Although the current pager market is as cold as winter, it is about to bloom.
From 1990 until its complete demise in 2002, although the pager only left its brilliance in the sky for more than ten years like a shooting star, even in this short period of time, it created remarkable brilliance.
How many people have made their first fortune from it and started a brilliant life.
If you want to get rich, work in paging was a slogan that was popular in Shenzhen for a long time.
A story was widely circulated in the industry at the time: a farmer opened the first paging station in Nanshan District, Shenzhen, and it became an instant hit. The next year, he upgraded his bicycle to a Mercedes-Benz!
Many paging station owners, after working for a few years, naturally entered the pager manufacturing industry, producing pagers, VCDs, DVDs, MP3s, and later assembled and produced "black phones."
Some of them even became figures on the rich list in later generations.
The quality of the Tongbao brand pager developed by Shenzhen Tongbao Company in 1993 has reached the level of similar foreign brand products, and 70% of its products are exported to Europe, the United States and other places.
If Gu Hongzhong wants to crack the mobile phone, he might as well crack this little thing first.
This thing is much simpler than a mobile phone.
Wan Feng estimates that it will take a year to complete the cycle from mold creation, parts procurement, trial production and sales.
Pagers are produced and sold through advertising and Wowhou collections.
Once the pager is available, let Zhang Xuan open another paging station in Hongya or even Bohai. We don’t need to focus on the long term, as long as we can continue the glory of the pager in recent years.
These few years were enough for Zhang Xuan to make her second pot of gold.
Her garment factory had earned her her first million, and the pager was enough to earn her her first ten million.
When the pager business failed, Zhang Xuan also accumulated experience in this industry, and then naturally entered the mobile phone and other electronic markets.
Not bad, not bad, that’s decided.
Anyway, Zhang Xuan is his wife, so he shouldn’t let her take advantage of him.
Oh no! It seems that allowing individuals to operate paging stations was not possible until after 1992, so it's not possible yet.
We have to think of a way.
Wan Feng thought about it and it didn't seem to be a difficult task. He could just go back and find a state-owned unit in Hongya to join.
Although the diesel engine factory was contracted, it was still state-owned and it was under its jurisdiction.
Wan Feng never thought that before he even bought the pager, he had already arranged for Zhang Xuan's business.
A few minutes later, the girl who made the call came back and excitedly told Wan Feng that her boss would be here soon.
Sure enough, more than ten minutes later, a man in his thirties who was rapidly balding came running over.
This guy is so angry that he doesn't even wear a hat. Wan Feng feels cold for him.
"Boss, these are the people who want to buy pagers."
The bald boss looked around at Wan Feng and his group with a smile, and finally his eyes fell on Yang Jianguo.
He thought Yang Jianguo was the one who had the final say, but he didn't know that the guy in front of him who looked extremely unreliable was the boss of this group.
But this also proves from one aspect that Wanfeng's packaging is successful.
"How many pagers are you going to buy?"
"Ten!" Wan Feng answered directly.
The bald boss looked at Wan Feng in confusion.
I don't understand this. Does the boss have to personally take care of such a small matter as buying a pager? His subordinates just did it directly.
"How much of a discount can you give on ten pagers?"
"Normally, we don't offer discounts on pagers, because..."
"Boss! Let's not beat around the bush. We're on a tight deadline. Just tell us the maximum discount you can offer."
"The most I can give you is a discount of twenty yuan per unit."
Twenty yuan, which basically means no discount.
The price of electronic products is very deceptive. How can this boss have the nerve to ask for that?
"Fourteen thousand. I'll take ten. The network access fee is exactly one cent less. I'll pay the service fee for each unit in one lump sum for six months."
Anyway, this thing is used frequently, and it is too troublesome to pay it month by month, so Wan Feng simply plans to pay for it for half a year.
"Oh, little brother! You're cutting the price too hard. We're a state-owned enterprise, so even if the price is a little inflated, it's not this drastic."
Come on, those stores are state-owned and they sell things at a very high price, otherwise they wouldn't be bankrupt.
Wan Feng clearly remembers mahjong tiles. When individuals sold a set of the same tiles for sixty or seventy yuan, the price in department stores was still one hundred and eighty yuan per set.
And electronic products are even more uncertain.
"We don't have time to haggle with you on price. How about this? I'll buy ten machines at your listed price, but you have to give me one as a gift. Is that okay? If you agree, it's a deal. Otherwise, we won't buy them."
Wan Feng couldn't believe that such a bleak business would let go of such a big client like him.
These ten pagers might be enough for him to sell for half a month, plus the network fee and service fee, which would be 7,000 to 8,000 yuan.
"Are you sure you'll pay the six-month service fee?"
The service fee for one machine for half a year is 720 yuan, so for ten machines it would be 7,200 yuan.
That means making less profit on the machine itself, but making it back in service fees and network access fees.
"Of course, but not all of them. Pay for nine, and you don't have to pay for the other two."
The other two Wanfeng machines were intended to be taken back and handed over to Gu Hongzhong for cracking, so of course there was no need to pay for network access.
The bald boss was still pretending to hesitate, which Wan Feng said was just acting.
I'm telling you, there are quite a few people in our company who need this thing, and our business clients will definitely get one if they see us using pagers. If you can make a good deal this time, I might be able to bring you a lot of business in the future."
"Then it's settled, Xiao Ma! Let's get them tickets from the machine and sign up for the network."
After the boss gave his instructions, he went to calculate the money.
"I only want Motorola, not Panasonic." Wan Feng reminded the girl when she took the machine.
The girl took out eleven unopened small boxes from under the counter and opened them one by one for Wan Feng to check the machines inside.
"Boss! Have you figured it out? How much is it?"
"Let's do the math. Look, eleven machines are sixteen thousand yuan, nine machines are nine hundred yuan to join the network, and six months of service fees are six thousand four hundred and eighty yuan. The total is twenty-three thousand three hundred and eighty yuan."
"Boss! The payment has been made." Wan Feng shouted to the back.
Han Guangjia took out the bag that was stuck under his armpit.
"A total of twenty-three thousand three hundred and eighty yuan."
Han Guangjia opened the bag, took out two bundles of the Big Four, then counted out three thousand three hundred and eighty yuan and handed it to Wan Feng.
Wan Feng counted them quickly and handed them to the bald boss.
The bald boss also counted it again. After finding no mistakes, he collected the money and issued an invoice to Wan Feng. He then handed the pager and nine numbers to Wan Feng.
"If all goes well, these machines will be operational tomorrow morning. Here are the numbers. You can assign them to yourselves."
Wan Feng put the pager in a plastic bag and said goodbye to the bald boss.
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