Unfortunately...
Bai Lu actually guessed correctly.
Some of the appliances that arrived at Xiao Cheng's store a few days ago have malfunctioned. When he called the manufacturer, the number was not in service, and both the appliance factory and the owner had disappeared.
Fortunately, Xiao Cheng has never trusted outsiders, and even his business partners did not pay much in deposit.
After inspecting the goods and discovering that the first television set was defective, the remaining payment was not made.
Despite it being a minor issue and not requiring a return, and despite the manufacturer's finance department pressuring him relentlessly, Xiao Cheng remained unmoved.
Unable to detect the problem using conventional methods, Xiao Cheng used his own methods to delve into the interior of the electrical appliances for inspection. After the inspection, he discovered that other electrical appliances also had hidden faults.
By then, the manufacturer's finance department had stopped calling to urge Xiao Cheng to pay the final payment, because he was no longer there.
Xiao Cheng found out so quickly that the factory was deserted because during his last trip to Guangdong Province, he had not only contacted one electronics factory, but also looked into other electronics factories.
He also left his phone number. When he couldn't reach the cooperating manufacturer, Xiao Cheng contacted an electrical appliance factory in the same city. He used the cooperation as a pretext to discuss the cooperation while learning about the old manufacturer's situation.
The former factory owner had a conflict with the government officials, and began planning to flee ten days before the factory was shut down.
The latest shipments are all returned goods for repair; they are repackaged and shipped as new.
Minor problems are easily fixed, while major problems are handled covertly using familiar methods, and are covered up for a few days without causing any issues.
By now, with frequent malfunctions that can no longer be concealed, and distributors coming to the door, it's too late.
The electronics factory is deserted, and the authorities can't find anyone there. What can we do but accept our bad luck?
Fortunately, Xiao Cheng wasn't the most unlucky one.
Xiao Cheng and Zhang San and Li Si can fix minor problems, but there are only five TVs with major problems.
Even if the final payment isn't made and those five TVs are ruined, there are other good appliances and TVs that can be sold to make up for the loss. We can use the good ones to offset the bad ones, so we'll only lose about five or six hundred yuan.
No one's first business venture is smooth sailing; you always have to suffer some losses to accumulate experience in overcoming obstacles.
Aunt Bailu's entrepreneurial experience is the most obvious example. Only by experiencing failure and setbacks and turning defeat into victory can one secure a place at the top of the business world.
Bai Lu admired Xiao Cheng's decisiveness in switching to a new manufacturer and his rationality in not wasting time pursuing the old manufacturer who had absconded.
However, he did not appreciate the plan he was about to sell those five television sets as scrap metal.
Selling the scrap metal would only yield a loss of five or six hundred yuan, but if repaired and sold, the five television sets, given their size, could net a profit of tens of thousands of yuan on the secondhand market.
"It might be a problem with the motherboard. Why don't you take the TV home first, and we can take a look together?" Bai Lu didn't want to miss this opportunity to make tens of thousands of yuan in profit.
Even if the chances are slim, maybe if we try a few different methods, a miracle will happen.
This ten-thousand-yuan miracle, if applied to a traditional Chinese villa, would definitely make it even more beautiful!
Xiao Cheng can fix problems such as unsoldered motherboards, insufficient solder, loose wires, and incorrect wiring inside TVs. He has also taught Zhang San and Li Si how to fix them. Customers can directly contact Zhang San and Li Si for any problems with their TVs.
The three had already inspected the five faulty television sets and concluded that there was no chance of saving them.
But after hearing Bai Lu say, "Let's study it together," Xiao Cheng didn't hesitate at all and had Zhang San bring over the five faulty television sets.
Let's study it together.
Zhang San put down the TV and, upon hearing Bai Lu's words, sincerely said, "Sister-in-law, we've been studying these five TVs for days, but they're beyond saving."
"One TV screen would occasionally flicker, another would go black, and another would have vertical stripes appearing in the middle, which would appear more and more the longer you watched it, until the last half hour when the screen was covered with colored lines... and two other TVs would frequently shut down automatically."
“We’ve checked all the signal lines and found nothing wrong. We’ve also checked the solder joints on the circuit board. We’ve added solder to the ones that were missing solder, re-soldered the ones that were cold, and reorganized the internal wiring, but the result is still the same and there’s no improvement.”
That sounds a bit serious.
The situation was even worse after the TV was disassembled.
Between the three large circuit boards and the two speakers, a tangled mess of wires and connectors made Bai Lu dizzy, wondering if the motherboard was burnt out.
In her later life, Bai Lu visited a physical factory with her aunt and witnessed the production process of LCD TVs.
The structure of an LCD TV is very simple: a display screen, a main board that integrates all the circuits, two small speakers, and a few wires from the main board that connect to the button board and the remote control board.
The casing is thin and light, and the wiring is clear and easy to see at a glance, unlike the complicated design of old-fashioned televisions.
A complete mess.
Zhang San watched as Bai Lu and Xiao Cheng, holding test pens, used professional techniques to poke and probe inside the disassembled television set, checking the wiring, soldering, and picture tube.
I was so shocked I was speechless.
Half of them were shocked that Bailu could repair televisions.
Half of them were shocked that Xiao Cheng still let Bai Lu touch the television, which was clearly beyond repair and practically scrap metal.
Isn't the tycoon afraid that his young wife will get electrocuted?
Even those who can repair TVs can get electrocuted. Sometimes, if you accidentally touch the wrong spot, the circuit board will suddenly malfunction, and the current can make a flashlight that you can't retract in time start smoking.
A TV cannot be tested without being plugged in, and without testing, we cannot know where the problem is. To determine where the problem is, we must plug it in for testing, but plugging it in would be dangerous.
Zhang San couldn't understand why the powerful man would risk electrocution with his young wife to do something so meaningless.
However, the big boss didn't need him to understand and directly told him to go back to the shop: "Go back to mind the shop."
Zhang San promptly agreed and left.
The big boss wants to play with scrap metal with his young wife to strengthen their relationship, so he'd better not interfere.
Since the TV is beyond repair, that's the worst-case scenario. If it gets any worse, we can just throw it away.
Anyway, the big boss isn't short of money from selling scrap metal. Repairing scrap metal can enhance the relationship, which is the biggest contribution the broken TV can make before it dies.
Bai Lu only went to the LCD TV factory with her aunt, watched the manufacturing process of LCD TVs, and visited the repair department. She did not specifically learn how to repair TVs.
I'm not an expert in TV repair, but I know a little about the repair principles. I practiced on my large-screen TV at home, and after many attempts, I finally managed to fix it.
After several attempts, it was finally fixed.
It's somewhat like trying to revive a dead horse by desperate measures.
Put the complicated ones aside for now, and Bai Lu will start by fixing the seemingly simple ones. She asked Xiao Cheng for his opinion: "The problem with this distorted screen is probably a faulty picture tube. There are no soldering issues with the solder joints, and you've already checked the circuitry and found no problems."
"Should we try replacing it with another TV picture tube and see if that works?"
A cathode ray tube (CRT) is the screen of an old-fashioned television set; it is very large and has intricate wiring.
Xiao Cheng only inspected the original television set for potential problems, but did not replace the entire picture tube.
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