Volume 1 Chapter 50: Experiences in the Flower Country
The MB100 was first produced in Spain, and later entered the Asian market to cooperate with Ssangyong in South Korea, and then the Asian financial crisis, Ssangyong sold the production line of this car to Shanghai Huizhong.
Shanghai Huizhong introduced itself as the introduction of Mercedes-Benz technology, but in fact, it was bought back from South Korea, which is the same as JAC Refine Style. South Korea first purchased from other places, Mercedes-Benz, Mitsubishi. Then I couldn't play anymore, so I bought it in China and looked for someone to take over.
Therefore, the path that domestic cars are taking now is also in line with the history of automobile development.
After reading the general introduction on the Internet, Xing Yu wanted to see the actual car. Hearing is false, seeing is believing, no matter how bragging about a new car, the second-hand car still depends on the condition of the car.
"Those are wholesale, and they start at three. They were all retired from the Beijing Tourism Company in the past, and Inner Mongolia was going to run the transportation. He Bin also began to introduce the source of this batch of cars.
"Let's go, let's take a look. Xing Yu returned.
As they spoke, they walked to a parking area at the back of the market, where the vehicles were covered with dust, very similar to the scene when Xing Yu went to see the auction cars in the past.
Piles of vehicles, parked in a haphazard manner, on the open field. It's really a pile, and it's hard for a person to walk into the distance between the cars.
The parking garage is basically like this, and many of the parking techniques sold are practiced in this environment, parking on the side, reversing into the garage. Novices also put their own mobile phones in practice, and the obstacles to car sales are all cars that are hundreds of times more expensive than mobile phones.
There are white square boxes, and the front of the car is huge with a Mercedes-Benz logo. This is also a common problem of early domestic models, Changfeng Cheetah is equipped with a Mitsubishi logo, and JAC Ruifeng is replaced with a modern logo...... It's still in the womb for you, and the factory is such a sign.
It looks like the space is also large enough, and "Istana" means "palace" in Malay. It's about showing off your space.
Why is there less streamlined design? One is for space, and the other is for cost.
Anyway, the more Xing Yu looked at this car, the more he felt that it was like a square box, this is a golden cup for pulling goods, that is a bit of a business car?
Pulling open a relatively easy car door, Xing Yu squeezed in sideways, he has made a lot of fortune in the past few years, and he is far less capable than when he first graduated.
Take a look at the interior, which is a 9-seat design, and the interior is all fabric seats, and anything is acceptable with wear and tear. The steering wheel is not small, and in the middle is a chrome Mercedes-Benz logo, faintly glowing.
The feeling of sitting is not bad, the seat comfort and wrapping degree are better than those of Jinbei, the field of vision is very high, and there is a feeling of driving an off-road vehicle.
"How do you approve it?" Xing Yu decided to ask about the price of wholesale first, and then decided whether to take a closer look, otherwise he would delay people's time in vain.
"Three units are picked, the vehicle is optional, the unit price of a single vehicle, there is no subsidy, and the file must be raised. Insurance with the car, annual review at your own expense, we package the annual review in addition to 200 yuan. He Bin replied.
Three units to take, the vehicle is optional, the unit price of a single car Xing Yu understands, that is, to take at least three, the vehicle chooses by himself, look at that one, take that one, the price of each car is different according to the number of years and kilometers of vehicle conditions.
What the hell is this no subsidy? Is it a new term in the industry? Why haven't I heard anyone say it?
I don't know if I don't know, I can't show my timidity, Xing Yu still has the ability to sell pencil cases.
"Okay, I'll pick it, and I'll talk about the price later. Xing Yu returned.
"Okay, there is a special person in charge here, you can ask him for the key in a while, I'll go back to the store first, look at the number plate or frame number, turn back to me, I'll tell you the price." He Bin replied.
It is not so easy to find three high-quality products among dozens of vehicles, there is only one person here, and He Bin did not say that those cars are in good condition, so they can only look at them one by one.
The yellow brand is thrown out first, and the yellow ones are generally more than nine seats, and the procedures are too complicated, and the C license cannot be opened.
Then the old rule, if you don't look at it at a glance, don't look at it a second time. Look comfortable, take a look again, find no other problems, take a closer look.
Don't have a collision, don't have a lot of sheet metal painting, don't wear it seriously, don't disassemble the engine, don't have serious oil leakage.
This capital is powerful, and the sun is much warmer than Xi'an. After wasting all his strength, he first transferred a few similar ones, Xing Yu was going to ask the price, and he was looking at the engine with the fire on fire. There is no way, the car is parked too close to the car, and it affects the whole body. It's also very troublesome to test without thinking about it.
At this time, the phone rang, and it was Zhou Long who called him over. The leader spoke, let's put it here first, mark the license plate number, and Xing Yu will leave first.
Zhou Long finished talking about the old days, and he began to get down to business. The auction resources of the headquarters are much more than those in Xi'an. In Xi'an, more than 50 models were auctioned at most at one time, and hundreds of them were auctioned here.
Zhou Long has already discussed, first take a dozen vehicles back to test the water, and often come to get it when the market is good. In addition to watching the car, Xing Yu also worked with his colleagues here for a few days, learned the advanced experience here, and went back to teach his colleagues in his company.
Zhou Long himself also needs to maintain the previous relationship, visit the previous leader, and report back to the headquarters......
When he met his colleagues, it would be convenient, Xing Yu said that he was not treated well when he went to the independent exhibition hall of famous cars in the morning, and this problem was difficult for Xing Yu for a long time.
The reason is very simple, Xing Yu's Bangdu company, the main business is auction and wholesale, to put it bluntly, it is more intermediary. The business of collecting and selling cars by himself is very little done in Beijing, and the main business in Xi'an has been transferred to collecting and selling cars, which is also a special case.
In this way, those independent showrooms of famous cars feel that this is a group of scalpers, or scalpers with companies, scale, organization and plans.
I'm not afraid that hooligans can do martial arts, I'm afraid that hooligans are educated. In the famous car showroom, the cars sold by themselves are more expensive, and they feel that they belong to the aristocracy in the second-hand car industry, and they look down on those merchants who are scattered.
Over time, I didn't even want others to enter the storefront. In fact, there is this kind of contempt chain everywhere in the market, selling luxury cars, looking down on selling low-end cars, selling imports, selling domestically produced, selling cars, and selling trucks...... Later, when Xing Yu earned tens of thousands of dollars in intermediary fees for a pump truck, Xing Yu knew that the water of the truck engineering truck was not only deep, but also turbid, and the profit was unimaginable.
Xing Yu also figured out that this is a characteristic of some restricted cities, as long as it is not a transfer vehicle, the procedures are confirmed to be raised, no matter where you raise the file, there is a corresponding subsidy. The models are different, the registration date is different, and the subsidies are different, which is equivalent to increasing the income of car dealers, which is why it creates the illusion that foreign car dealers come to the capital to collect cars at a lower price.
After working in Beijing for two days, Xing Yu found that there was not much advanced here, but there was a large flow of people.
The information collection here is not as advanced as Xi'an, and Xi'an Haolai also has an information crawler software, what is here? It is an overwhelming amount of information, there is too much data, and the new data of a website is enough for three or four colleagues to make a day's call.
What's even more annoying is that some websites will block some high-quality data first, and customers see that the information is being reviewed, but in fact, the data has already been sold by the website, and most of the people who buy the data see the information, maybe the car is sold to the car dealer, and the data is only seen by ordinary people on the website.
Most of the actual seller data that can be seen is that the car has problems or high prices, and the rest is the data released by the car dealer. If you want to find a cheap private seller's vehicle on the Capital Information website?
Of course, there are also advanced things, that is, there are used car financial loan services here, and there is more than one.
The monthly interest rate ranges from a few cents to more than 1 cent, and the down payment ranges from 0 to 30% and 50%. The requirements for vehicles range from more than 30,000 to more than 1 million. It's all optional. It depends on the qualifications of the actual car buyers.
A colleague from the head office said, you see those people who wear five or six people every day, and those who wear suits and leather shoes all day long, either to sell insurance or sell auto financial products, and if you are interested in learning about it, you can ask them directly.
Xing Yu also wanted to contact one or two auto installment companies for a long time to drive his sales performance. However, in the past two days, they can only do the local market, and there is no way to develop the foreign market. This also made him very sad, what happened? Are the people of the capital so arrogant? They still look down on our grassroots business?
On this day, Zhou Long came to Xing Yu in the morning and told him that he would go to see a large number of models together in the afternoon and prepare to take them back to Xi'an to operate. Asked him not to run around, Xing Yu sat in the reception hall and watched the news, and a few people in suits and leather shoes walked in, and opened their mouths to ask, "Are you leaders here?" Let's negotiate a business.
One of the leaders of the head office asked a little question. pulled Xing Yu down to his side and said, "You talk to my colleague first." Just wait for him to understand and tell me, I still have something to do, so I'll go out first.
Xing Yu knew that he was being pulled to top the thunder. But this is also the task assigned by the leader, so let's talk about it first.
Found a larger reception room and served tea. Xing Yu also sat to the side decently.
"Hello, my name is Yuan Lin, I am the manager of the corporate cooperation department of Guoyixin Company, we just want to introduce our installment products to see if there is any possibility of cooperation. The visitor handed over a business card and introduced himself first.
"Hello, Hello, sit down and have a cup of tea. Xing Yule is happy, it seems that the little leader of the headquarters is not just looking for someone to stand up to the thunder, this is annoyed by the fact that he has asked about the staging in the past few days, and he happened to be dozing and met the pillow, so he directly let himself receive professionals.
I took the business card with both hands, and it was a very ordinary white cardboard material, with a simple company leader written on it, and the name and position written below. The position is written as the president of the enterprise, Xing Yu doesn't care, is the business card just to brag to himself, Xing Yu has been a sales manager written on the business card since the beginning of sales.
"Does your company have any promotional materials? Can you show me first?" Xing Yu has been exposed to it over the years, and he still sells pencil cases easily.
I flipped through the company's introduction, and found that the information I had learned was similar to the one I had learned recently.
"Do you have any plans to do business elsewhere? We are a national company, and the demand for this is much stronger than ours for local brother companies. Xing Yu quickly raised the issues he was most concerned about.