Knowing the reason, Jack Ma stopped worrying about Lin Chen not inviting him to compete for market share.
Lin Chen orchestrated this whole thing from beginning to end, so there's no reason to include him when it comes to the final cake-eating ceremony.
However, could I take advantage of Lashou.com's lack of funds to do something and grab some market share?
Honestly, if Lin Chen can do it, there's no reason why I can't.
So, Jack Ma also asked the head of the ground promotion team to follow Lin Chen's example and go find those merchants who had been eliminated due to Lashou.com's latest subsidy policy.
The person in charge of the field promotion went there excitedly and returned with the signed contracts very smoothly.
It took almost no effort; the other party agreed as soon as I asked.
Ah... I thought it would take a lot of effort.
When the person in charge of Koubei.com's ground promotion reported this situation to Jack Ma, Jack Ma was also taken aback for a moment, but he immediately figured it out and burst into laughter.
"Haha, these people are very pragmatic. They know that Meituan has no future, so joining Koubei.com is the right thing to do. Not bad, not bad."
If Lin Chen knew what Jack Ma had done, he would be speechless to the point of twitching at the corner of his mouth.
Because... the merchants that Jack Ma signed with were the ones he hadn't chosen yet.
When he told Wang Xing before, he said that he should choose those truly high-quality merchants.
After investigation, Wang Xing discovered that some merchants were paying people to artificially inflate their sales volume and positive reviews in order to attract more consumers to participate in group buying.
This time, we happened to meet Lashou.com's evaluation criteria, so we were fortunate enough to receive the subsidy.
Some honest and reliable businesses, despite meeting the standards for both food and service, lack marketing and advertising skills, resulting in low sales volume and their elimination by Lashou.com.
Then, Lin Chen picked out the honest and law-abiding merchants, and Ma Yun picked out the rest.
When the marketing director of Lashou.com heard from his subordinates that another merchant had been poached, he was so angry that he smashed his newly bought Xiaomi phone.
"Damn it, Lin Chen, I'll never forgive you! I'll never buy a Xiaomi phone again!"
"Ahem, Director, this time they were poached by Koubei.com..."
The marketing director quickly went over, picked up the newly purchased Xiaomi phone, and blew the dust off the screen.
"Look, this Xiaomi phone is really sturdy. I'll definitely buy Xiaomi phones again from now on."
"..."
Wu Bo was furious. Lin Chen was stealing his business, and now Jack Ma wants to join in? Then let's fight!
If I can't beat Meituan, can't I beat Koubei?
Fortunately, with so many merchants poached, the subsidies have become more abundant.
"Go, snatch up the top-rated merchants on Koubei.com, sign confidentiality agreements with them, and double their subsidies!"
"Okay, Mr. Wu."
The marketing director responded loudly, took the order, and left.
Soon, Jack Ma received news that several high-quality merchants had been poached by Lashou.com. Just as he was preparing to spend money to win them back, another piece of bad news came.
The operations director of Koubei.com ran into Jack Ma's office and shouted.
"Mr. Ma, something bad has happened. Our Koubei.com website has suddenly received a lot of complaints, saying that our group-buying merchants are selling inferior products and providing terrible service."
"Have you found out which businesses are involved?"
"We've found out everything; they were all poached from Lashou.com."
"What?! Wasn't it said that those merchants were forced to reduce subsidies because Lashou.com wanted to balance the subsidies? And didn't Meituan also poach a group of them? Is there such a thing with Meituan?"
"Meituan... doesn't seem to have it."
"Then why are we the only ones who have it?"
"this……"
"What the hell? Go investigate right now!" Jack Ma roared.
"Yes, yes, I'll go right away!"
"Wait, come back!"
"Mr. Ma, is there anything else you need to explain?"
"Go and poach those merchants that were poached by Lashou.com and bring them back to me."
"Mr. Ma, they must have been poached by Lashou.com with high-priced subsidies. If we try to bring them back, we'll suffer huge losses."
"We have to dig it back no matter the cost! This isn't just about money, it's about saving face!"
"Okay, Mr. Ma, I understand."
The operations director of Koubei.com immediately went to find out what was going on.
After some investigation, the truth of the matter was finally clarified.
It turns out that the merchants poached by Koubei.com had all engaged in order-faking before, which explains why they could sell inferior goods and provide terrible service, yet still have high sales volumes.
Because they hired people to place all the orders themselves!
As for those merchants poached by Lashou.com, Koubei.com's operations director increased the subsidies fourfold, and only two or three were willing to return to Koubei.com.
Several other merchants were initially attracted by Lashou.com's generous subsidies, but after joining, they discovered that Koubei.com was still too small.
Lashou truly lives up to its name as the former king of group buying. It has a huge user base, and its transaction volume is skyrocketing. Compared to that, the subsidies are not that important.
Jack Ma must be furious; he's tried to steal a chicken but ended up losing the rice instead.
But there's nowhere to vent this anger. You can't blame Lin Chen, can you? Lin Chen just didn't take you out to play, and he didn't ask you to sign with those businesses.
You can't blame Wu Bo, can you? You went to poach merchants from Lashou.com, but in the end you blame the merchants on Lashou.com for being of poor quality.
But it's really uncomfortable to hold my breath like this.
Jack Ma slammed his hand on the table.
"It's all your fault, Koubei.com's operations director! Why didn't you investigate thoroughly before signing those merchants? Why didn't you improve the benefits for your top merchants, leading to their poaching? Your bonus for this year is gone! Not a single penny!"
"No, Mr. Ma, how can you blame me for this?"
"If it's not your fault, who is? Me?"
"I……"
The operations director of Koubei.com felt like he had a huge iron pot on his head, but he had no evidence.
Lin Chen chuckled upon hearing the news.
"Mr. Zhang, we have a job coming in."
"Um?"
"I bet Lashou.com spent a lot of money to poach these merchants from Koubei.com, but they definitely won't make it public, so let's just be their mouthpieces for once."
"But Mr. Lin, we don't know what price Lashou.com paid."
"It is precisely because we do not know that we can guess with confidence."
"Guess?"
"Yeah, guess whatever, like double or triple, as long as we make Lashou.com's own merchants feel the difference in subsidies and start fighting, then we've achieved our goal."
“Wonderful, Mr. Lin, you really are ruthless... no, I mean quick-witted.”
Lin Chen was speechless. He glanced at Zhang Yiming, silently reducing Zhang Yiming's year-end bonus by 100,000 yuan in his mind, before continuing.
"Once the merchants on Lashou.com start fighting amongst themselves, we'll take advantage of the chaos and try again to reach out to the truly high-quality merchants and poach them from Meituan."
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