"I don't know the specifics, but when I first started work this morning, the marketing manager told me that there was a piracy of electronic pets on the market and gave me a document. ”

Denning pulled out a document from his briefcase.

Xu Qing took it, and it was written that New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Tokyo, and Osaka in Japan were suspected of piracy of electronic pets yesterday.

After repeated confirmation, the people of Honor Company determined that it was a pirated version of the electronic pet.

And after a preliminary understanding, there are about 30 stores that sell electronic pet piracy, and although the sales volume is not as good as the genuine electronic pet, it is not bad.

In the three hours that the Honor people observed these stores, the average was about 40 or so sold per store.

At present, the piracy of electronic pets has not spread, and if it develops further and expands in popularity, sales will increase more and more.

At the end of the document are the specific addresses of these stores, which are not in good location.

Xu Qing put down the documents, Xu Qing sent people to station in various electronic pet sales areas around the world, and asked the sales channels in the region to assist in the first time to know the piracy of electronic pets.

The electronic pet was released at Christmas, 13 days after now.

In 13 days, piracy appeared in the United States and Japan, which was still a bit unexpected by Xu Qing, who thought it would appear in a month.

The production of electronic pets is very simple, and there are genuine electronic pet references, but the whole process is down, and it is unlikely that it will appear on the market in less than a month.

It's kind of weird.

"Let's go and see the San Francisco shops that sell pirated electronic pets. ”

Xu Qing wanted to go and see the situation of these stores in person and find out what the store owners thought.

Xu Qing went to the store closest to his villa, and more than 40 minutes later, Xu Qing, Denning, and Carlyle came to the store.

All 3 people have been dressed up to prevent others from being recognized.

Xu Qing first observed the surrounding environment of the store, and the word clutter can be well described.

It is surrounded by low, mottled rooms, and the narrow streets on both sides are piled up with all kinds of messy things.

And the store is no better, it looks like it has been spilled with sewage, and it is dirty.

Xu Qing entered the store alone, and Denning and Carlyle did not come in.

The area of the store is small, more than 10 square meters, and there are two shelves on which a wide variety of goods such as shampoo, matches, cigarettes, lighters, soy sauce and so on are placed.

The store was supposed to be a grocery store.

There was a middle-aged white man on the counter, and when he saw Xu Qing, he didn't have any expression, let alone say anything welcome.

Xu Qing didn't care, the behavior of middle-aged white people was normal, and the behavior of most small remote grocery store owners was similar to that of middle-aged white people.

Xu Qing walked to the counter and asked the middle-aged white man in a low voice: "Boss, I heard that you have electronic pets for sale here." ”

The middle-aged white man raised his head and looked at Xu Qing carefully, shook his head and said, "I don't have electronic pets for sale here, you go to Walmart and Barnes & Noble bookstores to buy them, they have them." ”

The caution of the middle-aged white man was expected by Xu Qing, after all, it was a pirated electronic pet, and it was impossible to sell it openly, and the punishment for piracy in the United States was still relatively severe.

"Oh shit, I mean Glory damn it, they set the price of the electronic pet so high, $25 a piece! $25 I can go to Luofa Street for a night, it's too expensive, I can't afford it." ”

When Xu Qing spoke, he deliberately made the tattered and cheap clothes he was wearing more conspicuous.

Before coming, Xu Qing and the three of them spent more than 20 minutes to find some tattered and cheap clothes to wear on their bodies.

Otherwise, the three of them are wearing expensive clothes, it is too suspicious, and rich people would buy pirated electronic pets, who would believe it.

The middle-aged white man still shook his head and refused: "Which guy are you listening to nonsense, I really don't have electronic pets for sale here." ”

Xu Qing wondered if his dress should be enough to confuse a middle-aged white man into believing that he was a poor man.

Could it be that his temperament is too outstanding, and the middle-aged white man can see through his somewhat dirty face and tattered and cheap clothes that his outstanding temperament is not an ordinary person.

Xu Qing changed his tone and said: "Boss, my friends all have electronic pets, only I don't, I feel that they are all far away from me, I need electronic pets!"

The middle-aged white man looked at Xu Qing fixedly for a few seconds and said, "Okay, young man, I have an electronic pet here, it only costs 8 dollars." ”

The middle-aged white man took out a small box from under the counter and handed it to Xu Qing.

Xu Qing's first feeling when his hand touched this small box was roughness, and then he carefully looked at the appearance of the small box.

A small gray cardboard box, only one of which has an electronic pet written on it, and other than that, there is no decoration on this small box.

"Boss, why is this box so rough?"

"This is a pirated electronic pet, and the box is definitely not as good as the original. ”

Xu Qing sighed, first gave the middle-aged white man $8, and then opened the box on the spot and took out the electronic pet inside.

The first impression is that it is too bad! Off-white screen, shell with a lot of impurities, the gap between the screen and the shell, the gap between the shell and the shell connection are very large, it is estimated that it is no problem to stuff a small toothpick.

The feel is also very poor, and the rough one is compared with the packaging box.

"Boss, this electronic pet is different from my friend, it's too ugly!"

"This is a pirated electronic pet, and the quality is definitely not as good as the genuine one. "It's pretty much the same thing for middle-aged white people.

Xu Qing sighed again, pressed the button of the electronic pet, and it took more than 10 seconds for the screen to appear, several times slower than the genuine electronic pet, and after more than 10 seconds, a puppy appeared on the screen.

The scene of the screen is very similar to the genuine electronic pet, but this puppy is too ordinary, right, although not ugly, but not cute at all, those who engage in piracy do not know that the most important selling point of electronic pets is cute?

Xu Qing thought about it, the person who made the pirated version now should not have time to design the original painting well, and it is normal for an ordinary puppy to appear.

With more and more piracy, some pirates will do every aspect of the electronic pet no less than the genuine one.

At the end of the day, it's still that digital pets are too simple and too easy to pirate.

If you have a core technology like Nintendo, the cost of piracy will be very high, and the quality of piracy will be much worse than that of the genuine version.

"Boss, how is the picture of this electronic pet different from my friend, it's too ugly!"

The middle-aged white man was already a little impatient, and scolded in a low voice: "Damn, this is a pirated electronic pet, how can it be the same as the genuine one!"

Xu Qing continued to sigh and asked, "Since pirated electronic pets are so bad, why don't you sell genuine electronic pets?"