Perfection of Rebirth

Chapter 715 More and more light powder

Li Guoqing is a digital hipster.

This Li Guoqing is not Li Guoqing, the founder of Dangdang.com, he is the editor-in-chief of a digital magazine located in Wuyang.

For more than ten years in the industry, he has collected countless dolls and digital products, and his greatest hobby is to take his dolls around the world and take photos of the dolls' travel.

Such a person is probably destined to become a fan of Guanghui Mobile.

Because of the convenience of work and personal hobbies, he has used more than [-] mobile phones. For a long time, he changed a mobile phone almost every few months.

"It's unthinkable not to change your phone for three months," he said, though the habit ended abruptly when he got a Gphone.

"There is no way to switch to other models, not because the Gphone is too easy to use as a mobile phone, but because of a completely different concept, or even a different way of life."

Li Guoqing said that last year, Brilliance Mobile also had normal marketing and public relations activities in Tianchao.

Like Gphone, new machines are often lent out to the media for trial use.

In many big cities, there will be many activities from time to time.

He clearly remembered that at the beginning of 2007, there were dense and large Gphone advertisements in the Metro Metro.

At that time, the Brilliance mobile phone was a product that was relatively far away from ordinary consumers in China. Here, Sony from the island country was sought after by more people.

Sony's digital products have been at the forefront of fashion since the launch of the first Walkman, making music portable.

Before becoming a "light fan", Li Guoqing had always been a loyal supporter of Sony. Since the first Walkman in high school, Li Guoqing often paid for Sony's high-priced new products.

He has Sony's DC and DV.The price of the first Sony notebook he bought in the early 21st century was more than 2 yuan, which was four times his monthly salary at that time.

In 2005, he bought Sony TX notebook again, he thought it was very thin, well designed and cool.

In fact, in the Hong Kong and Taiwan areas, because of relatively strong consumption power, stylish Sony products have always had a large number of supporters.

However, in recent years, Sony's influence has been declining, and the sales of Sony products in China are not as popular as Gphone.

Among them, price is naturally a very important factor.

On the issue of pricing, the maverick Jiang Hui and his Brilliant mobile phone are quite sophisticated.

The original Gphone only cost more than 2000 yuan in China, and today’s Gpad can be bought for as little as 3000 yuan.

Such technical products, which are well versed in the psychological price of the middle class, are bound to become popular in this era of globalization.

However, due to various reasons, consumers in China can only quench their thirst through parallel imports for the time being.When this new product came out, there were heated discussions and conjectures around the world. After the product came out, parallel import sales channels were quickly spread to the world, and it has become an indispensable landscape for KF Mobile.

"Do you want the goods? The final Gpad brought back by human flesh yesterday can be bought for only 8888 yuan." A scalper in his early 20s came to Li Guoqing and asked.

The eyes of these scalpers are also very sharp. Seeing Li Guoqing lingering at the door of the Wuyang flagship store of Guanghui Mobile for a few minutes, he immediately approached to talk.

"The domestic price of Gpad announced by Guanghui Mobile is 2999 yuan and 3666 yuan. What kind of model is your 8888 yuan?" Li Guoqing asked.

"Hey, buddy, yes, the price of the Gpad of Guanghui mobile phone in China is only 2999 yuan, which is more than 8888 cheaper than my 5000 yuan, but you have to buy it. You may not know it, but the Gpad sold in the United States is cheaper than mine. It is more expensive in China, but even so, it is hard to find a phone, and I don’t know when Guanghui mobile phone will be launched in China, what’s the use of just announcing a domestic price.” The scalpers probably heard this kind of question a lot, so they quickly Li Guoqing, who retorted cracklingly, was speechless.

Yes, Gpad is more expensive in the United States than in China, and the income is in US dollars. When the supply is in short supply, why is the glory mobile phone in a hurry to get it for sale in China?
"Emotionally, your 8888 yuan is still a low match," Li Guoqing said.

"Hey, there is no [-] high-end ones, so don't even think about it, you can go to other places and ask, there is nothing cheaper than mine," the scalper said a little arrogantly.

"You guys are too dark, it's almost three times the domestic price." Although Li Guoqing can afford a mobile phone worth 1 yuan, it's a bit of a shame to spend 1 yuan on a product that originally only cost a few thousand yuan. I can't get it.

"Brother, if you can get the product at the domestic price announced by Guanghui Mobile, I will double it for you, as much as you want."

"Your products are all genuine products, aren't they high imitations from Huaqiangbei?" Li Guoqing said.

"Are you kidding? Go around and ask around. When did my brother Mao sell fake products? For Gpad, we have developed a human flesh channel from the United States to China. All the goods are brought from the United States. That's why we The reason for the high price. There is a saying that someone does the business of murder, but no one does the business of losing money. Now you understand why the parallel imports we sell are expensive,” said the scalper.

The origin of the term "parallel imports" is that the early smugglers, in order to evade tariffs and other reasons, sealed the goods shipped from abroad with plastic bags, etc., put them into the agreed shallow sea, and then took a small boat from land to the place to transport the goods. take away.

Therefore, it is generally used as a collective term for smuggled goods and products sold through abnormal channels.

In the past, Samsung, Sony Ericsson and Motorola had the most parallel imports of mobile phones in China, while Nokia, the industry leader, did not have many.

It's actually all about profit.

For example, for Samsung mobile phones, the price of parallel imports is only 60% of the price of licensed products. Due to the huge price difference, Samsung parallel imports are very popular and have become the veritable number one parallel import brand.

However, the price difference between Nokia's mobile phone and water is not obvious, generally only around two or three hundred yuan, and the slight price difference is difficult to stimulate consumers' desire to buy, which is why there are very few Nokia parallel imports in the market. .

However, since the launch of Guanghui's Gphone, scalpers have had one more choice for their business.

However, unlike other parallel import businesses, Gphone parallel imports are not popular because they are cheap, but because the market is too short of stock.

Some people who are not short of money really don't want to make a fuss just relying on the supply of domestic specialty stores.

After all, for some people, problems that can be solved with money are not problems.

"Okay, let's take a look at the goods. As long as you are sure it is genuine, it should be more expensive." Li Guoqing, as a digital trendy person, is actually quite aware of the situation in the parallel import market. The price bought a Gpad.

Scalpers can only earn some Gpad money in the past few months, and the business will not be so good in the future.

"Come on, come with me."

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(End of this chapter)