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#3 - The dark side of the computer assembly industry

To this, Gao Nian naturally offered some polite words.

Afterward, he gave them a phone number, indicating that if they recommended a friend who hired him as a computer intermediary, Gao Nian would give them a thank-you fee of 50 yuan.

As soon as he finished speaking, Gao Nian saw the eager look in their eyes.

After all, in 2007, 50 yuan was quite a bit of money.

Just a little talking could earn them 50 yuan; anyone who didn't earn tens of thousands a month would be tempted.

So, without further ado, they all said that if they had the opportunity, they would introduce him to clients.

"Gao Nian, you're amazing!"

Gao Peng looked at the two hundred yuan in his hand, his eyes full of admiration for Gao Nian, after all, it was two hundred yuan.

According to what he had heard about the wages in medium and large electronics factories in Dongguan in 2007, which were between 1500 and 3000, this two hundred yuan would take at least two to four days of factory work to earn.

If he worked as an ordinary worker in an ordinary factory, the wage would be even lower than in the medium and large electronics factories, and it would probably take four to six days of work to earn that much.

As a result, in just two hours, they had successfully earned the wages that others had to work two or three days, or even five or six days, to get. The money came too quickly.

"This is the power of knowledge. If you understand knowledge and know how to use it, then you can make big money.

However, although we've made money, the one-year warranty replacement we promised is a very troublesome thing, and we may even have to pay the customer ourselves."

Gao Nian said with a solemn expression.

Speaking of which, there are three channels for returning computer accessories for warranty: the first channel is 'purchase/agent warranty'.

That is, wherever you buy it, you go to whoever you bought it from when it breaks, and then the store forwards the broken computer parts to the computer city agent.

The computer city agent then forwards the broken parts to the provincial agent, and the provincial agent forwards them to the Greater China general agent, and the Greater China general agent returns them to the accessory brand manufacturer.

Completing one cycle like this can easily take half a month to a month, and by the time you get the repaired computer accessories or newly issued computer accessories, two or three months have already passed.

In addition, if the computer store goes out of business, then you can only consider yourself unlucky. If you go to the computer city general agent, they will definitely deny it.

The second channel is 'individual warranty', that is, taking your computer accessories to the corresponding repair outlets for warranty, which is the fastest.

The disadvantage is that some computer accessories simply don't have repair outlets, or there are only a few in the whole country, and you may need to travel across provinces to send them for warranty.

Some computer accessories don't even support national joint warranty, only supporting 'purchase/agent warranty'. You can't even send them for warranty yourself.

The third channel is 'store self-warranty', that is, a computer store claims to offer a certain period of warranty. If there's a problem, you come to me. This is the most unsafe and unreliable.

Because many computer accessories don't have a warranty. Take CPU processors as an example. CPU processors have four sources: front-sealed, back-sealed, boxed, and loose components.

Front-sealed are genuine products, that is, taxes have been paid, they are legal and compliant, and they have an N-year warranty, but the price is the most expensive, after all, you get what you pay for.

Back-sealed represents smuggled goods, which come in through smuggling channels, so naturally they can't have a warranty.

As for the situation of loose components, it is even more complicated. The source may be loose components purchased in large quantities by a certain company or simply components removed from a certain computer.

The upper and lower channels of these loose components are unknown, and their origins are unknown, so naturally there is no warranty.

In addition, the CPU quality in loose components is usually the worst, and the overclocking ability is limited, because the good quality ones have already been picked away by the upstream channels.

And this is just one thing, the CPU processor. In fact, a computer is composed of several major parts, and computer stores will naturally give priority to using the cheapest loose components in order to make money.

Therefore, when a certain computer accessory breaks and it is determined that it cannot be repaired, the computer store will usually find a reason not to admit it, and eventually the matter will be over.

The computer purchased by the father and daughter this time naturally follows the first channel, which is 'purchase/agent warranty'.

If the store where the accessories were purchased goes out of business, then there will be no way to send them for warranty, and the computer city general agents will also deny it.

The only way is to take the broken computer parts and invoices to the corresponding repair outlets of the brand's computer accessories through the 'individual warranty' channel to recover the losses.

But doesn't the round-trip ticket cost money? Doesn't the travel accommodation, food, and drink cost money?

Moreover, the customer can't wait that long. You need to buy an accessory and install it for the customer first, and in the end, you still lose money.

Therefore, don't think that they only earned 200 yuan in two hours. In fact, there will be a lot of trouble afterward.

The best way to reduce this trouble is to have a discerning eye.

To be able to tell in advance which accessories are good and which accessories are bad, select the best quality parts, and ultimately achieve zero returns and warranties!

Of course, Gao Nian admits that he can't do this now. To do this, the 'Computer Assembly and Maintenance' skill must reach at least the master or even grandmaster level.

Thinking like this, Gao Nian became high-spirited instead.

Although it is very difficult to make 'Computer Assembly and Maintenance' reach the master or grandmaster level.

A normal person would have to spend more than ten years in this field, and also have a smart and敏锐 brain to be possible, but he has the Heavenly Dao Reward Diligence system.

The computer industry trends he hears and understands, the computer accessories he sees, touches, and smells, including the experience of computer assembly and use, will all be transformed into corresponding experience points.

This Heavenly Dao Reward Diligence characteristic of hard work being rewarded is equivalent to adding a BUFF of 'monkey version of photographic memory' and 'super understanding ability'.

This is simply a natural-born genius, and also the kind with the 'sword heart is clear' special effect.

Give him the opportunity to practice, and the experience he gains in a month is no exaggeration to be comparable to the gains of others in two or three years.

However, the disadvantage is that experience points cannot be increased when doing repetitive work, or rather, there is an upper limit.

To upgrade, you must learn new knowledge and understand the latest market industry trends, so that you have new insights.

Even because the computer market is constantly changing, with new computer accessories being released every month, you need to keep learning and keep understanding the latest market trends.

Otherwise, over time, your experience gained will not keep up with the current market trends.

The performance is that the experience value of 'Computer Assembly and Maintenance' will continue to drop over time, and the skill level will also continue to drop.

Therefore, under this Heavenly Dao Reward Diligence system, there is no such thing as a permanent certificate. To maintain the skill level, you can only keep learning and keep up with industry trends in real time.

You want to keep assembling computers like playing a game, with experience points increasing like crazy, and then reaching the full level all the way. This is impossible.

I just don't know if a permanent special effect similar to a sixth sense will be rewarded when the skill reaches the full level.

For example, 'discerning eyes', just one look can tell you roughly how the quality of the computer accessory is, and avoid pitfalls in advance.

Shaking his head, Gao Nian looked at Gao Peng next to him and said:

"Gao Peng, let's work harder next, and see if we can get three orders before getting off work in the evening, and then earn 800 yuan a day!"

"Okay!"

Hearing this, Gao Peng excitedly agreed, and then also made up his mind to study hard and keep up with Gao Nian's pace.

Gao Nian nodded in satisfaction when he saw Gao Peng's actions and expressions, and then began to think about the future.

Speaking of which, although the computer intermediary industry is very profitable, in the end, it is about competing for connections, parents, or relationships, not about competing for technology.

For example, if you want to sell computers in a university, you need to spend money to open up channels.

For example, if a customer buys a computer from you and a problem occurs, the customer asks you to come over for repairs, and then the doorman does not allow you, an outsider, to enter the dormitory.

In the end, the customer's evaluation is naturally very poor. When they think of you, they scold and scold, and in the future, others will not dare to buy computers from you.

For example, if you want to promote computers in a university dormitory, the doorman will not let you in at all, and you naturally have no way to make money.

If you want to solve these problems, you still have to rely on money in the end. For example, if you give money to the school leaders to open up channels, then everything will naturally be easy to talk about.

So the world is so helpless. Apart from technological innovation, the competition in the end is often about connections, about parents, and about who is willing to invest money in channels.

In this case, although being a computer intermediary is very profitable, and you can get 200 yuan per order, in reality, it is all hard-earned money.

Therefore, computer intermediary is just a basic starting point, and in the future, you will eventually have to leave this industry.

The next goal should be to focus on building your own complete computer brand, or developing your own computer accessories. These are the real broad roads.

But to do those things, you must have technology and a lot of money. If you have nothing, then be honest and lie low.

Thinking of this, Gao Nian cheered up, and then started looking for customers to promote with Gao Peng.

In this process, he had successes and failures, but the probability of success was still very high.

Because there are indeed a lot of tricks in the computer industry, and when he said those tricks, customers were often frightened and at a loss.

Therefore, Gao Nian's probability of success was still very high.

At 9 pm that day, Gao Nian successfully got 4 orders, one more than expected, and successfully made 1000 yuan a day!

Early the next morning, Gao Nian took Gao Peng out of the rented house early.

Afterward, they found a GG store and designed business cards for each of them, and also printed out a large stack of computer configuration lists with a very high cost-performance ratio.

Each computer hardware configuration on this list had been specially researched and designed, and each configuration could give Gao Nian a profit margin of 200 yuan.

In other words, from now on, Gao Nian's computer brokerage business could be considered to have upgraded from a personalized customization model to the computer configuration list model popular in later generations in various universities.

With the computer configuration list and the business card bearing the title of 'Manager So-and-so,' the subsequent negotiation process became much simpler.

Encouraged by Gao Nian, Gao Peng even successfully negotiated two deals, earning 400 yuan, demonstrating a good marketing talent.

What Gao Nian and Gao Peng didn't know was that their money-making behavior had already attracted the attention of some interested parties.

On just the fourth day, three guys with computer configuration lists and business cards appeared at the entrance of Tianyuan Computer City in Guancheng.

It was one thing for them to copy Gao Nian's computer configuration list, but what was even more infuriating was that when Gao Nian and Gao Peng smiled and walked towards potential customers, they directly stepped in and blocked the customers.

After such blatant customer-snatching behavior happened twice, Gao Peng was immediately enraged, and immediately stepped forward to grab the other party's collar and angrily scolded:

"What do you mean? Why are you deliberately stealing our customers!"

"Heh, is the gate of this Tianyuan Computer City opened by your family? You can't catch up yourself, but you blame others? What kind of logic is that?"

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