Chapter 60: A Burning Scene
On the morning of December 25, 1977, a magical scene was staged in many game halls or major shopping malls in the world where the black clouds were listened to, many people lined up at the door, and in order to take care of many large dealers, Bao Zixuan only gave the titanium alloy limited edition walkman to a limited number of people.
The funniest thing in this is Phil Hawkins, this guy called Bun Xuanda and asked for 8 titanium limited edition Walkmans and was not satisfied. I drove 300 kilometers to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, stayed in the Baozixuan dormitory, and became friends with the people in the dormitory. Bao Zixuan ignored him at first, but this guy actually slept on the sofa in the living room at night. There was really no way to force it, Bao Zixuan gave him all the five sets he left, and he also ordered 100 aluminum alloy plate walkmans.
In this way, Phil Hawkins alone ordered 13 titanium limited editions, 200 aluminum alloy limited editions, and 50,000 ordinary ones. And he still paid the full payment to Heiyun at one time. If they are all like him, there is a need to pay for doing business.
Bao Zixuan came to the company's headquarters, after all, there is also a sales share of 10,000 Walkmans, including 5 titanium limited editions. Seeing that the people in the long queue here were not only young men and women, but also many middle-aged and elderly people, Bao Zixuan couldn't understand what was going on.
It wasn't until I heard their conversation close that it dawned on me that these people were bought for their children to study, after all, this Walkman is so convenient that it can save a lot of family expenses when learning a foreign language.
Not long after arriving at the company, he saw more and more people queuing, Bao Zixuan knew that if he didn't control it, there might be a problem, so he asked all the employees of the company to come down to help, and those who didn't buy it today, register their home addresses, and the company will deliver them to the customer's home as soon as the next batch arrives.
At the same time, it is stipulated that each person can only buy one, and if you want to increase the number of purchases, you must register, or send it to your home by Black Cloud employees. And all the limited edition lottery purchases, now the staff has been called to start issuing numbers, and those who intend to buy limited edition products can get a number plate, and the number is drawn on the spot every hour!
At this time, the phone in Bao Zixuan's office rang suddenly, and when he took the phone, he found that it was Miyuki Matsushita, who had not been in contact for a long time, which made Bao Zixuan a little surprised. After all, since she was sent to school, she only had to call once. In fact, what Bao Zixuan didn't know was that the second time Miyuki Matsushita called him, he went to California. And it was Jessica Mellon who answered the phone, and the two had a quarrel over it.
Miyuki Matsushita's roommates all want to buy a Walkman, but when they see the long queue at the entrance of Kurokumo's company, they definitely don't have much chance today. I can only be cheeky and ask Miyuki Matsushita to call Bao Zixuan. I learned that Miyuki Matsushita was in a café near the company. Bao Zixuan, who was about to go down, told him where to wait for him, and he immediately went down to find him.
The security guards are maintaining order, Bao Zixuan came to the café alone, and saw Matsushita Miyuki and the four of them waiting anxiously at the door, they came to Heiyun Company early in the morning, but they saw a long queue that could not be seen at a glance, and Heiyun had already told that there were only 10,000 units sold today. I heard that some people started queuing here in the early hours of yesterday morning, so they had to turn to Miyuki Matsushita for help.
Miyuki Matsushita still hasn't changed, but seeing that she has matured a lot in the months of college life, she immediately bowed when she saw Bao Zixuan coming: "I'm very sorry for causing trouble to Zixuanjun." ”
Bao Zixuan: "You're welcome, we're friends, aren't we! But it's unfair for me to open the back door to other customers in line, I have a plan here, you can see if you can!"
Everyone was nodding desperately, because this was the only chance they could get their hands on the Walkman today.
Bao Zixuan continued: "I hired you for a day, you put on Heiyun's work clothes, help customer service, the main thing is to send water and some pastries to customers who have been queuing for a long time, to put it bluntly, it is to serve tea and pour water, it can be seen that your family conditions are not bad, you have not done such a job, but this is the only thing I can help you, today's work is over, your remuneration is a Walkman for each person." ”
The four of them thought about it for a while, and actually agreed, but Salad said, "I want a limited edition, and I'll pay you how much it is." "Don't worry, I'll make you satisfied," then invite the four beautiful ladies to come with me!" Bao Zixuan replied.
A female employee was called to change into vests and let them take care of the service of customers outside the store. After the advertisement aired, a large number of intending customers made Bao Zixuan know that he had to increase the number of temporary employees. Temporary clothing has been ordered for a long time, not only in Boston, but all over the world, and Black Cloud has also sent a large number of employees to the agent to assist in sales and help customers solve problems at any time.
In fact, Bao Zixuan is not worried about any quality problems, after all, all CNC machine tools are in production, and the final inspection department is invited RB people, they do have something commendable about this.
The most exaggerated is Phil Hawkins, who built a booth directly in New York's Times Square for $500,000 alone.
At this time, Phil Hawkins, who was standing on the platform, was proud, and said to the crowd of onlookers below: "We have ordered a share of 50,000 units in Heiyun Company. As for the limited edition, it can only be done in the form of a lottery. Underneath the stage is our staff, please get your $150 bills, and we've got a lot of $1 coins that will be delivered to you along with the Walkman. ”
As soon as 8 o'clock arrives, all the mall game halls are opened, this is the time set by Bao Zixuan, and there are Heiyun's employees supervising it, and everyone who enters the mall will be issued a number plate. In addition, the time spent in the store should not exceed 5 minutes.
Basically, everyone just took the tape and listened to it once and then paid and left, and some paid directly and left. After all, you have to think about the people behind you. The first to be sold out was the RB market, where 80,000 machines were stored in the store of Taito Co., Ltd. for only one and a half hours. It was snapped up.
In fact, many RB companies have purchased it, and they have sent a large number of employees to see the technical content of the Black Cloud Walkman, which is not tolerable to imitate. And if there is any infringement of their patents. But after dismantling it, they were disappointed, except for the most basic patents. Heiyun uses a lot of new technologies, and there is no problem of patent infringement at all. The basic patent Heiyun has been fully authorized by Philips, and there is no legal problem;
The European market also sold very quickly, and it was announced that it was sold out in two hours, and the 10,000 units prepared by the Xiangjiang market only lasted for 4 hours, and the United States due to the fact that the basic sales outlets were still too few, so that many people were queuing up until 4 o'clock in the afternoon.
8 hours in the world, a total of 400,000 units of the Blackfish Walkman have been sold, some people have made statistics for the black cloud, the price of a black cloud with the sound is 149 US dollars, including the limited edition, although this time it was not all put on the market, but according to the overall data of sales, the sales amount of the black cloud company in the last 8 hours was between 61 million ~ 63 million US dollars.
Bao Zixuan saw that many consumers who did not buy could only come forward to appease them, and promised that they would be delivered to their doors as soon as possible. At this time, the crowd dispersed, and he had to take the Black Cloud employees to the restaurant to celebrate after counting the sales amount.