Emmett looked embarrassed. "There's no precedent for your technical staff to train together, beautiful lady. The technical staff won't agree to this."
Wenwen said to President Gu with a smile, "President Gu, since Mr. Emmett is in such a dilemma, we can go somewhere else."
According to her understanding, in the 1970s, due to the rapid development of industry in the United States, a large number of industrial equipment were eliminated, resulting in many second-hand recycling stations.
Maybe other recycling stations are not as large or comprehensive as this one. At most, you can go to a few more of them. As long as you can save some money, the hard work is worth it.
Seeing them about to leave, Emmett anxiously shouted, "Everything can be discussed. I've reported your request to the technical team, but there won't be an immediate result."
Wenwen said, "In that case, we'll just wait for good news from Mr. Emmett. Also, I want the lowest price. As I said before, these are second-hand goods that have been discarded. If you're selling them at such a high price, I might as well buy new ones. Mr. Emmett, I hope you can be efficient in your work. We look forward to working with you."
President Gu translated and thought to himself, this girl is a sharp person.
He asked, "Should we look at other venues?"
Wenwen looked around. This place was quite far from the city. "President Gu, as far as I know, there are many second-hand markets for equipment in the United States."
President Gu nodded, "That's right, but the other venues are small and don't have many varieties. Emmett has a full range of varieties and the processing procedures are fast."
"It's okay. Our job is to watch more so that we can better understand the market."
Chairman Gu hesitated. "To be honest, Emmett's people aren't that great, but the quality of the used equipment here is guaranteed. People from Hong Kong usually order equipment from him, and his reputation is pretty good."
Wenwen sighed, "We've achieved this scale thanks to the reputation we've built up over time. I understand that, but second-hand equipment is so expensive that I just can't accept it. To be honest, we're short on funds and want to buy affordable and useful equipment."
"Okay, I'll take you to a few more stores so you can compare more."
Over the next two days, President Gu took them to visit many second-hand markets.
They have a general understanding of the prices in the second-hand goods market.
They came to a second-hand TV market and looked at the piles of old TVs and the many dealers buying them. Wenwen asked, "Chairman Gu, is there a big market for used TVs?"
Chairman Gu smiled mysteriously, "There's not much of a market for them in the US, but I've heard from colleagues that they pick out used TVs that aren't too badly damaged, repair them, and then sell them off, mainly to underdeveloped areas."
Wenwen thought, this is a fake TV, just like the fake mobile phones of later generations, it is full of old parts and will break down soon.
There is no shortage of smart and unscrupulous businessmen in any era.
On the third day, Emmett received a call from President Gu and wanted to have a good talk with them.
When they met for the second time, both sides stopped being polite and started bargaining formally.
After spending a few days together, Wenwen understood President Gu's character. He is an upright man.
So this time when she met Emmett, she no longer concealed the fact that she knew English. As soon as she opened her mouth, her standard American English confused Emmett and President Gu.
Emmett felt a little embarrassed. Last time, he had instigated President Gu to raise the price in front of this young lady, and both of them had profited from it.
Chairman Gu whispered, "Mrs. Ding, Miss Wen speaks English better than I do. Why didn't you say anything?"
Mrs. Ding looked at him with a smile. "Wenwen's English teacher is the top leader in the country, the secretary-general next to him. Do you think the secretary-general's students would be bad? Not only is she good at English, she also speaks several other languages."
President Gu was very surprised, but fortunately he had no bad intentions.
Mrs. Ding jokingly said, "President Gu, congratulations on passing the test. You will receive many domestic orders in the future."
President Gu was speechless with a frown on his face.
Emmett and Wenwen were haggling over the price.
Wenwen threw out an order list, which contained all the equipment most needed by the pharmaceutical factory and the General Pharmaceutical Hospital.
Emmett took the list, which listed the equipment for the Pharmaceutical Research Institute: core analyzers, auxiliary equipment and facilities, etc.
Pharmaceutical factory equipment: raw material processing equipment, pill making equipment, laboratory equipment, drying equipment, packaging equipment, etc.
Emmett stared silently at the paper in front of him and asked, "Miss Wen, didn't you say you wanted an instant noodle production line and a skincare product production line that day? You didn't mention these high-end pharmaceutical production equipment."
Wenwen looked at him with a smile, "What we talked about that day was only a small part. Most of them are these high-end production equipment. Mr. Emmett, don't you have any here? I saw a lot of them in other second-hand markets."
Emmett thought to himself, what a cunning little oriental fox. He knew that they had visited all the second-hand markets in the past few days.
Wenwen smiled and took out another order form, "Mr. Emmett, and equipment for producing medical devices."
Emmett took the order form with a troubled look on his face.
Seeing this, Wenwen asked him, "Mr. Emmett, doesn't your country allow the sale and purchase of such equipment?"
Emmett shook his head. "It's just that this kind of equipment is in short supply. I do have a complete production line for medical equipment, but an old customer wanted to keep it for him."
Wenwen was delighted to hear this. She had been looking around in the second-hand market for the past few days, but couldn't find any complete production lines for medical devices.
Wenwen asked calmly, "Did the other party pay the deposit? Or a down payment?"
Emmett shook his head. He was troubled by the lack of a deposit. This production line had too many components and took up a lot of space, but few people bought this high-end equipment.
Wenwen asked, "Mr. Emmett, how much does a complete production line of medical devices cost?"
Emmett shook his head with an embarrassed look on his face. "Dear Miss Wen, I don't know what price to ask. We ordered this medical equipment production line from Germany. As far as I know, the order price at the time was 150,000 taels of silver."
Wenwen was shocked. Fifteen thousand taels of silver is equivalent to about 6 million RMB.
She straightened her face and said, "Mr. Emmett, you said it was the price when you bought it. Now it's a second-hand item that you discarded. Please tell me a fair price."
Emmett said, "Miss Wen, you may not know this, but this equipment wasn't used very long. The company went bankrupt because of internal strife within the family, leaving no one to manage it, leading to the company's closure. So this production line is at least 80% new."
Wenwen was pleasantly surprised. She smiled and said, "Mr. Emmett, I want to buy a large amount of equipment from you. You can take a small cut of your profit and sell it to us. Let's just consider this as making friends and we're looking for future cooperation."
At this time, the phone on Emmett's desk rang. After he picked up the phone, his face looked grim.
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