My Lord, you need to stand up!

Chapter 53: If you don’t accept the overwhelming wealth, you will have to wait for the oil-splashed noodles
All along the West Lake, there were suddenly a lot of people holding black cameras and snapping away, looking so cool!
Grocery store owners have said that at first glance, this camera looks like a standard camera that costs between 120 and 150 yuan, but only experts can look closely and find that it has a toy-like feel.

In the words of later generations, it has a slightly plastic feel.

In order to save money, no better plastic was used. Instead, the bakelite used for electric meters, lamp holders, and switch boxes in the 1980s looked a bit dull and unsophisticated.

But ordinary consumers know nothing!

Few people had the opportunity to take a close look at the camera.

It feels like a camera in my hand and I can take pictures with it. I can also take it back and show it off. I bought this camera by the West Lake, and that’s enough.

It's similar to the mentality of traveling to Southeast Asia and feeling embarrassed to say you've left the country if you don't buy some latex pillows and snakeskin belts.

Weidong and his friends did not leave even after they had sold their goods, and were forced to stay at the grocery store until dark.

The reason is not because of the boss's dish of vinegar fish, but because he is afraid that consumers will feel cheated and make a fuss, thus destroying the boss's enthusiasm for selling cameras.

It was the after-sales concept that became commonplace in later generations, but it made the grocery store owner feel that this young man was so attractive that he wanted to introduce his daughter to him.

Because the young man with more than 10,000 yuan in his pocket did not show any arrogance. Instead, he ordered a few guys to diligently help him tidy up the shop, clean the surroundings, and repair the flowers, plants and branches.

This is called improving the image of a gold medal agent, all for the purpose of continuing to sell the cameras in the future.

As a result, there is really no after-sales service.

It is said that all the film processing shops and photo studios in Zhejiang City are doing booming business.

Many tourists who don’t even know how to take out the film come to them and talk the people in the shops till their voices are hoarse.

But as long as you can see the human figure in the image, hehe, that's fine.

And it is precisely this kind of cheap camera that has no depth of field, no focus, no blur of light and shadow, and the images at far and near remain basically clear as long as your hands don't shake, and the central image is very solid.

Best suited for beginners.

Even though the shortcomings of this camera are vignetting and slightly darker corners, it still retains the sense of mystery and nostalgia emphasized by the so-called LOMO cameras of later generations!
In addition, the lenses produced by these military optical instrument factories have their own characteristics. Unlike the cold and dry domestic lenses, the colors are very strong and have a warm feeling.

There are even photography experts who come to buy it!

Wait for the next batch.

Weidong's throat must have been hoarse. He immediately went to the post office to make a long-distance call to Xishan Optical Instrument Factory: "Sold out, production, full capacity, guaranteed quality and quantity, one thousand or two thousand units in batches, I will take delivery in Jiangzhou in cash!"

The person who answered the phone must be wondering what happened to Xiao Ron and why he worked so hard.

The factory manager who transferred the call was so surprised that he almost cried: "Really?! Thank you so much, Xiao Rang, you've worked so hard. Are you Xiao Rang? That's amazing!"

Sha Haotou also wanted to take credit: "The idea I mentioned seems to be absolutely correct. We should start production at full capacity according to the factory's quality assurance speed. Once we have one or two thousand pieces, we can send them to the Hongguang Factory sales office on the south bank of the Yangtze River. How long will it take?"

While still moving goods in the factory, I discovered that the camera's simple cardboard box packaging only contained a Chinese instruction manual, and the instruction manual contained the address and phone number of the Xishan Camera Factory.

How could this be possible? After leaving the camera factory and returning to Jiangzhou, Weidong asked Goudan and the others to tear off the part of the instruction manual with the address and phone number one by one.

It was agreed that this was an exclusive sale, so there was no way around it. Everyone went to the factory. Isn't this the magic of wedding dresses?

Therefore, Weidong must firmly grasp the selling point of the People's Camera and the creative commanding heights.

The team here didn't really have that much time to think about it. They were just frantically calculating production capacity: "In fact, since you were gone for more than ten days, we've produced another 500 units in trial production... Our production proficiency has improved, so 200 units a day shouldn't be a problem."

Let Weidong agree: "Then send over every time we have one or two thousand units, and I'll have someone prepare the cash."

The director of the military factory repeatedly assured that it could be completed, and cheers from the surrounding people could be heard over the phone.

Weidong himself cheered in his heart.

I called my dad again, and before leaving, he left all the 50,000 yuan deposit certificates at the store: "Have you paid the 34,000 yuan from the metal factory? It would be great if you can wait a few days. If not, I'll take the cash and take the train back immediately."

The agreed titanium ingot transaction is in the next town, and there is 130,000 cash!
No wonder Weidong had to bring so many people this time.

It's worth taking the train round trip for this.

Unexpectedly, Lao Rang managed to mumble, "I...this time I asked the Hongguang Factory's finance department to come get the money. They asked me why I didn't wire the money. Do you know how to wire transfers?"

Let Weidong know shit!
He only knows how to transfer money via mobile phone.

He only knew that the bank did not have universal deposit and withdrawal services at the moment.

I really never thought that there are still many needs for long-distance payments these days. Methods such as telegraph remittances have existed for a hundred years.

He hung up the phone and asked, and the teller at the post office looked at him as if he was an idiot or a country bumpkin.

It’s very simple and the handling fee is not high.

He immediately followed the same procedure and transferred the 10,000 yuan in cash to Jiangzhou.

This is different from bank deposits in other places. Lao Rang doesn't need to have a bank account. He can just withdraw money after receiving the telegram.

It seemed like I needed to bring in a few more strong guys to ensure Dad's safety. Weidong hurriedly declined the legendary West Lake vinegar fish and immediately took everyone to the town fifty kilometers away to deliver the titanium ingots.

Now this company has also discovered that making titanium alloy accessories is not as easy and quick as selling titanium ingots to other manufacturers to make money!
Originally, one ton a month was enough for their own consumption, but if they distributed it to manufacturers in other industries, they could still make a gross profit even if the price increased a little bit, and Weidong could even deliver the goods to their door.

I was so happy that I let him deliver as much as he wanted, ten tons or eight tons was no problem!

But Weidong felt that he couldn't say that the titanium business would last forever. When Hongguang Factory understood the market economy and started looking for buyers, it would skip him.

Just agree to it first, the main purpose is to bring your own people to introduce themselves to the place.

There is no need to rush to leave after wire transfer.

I asked Goudan to take a few friends on a train back to Zhejiang, and then I drove back to West Lake. It was like training, and I watched these guys come to me in a daze.

Then drive two to three hundred kilometers from Zhezhou along the Grand Canal to Zhenjiang, familiarize yourself with the waterside roads, take long-distance passenger transport, and ship and pick up goods by road and water transport.

You can learn by yourself or be taught step by step.

Weidong knew that he was too busy and would definitely need help.

But he never thought that he was building his own sales team.

Finally, a more clever soldier was picked out and brought along a guy to stay in Jiangsu and Zhejiang temporarily.

It’s near West Lake. The grocery store owner recommended that we rent a room that can be used to live and store goods.

During this three-day period, Lao Rang took the old Jiefang from the Xishan factory to the freight station at the dock and shipped 1,200 new cameras. Six days later, he asked Weidong and others to pick up the goods in Zhenjiang, and deliberately did not load them onto trucks and send them to Zhezhou.

We watched together as the two soldiers picked up and transported the goods one by one by themselves, just like they were taking the third test in driving school, and finally found a yellow fish truck to take them back to their rental place from the Zhejiangzhou Freight Station.

Weidong was asked to observe and ponder the whole process, and was asked not to put cameras in boxes in the future, as such boxes would take up space. Instead, they should be wrapped with bubble tape and packaged for shipment.

Junwazi and his friend packed the boxes themselves in Zhejiang Province.

It's easy to install one or two hundred every day.

The key was for Weidong to find a color printing factory in Zhejiang, a city that leads the nation in the printing industry, and print 10,000 color "X" X camera packaging boxes and instruction manuals.

I did it exactly according to his idea, and he only left the phone number of the Hongguang Factory store!
Just because of this, the Xishan factory took the initiative to reduce the price to 18 yuan. They even thought it would be more convenient without the packaging box and instructions!
But there are no bubble bags, cloth bags and hay!

However, he never expected that Weidong would take control of the brand sales rights himself. In particular, he asked in Zhejiang Province whether he could register a brand, and simply registered several related categories of the X brand at the same time.

The Xishan factory has actually become a OEM factory.

But they have been laughing like crazy in the past half month. It is said that all employees in the factory, including their families, have been mobilized to work overtime, and the daily output can reach 500 units!
Comrade Weidong, can you sell it?

They have never seen the scene of densely packed tourists on the banks of the West Lake.

The key is that these consumers are different every day, and they are new tourists from all over the country.

Seeing the large colorful posters hanging out, the large handwritten posters with cameras for 29 yuan are being snapped up every day!
Twelve hundred units were sold out in two or three days.

Weidong never thought about raising the price.

The grocery store owner was so annoyed that he thought he couldn't even sell soda, cakes, cigarettes, and candies. He just used most of the space to sell cameras and films.

The salesperson from the film company also came over inexplicably to increase the delivery volume and inquire about the situation.

In the past, no matter how beautiful the scenery here was, the sales of film were not large, and the number of cameras owned was limited. The main people who took photos were camera dealers. These people had their own film wholesale channels and would definitely not buy things from grocery stores.

Now suddenly there are hundreds or even thousands of tourists taking pictures with their cameras, and even people doing photography business everywhere along the West Lake!
The film consumption will suddenly increase to thousands or even tens of thousands!
Let Weidong just wait for this.

I immediately contacted them and asked if they were interested in selling this camera and film together.

It can be considered as taking advantage of other people's sales network.

It turned out that the color film was from the import agent, Shanghai Company, which arrogantly ignored the broken camera, while the black and white film was from a domestic state-owned factory, which hesitantly said it would go back to ask for instructions.

Weidong had no choice but to leave his contact information and head north from Zhejiang to purchase and transport beef and mutton fat in the north after the spring.

I was thinking, "When I become rich, all of you guys will die!"
Because by this time, Lao Rang said that the sales department had been frequently receiving calls from people from all over the country who wanted to buy cameras and where to buy them.

The couple and the three girls all followed the lines Weidong had taught them. They said, "Hello, please leave your contact information. The company's sales staff will contact you based on production figures after this year's supply allocation meeting..."

It seems to be a very great company.

This is to maximize the effectiveness of the telephone in the Hongguang Factory sales office, which can only be connected to the factory by hand crank and can only be used for answering calls.

Lao Rang also reminded that after Dong Xiaomei returned to school, she gave the school's phone number and asked Weidong to contact her.

Weidong was so busy that he called the number just before leaving Zhejiang.

(End of this chapter)