Chapter 464: Top up your phone bill and get a free phone
Yang Shuan and Guo Zihang showed playful expressions, walked into the house and walked to the kitchen door, put the mutton and roast chicken they brought into the refrigerator, turned around and sat on the chairs.
Jiang Qin had finished his meal, put his chopsticks on the empty plate, and looked up at his two adopted sons and godsons: "Old Guo, do you like washing dishes?"
Guo Zihang: “…”
"What about Shuan, do you like washing dishes?"
The corner of Yang Shuan's mouth twitched: "Uncle, take your time, we are waiting for you."
Jiang Qin couldn't help but frowned: "I've already told you that coming to my uncle's house is like coming to your own home, why are you always so polite?"
"Be more polite. After all, we are not relatives, right, Lao Guo?" Yang Shuan nudged Guo Zihang with his elbow.
Guo Zihang nodded immediately: "Yes, yes, yes, although my adoptive father doesn't treat me as an outsider, I still have to have some self-knowledge."
Jiang Qin had a gloomy face, and was angry at the two of them for being so distant. He then went into the kitchen swearing, thinking that young people nowadays were so lazy and were not willing to help with housework at all.
After washing the dishes, the three of them put on their coats, left the house, and strolled around the annual meeting market.
This is a vacant lot left over from the renovation of the old city. This year it was temporarily used as an annual market. It is smaller than Wu'an Mountain, but there are just as many vendors selling things. Hundreds of stalls are crowded together, and you can hear the bustling sounds before you even arrive.
Jiang Qin walked forward with his hands in his pockets, still muttering to himself: "Usually, I am always occupied by Feng Nanshu. Otherwise, how would you have the chance to go shopping alone with such a handsome man like me."
"Oh, yes, yes."
"You guys go home with me tonight. If you accidentally tell her about your shopping experience with me, she'll cry with envy. What's so good about going shopping with my mom? You'll lose out!"
Guo Zihang and Yang Shuan looked at each other and thought to himself that he really had a big problem with Feng accompanying his mother-in-law shopping instead of him.
These two sentences were actually emphasized twice.
Jiang Qin came to the roasted nuts stall calmly, bought some melon seeds and some roasted chestnuts, then spent ten yuan on a ring, but got nothing and the boss's smile, then turned around and bought two skewers of grilled squid.
Look, he is still happy even without the little rich woman around him! "Uncle, why don't you look happy? There is no expression on your face."
"Nonsense, I don't know how happy I am right now."
Jiang Qin was a little angry. He cracked a roasted chestnut, then reached out and pulled out a branch that looked like a "sword" from the green bushes. He shook off the snow on it and made it straight.
Behind this open space is No. 4 Middle School. It was probably sealed here secretly by a high school student, who planned to take it away when school starts.
Seeing this scene, Yang Shuan and Guo Zihang were extremely envious.
"Uncle, let me play with it."
"Godfather, please pass on the sword to me."
Jiang Qin held the branch and swung it twice: "What a loser! I'll play first!"
Yang Shuan and Guo Zihang followed eagerly, waiting to take over the branches, and from time to time they could hear arguments such as "I am the eldest prince" and "Why are you the eldest prince?"
In fact, no matter how old a man is, he is always childish at heart.
Some people who seem mature are just forced by the shackles of society. Putting these aside, it is true that they become more childish as they get older.
Jiang Qin bought a lot of things from the beginning to the end of the market, including a hair ornament with a red ribbon, a metal hairpin with the auspicious words "Year of the Rabbit" on it, some New Year's cards, and even pendants that can be tied to mobile phones.
"Uncle, give me a candy man."
"Okay, what shape do you want? I can write some words on it, or draw the Chinese zodiac sign, or maybe a little rabbit?"
A pattern flashed through Jiang Qin's mind: a big bear, a heart-shaped little rich woman. He then turned to look at Guo Zihang and Yang Shuan: "There's a public toilet across the street. Go and pee."
Guo Zihang was stunned for a moment: "I had already spread it when I came here."
"You want to go again now, go quickly, or you won't get any red envelopes during the Chinese New Year!"
“…”
The two men looked at each other and then ran away.
Jiang Qin turned to look at the man selling candy figures: "Give me three. One with a big bear, one with a little rich woman, and the last one with a heart."
The uncle selling candy figures scooped a spoonful of syrup, muttered to himself, and said that big and small were okay, but the last four words were really useless.
The uncle's craftsmanship is quite good. He wrote cursive characters with sugar quickly and well, and the heart at the end was also very round.
Jiang Qin took out the money and ate the heart without leaving any at all, then walked back holding the remaining two.
That heart was as if it had never existed in this world. It was simply a genius.
Guo Zihang and Yang Shuan had already returned by this time. Looking at the two sugar figures in Jiang Qin's hands, they showed a puzzled expression and thought, what was so shameful about this? Why did they have to send them away?
Jiang Qin laughed at their confused expressions and thought to himself that the shameful things had already been eaten by me, so no one else could watch.
"Uncle, look over there."
"What?"
Jiang Qin looked over when he heard the sound and saw a clerk coming out of the mobile business hall opposite and putting up a poster at the door.
It says that there are year-end benefits. If you deposit 300 yuan for phone bills, you will get a Samsung smartphone for free. The six words "Samsung smartphone" are highlighted in red and bold.
"Deposit 300 yuan and you can get a free mobile phone? That must be fake."
"real."
"Wouldn't that be a huge loss?" Guo Zihang looked confused.
Jiang Qin looked at Guo Zihang and said, "This is a marketing method. Giving away mobile phones is to cultivate the market and gain market share. When the audience grows, the losses in the early stage can be recovered later."
Feature phones were replaced by smartphones very quickly, and the replacement was almost complete around 2012.
Jiang Qin still remembers that he had not graduated from university at that time, but everyone around him was already using Coolpad, Meizu, HTC, and Xiaomi, which was born for enthusiasts and also used hunger marketing to instantly open up the market.
At that time, many people used Samsung and Apple, while mobile phones such as Motorola, DOOV, and Bird disappeared from the market since then.
There was also a generation of mobile phone king Nokia, which refused to repent and insisted on using the Symbian system it developed. As a result, its market share shrank dramatically. Even after being acquired and launching a Windows version, it failed to make any waves in the end.
Smartphones are an inevitable development of the times, but what has truly accelerated the change of the times is the routine of giving away a mobile phone for free when you top up your phone bill.
At that time, in order to expand its domestic market share and acquire more user groups, Samsung specially launched contract phones and cooperated with telecom operators to offer free gifts with recharge.
If you deposit your phone bill, you will get a free mobile phone. If you sign up for broadband, you will also get a free mobile phone. Apart from the contract period, everything seems to be free.
But this routine is really powerful, because the threshold for free has always been the lowest. This routine not only provides operators with a large number of contracted users, but also increases brand awareness for mobile phone manufacturers.
The most important thing is that many kings of the feature phone era had just smelled the scent at this time, and had not yet innovated in technology. As a result, because of the accelerated burning of money by giving away mobile phones with recharged phone bills, they were left far behind and it was too late to catch up.
That’s right, it is this marketing method that directly defeated 80% of competitors in the mobile phone market.
Later, ZTE and Huawei also joined the market of giving away mobile phones for free with recharging phone bills, and went from being unknown to becoming well-known mobile phone manufacturers.
This thing seems to be a loss, and a lot of money has been burned, but those who are engaged in long-term development are looking at the subsequent benefits.
Give away low-end models to cultivate users, then raise the price little by little and launch high-end models. The return rate of this thing is almost thousands of dollars, which is almost the same approach as burning money for group buying.
Jiang Qin took the two of them into the business hall, topped up 300 yuan in phone bills, and changed their phones.
It is white, with a Tianyi 3G logo on the back and a Samsung logo on the front. The plastic back cover can be opened, and an original battery is included in the box.
There are not many pre-installed software after the phone is turned on, and the simple operating interface even looks a bit ugly, but compared to feature phones that can only answer calls, send text messages, and access wap, this is already a dimensionality reduction.
"The app needs to be developed faster, otherwise how can it catch up with the bundled pre-installation?"
Jiang Qin turned on the music player, which had a trial song "Thousand Miles Away" pre-stored in it.
"This phone feels better than the one I bought." Yang Shuan stared at it for a long time, feeling a little regretful.
He just bought an HTC phone a few years ago, spending two thousand dollars, but it's not as smooth as the one Jiang Qin gave him for free.
"So, sometimes winning or losing is determined from the beginning. You insist on going high-end before the market is even developed, but the products given away for free are more durable than the ones you paid for. How can you win?"
“…”
It was already evening when they returned from the market. When the three of them entered the house, they saw Yuan Youqin cooking in the kitchen, while Feng Nanshu was sitting on the sofa watching Mango TV's opening drama of the year "Accidentally Falling in Love with You".
This is a romantic idol drama specially made for Ah Hai by Hunan TV after Meteor Shower made him famous, which is very exciting for rich ladies to watch.
"I took Guo Zihang and Yang Shuan out shopping today."
Jiang Qin sat down next to Feng Nanshu and emphasized, "We spent the whole day shopping."
Feng Nanshu was stunned for a moment: "I also want to spend a day with you."
"Who told you to go shopping with my mom so early in the morning? You're at a loss, right? But I brought you a gift."
Jiang Qin took out the two candy figures with the words "Big Bear" and "Little Rich Lady" written on them, and the Little Rich Lady's eyes lit up instantly. She took the candy figure and looked at it for a long time, then handed the one with the Little Rich Lady to Jiang Qin.
"I eat you, and you eat me."
Guo Zihang and Yang Shuan turned their eyes away when they heard the voice, thinking how could you elders talk about such dirty things, the children can't understand a thing.
Jiang Qin couldn't help but raise the corner of his mouth, stretched out his hand and handed her the Nokia in his pocket: "Here, let me give you my spare phone to play with."
Feng Nanshu: “?”
"I got a new one, and this is the spare one."
(End of this chapter)
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