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Chapter 555: Chapter 462: 20000000 Dollars (Please Subscribe!) _1
Hearing Mu You speak...
Keqi quickly looked at the two products he mentioned. One was a mobile phone, albeit different from the ones he currently sells. His are flip-phones, but this one is a bar phone.
The other one...
It seemed... not to be a mobile phone, because it had no keys.
Of course, what’s on display here aren’t just a few mobile phones, otherwise it would be a seriously ludicrous exhibition. Apart from mobile phones, there are keyboards, mice, data cables, USB drives, earphones, and so on. Excluding computers or their internal components, there are quite a number of electronic accessories here.
Although Keqi has a slight guess in his heart, he still asks: "Hello, what is this?"
"Sir, this is our newly launched MP4 video player. It has a metal body, a five-inch color screen, and can support video and audio playback in various formats. It also has functions such as photography, recording, alarms, games, etc. You are welcome to try it out," the staffer explained in detail, hyping Keqi up - his speculation was on point.
Taking the grey metal shell MP4 handed over by the staffer, Keqi held it, playing around with it. It wasn’t light, and it felt excellent in hand. Keqi tried various small functions inside, his eyes full of love for it, only for Mu You to snatch it away.
Another new product.
A new product with high-added value.
MP4s have been around a few years ago, so it isn’t that surprising. However, their prices are quite high, always being classified as high-end consumer goods.
Like mobile phones, Thailand does not possess the manufacturing capability for such ’high-tech’ products. They mainly rely on imports or assembling purchased components. At this point, he has a rough understanding- getting products directly from here is definitely very cheap.
"What’s the selling price of this MP4?" Keqi hurriedly asked.
"Sir, our MP4 has a wholesale price of seventy US dollars per unit, excluding transportation," the staff member announced a price similar to that of the mobile phone. In reality, the actual cost is a lot lower than the phone, about twenty-five US dollars. With more than double the profit, Tang Qing thought it was about right.
Seventy US dollars.
Hearing this quote, both Keqi and Mu You got excited. A configuration at this level, which is all touch-screen, and the preloaded video was very clear with high resolution - selling it for over a hundred US dollars on the market would be no problem at all.
MP4 video players from Sony and Samsung with similar configurations have a market price of around a hundred and thirty US dollars. With such a price, the profit margin is staggering.
Keqi can’t help but be excited.
This indicates that in the future, high-profit products will have an added item.
This MP4 is a preliminary trial product for the upcoming tablet computers, giving the public time to accept the idea that the region can manufacture the most advanced electronic products. When the time is right, truly internet-capable tablet computers, laptops, smartphones and other products will be launched within the region.
Starting with lower-tech products for now.
Otherwise...
Given the current technology in the region, they could produce world-leading advanced computers in less than a month, and even crack the solution for the most advanced tablet computers in less than three months.
However, now is not the right time to launch. Without mature wireless network technology and equipment, tablet computers can only be used to watch downloaded videos; you can’t compare them to future generation tablet computers with perfect supporting features.
2G era.
It’s not suitable for the survival of tablet computers, MP4s are the answer. However, tablet computers are already on the list of research projects in the experimental area. As soon as the company accelerates the internet speed in China and surrounding countries, they will officially launch the tablet computer project along with the ultrabook project, smartphone project, wearable smart device project, etc.
4G.
It is perfected by the world’s basic equipment suppliers based on the 4G standard. But it’s different for Tang Qing. From the most basic hardware research and development, software writing, to various standard wireless solutions, these scientists can handle it all. I can develop my own communication protocol.
Even if your technical standards and communication protocols are different from the rest of the world, it’s just a matter of conversion. After resolving that, I don’t care what your technical standards or communication protocols are, I can use them all.
This rogue way of doing things, this disruptive capability, this ’agitator’ method, is something only Tang Qing can do. He doesn’t hesitate at all.
Pitting himself against the world is so exciting for Tang Qing. In fact, with the communication server and the quantum communication module, Tang Qing has the power to replace the world’s internet. In front of the powerful features of the communication server, all non-terminal communication devices in the world can disappear. All mutually compliant communication protocols can be conquered and crushed.
So...
What does he have to be afraid of?
If he doesn’t mess around, doesn’t find something thrilling, doesn’t do something disruptive, how can he live up to his ’naughty’ life? Making money is just one of Tang Qing’s goals. What he wants to do is make his own voice heard.
Whether it’s as an industrial alliance, or the Black Prison, Myanmar Bank, or even the region, he is always in conflict with the world ’mainstream’, with the world’s ’authority’ and the ’vested interests’. Since accepting this setting, let’s make it even more exciting.
So he doesn’t regret this life.
On the other hand...
When Wangsa heard this price, he appeared somewhat uneasy.
The price is the same as the cost of a mobile phone.
Are you randomly setting this price?
In fact, he also wanted to make a little bit more profit from this, but it seems very difficult now. The only place where he can really make a profit is this mobile phone. Others simply don’t pass through his hands. But he can still pull off something.
It’s simple...
All the goods have to pass through his port. So... isn’t tax also money? 𝖓𝔬𝖛𝔭𝔲𝖇.𝔠𝔬𝖒
Thinking this way...
Wangsa felt as if he saw another blue sky. He has no right to collect taxes from the region. However, collecting taxes from import businessmen is a lot easier. Furthermore, this tax can be divided into explicit and implicit types. Even if your family has strong power, it can’t change the fact that this is his territory.
Yes...
Wangsa decided to negotiate with his father when he went back to tamper with the export tax rate. As for the import tax, Wangsa was momentarily unsure. If it’s charged, it inadvertently increases the cost of raw materials, and all costs would be transferred to the merchant’s hands.
If that’s the case, you’re basically charging them twice in hidden taxes, which although normal, will offend people. It’s better to pluck a feather from a passing goose once rather than twice.
Keqi, looking at the excited Mu You, said:
"Mu You, we can actually cooperate on this." In terms of money, both their families are evenly matched. So to avoid a fierce conflict later during the auction, it’s better to notify him in advance.
Mu You was taken aback.
Cooperation?
"How does this cooperation work?" Mu You asked curiously.
Keqi explained: "For one style of product, there’s only one distributor in a country, but what about different styles? We can ask them to design different products. Despite the existence of competition, let’s not forget, we also have the overseas market, which is the crux."
"Yeah... that makes sense." Mu You suddenly realized.
Indeed, the Thai market is only so big, and the Clay Family is taking the biggest slice of the cake. But given this touching price, there would also be a market abroad. With neighboring Myanmar and Vietnam, and further south, the South Asian region, particularly Mu You’s family, has a considerable amount of business overseas. He is quite familiar with Indonesia and South Africa, both of which are great places to dump cargo.
In particular, South Africa is rich, and Africans have excellent consumption habits. They don’t like saving money, and once they receive their wages, they spend them within a few days. As long as the goods are good and affordable, they are guaranteed to sell well.
The two reached an agreement in this way.
After two hours.
The tour was over.
Everyone had found the goods they wanted to bid on. Most of them were related to their own businesses. If they had never ventured into it and didn’t have the capital to venture into it, they didn’t qualify to bid on the goods.
This kind of arrangement is meant to prevent you from wasting a lot of time trying to set up sales channels that you might not even be able to establish.
That would take quite a bit of time.
The Area is not interested in waiting.
They returned to the main showcase hall.
More than two hundred people took their seats one after another.
Looking at the businessmen below, their eyes completely different from before, Ling remained calm. He said, "Okay, now that everyone has finished the tour, let’s start the auction."
After he spoke.
Ling stepped down.
He is the biggest boss here. The task of swinging the hammer should not have fallen on him, but a small leader from the sales department of the Myanmar Bank belonging to the area took over.
With an excited heart, the little leader stepped forward and sang out:
"Alright, first up, the qualification for the wholesaler of hardware products, limited to three people, base price one hundred thousand dollars, each increase should not be less than ten thousand US dollars, now starting the bidding for the first qualification, please bid."
Upon hearing this.
Several interested businessmen started bidding.
The product exhibition earlier had already dispelled many of their concerns.
"$110,000."
"$120,000."
"$140,000."
"..."
In the end, the first hardware commodity wholesale qualification was sold for $190,000.
The second and third sold for $170,000 and $160,000 respectively.
In other words, the Area effortlessly made $520,000. It was practically robbery. The total sales of the qualifications today, Tang Qing estimated, would not be less than $20 million.
But that’s just over a hundred million RMB. Tang Qing wasn’t interested in such a small amount. Even though it could raise the issuance limit of the Asia Dollar, it was still limited. The real profit was in future product sales.
This time.
No businessmen within the Area participated in the auction. Simply put, they didn’t have the market share experience or money. The previous factory and this one had practically emptied their pockets, and they still owed Myanmar Bank a lot of money.
And the distributor’s qualification had to be bought with real money. The money had to be paid within three days, otherwise the qualification was cancelled, and they could not become a distributor in the Area for three years. It was very strict.
They were better off sticking to production and watching the fretful businessmen.
Looking at the list of qualifications for distributors of communication category electronic products, Keqi noted that there were three spots available, each with a base price of one million dollars - non-negotiable. It was quite expensive, but not unacceptable considering the supply qualification for the next three years.
This was also a strategy of the Area. If you buy the rights, you would definitely purchase goods during the contract period. Otherwise, the earnings would be less than the money paid for the qualification, and no one would like to do such a stupid thing.
...
One by one, sales qualifications were being opened.
Most of the qualifications were bought by the Chinese, while a small number were bought by the Thais. As for the ones from Myanmar, there were only two, and they came with the task of spending money. In comparison to doing business, the Chinese had an advantage.
The auction price went from low to high.
Fourth from the last.
Small household electrical appliances distributor qualification, total number of qualifications five. Total transaction price $207,000, secured by three Chinese and two Thais.
Third from the last.
Large household electrical appliances distributor qualification, total number of qualifications five. Total transaction price $310,000, also secured by three Chinese and two Thais.
Second from the last.
Non-communication electronic products and parts sales qualification, total number of qualifications six, total transaction price $530,000, held half by Thais and half by Chinese. Keqi and Mu You remarkably included.
PS: This is the second Chapter. I was feeling dizzy yesterday and needed to sleep. I got up early in the morning to write some more.
