Chapter 130: Pricing, Profiteering, and Profiteers (Three More Ten Thousand Words for Votes~!)
Regarding things like Dawning 101 Hair Growth Water, in fact, the potion that Beast Hank had studied before had made considerable progress. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info After he eliminated most of the side effects, all that was left of his medical potion was the regrowth of hair.
This hair regrowth is a stimulus to hair follicles throughout the body, which can regenerate hair follicles that have already died. Gives them the ability to grow hair again.
For a first-aid drug aimed at treating severe traumatic healing, this level of effect can really only be regarded as stimulating the growth of a few hairs. For the beast's original target, it was a hopelessly failed waste.
But when Li Jie corrected the thinking of several people and let this kind of thing change its direction, then it instantly became a miracle medicine. A miracle medicine that can make a group of people thirsty for knowledge!
Don't underestimate the middle-aged uncle's resentment against Xie Ding, and don't underestimate the financial resources that the middle-aged uncle has. It's like playing a game, if a middle-aged uncle who is obsessed with FGO or a ship girl is really ruthless to kryptonite, then those characters who are feared by elementary school students can only kneel obediently in front of the uncle.
Hank the Beast and Tony Stark are improving the Dawning 101 Hair Growth Potion very quickly. Because this kind of thing itself is symptomatic. The two of them just made appropriate improvements to the properties of the drug, changing the injectable drug, which made people feel a certain daunting, to a spreadable drug.
At the pre-launch meeting of the Illuminati on the release of the hair growth lotion, Li Jie once emphasized: "We are a high-tech product! It's not sheep placenta! It's easy to think of microplastic surgery with injections!"
"Before we sell a product, we need to know who our customers are. MOST MIDDLE-AGED MEN, ESPECIALLY THOSE WITH STRAIGHT PERSONALITIES, ARE VERY AVERSE TO MICROPLASTIC SURGERY!" LI JIE WAVED HIS FISTS, AND THE WAY HE SPOKE WAS VERY MUCH LIKE THAT OF CHINA'S FAMOUS RICH MAN, JACK-MA.
"We can't sell them this kind of thing with subliminal guidance. Although they won't notice it for a while, after a long time, some people will be repulsed. ”
Captain Rodgers had a different opinion on what Li Jie said: "I think it's similar to plastic surgery. I look at people on the news who inject hyaluronic acid and Botox into their faces, and they are also looking for beauty. And hair growth seems to be a similar pursuit. ”
Li Jie smiled and waved his hand, he paced and lowered his head. In a sonorous tone, he said: "This is completely different Captain! Plastic surgery and microplastic surgery are mostly for the pursuit of things that they didn't have before." For example, lip augmentation is because their lip line is not full enough. ”
"Breast enlargement is because the breasts are not big enough, and face slimming is to pursue a small face that you don't have. It can be said that these people are pursuing what they did not have in the first place. But hair growth is different. ”
"To save hair loss is to save what they had before: hair, and get it back! It's just a recapture station!" Li Jie slapped the table hard, making a bumping sound.
His current speech is reminiscent of a mysterious profession: MLM brainwasher, and maybe he really has that talent.
"I think we should make it a little simpler to use hair growth lotion. Li Jie crossed his arms and looked at Dr. Hank.
"For example, make a simple potion, preferably the same thing as a shampoo. Let the person who needs to use it wash the hair growth area he needs. Li Jie touched his chin and thought: "After all, it is a bit of a waste to stimulate the activity of hair follicles throughout the body, if it is still a good hair follicle, it will be a waste of resources." ”
Dr. Hank nodded, "If we really do that, then the use of cure genes can be reduced by quite a bit." This reduces the overall cost of production. ”
The healing factor that Dr. Hank is talking about is not extracted from Wolverine. If you have to get some genes from the old wolf every time you produce a bottle of hair growth lotion, then the old wolf will be sooner or later.
This self-healing factor was cultivated by Dr. Hank himself and is capable of multiplying on a large scale. However, the self-healing strength of this factor is simply pitiful, and it has no use other than to regrow hair.
The other ingredients in the hair growth lotion are actually useless, and the most important thing is this self-healing factor. Dr. Hank began to calculate, if it were to be done according to Richjack's idea. Then the amount of self-healing factors needed in the entire potion will drop significantly, and only about five percent of the original amount will be enough.
This can directly reduce the cost by 95%, which still seems to be very cost-effective. However, Dr. Hank still frowned: "But in this way, the activity of the self-healing factor will not be enough. They can't activate hair follicles continuously, nor can they really repair hair follicles completely. When the activity of the self-healing factor is lost, the hair follicle will also wither again. In this way, it is necessary to continuously replenish new self-healing factors to stimulate the hair follicles. ”
Li Jie slapped his face violently: "This is the effect you want!" He said excitedly: "Doctor, according to your calculations, how long can this stimulation of hair follicles be active?"
Dr. Hank took a bunch of data listed by a microcomputer and conducted simulation experiments before he said to Li Jie: "Theoretically, it can last for about 150 days, but I think 90 days is almost necessary to supplement the new self-healing factor." ”
"That's enough, Doctor!" Li Jie patted Hank on the shoulder and smiled like a profiteer: "If you completely cure those people who have lost their hair at once, then who will we sell our products to in the future? That's enough! We need to put a long line to catch big fish!"
Tony, Hank, Rogers, Charles, all four of them looked at Li Jie with black lines. For the first time, they found out that this guy was so treacherous.
"I suddenly felt like I had chosen the wrong partner. Tony said silently, "He's as ruthless as an arms seller." ”
In fact, Tony was still wrong, or he underestimated Li Jie's ruthlessness. When the first batch of hair growth products appeared, and after repeated cost calculations, everyone was surprised to find that the cost of this thing was much lower than expected. Plus all the costs, except for the uncontrollable logistics costs in the future.
A bottle of hair growth lotion costs only around seven dollars, which is a very low price. Of course, this is thanks to Li Jie who directly cut off 95% of the amount of self-healing factors used. Because of this move, the production cost of the entire potion was reduced.
As for the pricing, hehe.
"Thirty dollars, Doctor, are you crazy?!" Li Jie looked at Hank in disbelief, questioning the price proposed by Dr. Hank.
Well, it's a bit high at a cost of seven dollars, but we're actually going to make a lot of money at twenty dollars. Hank thought that Li Jie was questioning his price too high, so he took the initiative to lower the price.
"Doctor, I think you really can only do research in the lab. and cannot participate in business. Li Jie held his forehead and shook his head.
"But if the $20 price goes down, our margins are low. Hank said with a frown.
"Doctor, twenty dollars is right. Li Jie said to Hank earnestly, "But we're going to add a number in front of twenty dollars." It's one hundred and twenty dollars a bottle!"
Poof~!Tony, who was drinking coffee, squirted out together with Charles and Rogers. Li Jie's pricing is too ruthless. Something that costs seven dollars, and he wants to sell it for one hundred and twenty dollars?
That's a seventeen-fold increase in price. Tony turned out to be selling arms, and they all said that selling arms was profiteering. But purely from the perspective of the price-earnings ratio, the profit multiple of selling arms is far less than selling hair growth lotion!
Marx said: When the profit reaches 50 percent, the capitalist will do whatever it takes; when the profit reaches 100 percent, the capitalist will take a risk; and when the profit reaches 200 percent, the capitalist will dare to trample on all the laws, dignity, and morality of the world and sacrifice himself for money.
And what about a profit of 1,700 percent? a profit that would make any capitalist go crazy!
"Guys, don't look at me like that. The money is not for my own use. This is the money given to the public school, and in the end, it is also taken from the people and used by the people. Li Jie looked at the eyes of several other people in the illuminati meeting looking at him, just like Yang Bailao saw Zhou Papi.
Li Kit doesn't feel that his price is high. $120 guarantees that your hair will be thick and black for three months, and it will be grown naturally, not a hair transplant or wig.
The monthly expenses are only 40 US dollars, and when converted into RMB, it is less than 300 yuan. Is this price expensive? It's not expensive at all! This kind of price is affordable for most people, and Li Jie assures that those people will only think that this kind of price is very cheap!
After Li Jie's repeated persuasion, others finally accepted his price. After that, it was Tony who persuaded Peppard to take over the company.
The third day after Tony and Peppard said it was time for the first large-scale products to hit the market. The first batch of products was nearly 100,000 bottles. After reading the company's product descriptions and features, Peibo urgently convened a product launch event.
Because of the rush of time, many news outlets did not have time to arrive at the scene. However, many news media based in New York still came to the press conference. After all, this is Tony Stark's product launch.
His last product launch was a surprise to the world, and the launch of that new energy changed the pattern of the whole world. As a launch event, everyone was very interested in Tony's new product. This is especially interesting when people hear that this is Tony's privately run company, not a company owned by Stark Group.
What kind of invention would make Tony so careful that he wouldn't even let Stark interfere? The invited news media went to the scene of the product launch with great interest.
And when they felt the scene, they found that the scene of this press conference was completely different from the scene of the previous Stark Group press conference.
In the past, in addition to the media, the front row of the press conference was either political bigwigs, military representatives, and most importantly, various business elites.
But none of the veteran reporters who sat in the front row of the reserved seats today knew any of them. This makes many old reporters scratch their heads, which one is Tony Stark singing today?
"Jason, do you know these people sitting here?" Zhou Hai, a senior reporter for Xinhua News Agency, asked his AFP colleagues around him.
AFP reporter Jason watched for a long time and finally found a person he knew: "I know that person, the one in a blue suit." He is the Global Purchasing Manager for Carrefour France. ”
And Zhou Hai also found a person he knew at this time: "I also saw a person I know, that is Watson's Asia Operations Director?"
The two veteran reporters exchanged a look. It seems that Tony Stark's products can't have anything to do with Carrefour and Watsons.
In fact, in addition to the representatives of Carrefour and Watsons, there are also many supermarket figures, including Wal-Mart, Yaohan, etc. When they received Tony's invitation, they couldn't figure out what Tony was asking them to do.
Heavy weapons are not allowed to be sold in supermarkets!
However, when I saw many of my peers here, everyone was enlightened, and I am afraid that this time Tony is going to launch a civilian product.
And Zhou Hai and Jason also guessed this at this time. The two veteran reporters were a little excited, and Tony Stark was surprised every time. What surprises will you bring this time?!
Three more than 10,000 words~!