come to inquire and bargain.

After a while, Sun Jiatong invited Lu Yiming to come to his house for dinner, and asked about some shop opening skills.During the dinner, she talked about this matter with Lin Yuzhen and Lu Yiming. Lin Yuzhen felt very incredible, and said: "EBay has lost now? After all, it is a US listed company with a market value of more than 2000 billion, right? I vowed before that I would trample to death How about trampling Taobao to death like ants, and this is the result?"

Lu Yiming said confidently: "EBay actually loses on 'free'. Taobao is free, but EBay is not free. If it doesn't lose, who will lose?"

Later, Lu Yiming explained: "For the still-developing Xiaguo online shopping market, online products must be cheaper than offline products to sell. Although eBay opens a store for free and gives free money, other services are not free. Yes. Their charging model increases the burden on sellers, and it is difficult to compete with the offline market with cost-effectiveness. However, Taobao’s all-free policy, supplemented by marketing, can quickly attract a large number of small and medium-sized sellers to settle in and counterattack.”

Lin Yuzhen seemed even more curious: "Since it's a problem that can be solved for free, why doesn't eBay do it?"

Lu Yiming smiled and said, "This is the trade-off between long-term and short-term interests, and it is also the difference in business thinking. Ebay is obviously too focused on short-term profits. In fact, Xiaguo's e-commerce market is still in its infancy, and it will be difficult to achieve it in two or three years. To become the mainstream. Therefore, the vision must be ten years later. Therefore, when adopting business strategies, it is necessary to deeply understand that user growth is far more important than short-term profits. It is a pity that eBay’s shareholders don’t think so, and Meg Whitman herself is just an excellent traditional professional manager, and her understanding of the Internet is not thorough enough."

Lin Yuzhen rolled her eyes at Lu Yiming and said, "So, you are better than this Whitman?"

Lu Yiming said without humility: "That's natural. After all, I've won her twice, and she hasn't been able to take advantage of me once."

The war between eBay and Taobao has not yet come to an end, and there may be years of dragging, but the final result has actually come out.

There is no doubt that Taobao's "free model" won, while Meg Whitman's "fee model" was completely lost.

The humble "ant" Taobao not only survived, but also defeated the giant elephant that came across the ocean, eBay, and became the overlord of the C2C market in Xiaguo.

This battle is enough to be called a turning point in the awakening of Xia Kingdom's e-commerce.

The outside world also regarded Lu Yiming as the key figure in turning the tide of the battle.

Because from the results, it was precisely because of Lu Yiming's joining that eBay's goal of quickly destroying Taobao was thwarted.

Another half month later, Lu Yiming suddenly received a call.

To his surprise, the call was actually made by Meg Whitman.

Meg Whitman invited Lu Yiming to drink coffee together.

Lu Yiming readily agreed.

The two met at a coffee shop.

This is the second meeting between the two. Although Taobao had a fierce fight with eBay before, Lu Yiming himself did not directly confront Meg Whitman.

Looking at Lu Yi's young but steady face, Meg Whitman's mood was a little complicated.

Although she really didn't want to admit it, she did fall into Lu Yiming's hands again, and this time she lost more thoroughly. She was directly defeated by her opponent on the frontal battlefield, in Yibei's strongest field.

As the winner, Lu Yiming showed great generosity. After meeting Meg Whitman, he greeted Meg Whitman with a smile: "Beautiful Ms. Whitman, we meet again."

Meg Whitman also squeezed out a smile on her face, but her words were not polite at all: "Yeah, we meet again. I don't know why, every time I meet you, I seem to have a little bad luck. "

Lu Yiming asked: "Then you still ask me to come over for coffee?"

Meg Whitman said, "I'm going back to Pretty Country, tomorrow morning flight."

Obviously, she no longer has any expectations for Xia Guo's market. Even though eBay has all the advantages, it can't beat Taobao.

Meg Whitman looked at Lu Yiming and said, "I lost this time, but eBay can afford to lose. Sooner or later, I will win back."

Lu Yiming said bluntly: "You have no chance, eBay has lost the market in Xiaguo, and in the beautiful country, you are not Amazon's opponents, and you will only be reduced to supporting roles in the future."

"impossible!"

Meg Whitman is obviously not reconciled to failure, she is still the strong woman in the business world, gearing up, ready to wash away the shame of failure at any time.

"Then wait and see."

The two drank coffee while chatting.After finishing her coffee, Meg Whitman got up to leave.

Seeing the back of Meg Whitman leaving, Lu Yiming was in a good mood. After all, he made a big bet on Ali back then, and now it is finally time to pay off.

Taobao, which defeated eBay, has already firmly secured the throne of Xiaguo's e-commerce giant. The original 500 million US dollars will be earned back thousands of times in the future.

(End of this chapter)