Chapter 432 The Initial Stage of the Price War
The chief secretary doesn't understand cars, and he can't understand data errors either.
As for unusual noises or the like, do they prevent the car from running on the road? As long as it can still run and the engine is fine, it's a good car.
Therefore, he was in no hurry to report this matter to Xing Baohua. He would wait until his boss returned before reporting it.
No one can take the car immediately; if they do, the models will lose their jobs. To avoid making the same mistake as the audio equipment tycoon, the car absolutely cannot be sold on the spot.
After much persuasion, the two foreign guests were invited to the back, and other business was instructed to follow up. If they were willing to buy, they could have a dozen or so vehicles; if not, that was fine too, as Luzhong Automobile Factory had no shortage of dealers.
Actually, having too many distributors isn't a good thing, since production capacity is limited and they can't keep up with the demand.
Right now, more than 3,700 vehicles have already been ordered, which is the total for both models. The agents from the desert country and the great America country have placed the most orders.
It seems like their money comes from nowhere; buying a car is as easy as buying cabbage.
Sony Showroom
Kazuo Minami is the manager of this exhibition and also the sales manager for the Central and South Asia region.
They are very confident in making a splash in the home appliance market here, and they brought their latest 29-inch large-screen TVs.
There are even portable CD players, ultra-thin aviation aluminum cassette players, home karaoke boxes with audio systems and CD systems.
The vast majority are home audio-visual systems, and apart from other domestic companies, they have never considered their mainland counterparts as competitors.
Mainland China has a huge demand for imported electrical appliances. If it weren't for the production capacity being insufficient, Sony's sales would be number one in the world.
Judging from the demand, mainland Chinese people have become wealthier, which indicates that the economy has improved and they have a blind pursuit of material things.
Kazuo Minami is very confident in his company's mobile phones, and he will use this trading platform in mainland China to sell his products to the world.
Actually, even without using this platform, you can still sell your goods through your own sales channels.
Coming here is not just about securing orders, but more importantly, about announcing to the outside world that Sony also has a wireless communications business.
As a result, after the opening ceremony, very few visitors came to their area. They might not even see a single person for half a day.
There were so many people at the opening ceremony, where have they all gone now?
He gave some instructions to his employees and then went to the main entrance to check on the crowd. When he got close to the entrance, he noticed that most of the crowd had already gathered there.
Many staff members of the organizing committee were directing the crowd.
Rice!
The people who just came in all went straight for the rice.
He should go and take a look too!
After squeezing through the crowd, I saw the small mobile phone on the counter.
One model comes in five or six colors. Although I haven't had a hands-on look at the actual product, it looks very attractive.
I saw the name DM Note1 White-Collar Elite on the side of the phone.
The name of the mobile phone model represents the target market, and the price of $2,999 surprised Kazuo Minami.
His first thought was: Has the price of rice phones dropped?
Sony's mobile phone business aims to survive by positioning itself between Xiaomi and Motorola, given that both brands' phones are ridiculously expensive.
The price of 2999 is similar to that of Sony, but Minami Kazuo knows that Sony no longer has an advantage.
It's already a step behind in terms of phone design. All I can do is complain about how their own designers could create something so ugly.
Although it has a slight curve, its slender shape resembles a paperweight. If it weren't for the existence of those elite brands like Xiaomi, one might even feel that their own phone is quite elegant, especially that small curve, which has a very curvaceous feel.
Without comparison, there is no harm; now it doesn't feel beautiful anymore.
Then Minami and Kazuo squeezed into the crowd and looked around, and of course they also heard Da Mi shout "yes".
They just didn't pay attention; voice control technology was something Sony had already mastered long ago.
But I couldn't stay calm when I saw that 40-inch LCD TV.
My mind was buzzing, and I kept asking myself, "How is this possible? How is this possible?"
Sharp is known as the world's leading company in LCD technology and is also the company that has made LCD TVs. It has always been pursuing advanced technology in LCD color.
As they were in the same industry, he was aware of Sharp's progress and knew that it could never match the color accuracy of the Xiaomi LCD TV.
Once you see the price, you need to adjust your mindset. It's ridiculously expensive! Do they think consumers around the world are idiots? What fool would buy such an expensive TV?
The player series and the speaker series both look somewhat familiar.
Does each product seem to carry the shadow of Sony? No, there's also Panasonic's.
Looking at the price again, after a moment's thought, I cursed the rice for being shameless.
This is a direct competitor to Sony! It has the same price and design as Sony, and is even cheaper than Sony.
Blatant copying of Sony? That's shameless.
If you say they copied it, the appearance is different. Slight differences wouldn't be considered infringement.
This is skirting the line! Unless we get a prototype and take it apart to see if the internal structure also copied Sony's patents.
But then I thought, if the rice dares to be sold so openly, it must have been bypassed.
He was no longer in the mood to look at it; he needed to report to headquarters immediately and get a solution.
Of course, on the way back to my own showroom, I also ran into a familiar distributor who invited me to come and take a look at Sony's products. Sony has also started making mobile phones.
This South Asian customer came to Sony with Minami Kazuo, but shook his head as soon as he looked at the phone, saying that they had already ordered rice. With limited funds, they wouldn't order from Sony.
Minami Kazuo pulled this South Asian customer aside and asked about the ex-factory price of the rice phone.
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