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Chapter 624 Spread
Rossi snatched the black label lighter from the scalper, pressed the lighter, and used it for a while. It felt very smooth and he didn't find anything unusual.

But the price of the lighter in Rossi's hand was 1,500 liras, or one dollar, more than the lighter he bought last night!

"How many of these lighters do you have? I want them all!"

Rossi snatched the lighter from the little yellow calf's hand, threw down the money, and rushed straight to the gang's lair.

The gang Rossi belonged to was in a detached house where the boss lived. When he entered, there were already quite a few people sitting inside.

"You're late, Rossi!" Seeing Rossi come in, the gang leader stared at Rossi and said.

Of course, gangs cannot have such strict rules as law enforcement agencies, but as a boss, he doesn't like to wait for people. The more a gang is maintained by force, the more it values ​​the boss's face. He needs his subordinates to fear him. Once this fear is lost, he can no longer be the boss.

Normally, Rossi would have been unable to bear being stared at like this by his ruthless boss, but today, Rossi was confident.

"I'm sorry, but there is a reason why I came late today!"

As he spoke, Rossi poured a bag of black label lighters that he had taken from the scalper onto the table.

There was silence in the room for a while. Rossi's boss and several other small leaders were all sitting there, looking at each other, wondering what Rossi was doing.

"Rosie, we know that you want to work for the boss, but you won't let us sell this thing!"

A bearded, rugged-looking man sitting below the gang leader said this, causing a burst of laughter.

Although these gang members will do anything to make money, such as selling contraband, firearms, and smuggling, they are very familiar with it.

But asking them to resell lighters is something they have never thought of. They also have to save their reputation. If the news gets out, how can they survive in the underworld?

Rossi didn't care for the ridicule, "Who has a Bic lighter?"

A small leader took out his own Piccolo and handed it to Rossi.

Rossi picked up the Bic in one hand and the Black Label lighter in the other, and said to the gang leader, "Bic sells for 7500 lire in the supermarket in Naples. This Black Label was sold to me by a street scalper for lire. His upper supplier will sell it for even lower!"

Pressing the two lighters at the same time, two flames came out. The flame of the black label lighter remained stable, but after a while, the flame of the Bic lighter began to flicker.

"Of these two lighters, the Black Label seems to be better than the Bic." Rossi is not a professional, so he can't use any professional terms, but he clearly feels that the Black Label lighter seems to be more stable than the Bic lighter. "But their prices differ by 1,500 liras, which is one dollar!"

"Naples consumes four to five million lighters a year, or even more. What if we add other cities in Italy, or even regions such as France and England?

What if we sell it to Italy or even other parts of Western Europe?" Rossi said, holding the Black Label lighter in his hand.

The gang leader had already sat up straight by now. If Rossi hadn't told him, he would never have thought that there was something special about using a lighter.

Rossi didn't know that the entire old European lighter industry was in a state of competition, but he sensitively discovered that there was room for maneuver.

Not to mention taking over the entire Italian lighter market, if the Naples market alone could make a few million dollars, it would be a huge income for the Rossi gang boss!
Is it so easy to get involved in gangs? A few hundred thousand dollars is enough for two small or medium-sized gangs to have a fight. Human life is the least valuable in this business.

And the most important thing is that lighters are too low risk!
Who would have nothing to do but investigate this kind of thing? The police stations in Italy are having a blast fighting the Mafia, and they also have to investigate all kinds of contraband. If it's smuggled cars, arms, etc., it would probably be a big case, but if it's smuggled lighters, I guess the Italian Customs Department would be too lazy to deal with it.

After clenching his palms, the boss of Rossi's gang saw that all the leaders in the room were obviously excited and ready to fight. Many small leaders even looked at Rossi with different eyes.

For gang members, why join up? Isn't it for women and dollars? Showing off is one thing, but over time, the standard of whether a boss is good or not is whether he can take his younger brothers to eat and drink the best food and drink, whether he has money to go to nightclubs, find women and take illegal drugs. All these require money to maintain. Which gang member can stand starving every day?

And Rossi now has the most important ability to be a good boss, which is to make money.

"Rossi, go find the source of black label lighters, find a warehouse, and contact the channels for bulk goods. Let's do some work first!" said the gang leader.

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"We're sorry, we don't accept individual reservations!" Inside Budapest Global Trading Company, a salesperson picked up the phone and spoke in a familiar routine, no, a fixed formula.

"What, you want five hundred thousand Black Label lighters?"

A smile appeared on the salesperson's face. With a 3% commission, if she could make this deal, she would get tens of thousands of dollars. To be honest, what she earned in these few days was more than what she had earned in all these years of work combined!
"I'm sorry, Global Trade does not accept personal orders!"

"Please don't hang up the phone," the salesperson said to the other party in a voice actor-level tone after hearing Rossi's frustrated voice, "If you really want to cooperate with our Global Trading Company, we are willing to provide corresponding assistance!"

"Where are you, Naples?"

The salesperson who answered the phone reached out to the supervisor, who immediately found a document from the materials and handed it to the salesperson.

"What should I call you, Mr. Rossi?"

“Mr. Rossi, although Global Trade has not yet entered the Italian market, we have corresponding partners in Italy. Please contact this number.

No, you don’t need to pay any extra fees. This company will help you register your company throughout the entire process, including paying taxes and other aspects. The costs will be borne by us and it only takes you two hours!

But I’m afraid we can’t help you with the subsequent transportation and warehousing in Naples, you need to solve this problem yourself! ”

Rossi couldn't help but wave his fist when he heard this. "Don't worry about this. I can handle it myself!"

“If you are responsible for the subsequent transportation, storage, and publicity, then our company can supply you with black label lighters at a price of three dollars per lighter, which is 4,500 liras. However, the prerequisite is that you need to pay a one-time fee of more than 500,000 black label lighters. We only accept payment before delivery.

You can come and inspect the goods in person, and after payment, you can pick them up on the spot!"

"make a deal!"

Rossi suppressed his excitement and said that the supply price was even lower than he expected. If it was shipped to Naples and sold at 7,000, 6,000 lire, or even 5,500 lire for a Black Label lighter, he could make a profit of 500,000 or 600,000 US dollars!
At the same time, inside the Budapest Global Trading Company, there were voices congratulating the salesperson who was talking to Rossi.

A single batch of 3 black label lighters was sold. According to the previous agreement, as long as the payment for this batch of goods was received, the salesperson could take out a % commission, which is US dollars!
What is chicken blood, what is wolf culture, what is the whip from the US dollar, there is no need for Gabor, the general manager of Global Trading Company, to urge them, these salesmen will try their best to get orders.

Gabor even forced them to go home and sleep after get off work, for fear that they would work on orders 24 hours a day and die suddenly in the company. Global Trade is now a shell company, and he doesn't want anyone to die.

With the help of an Italian public relations company, Rossi registered a shell company and went straight to Budapest.

After seeing 500,000 boxes of Black Label lighters in the warehouse rented by Global Trading Company, Rossi paid on the spot. After verification by Global Trading Company, Rossi directly brought the money back to Naples through gang channels.

Then the goods were distributed overnight through various channels. In fact, the Bic lighter in Naples is now sold for 7500 lire, and Rossi sells it for lire. There is no situation where it cannot be sold!
As for some places, such as supermarkets, tobacco shops, bars, etc., which have signed contracts with Bick and are unwilling to accept Rossi's goods, what can they do? Can they still expect the gang to reason? Anyway, black label lighters are spreading in Naples at an alarming rate.

At first, the black label was in Naples, but within just two or three days, it began to appear in Milan, Rome and other places.

When a scalper and a gang in the old European Union region started reselling black label lighters, other colleagues soon discovered the tricks. Some dealers of BIC and other lighter brands even turned against them and started selling black label lighters as agents.

Black label lighters have been pouring into the old European Union lighter market at an astonishing speed through various channels. The market was originally regarded as a back garden by several old lighter companies such as BIC, and was impenetrable to mainland domestic lighters!

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In Hanxi, Pingyang Torch Group Industrial Park, the entire industrial park is like boiling water at this moment. Companies producing lighter parts, assembly companies, warehouses, and logistics are all running around the clock. The third phase of the project, which was previously rumored to be suspended, is now under construction day and night, preparing to go into production as quickly as possible.

However, in the headquarters office building of the Inland Lighter Import and Export Association in the Torch Group Industrial Park, the scene is quite different.

"Xinhai Company, you must complete this order of three million black label lighters as soon as possible!"

"Yaohui Company, the quality of your order of two million cigarettes must be guaranteed. If the problem from last time occurs again, don't even think about receiving orders from the Lighter Import and Export Association in the future!"

"Old Liu, your Blue Flame Company must also shoulder the responsibility. This order of one million must be completed within three days!"

(End of this chapter)