Chapter 218 Market
If it were someone else, Zhang Yuanzhi would not have mentioned these things, but since it was the person Su Hong brought here personally, Zhang Yuanzhi still took it to heart.
"Isn't that kind of fabric produced here?"
Zhao Yi was a little curious.
The fabrics available in the region nowadays are not as strong as work cloth and Dacron. If such fabrics can be made into ready-made clothes, there will still be a large market in the region.
"We have just started to make contact here. It will take at least two years to build a factory for production. However, we also have this kind of fabric here. It is 10 cents per foot more expensive than over there."
Zhang Yuanzhi and Zhao Yi talked and chatted.
Soon we arrived at an open-air market where people were reselling goods from Hong Kong. Now the two sides have started to connect with each other in business, and those who had fled there before can now return home to visit their families.
Those who are smart will bring some reasonably priced goods that are suitable for the local market and ask their relatives to try to sell them. If it works, a complete business chain can be formed.
As time went by, a market was formed here.
All the shops are built of wooden or bamboo houses.
A fishing boat had just docked not far away, and baskets of fish were unloaded from the boat. People on the shore began to choose, and the sound of bargaining was very lively.
Zhao Yi, Zhang Jing and Zhang Yuanzhi walked on the street in the middle of the shops, looking at the goods on both sides.
Some of the clothes in the clothing stores here are actually from Hong Kong, which makes Zhao Yi a little curious, but just curious.
"How much is a card like this?"
Zhao Yi stopped at the door of a shop, picked up a hairpin and asked.
Zhang Yuanzhi immediately helped translate.
"One cent and twenty each."
Zhao Yi looked at the hairpin in his hand. It was sold for 1.2 cents here, and 30 to 40 cents each in other regions. Such a novel hairpin was not available in other regions.
But the profit is too low.
Seeing Zhao Yi and his group were about to leave, the boss came out and looked at the merchandise in the store, grabbed Zhao Yi, took out an electronic watch from his pocket, and muttered something inaudible.
"Brother Yi, this comrade is saying, do you think you like this Xiangjiang electronic watch? The price of one is only 15 yuan."
Zhao Yi glanced at the boss, who was a little proud at the moment, thinking that Zhao Yi was frightened by the electronic watch in his hand. Such watches were rarely seen in the special economic zones.
Comrades coming from inland areas rarely see it.
"Comrade Zhang, ask him if he can sell it for ten yuan a piece. I want more, at least a hundred yuan of this kind of watch."
Zhao Yi said.
Hearing what Zhao Yi said, Zhang Yuanzhi glanced at Zhao Yi.
Zhang Yuanzhi knew about electronic watches, but he bought a few last time and took them to Kyoto to give to his relatives' children. Those people loved them so much that they asked people to ask around and wanted to buy them at high prices.
He had also encountered it when he was on a business trip to Shan City. When he heard that it was only 20 yuan each, he bought two.
Now when I hear the boss selling something for ten yuan a piece, I feel like I was cheated last year. But no matter how cheap such products are, it is impossible to buy them for ten yuan.
But he was just responsible for translation, so he could say whatever Zhao Yi said, although he felt that the boss would not lower the price.
"How much?"
The boss didn't get angry when he heard the ten dollars. Instead, he looked at Zhang Yuanzhi and asked.
"One hundred dollars."
Zhang Yuanzhi repeated it again.
"OK."
Hearing this word, Zhang Yuanzhi felt that he was being cheated. He spent twenty yuan on a ten-yuan item and thought he had made a profit. He gave it to his relatives and they treasured it so much.
"By the way, Comrade Zhang, can you help me ask if he has any color TVs with the required documents?"
Zhao Yi looked at Zhang Yuanzhi again and said.
"There are color TVs with qualified documents, but they are quite expensive, at least 1,500 yuan per set."
"Do you have any documents from the customs comrades?"
"have."
As the two of them asked and answered questions, Zhang Yuanzhi soon gave Zhao Yi the answer.
"One thousand yuan each, Brother Yi, do you want to buy one and take it home to watch?"
Zhang Yuanzhi asked with a smile.
Zhao Yi shook his head. There were some things that Zhang Yuanzhi couldn't know. Zhao Yi certainly wouldn't buy them. Such things were best known only to himself.
"Just curious."
Zhao Yi smiled and said.
I walked around the market with Zhang Yuanzhi again and looked at the tape recorders brought from Hong Kong.
Seeing Zhao Yi staring at the tape recorder at the door of the shop in a daze, Zhang Yuanzhi didn't know what Zhao Yi was thinking. If it weren't for what happened just now, Zhang Yuanzhi would definitely think that Zhao Yi was a country bumpkin who had never seen the world.
Most of the devices on the market now are radios or tape recorders, but the tape recorder market is not as big as the radio market.
However, this type of tape recorder is a combination of the two. It is currently very rare in the mainland market and is relatively expensive.
"Comrade, how much is this tape recorder?"
Knowing what Zhao Yi wanted to ask, Zhang Yuanzhi stepped forward to help inquire about the price.
"The price of one is at least two hundred and thirty dollars."
The boss said with a smile.
"How low can one hundred units go?"
Zhang Yuanzhi asked immediately without Zhao Yi's reminder.
"One hundred and three."
The boss thought for a moment and said.
Zhang Yuanzhi felt like vomiting blood when he heard this. What the hell is this direct price reduction of 100 yuan? Is it a sin to buy one?
"Boss, why does one unit cost 230, but 100 units only cost 130?"
Zhang Yuanzhi found that after following Zhao Yi around today, he felt that he was being taken advantage of for all the things he bought.
"One hundred units means they are stable customers. They don't buy them to listen to themselves. They come back after they sell out. Without enough profit, who would go back and forth for a long time without eating or sleeping well? People who buy one will not come back again. Who buys home appliances every day?"
The boss did not hide it. He said that business is not charity. Since the order is large, he must be doing it to make money. He can still make a profit of 30 yuan even if he sells one unit for 130 yuan.
I can only get two orders at most in this shop a month. It’s better to sell it wholesale to vendors.
Zhang Yuanzhi was very angry when he heard what the boss said, but he didn't get angry because he didn't buy these things here.
Zhao Yi did not place an order immediately, but continued to walk around.
It is still early to leave the special economic zone, so it will not do any harm to walk around and learn more about the prices of these goods.
By noon, Zhao Yi had a preliminary understanding of the market here.
Several people walked back to the guesthouse.
"Do you need to go out for a walk this afternoon?"
Zhang Yuanzhi looked at Zhao Yi and asked.
Zhang Jing didn't want to go out for a walk. This place was not as prosperous as East City. She basically finished walking around in the morning. She thought it was a big city with many opportunities as Su Hong said, but the actual situation was similar to Shanyang County.
On the contrary, the products are more diverse, cheaper and more novel than those in other regions. Such products will definitely be popular in the region.
"Comrade Zhang, can you teach me the dialect here?"
Zhao Yi looked at Zhang Yuanzhi and asked.
"That's no problem, but you might be a slow learner, Brother Yi."
Zhang Yuanzhi was not unwilling to learn.
"It's okay, as long as you can communicate in some simple ways."
Zhao Yi smiled.
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