Reborn since 1993

Chapter 1055 Reverse Operation
The sudden news from overseas caused an uproar in the mainland's technology and media industries.

No, weren’t there reports in many domestic news this morning that Feiyan MP3s weren’t selling well and the huge amount of research and development costs had gone down the drain? Could this be the biggest Waterloo in the history of mainland science and technology?
How come in the blink of an eye, there are reports that Feiyan MP3 is about to be sold out overseas?
"Feiyan MP3 is a groundbreaking electronic product!"

“It is the first product that perfectly combines modern electronic products with the Internet, turning Internet music from virtual into reality!
Feiyan MP3 breaks away from the constraints of tapes and discs, allowing users to download their favorite songs and listen to them on the Internet!
Without record stores, users can search for music on the Internet themselves, or even download songs for free from music sites such as Napster.

For users, the cost they may have to bear is the cost of a $399 MP3 music player, but in the future they will be able to listen to music for free!"

"Feiyan MP3 plus the emerging Internet music will produce an amazing chemical reaction. Whether it is for the music player industry or the record industry, the emergence of MP3 will be a product that changes the industry."

This is the Wall Street Journal's evaluation of the Feiyan MP3. Compared with the Sony Walkman, the Feiyan MP3 is somewhat lacking in sound quality.

But apart from this shortcoming, the rest are all advantages!
The design of MP3 is more fashionable and trendy than that of Walkman. After all, Walkman was a thing ten years ago. No matter how advanced it was then, it is a bit outdated now. In terms of design, no matter what, the appearance of Feiyan MP3 is definitely more trendy.

It is also smaller in size, lighter in weight, and easier to carry. You don't need to bring any tapes, you can just turn on the machine and listen.

The most important thing is that the Feiyan MP3 player is nominally used to download genuine paid music from Himalaya Radio.

But this is just Feiyan Technology "recommending" and "encouraging" users to download genuine music. If users don't want to listen to it and want to download unauthorized free music from Napster, Feiyan Technology can only express regret.

The machine has been sold to the user. Does Feiyan Technology have any right to control what the user wants to do with it?

This is like selling a kitchen knife to a user. The kitchen knife manufacturer "recommends" the user not to use the knife to chop bones, but the user insists on using it. What right does the kitchen knife manufacturer have to do with it?
Compared to the Sony Walkman, which required constant purchase of tapes and discs, now that I have bought the Feiyan MP3, I can download music from the Internet for free.

A machine that is more fashionable and stylish than the Sony Walkman, more convenient to carry around, and even lets you listen to music for free. How can Americans refuse it?

After the launch conference of Feiyan MP3 was held in New York, advertisements began to be released. Feiyan MP3 went on sale in major cities in America such as New York and Los Angeles, and was purchased by countless users!

Music lovers in particular cannot resist Feiyan MP3. It doesn't matter if the sound quality is not good. You can buy a machine and listen to songs on discs that used to cost hundreds or thousands of dollars. Now you can just download them to the MP3 machine and listen to them anytime and anywhere.

……

"Feiyan Technology released its MP3 sales for the first time. Currently, Feiyan MP3's global sales have exceeded units.

MP3 sales, plus accessories sales, sales exceeded million US dollars! "

"Feiyan MP3 is running out of stock in the American market!"

"In the old European market, Feiyan MP3 sales have exceeded units. In places like England and France, they are also out of stock!"

When news about MP3's overseas sales continued to flow back to China, Yan Lixiang, who had just published a great article in the newspaper, felt as if the sky was falling when he read the news.

"How can this be?"

The hands holding the newspaper were shaking. Yan Lixiang couldn't understand. Feiyan MP3 was obviously not that popular in mainland China. Why was it that Americans and old Europeans, who represented civilization in his eyes, were scrambling to buy Feiyan MP3?

This somewhat overturned Yan Lixiang's imagination. He wanted to say that these were fake news, but even Japan's Asahi Shimbun and others began to report on the hot sales of Feiyan MP3.

Even Japanese media such as the Asahi Shimbun have begun to worry that the sales of Sony's Walkman and CD players will be hit hard by the emergence of MP3s.

Obviously, Japan is not as optimistic as Yan Lixiang thought!
Feiyan MP3's performance in Southeast Asia is also quite impressive. The sales of Feiyan's machines in Hong Kong, Formosa, Korea, Singapore, Siam and other places are also increasing.

The record copyright protection in these regions is not that strict, so Feiyan MP3 can be very popular there.

There are even electronics manufacturers in Taiwan and South Korea who want to purchase Feiyan MP3's patent license and start producing MP3 players!

Watching the news, Yan Lixiang sat there dejectedly. He didn't know if Dongling Hi-Tech was born to be his nemesis. Every time he felt that Dongling Hi-Tech was failing, Dongling Hi-Tech would stand up again and give him a big thumbs up.

What Yan Lixiang couldn't understand in particular was why people in America and old Europe were also chasing after Dongling Hi-Tech's products, even though there were so many giant companies in these places.

In Yan Lixiang's eyes, any one of these giant companies is stronger than Dongling Hi-Tech. The products developed by these giant companies not only crush Dongling Hi-Tech, but Dongling Hi-Tech's products are selling well in America and other places!

Sitting there dejectedly, Yan Lixiang, who had returned to the public eye after gaining fame through publishing books, felt that he needed to "lie dormant" again and avoid the limelight. It was estimated that no media or newspaper would be willing to cooperate with him in the short term.

... "Boss Xue, are you saying that we should sell the machines to America and make some money?"

On the side of the scalper Shen Anming, with a trembling voice, asked Xue Jingwu.

Since the Feiyan MP3 was released, Shen Anming and his gang of scalpers have started to stock up, but they are actually under a lot of pressure.

The reason why Xue Jingwu dared to stock up on goods was because he had received news that Feiyan MP3 seemed to be selling well in Gangcheng. As it could be sold well in Gangcheng, Xue Jingwu judged that there should be a market for MP3.

But even Xue Jingwu, a scalper, did not expect that the first market where Feiyan MP3s were almost sold out would be America.

"Not sure yet!"

"This parallel import line is from a scalper we have worked with in Southeast Asia. The orders were introduced to us and shipped to Mexico, and then into the American market!"

Xue Jingwu could hardly keep his composure. "As long as we deliver the goods to the port of Siam, the other party will take over the rest. We will add 3 US dollars to the price of each Feiyan MP35 player!
I estimate that if Feiyan MP3's production capacity cannot keep up with sales, the price of the machine will increase even more in the future!"

"The most important thing now is to stock up on more machines. I estimate that it won't be long before more people come to China to buy MP3s!"

We saw that the inventory of Feiyan MP3 in markets such as Hong Kong, Formosa, America, and Old Europe was constantly decreasing, or even sold out.

And there are still a lot of spot goods in the domestic market. When the time comes, it will be strange if those overseas scalpers don’t come to China to purchase goods. With US dollars, who doesn’t want to make money?
Cao Taizheng was not as resourceful as Shen Anming and other scalpers. He actually planned to flash domestic machines, change the system language version, and then sell them as parallel imports to America and other places.

But Cao Taizheng's phone never stopped ringing.

Although no scalpers from America came to him, electronic dealers and scalpers in Southeast Asia began to purchase goods domestically. Naturally, the machines in the hands of Cao Taizheng and other scalpers became a target.

But Cao Taizheng was not prepared to make a move. If he made a move now, he would only make a few tens of thousands of yuan at most.

According to Cao Taizheng's experience, when Feiyan MP3 is completely out of stock, it will enter a seller's market. The price of Feiyan MP3 will rise even more sharply, and the seller will have the final say!

……

When he came to Pingyang again, Santis felt that it was completely different from the "old-fashioned" city he had in mind. For a moment, Santis even doubted whether he had come to the wrong place.

The last time I came to Pingyang, the Pingyang at that time completely met Santis’s perception of domestic cities. In his eyes, domestic cities should be like this, with a sense of oldness and age.

But the Pingyang before us now has the outline of a modern city. The previous old feeling and those dilapidated buildings in Santis's impression have disappeared without a trace.

The last time Santis came to Pingyang was to purchase Dolphin multi-function radios. At that time, a hurricane hit America and multi-function emergency radios became emergency disaster relief items. With the support of his uncle on Capitol Hill, Santis won the order for emergency radios from the Federal Emergency Management Agency of the United States.

But Santis had no production company, so after receiving the order, Santis purchased the machines from other manufacturers. At that time, the most famous one in the global multi-function emergency radio market was Dolphin, a subsidiary of Feiyan Technology.

Santis placed an order for 300,000 Dolphin radios in one go from Feiyan.

At that time, he purchased a Dolphin radio from Feiyan Technology for $150 and sold it to the Federal Emergency Management Agency for $550. Only he knew how much he made from the difference in price on this order.

Of course, Santis also needs to take care of the money he earns, including his uncle on Capitol Hill, other members of Capitol Hill, executives of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, etc., all of whom have to share a share, it is impossible for him to keep it all to himself.

But even if he made a profit from the price difference, so what? Santis had done something. At least he sent Dolphin multi-function emergency radios to the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the state capitals where the hurricane occurred.

Some federal purchasers, for example, are really useless. They take orders and just collect money without delivering the materials. What's worse, they even provide hurricane reconstruction loans to families in states where hurricanes hit and their houses were blown away.

It's not relief money, it's a fucking loan, and it needs to be repaid within one year, including principal and interest. That's really not polite.

Santis didn't know how much others earned, but he made a lot of money from the American hurricane relief efforts.

But Santis can't make quick money like that every day, so in recent years he has started to do legitimate business.

And now, Santis came to Pingyang, and his eyes were on the Feiyan MP3 that was recently selling well in America.

(End of this chapter)