Rebirth 98, the rise started from ripping off Microsoft

Chapter 747 Longevity, Jack Eats His Lord
After the news was broadcast, Luming Mall became famous.

Many people were surprised to find that they can also order online when buying electrical appliances. Not only are the prices cheaper, but they also provide door-to-door installation services. You don’t even have to worry about encountering fake and shoddy products, because it is self-operated by Luming Mall, and the richest man makes it himself. guarantee!

The richest man is so rich, so he can't still sell fake products to deceive people, right?
As a result, for three days in a row, the number of new registered users of Luming Mall increased sharply. Many elderly people who can't use computers will ask their sons or daughters to help them buy.

There are no middlemen to make a difference in the price of electrical appliances, and the price is naturally ridiculously cheap, and the competitiveness is not comparable to those stores.

In the past, Luming Mall had always maintained a low-key layout and developed in secret, so its reputation was not obvious. Now that Lu Yiming personally stepped out to endorse and advertise, how much influence is there?
The Luming Mall became popular immediately, and the transaction volume was changing every minute, which made Gome and Suning feel overwhelmed, because the Luming Mall was actually grabbing meat from their bowls.

After all, everyone sells electrical appliances. If users spend money with me, they will not spend money with you. What everyone is playing is a zero-sum game.

Gome and Suning went mad with anger. The two of them have been in love with each other for so many years, and they managed to get rid of other competitors and become the channel merchants who monopolize the entire home appliance market. You don't even need to open it, just make them all confused.

At the headquarters of Suning Mall, a group of heads assembled urgently and began to discuss how to deal with Luming Mall.

"This Lu Yiming mall is really hateful. It actually sells electrical appliances on the website. Users only need to move their fingers to place an order, and it will be delivered to their door and installed. Isn't this stealing our business?"

"Yeah, the key point is that the prices of things in Luming Mall are lower than those in our mall. We really don't have any advantage."

"Let me tell you, we still have some advantages, right? After all, when people come to our store, they can see the goods with their own eyes, but they can't see this when they place an order on the Internet."

"What are you? Luming Mall provides seven-day no-reason return and fourteen-day replacement. If you don't like it, you can take it away with just a phone call. It's no different from the service we provide."

"Should we just watch Luming Mall attack the city and steal our trial production?"

Everyone discussed and discussed, and found that the more they discussed, the more desperate they became.After all, Luming Mall can provide all the services they can provide, but the price given by Luming Mall is something they can't afford.

Luming Mall doesn’t need to spend expensive rents in front-facing shopping malls, it only needs a warehouse to store goods, and there is a lot of money left here; then the order can be completed online, so that there is no need to spend money to hire salesmen to fool customers Yes, and save some money.Saving a little here and there will beat all the peers in terms of cost, and the selling price can be set very low.

Suning Gome also wanted to fight a price war, but in the end, based on the prices of Luming Mall, if they really wanted to fight the price with Luming Mall, they would probably lose the first loss in the country soon.

The key point is that the Luming Mall can still make up the full discount, so where do you go to reason?
The two giants in the Xianxia electrical appliance industry suddenly felt that the world had changed.The advantages they were proud of before disappeared in a blink of an eye.The only advantage is that when you buy something in their mall, you can buy it immediately and deliver it to your home immediately. However, if you buy something in Luming Mall, you may have to wait three or four days to get it.

But what does that matter?Things in Luming Mall are cheap.

The time of ordinary people is worthless, and this does not waste any time, it is just the simplest delayed gratification.But making money is a real hard job. You can buy something cheaper by hundreds of dollars at Luming Mall. Although you have to wait for three or four days, how many people work hard for three or four days and still can't earn these hundreds of dollars? .

What's more, shopping in Luming Mall does not delay work and study.

Some people are willing to exchange time for money, but most people's time is worthless and cannot be exchanged for money.

As the saying goes, it’s not a big deal to watch the excitement, and soon some people on the Internet began to brag about Luming Mall, posting on the forum, arresting the two entities in chains and frantically flogging their corpses.

In physical stores, the shopping experience is also very different due to the difference in the quality of employees.When encountering individual poor quality, the shopping experience is simply a disaster level.

With so many stores and so many employees, the two offline supermarkets must have outstanding personalities.Those who had an unpleasant shopping experience in physical stores have followed up on their experiences.

There is no doubt that the Internet is an amplifier, just like the set of wrong questions. Maybe you get 99 points in every exam, and you only get one question wrong, but in the set of wrong questions, all of them are wrong questions.

It's the same on the Internet, the beautiful and correct praise needs to be guided, but the complaints about failures and mistakes are spontaneous.When the posts complaining about the two physical stores are piled up higher and higher, you will think at a glance how there is such a heartless business in the world that has not yet closed down.

Suning Gome's scalp was numb from the sudden denunciation, so she hurried up to defend herself.In the end, it’s okay not to mention that, when everyone sees the company’s representative bubbling, it’s like a cannonball hits the bull’s-eye, and the output is crazy.In just half a day, these users were directly sprayed to delete their accounts.

The power of netizens can be seen.

Helpless, Suning Gome can only announce that all stores will carry out staff training and quality rectification.

The key is that this will cost a lot of money.

After going back and forth, wouldn't it be even more difficult to keep up with Luming Mall?

Don't forget that there is Ali watching over him!

There are countless individual sellers on Taobao, each showing their own special abilities, and I dare not even think about what will happen in the future!
In the forum, in addition to criticizing Suning Gome, some people also focused on Luming Mall itself.

"Didn't forget to pet the cat during the interview, is this the richest man?"

"Envy, pets are not allowed in our office."

"The cat in Lu Yiming's arms looks very similar to the logo of the Tmall Mall that Taobao has been making recently."

It is no secret that Lu Yiming is a shareholder of Ali.And Tmall Mall has now officially announced that the logo is an abstract big orange, and the prototype is the one in Lu Yiming's arms.

For those who know more about the situation, I will immediately popularize the science below: "This cat was originally a little stray cat. Later, when the richest man's mother saw it when she was shopping for vegetables, she took it home and adopted it. Now the avatar is directly hung on Tmall. The homepage of the mall, it is said that this matter was requested by Jack Ma himself, he also likes cats."

"I'm so envious, I really want to be the cat in the richest man's house."

"It's really unexpected that the richest man keeps such a cheap native cat."

"What kind of native cat, it's obviously fat and cute, it looks a bit like a golden gradient in the Northeast."

"Haha, the cat's name seems to be Fat Tiger."

For a while, the comment below directly became a gathering place for cat lovers, and the content of the discussion gradually became distorted.

Even in the next period of time, the price of orange cats in pet markets all over the country generally increased by more than one or two times.

At home, Lu Yiming was feeding Fat Tiger with dried fish.When Ning Xuehua came back from shopping, he happened to see this scene, and immediately complained, "Stop feeding it, and see for yourself, what fat tiger has become now. Hurry up and take him to run in the community, Come back for dinner in half an hour."

Lu Yiming poked Fat Tiger's belly in distaste: "You said you are only over one year old, how come you are so fat?"

Fat Tiger meowed, then turned around and walked outside, with a dismissive look, as if to say: Why is Ben Meow so fat, don't you have any clues in your heart?
"Hey, how dare you despise me? You're out of supper tonight!"

Lu Yiming took out the noose and tied it on Fat Hu, and said: "Let's go, if you don't get tired today, I, Ming Yilu, will write my name upside down."

Just as he was packing up and getting ready to go out, he saw Jack Ma walking over with several gift bags, and the two happened to meet each other.

"Boss Lu, what are you going to do?"

Lu Yiming shook the rope inside his hand and said, "Walking the cat, what else can you do? Why are you free to come over today? Are you not in Hangzhou to preside over the battle?"

Jack Ma put down the gift bag in his hand, squatted down and picked up Fat Tiger, stroked Fat Tiger's belly, and said in a relaxed tone: "Although eBay is still launching various promotions, the overall situation is actually settled. It doesn't matter anymore."

Seeing Jack Ma in this state, Lu Yiming couldn't help feeling a little bit emotional.

Back then, when Whitman's strength struck, Jack Ma was so anxious that his eyebrows were on fire.

Now it's a turn of events, Yibei collapsed in Xiaguo, Whitman returned without success, and a large company with tens of billions of dollars was beaten all over the place by Jack Ma and a group of wild people. All I can say is this The result is that most people did not expect.

Even Jack Ma himself didn't expect Yibei to be so involuntary at first.

Lu Yiming said: "Well, it's called acclimatization. The European and American methods only work in Europe and the United States. If you want to go to Xia Guo to directly reproduce it, it is impossible. As the saying goes, one side supports the other side, That is to say, only our own local enterprises can adapt to the local gameplay and rules.”

Jack Ma sighed: "It's true. I was too timid before. I just thought about how powerful this eBay is and how influential it is in the world, but I didn't expect that they would come to grab our market. .In terms of population size, we directly account for a quarter of the world, so there is no need to pretend."

"That's the truth."

Lu Yiming nodded slightly, and then said: "So, if you want to come to our territory to eat and drink, you have to lie on your stomach if you are a tiger, or you have to coil a snake. If you want to come to our house to earn money, you also want to be our Uncle, where is there such a good thing in this world? I support you in killing eBay."

After reminiscing about the "excellent years in the past" together, Jack Ma and Lu Yiming got down to business: "Mr. Lu, I plan to spin off Tmall Mall from Taobao and develop it independently. In the future, I will specialize in the B2C market."

When he said this, Jack Ma had been observing Lu Yiming's expression.After all, if Tmall is a B2C market, it is competing with Luming Mall.Not long ago, Lu Yiming said in an interview that Ali specializes in C2C, which does not count as repeated investment with Luming Mall. As a result, in the blink of an eye, Jack Ma said that he would do B2C, which is very interesting in the eyes of outsiders. It may be interpreted as a slap in the face.

In any case, Lu Yiming is the major shareholder of Ali, and he has just helped Ali repel eBay's attack.Jack Ma suddenly said this, and it seemed to mean crossing a river and tearing down a bridge.

Therefore, Jack Ma had to watch Lu Yiming's reaction.If Lu Yiming firmly opposed it, Jack Ma would definitely choose to postpone the plan.

At present, no matter how Ali develops, he must not sing against Lu Yiming, otherwise, it will definitely not be worth the candle.

And Lu Yiming soon understood Jack Ma's plan.

He intends to allow Ali to have three business forms of B2B, B2C, and C2C, covering the e-commerce market in an all-round way.

I have to say that this idea is very ambitious and courageous.

In the original world, Jack Ma was still working on Alipay, his own financial payment tool, which was the most important thing in Ali's entire plan, the core of the core.

But now it has been cut off by Lu Yiming.

If Jack Ma wanted to use Alipay, he had to cooperate with Lu Yiming.

Unless he gives up Alipay and builds one independently.

But it is not so easy to cultivate users to get used to it.When Jack Ma comes up with something that can replace Alipay, Alipay doesn’t know how many generations it has evolved to, and the number of users has already increased. Even if Jack Horse comes up with a payment tool, it’s hard to say how many users it can attract.

Lu Yiming knew very well that Jack Ma suddenly ran over to say this, just to test his reaction. After all, according to the ancient novels, Jack Ma was stabbing his old boss in the back, and there was a rebellion in the back of his head.Jack Ma wants to kill all three modes, among which he must form a direct competition with Luming Mall in the B2C field.

Lu Yiming was instantly reminded of the "cat-dog war" in his previous life, but this life is likely to turn into a cat-deer war.

After thinking about this scene, Lu Yiming couldn't help but laugh out loud.

When Jack Ma saw this, he panicked.

You can be angry, you can be angry, and call me ungrateful, but what do you mean by laughing?
It doesn't make sense.

Jack Ma couldn't figure out Lu Yiming's train of thought for a while.

"Lu... Mr. Lu, why are you laughing? Is there something wrong with what I said?"

Lu Yiming came back to his senses, and quickly said, "I didn't mean to laugh at you, I just thought of something interesting."

Jack Ma: "..."

Isn't this fucking still laughing at me?

After a while, Lu Yiming stopped laughing, and said seriously: "Let's get down to business, the domestic e-commerce market is huge, and it can accommodate Luming and Taobao at the same time. As for competition, it is inevitable, and I will not directly intervene in it. I will not put pressure on Ali as an investor. I will make money from any of your companies, and I don’t need to suppress you. You are a very courageous person, and I invested in you because of this. You dare to directly challenge me today, and Heng Ming has also realized this."

Jack Ma knew that Lu Yiming would do what he said, so he breathed a sigh of relief, and at the same time felt admiration for Lu Yiming's pattern.

The reason why he came here today to talk to Lu Yiming face to face was to observe Lu Yiming's reaction so that he could make adjustments at any time.

Lu Yiming is the major shareholder of Ali. Although Jack Ma has the confidence to control the Ali company, facing Lu Yiming, a legendary figure who has rarely failed since his debut, he dare not guarantee that he can survive the competition with Lu Yiming.

Especially after seeing Lu Yiming's operation to help Ali defeat eBay, he felt even more miraculous, and he only admired Lu Yiming in his heart.

Afterwards, the two exchanged their opinions. I have to say that after Taobao defeated eBay, Jack Ma straightened up a lot, and his personal temperament changed very obviously, which made Lu Yiming feel like "once When the wind and clouds rise, the dragon travels ninety thousand miles".

Moreover, Lu Yiming even observed that when Jack Ma talked to him, he became a lot more rigid, and he was no longer as submissive as before.

Seeing this change in Jack Ma, Lu Yiming also felt emotional: Sure enough, accepting such a celebrity as a younger brother is simply overthinking. There were so many generals in yellow robes in ancient times, let alone in modern society, who would always be willing to be a younger brother?

In fact, Jack Ma's Tmall wants to do B2C, and Lu Yiming's Luming Mall has no plans to enter the C2C field?

The so-called business means that everyone is doing their own little calculations.

"Okay, I'm here to discuss cooperation with Gree, so I won't delay your business."

After getting the answer from Lu Yiming, Jack Ma planned to leave.

Lu Yiming didn't stop him, but said politely: "Don't worry, let's go after eating, my mother's stove is already cooked."

Jack Ma refused and said, "No need, I have an appointment at noon."

"That's fine, you are busy with your work."

After Jack Ma left, Lu Yiming took the things that Jack Ma had brought into the house.

Seeing that Lu Yiming had just left and came back, Ning Xuehua immediately yelled, "Didn't I tell you to walk the cat? Why are you back again? Don't be lazy."

Afterwards, he saw what Lu Yiming brought in, and asked curiously, "Huh? Who brought this here?"

Lu Yiming said: "When I was going out just now, Jack Ma, the chairman of Alibaba's board of directors, just came to look for me. He sent these things over."

Ning Xuehua stretched her neck to look outside, and asked: "A guest? Then ask him to come in and do it, what about the others? It just so happens that we have already arrived at the restaurant, let him stay and eat together."

Lu Yiming smiled and said: "Don't look, everyone has left. He is busy with everything, but he is a busy person, how can he stay and have a meal with you?"

(End of this chapter)