$10.064 million!

On the first day of its launch, eBay achieved impressive sales of more than 10 million.

When this number came out, countless people who were paying attention to eBay and the media were scared!

Although before this, everyone knew that Chen Geng deliberately arranged 2,000 ThinkPad and thier for the launch of ebay, but no one thought that all of these 2,000 machines could be sold, and the most optimistic one before only thought that it would be good to be able to sell half of them, but what was the result?

According to the official data released by eBay, a total of 3,185 desktop thier and notebook ThinkPad were sold, with a total value of $8.456 million!

Compared to the sales results of thier and ThinkPad, the 24 AMC New Century are a little worse, but they also sold $267,000.

Together, the two add up to $8.723 million.

Of course, some media said that this number is very large, and thier, ThinkPad and AMC New Century sedan alone have sold nearly 9 million US dollars, but is it possible that Steve Ballmer can still do this kind of special event on the Internet every day?

But even after removing the $8.723 million, eBay still achieved sales of more than $1.3 million!

This achievement not only far exceeded the $100,000 previously speculated by the media, but also left the object of the previous media comparison with eBay: Walmart Shopping Mall (single store) far behind!

After all, Walmart Mall (single store) has less than $300,000 in daily sales, and even ebay, excluding ThinkPad, thier and AMC, still has more than 1.3 million sales, which is almost 4.5 times that of Walmart Mall (single store).

4.5 times!

And most importantly, how much does it cost to build a Wal-Mart mall? How much does it cost to pay daily utility bills and employee salaries? What if there are 10 Wal-Mart malls? What about 100 Walmart?

And how much does it cost to build a website?

Steve Ballmer, as well as the entire development and operations team at eBay, were terrified......

Steve Ballmer's voice trembled a little: "Gentlemen, do the math again. ”

Although he hadn't slept for nearly 30 hours, Steve Ballmer was not sleepy at all, and he was frightened by the number in front of him: how could he sell for more than 10 million when he said he was good for 100,000?

Could it be that there is an error in the statistics?

The assistant understood very well why his boss reacted like this, in fact, he was also taken aback when he saw this number: "Boss, we counted it three times, and it was all this number, you think, just the ThinkPad and thier, we sold nearly 3,200 units, with a total value of nearly $8.5 million......"

“......”

Steve Ballmer stopped talking: yes, how did I forget that?

Taking a deep breath, Steve Ballmer said, "Send me the detailed sales report." ”

The assistant said, "I've put it on our internal FTP server." ”

After downloading the file from the internal FTP server and checking it several times to make sure that there was no problem with the statistic, Steve Ballmer let out a sigh of relief, looked at his assistant and smiled bitterly, "John, you know what? I still can't believe this number is true." ”

"It's not just that you can't believe it, I can't believe it either," the assistant smiled bitterly: "Boss, this is more than 10 million dollars......

Steve Ballmer muttered, "yes, that's more than $10 million......"

"That's not the point," assistant John continued, "and excluding thier, ThinkPad and New Century Motors, there are still more than 1.3 million sales, which is the most terrifying." ”

Steve Ballmer nodded again.

That's right, after removing thier, ThinkPad and AMC New Century sedans, ebay actually achieved more than $1.3 million in sales, which is the most terrifying, you know, just yesterday, there were media that ebay's total sales on the first day were no more than $100,000.

Taking a deep breath, Steve Ballmer said, "Since there is no problem with this data, let's publish it on the website...... Well, I personally called the boss. ”

………………

Chen Geng had been waiting for Steve Ballmer's call for a long time, and before Steve Ballmer called, he was still wondering that it had been half an hour since 9 o'clock, why hadn't this guy called him yet, but after listening to Steve Ballmer's explanation, Chen Geng also felt a little dry-mouthed: "More than $10 million?"

"Yes," said Steve Ballmer, "the exact figure is $10,064,053.72...... I have sent the sales data to your inbox. ”

Chen Geng responded, and suddenly asked Steve Ballmer: "Steve, have you analyzed why you have achieved such brilliant and unimaginable results?"

He knows very well that once this figure is released in the early stage, not only will it scare the media, but it is estimated that those who are paying attention to eBay will also be stunned, but ......

Why?

Why did eBay achieve such brilliant sales results on the day it was launched?

Chen Geng doesn't know the development history of eBay and Amazon, but whether it is eBay or Amazon, the total sales amount in the first two years of their launch will definitely not reach this number.

Chen Geng believes that it is necessary to clarify this issue.

"We're analyzing this as well, but boss, we don't have a clue yet. Steve Ballmer honestly admits that he is actually confused about this.

"That's ......"

Although he was a little disappointed, Chen Geng was not too surprised by Steve Ballmer's answer, after all, the entire eBay team has been busy for nearly 30 hours. He responded: "Report to me as soon as you have the results, and tell your team members that I am very satisfied with the results achieved by eBay, and each person will be rewarded with $1,000, which will be sent immediately, and if the cash in the company is not enough, the gold check will be found directly for everyone."

As for publicity, you can make an announcement when you go back, and after arranging the personnel on duty, you can go and rest, everyone has worked hard. ”

Steve Ballmer has no opinion on Chen Geng's reward plan, everyone has been busy for so long, stayed up all night, and still hasn't slept yet, and has achieved such good results, the boss should send a reward for the big guys, but for the matter of directly issuing an announcement and then going to rest, he refused: "The announcement must be issued, but I'd better hold a press conference, after all, there are so many reporters waiting outside." ”

For Steve Ballmer, he knows all too well what a selling point this sale is.

As for the controversy, he knows very well that there will definitely be controversy about this sales amount, especially whether the sales of ThinkPad and thier and AMC New Century sedans are equivalent to injecting water into this sale, and the media will definitely be hyped up, but it doesn't matter, he knows very well that for ebay, there is actually a good thing to have a debate.

Chen Geng was not reluctant: "OK, you can do it yourself, if you think your spirit is fine." ”