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Chapter 574 Reverse Operation
The voice coming from the phone made Cao Taizheng excited, but also nervous. The person who called him was also a scalper in Yangcheng, and was considered Cao Taizheng's predecessor.

But this scalper is doing much bigger business than Cao Taizheng. He already has his own store in Electronic City. I heard he also rents a stall in Huaqiangbei in Pengcheng. He even has some connections with channels in Hong Kong and Japan, and he sells all kinds of parallel-imported machines from overseas from time to time.

"Brother Shen, I don't know what you mean by this!" Cao Taizheng said to the scalper opposite him, pretending to be careless, trying to find out some information.

The scalper surnamed Shen had no intention of playing coy with Cao Taizheng. "Taizi, here's the price. I'll add 50 yuan to the price of each machine you have. I'll take them all!"

Hearing that the price of each machine would be increased by 50 yuan, Cao Taizheng couldn't help swallowing his saliva. With 100 machines, he could earn 5,000 yuan!
In just one day, you can earn 987 yuan, which is a very high rate of return. According to the current average monthly salary in Yangcheng, the salary of employees in the municipal government and state-owned factories is about yuan, which is considered high in China.

In one day, Cao Taizheng could earn the equivalent of half a year's salary of a Yangcheng employee by reselling Shenzhou electronic dictionaries, which was really quite high.

But Cao Taizheng, who has been a scalper for such a long time, knows that anything that can make scalpers snatch the goods from each other is definitely a hot item!

"Brother Shen, I still don't understand what you mean!"

"Sixty yuan for each electronic dictionary. I'm offering 760 yuan!"

"Seventy dollars, Taizi, give me some face, and we will all get rich together in the future!"

"Add another ten yuan, eighty yuan per unit, it can't go any higher..."

"Brother Shen, my signal is not good. I'll call you later!"

Cao Tai hung up the phone while breathing heavily. He was afraid that Mr. Shen would raise the price again, so he would not be able to help but sell it.

The bid over there was already quite high, but Cao Taizheng's intuition told him that once electronic dictionaries started to run out of stock in Guangzhou, the price might be even higher.

Picking up the rice roll, Cao Taizheng began to stuff it into his mouth again, trying to calm himself down, but the news on TV made his heart beat faster.

"Now reporting the local news in Yangcheng, this morning, Yangcheng Department Store was open for only one hour and twenty minutes before suspending business.

Yangcheng Department Store announced that the stock of Shenzhou electronic dictionaries sold at the electronic counter has been cleared out and no new stock has arrived for the time being!

Tianhe City, Wangfujing Department Store, Wanjia Electrical Appliance City and other shopping malls that sell Shenzhou electronic dictionaries have also announced that their stocks are sold out! "

Watching the news on TV, the scalper couldn't help but curse that the guy named Shen was a good-for-nothing, saying that all his colleagues were being ripped off. They must have received the news that the electronic dictionaries were out of stock in Yangcheng in advance, so they started scrambling to get the goods.

But before Cao Taizheng could finish his curse, a piece of news from Phoenix TV in Hong Kong made him stunned as he was cursing while eating rice rolls.

"According to the report of Phoenix TV in Hong Kong, the Shenzhou electronic dictionary landed in Hong Kong and achieved a sales record of 7840 units in Hong Kong yesterday!
The Hong Kong media estimates that the demand for Shenzhou electronic dictionaries in Hong Kong will continue to increase.

Ning's Trading Company, the general agent of Shenzhou Electronic Dictionary in Hong Kong, announced that it will promote Shenzhou Electronic Dictionary into Hong Kong families and schools, and make it an auxiliary teaching device for English subjects in Hong Kong!"

Hong Kong is an international city, and English is almost a compulsory subject for Hong Kong residents. English is required for both exams and entering the workplace. This makes Hong Kong attach much more importance to English than domestic cities.

Cao Tai was patronizing the Yangcheng market, but he didn't expect that the products in Gangcheng were also selling well.

"According to statistics from Hong Kong media, in addition to the inland market, the highest sales volume of Shenzhou electronic dictionaries in Southeast Asia is in the Korean market, with a single-day sales record of 95124 units. The price of Shenzhou electronic dictionaries in Korea is 120 won, which is about US dollars per unit!"

After seeing the Korean selling price, Cao Taizheng couldn't help but curse the seller for being so cruel. This price was obviously set by the Korean agent of Shenzhou Electronic Dictionary.

But the news on TV was not over yet. "In addition to the Hong Kong and Korean markets, the Shenzhou electronic dictionary, represented by Nippon Bandai, Nippon Telephone and Telegraph Company, and Nippon Softbank in the Japanese market, also sold over 10,000 copies on the first day in Japan!

The single-day sales of Shenzhou Electronic Dictionary in Singapore exceeded 1024 units, the sales in Malaysia were estimated to be 3580 units, and the sales in Siam were 1958 units. The first-day sales of Shenzhou Electronic Dictionary in Southeast Asia exceeded units, and the demand may continue to increase in the future.

According to Ning's Trading Company, it is seeking to introduce Shenzhou electronic dictionaries into markets such as India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Russia, but the payment methods for these markets are still under negotiation.

Dongling Hi-Tech requires agents in the Asan and Lao Maozi markets to complete the transaction by payment first and delivery later!

If the transaction is completed, Shenzhou Electronic Dictionary will enter the Indian and Russian markets, and the sales of Shenzhou Electronic Dictionary overseas will experience explosive growth! "

The news on TV ended with a scene of people queuing up to buy electronic dictionaries in front of an electronics counter in a shopping mall in Hong Kong.

But it took Cao Taizheng a long time to come back to his senses, and then he couldn't help cursing the man surnamed Shen as a good-for-nothing. He now understood why the man surnamed Shen wanted to snatch the machine from him.

The guy named Shen is probably nothing at all. In order to stock up the goods to sell in Guangzhou, he might be doing the opposite, treating the domestic Shenzhou electronic dictionaries as parallel imports and selling them to Hong Kong, South Korea, Japan, Singapore, Malaysia and even India!

In these regions, people have the habit and demand to learn English, so Shenzhou Electronic Dictionary can be sold here. What? The language version of Shenzhou Electronic Dictionary in China is different from that in foreign countries?
But is that a problem?

Universities in Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, Singapore and Malaysia all have Chinese students studying abroad, people working there, local overseas Chinese families, etc. The total number of these people is estimated to be tens of millions, or even more, and they are all potential users of electronic dictionaries.

In other words, when the Shenzhou electronic dictionary is out of stock in Southeast Asia, the scalper named Shen will reversely export the parallel imported goods to Japan, South Korea, Malaysia and other places. He will definitely make a lot of money, and it is estimated that he will make much more than in China!

After figuring out what the scalper surnamed Shen was going to do, Cao Taizheng couldn't help but curse that the other party was really black and was even cutting the leeks of his peers.

But I couldn't help but wonder if I could make more money, especially in foreign exchange, if I sold it overseas.

But it was just a thought. Cao Taizheng knew that he did not have the overseas channels and connections like Shen, and he did not have the capital to purchase large quantities of goods.

Cao Taizheng could only shake his head. Now he could only be a small scalper and make a little profit from the price difference. It depended on when Yangcheng would be completely out of stock. Only then could he make a fortune!
……

"How dare this little rascal play tricks on me!"

Hearing the busy tone on the phone, Shen Anming angrily dropped the phone in his hand. What a bullshit, the signal was bad. He called Cao Taizheng, and he used a landline!
There were several people sitting opposite Shen Anming, all of them were making phone calls and writing down a string of numbers on paper from time to time. There was also a blackboard between them, and the numbers on it added up to more than eight thousand!
Shen Anming knew clearly what the number of more than 7,000 meant. It meant that they already had more than 8,000 Shenzhou electronic units in their hands, and the total value added up to nearly five or six million!

“Can so many machines really be sold overseas?!”

Looking at the strings of numbers, Shen Anming couldn't help but ask the leader of the group. Even for him, who was a big scalper, it was not a small amount of money.

The leader, Xue Jingwu, was a fat man who smiled like Maitreya Buddha. From time to time, flashes of brilliance could be seen from behind his glasses.

Hearing Shen Anming's words, Xue Jingwu laughed, "Old Shen, you have been in this business for so many years, don't you know the rules? Once you start, there is no turning back. You either make a lot of money or lose money and admit defeat. There is no third way!"

"From electronic pet machines to PHS phones and Shenzhou USB flash drives, we have never failed to win any of Dongling Hi-Tech's products!
However, we only resell domestic goods when we are reselling Dongling Hi-Tech's goods. The rest of the time, we resell overseas brand goods to the domestic market!"

Speaking of this, Xue Jingwu couldn't help but sigh. Even if it is a scalper, it has upstream and downstream. The upstream ones naturally earn more, and the downstream ones also have to look at the upstream ones' faces.

In the past, when Xue Jingwu and his colleagues were scalpers, they had to depend on the mood of the foreign scalpers. They had to accept whatever price the scalpers gave. If they were unhappy, they couldn't get the goods. After all, the products were from abroad and they had no first-hand source of goods.

Only when they come across Dongling Hi-Tech's products, Xue Jingwu and his gang of scalpers can stand up straight. It is the overseas scalpers who beg them to supply the products, and the pricing power of parallel imports is in their hands!
"How much more should we pay for this machine when it's sold overseas?" This was Shen Anming's first time reselling domestic goods overseas, and he lacked experience.

Hearing his words, Xue Jingwu and several other people looked at each other, and then burst into laughter. Shen Anming looked like a rookie soldier.

"How much is the increase?"

Xue Jingwu stood up and patted Shen Anming on the shoulder, "If we don't sell these goods for double the price in Korea, Japan, or anywhere else, we'll lose money. If we don't sell them for double the price, we won't sell them at any price, no matter how high or low it is!"

Shen Anming opened his mouth wide. He felt that he was cruel enough to be a scalper, but facing Xue Jingwu's double the price, he felt that he was still kind-hearted. However, he was not sure whether electronic dictionaries could really be sold at double the price in those places.

……

"News came from Guangdong Province that the product is basically out of stock!"

The next day, as soon as Li Dongling entered the headquarters office building of Dongling Hi-Tech, he heard the news that the Shenzhou electronic dictionary was out of stock in Guangdong Province.

No one can tell whether they are really sold out or someone took the opportunity to stock up, but it is true that Shenzhou Electronic Dictionary is no longer available in any stores in Guangdong Province. Even through Focus Media TV shopping, in places like Yangcheng, the delivery time has been extended to a week later!

The fact that the Shenzhou electronic dictionary was out of stock in Guangdong Province seemed to be a signal, and then calls came in from Yanjing and Shanghai reporting that it was out of stock.

The news that Shenzhou electronic dictionaries were out of stock in China spread like wildfire.

"At present, Shenzhou electronic dictionaries are out of stock in cities such as Yangcheng, Yanjing, and Shanghai!
According to a staff member from Dongling Hi-Tech's marketing department, the popularity of the Shenzhou electronic dictionary has exceeded expectations. The marketing department originally expected that the sales of the 25 machines put into use in the country would be completed within two weeks or days.

But now, it is possible that before this Friday, that is, in less than five days, all the electronic dictionaries launched in China will be sold out. At present, the transaction price of second-hand electronic dictionaries in Guangzhou has exceeded the initial launch price! "

A report in Yangcheng Evening News basically confirmed the rumor that Shenzhou electronic dictionary was out of stock in the country.

Subsequently, news from Japan, South Korea, Singapore and other places made the rumors of electronic dictionary shortages in China more and more intense.

"Shenzhou Electronic Dictionary has become a hot seller in Korea, with single-day sales hitting a new high of 150 units. It is snapped up by Korean families, trading companies, and customs practitioners. Currently, the price of Shenzhou Electronic Dictionary in Korea has reached US dollars per unit!"

(End of this chapter)