The next day, Lin Chen and the other three left the hotel together and went to the furniture market.
The fat guy and Senior Sister Yan didn't question Lin Chen's coming out of the young lady's room at all; everything seemed so natural.
Lin Chen was happy, but Wu Bo and Ma Yun were completely dumbfounded.
Wu Bo launched the "Good Friends Program," while Jack Ma launched the "Good Friends Reverse Attraction Program."
It was thought that a group-buying war between Lashou and Koubei was about to break out.
As a result, all the merchants were watching Meituan's moves and decided to remain silent until Meituan did.
Jack Ma was stunned. It costs 20,000 yuan to recruit one person, guys. Why are you looking at Meituan? Can Lin Chen offer an even higher price?
Wu Bo was also dumbfounded. He was prepared to continue paying more money and fight Koubei.com to the death, but the merchants didn't respond. So what was the point of paying more money?
In the end, it was Jack Ma who couldn't sit still any longer. He got anxious and made a phone call to Lin Chen.
"Mr. Lin, what are you busy with?"
"Oh? Mr. Ma, I'm buying a sofa."
"Huh? A sofa?"
"Yes, I just bought a house and some furniture."
Jack Ma looked speechless. "I'm at war here, can't you be serious for once?!"
"Hey, congratulations Mr. Lin on moving to your new home!"
"You're too kind, Mr. Ma. Is there anything I can help you with?"
"Mr. Lin, don't you know about the talent poaching war between Koubei.com and Lashou.com these past few days?"
"Oh? Is that so? Mr. Ma, you've won and come to share your joy with me?"
"I would love to win, but I've got all my ammunition ready, and because of you, I can't fight?"
"Huh? Because of me? I haven't done anything these past two days, don't accuse me wrongly."
"It's because you didn't do anything that this situation has arisen. Koubei.com and Lashou.com were ready to go all out, but the merchants said, 'Wait a minute, there's still one merchant who hasn't arrived yet.' That one they were referring to was Meituan."
"Ah... Mr. Ma, you guys go ahead and do your thing, I really don't have time lately."
"No way. Lashou.com poached so many customers from me last time. I'm going to get my revenge this time. Mr. Lin, can you please help me out? Have Meituan issue a statement saying that due to recent business adjustments, they will not participate in this poaching war."
"Mr. Ma, are you alright? How can you talk about poaching people like this?"
Jack Ma thought about it and agreed. It's best to keep this to yourself. If you bring it up in public, you might get summoned for questioning because it disrupts the normal operation of the market.
"Then Mr. Lin, what do you suggest we do? We're allies, you have to help me."
"Mr. Ma, I dare not call myself an ally. You just signed a performance-based agreement with me not long ago. Humph, I get angry just thinking about that agreement."
Jack Ma was speechless. He later investigated and found that Lin Chen had made a fortune that time. He paid for it himself, but not only did Koubei.com not gain any market share, it also gave Pinduoduo a lot of market share. In the end, Lin Chen even scolded him for being unethical.
Where exactly did things go wrong? Lin Gou, don't you have any self-awareness?
They still have the nerve to bring up a performance-based agreement.
Sure enough, shamelessness is invincible. If someone is not only shameless but also incredibly despicable, then they can be described as "invincible below the level of immortals, and one for one above the level of immortals."
But now I'm the one who needs their help, so I have no choice but to swallow this insult, no matter how hard it is to bear.
"Hey, everything before was a misunderstanding, Mr. Lin. We agreed to work together to deal with Lashou.com."
"Alright, since you put it that way, Mr. Ma, then I'll help you out. What's the current policy between the two sides?"
"Lashou.com took the initiative and subsidized each company with 10,000 yuan. Our current policy is to subsidize each company with 20,000 yuan."
"Mr. Ma, you're quite wealthy. How about this, I'll join in and subsidize each company with 10,000 yuan. Is that alright?"
When Jack Ma heard this, he thought Lin Chen was really generous. Lashou and Meituan were both subsidizing each other with 10,000 yuan, while Koubei was only subsidizing 20,000 yuan. There was no need to choose, even a fool would choose Koubei.
"Thank you very much, Mr. Lin. Come to Hangzhou for tea another day."
Soon, the person in charge of Koubei.com rushed into Jack Ma's office.
"Mr. Ma, Meituan has also issued an announcement. Like Lashou.com, they will only subsidize 10,000 yuan per company."
"Yes, I already know. I asked Lin Chen to do it."
"Mr. Ma is amazing. Although Lin Chen is quite capable, he's still a bit like a fish trying to swim in front of you."
Jack Ma's lips twitched. "Trying to teach a fish to swim?" he thought. "I just got swindled out of 120 million by that bastard."
"Ahem, let's proceed as planned."
"Okay, Mr. Ma, I'll arrange it right away."
So, Koubei.com's ground sales team went to visit each of Koubei.com's merchants again.
"Mr. Wang, did you see the announcement from Meituan? They're only subsidizing 10,000 yuan. Aren't we Koubei.com the most generous?"
"Mr. Song, have you seen the announcement Meituan posted?..."
The Koubei.com ground promotion staff thought this job would be easy. After all, who wouldn't want to earn more money? They would get 10,000 yuan for each person they recruited, and 100,000 yuan for ten people. This was much faster than working hard to open a business.
But after three days, they found that they had not made any progress and had only managed to recruit a handful of merchants, which left them puzzled.
What exactly went wrong?
The head of the ground promotion team rushed to the office of the operations director of Koubei.com to report the situation.
The operations director of Koubei.com was also completely baffled, but this time he was smarter and didn't immediately go to report to Jack Ma.
Otherwise, I'll definitely get a scolding from Jack Ma again. I should find out what's going on first.
He took two packs of cigarettes from his desk and handed them to the head of the field promotion team.
"Go find some familiar merchants, send them two cartons of cigarettes, and find out what's wrong with them not wanting to come to our Koubei.com."
The team leader returned to the ground promotion team with two packs of cigarettes, then called over a capable team member and handed him a pack of cigarettes.
"Go find a few familiar merchants, send them a pack of cigarettes, and find out what's wrong with them not wanting to come to our Koubei.com."
The team member took the cigarettes, returned to his workstation, thought for a moment, then broke the pack of cigarettes, took out two packs and put them on the table, hiding the rest.
Then, he called over a newly arrived intern and handed him two packets of cigarettes.
"Go find a merchant you know well, give them two packs of cigarettes, and find out what's wrong with them not wanting to come to our Koubei.com."
The intern left with two packets of cigarettes.
It just so happens that he actually knows a merchant he's quite familiar with.
So he went to the shop and handed the merchant a pack of cigarettes.
"Hey bro, can I ask you something?"
The shopkeeper glanced at it and saw that it was a pack of cigarettes. However, he knew that the other party was an intern with a monthly internship salary of only two thousand yuan. It was already quite polite of him to give him a pack of cigarettes.
He put the cigarette in his pocket and asked with a smile, "Okay, go ahead and ask, little brother, what's up?"
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