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Chapter 550: Chapter 457 Delivery (Subscription Requested!)_1
Staring at the high-tech equipment before him.
Wangsa figured, if Myanban there knew about the existence of these things, they certainly wouldn’t treat Ling as friendly as they do now, unless Myanban and the force behind Ling had reached an agreement. Otherwise, the current stable situation between the two sides definitely wouldn’t last.
They probably wouldn’t break off entirely, only limit the export of many things Ling wants to buy from Thailand. They wouldn’t completely choke off this trade route. If Ling was pressured into rebellion, it would not only restore the previous uncontrollable situation, but also offend the mysterious force behind Ling.
Under such circumstances,
Myanban would be the total loser in this game of chess. Wangsa didn’t believe that the decision-makers in Yangon could be so foolish as to shoot themselves in the foot.
So, in the short term,
Their trade was still not a problem, but in the long run, Wangsa’s family cannot ignore the pressure from Myanban or dealing with the hidden forces behind Ling.
But who cares?
That’s what his own family’s think tank and big shot should consider, he just needs to do his own thing.
"Leader Ling, why, no work today?" Wangsa asked, looking at the small assembly line. Looking at the neatly arranged chairs, a sense of rhythmic beauty surfaced in his mind.
"No, there’s a little problem with the new equipment these days, we’re fixing it, it should be alright in a few days." Ling casually said, it’s better not to mention transforming the production line and scare Wangsa.
Wangsa nodded, implying that he understood.
High technology stuff is always troublesome. Ling’s underlings were just illiterates who had recently transitioned from agriculture to industry. It is inevitable to make mistakes, it’d be strange if they didn’t. This kind of high-tech equipment is also the most difficult to fix, a few days is pretty normal.
"Leader Ling, how long does it take them to assemble a mobile phone?" With no one assembling, Wangsa had to ask.
"This is assembly line production, each person is responsible for one process. Currently, we are in trial production, and we can assemble about three thousand units a day. " Ling reported a relatively low figure, which is the usual speed of the factory running for eight hours, and that is when people are not yet familiar with the work.
Three thousand units.
Wangsa’s eyes sparkled.
That’s a lot.
If all of them passed through his hands, that would be a profit of ninety thousand dollars a day. This may not even be the factory’s maximum output. It’s still in trial production, the official output must be higher.
He decided, after he got back, he would spare no effort to bring this mobile phone to market quickly. Only in this way could he earn big money sooner.
"Leader Ling, if your mobile phone quality is stable, and the sales is good, I will buy a large quantity from you." Wangsa said.
"Sure, you will still pay seventy US dollars for this mobile phone in the future. If there are other models in the future, we will negotiate the price again. Not only that, I’ve told you before.
We can offer customized services for mobile phones, from inside to outside. You provide design drawings and performance requirements as well as appearance plans, we provide solutions. However, if it’s customized, we will charge a production line adjustment fee of between five hundred thousand and one million US dollars, after all, we may need to add to and modify the production line, which are costs." Ling said slowly.
Of course, customizing things is not that simple, right now we’re just stating that we have this service, after all, if it involves major changes, there will be patent issues involved and other issues that may arise from it, it’s not as simple as just completing the design and production.
"No problem, as long as it can be customized. By the way, do you sell parts separately?" Wangsa asked the long-prepared question in his heart. This is also what the Clay Family wants to know. After all, it is cheaper to buy spare parts and assemble them yourself.
Ling shook his head: "Sorry, Commander Wangsa, our own parts are not enough, there is no spare output to sell, at present we only sell whole machines. If we are struggling with production in the future, we will consider outsourcing the final assembling.
Hearing Ling’s refusal.
Wangsa was a little disappointed.
But it’s none of his business, he was just asking on behalf of someone else, and it was no surprise that he was rejected, as he had guessed.
"Okay, then I will take it back and try to sell it first." Wangsa didn’t ask any more questions.
"Hm."
Afterward.
Wangsa left hastily with ten thousand mobile phones.
Back in the camp, Wangsa didn’t stay, but immediately drove with his men to Chiang Mai, the provincial capital of Chiang Mai Prefecture, which was the agreed delivery point with the Clay Family.
As it neared evening.
Wangsa’s car entered a courtyard not far from the center of Chiang Mai City. There was an office building in the front and a warehouse in the back. This was the Clay Family’s property, mainly for storing the electronic products they represented.
As the car entered the yard.
Wangsa saw from a distance a young man standing at the warehouse door, smiling at them.
This young man was from the Clay Family, named Keqi, the son of the Clay Family’s commercial spokesperson, and also his future brother-in-law. Although they were only related by marriage, they were still family.
Getting out of the car.
The two of them exchanged a hug.
Seeing Keqi’s eyes eagerly looking towards the car, Wangsa didn’t waste any more time and quickly ordered his men to move the goods into the warehouse.
Inside the warehouse.
Wangsa unwrapped the packages and took out box after box.
"Keqi, these are the assembled mobile phones. You, have someone check their quality. I only took a cursory look before, they seem quite good." Wangsa pushed the boxes toward Keqi.
"Wangsa, you’re really lucky, making money without lifting a finger." Keqi waved a hand, and people came forward to open those cases for random quality checks.
The mobile phone boxes didn’t have any labels. Hence, they needed to be repackaged. Fortunately, based on the ten samples available, the corresponding packaging boxes had already been produced. As for the phones’ ’ID cards’ and ’legality’, well, was that even an issue for their family?
Not at all.
On hearing this, Wangsa stepped forward, slung his arm around Keqi’s shoulders, and said laughingly, "Ha-ha, Keqi, isn’t that the same for you? You earn more than me. From now on, we’re practically family. Money isn’t everything."
The mobile phones were acquired by Keqi for a hundred US dollars each, and selling them for one hundred and sixty or seventy wouldn’t be a problem. Considering the sales channels they had, as well as various costs, both of them ended up almost equally profitable.
"Indeed, let’s go have a drink. It’ll probably be a while before the quality checks are finished." Keqi led Wangsa out of the warehouse to a pavilion, where he had someone serve some grape wine.
With some light snacks on the table, the two started to drink.
"How’s everything over there?" Keqi asked, raising his glass.
Wangsa clinked glasses with Keqi, took a sip of the wine, and replied, "Very good. I’ll take you there when I get a chance. I hear they’re having an investment conference soon, we can go and check it out, who knows? We might end up profiting from the visit."
"Hmm." Keqi responded thoughtfully, considering the pros and cons along with the purpose of the conference. He was somewhat confused, but one thing was certain: either they were short of cash, or lacking in material goods there.
The two then started chatting about all sorts of topics.
More than half an hour later.
A middle-aged man strode over.
"Boss, no issues. So far, all 100 phones we’ve sampled have perfect call quality, video, audio, chips, and camera. The quality is pretty good, we stand to make quite a profit if we can get them for 100 dollars each, at least 50% profit." The middle-aged man was a bit excited. As Keqi’s father’s assistant, he naturally knows about the 100-dollar procurement price.
Keqi calmly responded, "Great, pack everything up, transport back to Bangkok overnight and repackage. Put on all kinds of labels and launch them in Bangkok’s major stores the day after tomorrow. At the same time, promote them."
He directly abandoned the traditional route of advertising before launching. Since these mobile phones were just a market test, and time was a constraint, it was rather preferable to start selling and promoting simultaneously. If sales were good, they could then advertise on a large scale.
"Yes." The middle-aged man left to carry out his orders.
"Ha-ha, Keqi, you’re going to make a fortune this time." A flushed Wangsa laughed.
"Aren’t you too? If sales are good this time, I’ll buy more from you. We’ll discuss quantities later. What’s the production rate over there?" Keqi laughed back.
He wasn’t too worried that the mobile phones wouldn’t sell well, as both the appearance and performance of this model of mobile phone, as well as its cost-effectiveness, were absolutely top-notch. Given the choice, he would buy this mobile at the present price range. Other high-end imported models were absurdly expensive, and unpleasant to look at.
Just considering its 2 million pixel camera and handwriting touchscreen feature alone, it could easily outmatch almost all other 2,000 yuan phones on the Thai market.
"They said they’re currently in the trial production phase, producing around 3,000 units each day." Wangsa replied.
3,000 units.
Not bad, just barely enough for the Thai market.
Keqi continued, "Great, then as we arranged earlier, if there are no quality issues with this batch of mobiles, I’ll pay you in full a week from now."
"Alright." Wangsa didn’t really care. After all, there’s no way out of it. He wasn’t in dire need of the money since he hadn’t spent a single penny on these phones, and there’s still more than twenty days to go before the payment period expired.
Soon after...
The two of them checked into a hotel in Chiang Mai that belonged to the Clay Family, while the middle-aged man immediately went back to the packaging and delivery process.
At around 4 a.m.
After the middle-aged man rushed back to Bangkok, he immediately put the workers on the night shift to work on the packages. Keqi’s orders were to complete all the mobile phone packaging by that morning. In the afternoon, deliveries would be made to all the major stores and partners, followed by new product training, billboard production, new phone promotion, and other tasks.
By the next morning...
The phones should start selling. They couldn’t really expect all the store employees to familiarize themselves with the product late at night. Hence, the timing was really tight.
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