I failed a course, and the system became my study supervisor.

Chapter 98 Xu Ling, something big happened

As soon as the call was connected, Yang Chaojie's anxious voice came from the receiver:

"Brother Ling! Something terrible has happened!"

Since when, Yang Chaojie stopped calling Xu Ling by his name.

"Don't be anxious. Calm down and tell me slowly. What happened?"

Xu Ling felt puzzled but also took it seriously.

After all, it must be no ordinary thing for Yang Chaojie to call Xu Ling directly.

"Our first product is a VR headset, which was recently released."

Yang Chaojie tried to calm down, his voice still trembling slightly.

“Isn’t it a good thing that the first product is released?”

Xu Ling became even more confused.

Yang Chaojie continued, "But at this critical moment something big happened!

Maybe our prices are relatively low, so our products are bought in large quantities and then resold.”

Someone took advantage of me!
Xu Ling was a little angry and asked the most crucial question:
"What about the price?"

"Our price is 399, theirs is 1599!"

Yang Chaojie's tone was excited.

Now, Xu Ling couldn't calm down either.

More than four times the price! Profits exceeding three hundred percent!

What is the difference between this and stealing money?
What’s even worse is that, in this way, Lingyun Technology’s research and development for more than half a year has been wasted on others.

For most companies, selling to anyone doesn't matter. But Xu Ling had a longer-term goal. This outcome was clearly completely contrary to Xu Ling's intended goal.

And why this happened is easy to understand in Xu Ling's opinion.

The most fundamental reason is that the company is too small.

Including the later investment from Yang Chaojie, the total investment was only about 6 million.

Therefore, the product’s sales and promotion channels are very narrow and it is not easily known to the public.

But people in specific fields will pay more attention to new products, so the products will be targeted by people with ulterior motives.

The second point is the price. Lingyun’s products are indeed much cheaper than similar products from other companies.

But too low a price is not always a good thing, it will lead to consumer distrust.

"Brother Ling, what should we do now?"

Yang Chaojie's voice interrupted Xu Ling's thoughts.

Yup!

How to do?
The problem has already occurred. Compared to tracing the root cause, the solution is more important!

The first step is to prevent the situation from getting worse.

“Are there any more in stock?”

Xu Ling asked.

"There's still half."

"Then suspend the sale immediately!"

"It's been stopped! But the problem is, we can't continue to sell it. Once we do, the same thing will happen again, and we won't be able to stop it."

Yang Chaojie hit the nail on the head.

Indeed, the root of the problem lies in how to prevent the same behavior from happening again.

If this problem is not solved, Lingyun’s products will no longer be sold.

Once it is released, it will be purchased by unscrupulous merchants.

But even Xu Ling was a little confused about how to solve this problem.

Middlemen can easily disguise their actions as normal transactions.

Therefore, it is difficult to resolve this issue through corporate coordination, and legal procedures are time-consuming and laborious.

But there seems to be an extremely critical point in this.

That is price or consumer rights.

As a middleman, it is understandable to make a profit from the price difference, but they make too much!
Three hundred percent profit seriously damages the rights of consumers.

However, there is another problem: consumers are not aware of this.

Lingyun's publicity did not fully reach consumers, and people did not know that Lingyun was the official distributor. Instead, those middlemen gave up part of their profits and spent it on advertising.

Propaganda such as "surreal" and "black technology" is everywhere.

Many people have a preconceived notion that they are genuine products, and many are willing to pay for them.

Thinking of this, Xu Ling's thoughts finally became clear.

"First, we need to find a way to make this public so more people know about it. Then, we need to prove that our products are genuine and that their high-priced products are no different from ours."

After thinking for a moment, Xu Ling gave instructions.

"I understand, I'll do it right away!"

Yang Chaojie agreed straightforwardly and hung up the phone.

Although Xu Ling was worried, he was also helpless.

Far away on the other side of the ocean, there is only so much I can do.

We can only hope that Yang Chaojie can handle this matter well.

……

On the other side, the magical city.

After receiving the instructions, Yang Chaojie took action immediately.

How to make this matter public, of course, depends on the media.

Yang Chaojie contacted two newspapers, one was the "Magic City Evening News" and the other was the "Magic City Youth Daily" which Xu Ling was familiar with.

The two newspapers will simultaneously publish an article written by Yang Chaojie through Weibo and physical newspapers:
VR glasses priced at 1599 yuan, conscience or exorbitant profits?

In this article, Yang Chaojie described the whole incident in a sincere tone.

Among them, he focused on the issue of price.

In addition, Yang Chaojie also posted the document information of the relevant patents.

Since it was a question of price and money, the public's attention was quickly attracted and the comment section was already very lively.

"Oh my god! Doesn't that make me a complete fool? I'm paying four times the price for the same product!"

"Unjust Species +1."

"+1"

But some netizens are skeptical about Yang Chaojie's statement.

"Those VR glasses are the best I've ever seen. I thought the price of 1599 was cheap, and now you're saying it's less than a quarter of the original price?"

"Is this the legendary big liar?"

……

In short, some netizens believe it, but most do not. Even if Yang Chaojie publishes the patent information.

This is largely because the price disparity is simply too unbelievable.

Yang Chaojie had anticipated such a result.

He was not naive enough to think that this alone could turn the situation around.

Yang Chaojie’s second step was to find professional product reviewers to review the two products.

……

Lv Wenbin is a well-known blogger in this field. He has two million fans on Tik Tok and mainly focuses on electronic products.

Then Lu Wenbin naturally became the target that Yang Chaojie was looking for.

What surprised Yang Chaojie was that he thought it would cost a lot of money to ask Lv Wenbin to conduct a product review, but after seeing the product, Lv Wenbin was willing to do the review almost for free.

"My goal in doing reviews is to combat unscrupulous middlemen and protect consumer rights."

These are Lu Wenbin’s original words.

This also coincides with Yang Chaojie's goal.

Then, we will have to see how much power this professional assessor can exert.

Yang Chaojie is looking forward to it.

Xu Ling, who is in the United States, is also keeping a close eye on how things are developing.

　This is a chapter I wrote before, and I put it here.

　　There will be no further updates after this.

　　My apologies to all the readers who loved this book.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)