Li Guoqing is a digital hipster.

This Li Guoqing is not Li Guoqing, the founder of Dangdang.com, he is the editor-in-chief of a digital magazine located in Wuyang.

For more than ten years, he has collected countless dolls and digital products, and his biggest hobby is to travel around the world with his dolls and take photos for doll tours.

For such a person, becoming a fan of Brilliant mobile phones is probably a doomed result.

Because of the convenience of work and personal hobbies, he used more than 40 mobile phones, and for a long time, he changed them almost every few months.

"It's unthinkable not to change your phone for three months. But after he started using the Gphone, he said, the habit came to an abrupt end.

"There's no way to switch to a different model, not because the Gphone is too easy to use as a phone, but because it's a completely different concept, or even a different way of life. ”

Li Guoqing said that last year, Guanghui Mobile also had normal market activities and public relations activities in the Celestial Empire.

For example, Gphone, there will often be new machines lent out to media for trial.

In many big cities, there are also many activities from time to time.

He clearly remembers that at the beginning of 2007, there were intensive large-scale Gphone advertisements in the imperial capital subway.

At that time, the Guanghui mobile phone was a product relatively far away from the ordinary consumers of the Celestial Empire, and here, more people sought after Sony from the island country.

From the time the first Alkman was introduced, making music portable with us, Sony's digital products have been at the forefront of fashion.

Before becoming a "light fan", Li Guoqing has always been a loyal supporter of Sony, starting from the first Alkman in high school, Li Guoqing often pays for Sony's high-priced new products.

Sony has both DC and DV. And the first Sony notebook he bought at the beginning of the 21st century cost more than 20,000 yuan, which was four times his monthly salary at that time.

In 2005, he bought Sony's TX notebook again, which he thought was thin, well designed, and cool.

In fact, in Hong Kong and the treasure island area, because of the relatively strong consumption power, there have always been a large number of supporters of stylish Sony products.

However, in recent years, Sony's influence has been declining, and the sales of Sony products in the Celestial Empire are not as popular as Gphone.

Of course, price is a very important factor.

When it comes to pricing, the maverick Jiang Hui and his glorious mobile phone seem quite sophisticated.

The original Gphone only cost more than 2,000 yuan in the Celestial Empire, and today's Gpad can be bought from more than 3,000 yuan.

Such a technical product that understands the psychological price of the middle class will inevitably become popular in this era of globalization.

It's just that, for various reasons, consumers in the Celestial Empire can only quench their thirst through parallel imports for the time being. This new product was hotly discussed and conjectured around the world when it was launched, and after the product was launched, it quickly spread out parallel sales channels to the world, and it has also become an indispensable scenery of Guanghui mobile phone.

"Do you want to buy the final Gpad that was brought back yesterday by human flesh for only 8,888 yuan," a scalper in his early twenties came to Li Guoqing and asked.

The eyes of these scalpers are also very powerful, watching Li Guoqing linger at the door of the Wuyang flagship store of Guanghui Mobile Phone for a few minutes, and immediately stepped forward to talk.

"The current domestic price of Gpad announced by Guanghui mobile phone is 2999 yuan and 3666 yuan, what is your 8888 yuan?", Li Guoqing asked.

"Hey, buddy, yes, the Gpad price of Guanghui mobile phone in China is only 2999 yuan, which is more than 5,000 yuan cheaper than my 8888 yuan, but you have to buy it. You may not know, people Gpad is more expensive in the United States than in China, even so, it is difficult to find, I don't know when the glorious mobile phone will be listed in China, what is the use of just announcing a domestic price", the scalper estimated that he heard too much of this kind of question, and Li Guoqing, who retorted with a crackle, was speechless.

Yes, Gpad is more expensive to sell in the United States than in China, and it earns US dollars, in the case of short supply, why should Guanghui mobile phones be in a hurry to sell in China?

"Your 8,888 yuan is still low," Li Guoqing said.

"Hey, there are no 10,000 high-end ones, don't even think about it, you go to other houses and ask, there is nothing cheaper than me", the scalper said a little arrogantly.

"You guys are too dark, almost three times the domestic price", although Li Guoqing can also afford to spend 10,000 yuan on a mobile phone, but spending 10,000 yuan to buy a product that originally only costs a few thousand yuan, it is a bit unacceptable.

"Dude, if you can get the goods at the domestic price announced by the Guanghui mobile phone, I will double it for you, how many you want."

"Your goods are all genuine, won't they be high imitations from Huaqiang's north?"

"What are you kidding, you go around and inquire, when did my cat brother sell fakes? For Gpad, we have specially developed a human flesh channel from the United States to China, and all the goods are brought from the United States, which is why we sell them expensive. There is a saying that someone does the business of killing people, but no one does the business of losing money. Now you understand why we sell parallel goods expensive," said the scalper.

The origin of the term "parallel goods" is that in the early days, in order to evade customs duties and other reasons, smugglers would seal the goods transported by foreign ships in plastic bags and put them into the shallow sea as agreed, and then take a small boat from the land to the place to pick up the goods.

Therefore, it is generally used as a general term for smuggled goods and products sold through abnormal channels.

In the past, the most parallel domestic mobile phone imports were Samsung, Sony Ai and Motorola, but there were not many industry leaders Nokia.

It's all about profit.

For example, Samsung mobile phones, the price of parallel goods is only 60% of the price of licensed goods, because the price difference is very large, so Samsung parallel goods are very popular, becoming the first major parallel goods brand worthy of the name.

The price difference between Nokia's line and water is not obvious, generally only about two or three hundred yuan, and the weak price difference is difficult to stimulate the desire of consumers to buy, which is the reason why there are few Nokia parallel goods on the market.

However, since the launch of Gphone of Radiant Mobile, scalpers have one more option for their business.

However, unlike other parallel goods business, Gphone's parallel goods are not popular because they are cheap, but because the market is too out of stock.

Relying solely on the supply of domestic specialty stores, some people who are not bad for money really don't want to toss.

After all, for some people, a problem that can be solved with money is not a problem.

"Okay, let's look at the goods, as long as you are sure that it is genuine, it will be more expensive", Li Guoqing, as a digital hipster, is actually more aware of the situation in the parallel market, and there is also a friend who is also an enthusiast who bought a Gpad at a higher price.

Scalpers can earn some Gpad money in the past few months, and business will not be so good in the future.

"Come on, come with me."

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(End of chapter)