Chapter 10: The First Scam

Guangzhou is a place full of pedestrians in a hurry, and you never know why they are in such a hurry. There are only those luggage lying quietly in the urban village, cotton tires, straw mats, dilapidated sofas, and woolen dolls lying on the side with their heads drooping...... All these are calling the migrant workers, and the dreams of one gold digger after another are shattered.

However, no one ever cares about the so-called losers. No one cares if the piles up are garbage or the dreams of migrant workers...... For the sake of their own beautiful dreams, people will still come here one after another to seek dreams, chase dreams, and realize dreams.

Then there was the rise of one high-rise building after another, and one dream after another was witnessed.

Guangzhou is a place that witnesses miracles......

"Either busy dying, or busy being born again; Crises are often times like turning points. That's how Lao Ma commented on the migrant workers in Guangzhou.

"The first person to do something, is a genius; The second person to do something is talent; The last person to do something is talent; People who have to do nothing are stupid; Everyone who is willing to put in the hard work and sweat for their dreams is amazing! "I concluded that we should respect everyone's labor, even if they may be unfruitful due to various factors.

"But people say that time is money? I don't quite agree; If time is money for everyone, will there still be so many poor people? For this reason, Lao Ma questioned.

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Since there are almost zero competitors, and the market of second-hand notebooks is optimistic, our second-hand computer market is becoming more and more prosperous.

It's just that these days, we are all busy and happy, and the old stall is sitting at the back of the small shop, and he is still so tired that he still has a breath left: "The online and offline work is really tiring, but we should have no problem quadrupling our turnover this month." ”

"Yes, only by turning it twice can it be worthy of our lack of day and night assembly of products and packaging and delivery this month." I also lay down next to the old horse and said.

Anyone who has done e-commerce knows how painful it is to have an online business season, and it is very nerve-wracking to reply to negotiate prices online, and packaging and delivery offline. However, as an entrepreneur, Lao Ma and I are both painful and happy.

The old horse was more tired than me, except for being the only technician in the store, all the technical work fell on him, and this kid also had a hot fight with one of our clerks. After being busy in the store, I still have to accompany the girl to talk, sing, tease, and have fun, and I don't know how he did it.

"But I like the rhythm of life...... "The girl I met on the street kept avoiding contact with me, so I habitually shifted the focus of my life to work. If you want to turn sadness into motivation, you can completely forget that I have met her on the street.

During the three months of this period, Lao Ma and I were basically able to put our backs on the sofa and fall asleep.

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"Boss, is the time ripe for us to expand?"

"Well, when we are mature, we should hire more clerks and technicians, otherwise we will make more money and not lose our lives."

At the instigation of Ma Guoliang and my own confidence, after discussion, we unanimously decided to expand from the source of delivery.

That is to say, we have to skip the middleman Lao Wu and go directly to the dock to determine the source of foreign goods. As a result, our costs will be greatly reduced, and we will use all our working capital to expand our store to cope with the arrival of large-scale cheap goods.

I have to say that this is a commercial breakthrough, because we skip the middleman, then the cost will be halved, which means that if we can execute this business idea perfectly, we can make twice as much money per shipment than before, which is a 200% temptation.

Although we have to expand our warehouses and stores, we can still theoretically earn more when we calculate this amount.

The first batch of goods was picked up by me and Ma Guoliang, because we invested all the funds, so we couldn't afford to lose the first batch of goods, which meant that we had to take it seriously.

On the day I saw the goods, I was a little nervous and nervous, but on the other hand, Lao Ma was calm.

"Do you need to be so nervous?"

"If you don't feel nervous, there will be ghosts, I have grown so big, the first time I did a big business, the deposit alone is 45,000, which is much more than any time I have used in my life, I remember that the last time I paid the college tuition, it was only 5,500 yuan."

"Hehe, forget that the last time you paid the tuition fee was sewn in your pants."

Me: "......" poor people can't afford to hurt.

"The two bosses are really young talents, and they became bosses at such a young age." Ocean Container Tally, we were greeted by a kind middle-aged man with a sophisticated appearance: "The order 0000113321 the owner, this is your container." ”

"Thank you." When the tally clerk invited us to the ocean container, we thanked us in person.

"It is definitely Mingzhi's choice for you to skip Lao Wu and pick up the goods directly from me, and it is guaranteed to be more than half cheaper!" The middle-aged man said that he should pay more attention to our business.

"Hmm." Lao Ma said that he was not nervous, but after pulling out two boxes of accessories from the container, he was also extremely serious, and he checked it as if he was selfless.

"We are also partners with Lao Ma who is a technology fan, and he can't be idle when he sees computer accessories, don't mind." I guessed it was calm and said with a smile, and later learned that this middle-aged man's name was Chen Dadian, and he was the tally representative of the merchant we contacted.

"It's okay, it's okay, my goods will definitely stand the test." Chen Dadian was not afraid of internal injuries, and patted his chest hard.

"No problem!" We were greatly relieved when the old horse came back from the cargo inspection.

"Haha, I said there is no problem, come, uncle invites you two young talents to lunch together." Lao Chen saw that a big business was about to be completed, and said enthusiastically.

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The second time I went with the car to pick up the goods, it was Lao Ma, because he knew technology and didn't understand, and he couldn't help when he went, so the work of looking at the store was still more suitable for me.

Unfortunately, it rained heavily that day when the old horse came back with the car, and the electronic components could not withstand the wet damage. We had no choice but to skip the unpacking and inspection, and hurriedly recruited a group of part-time students from the school to seal the goods directly in the warehouse we had rented in advance.

When the warehouse was opened, it was already three days after the arrival of the goods.

"This ...... Is this our goods? "Lao Ma's expression was stunned as soon as he opened the box, he knew more technology than me, and I knew something was wrong as soon as I saw his expression.

"Questions?" I took the goods from the old horse's hand on computer technology, he stood there motionless, I pulled a bottom plate in his hand hard, he refused to let go, I had to open other boxes and take out a motherboard from it to observe carefully.

"Of course there is a problem!" Suddenly, he was suffering from a crazy old horse, his eyes were wide open, and he stared at a few motherboards in his hand as if he had seen a ghost, and quickly looked at it again and again.

"What's the problem?" I was also a little anxious, so I took a few pieces to look at, but I couldn't see anything.

"It's over!" The old horse threw the motherboard in his hand to the ground and roared.

"What?" I threw myself on the motherboard, and he didn't reply, unable to understand his behavior at all.

"These motherboards are all shoddy!"

"Shoddy? But what can't be seen from the outside? "I had a bit of luck in my heart that the old horse was wrong.

"You don't understand, chips can't work! It is a scrap product that was removed from other waste products and then put on! ”

"What!" I was also taken aback, "Is there any salvation?" ”

"Although the shape of these things is good, the whole value lies in the chip, or the integrated board, so do you have to change?"

"Worthless?" I said urgently.

"Yes!" Lao Ma gritted his teeth, on the one hand, he hated those who cheated us, and on the other hand, he blamed himself for not being eye-catching enough: "Blame me, you don't understand this, I trusted the people introduced by Lao Wu too much at that time, so I didn't check the second pick-up!" ”

"It's useless, this is a package adjustment plan, there are at least two boxes of good goods in the cabinet we looked at before, but there is not even a useful motherboard here, which proves that someone has done something in this process."

"I'll go find him now!" The old horse turned around angrily and was about to go out to find those people to theorize.

"No, you don't."

"What's not to do?"

"To be able to do such a brilliant thing, it must have been planned in advance." I said, "If you don't believe me, you can give a phone call and try it, I promise he's not in the city anymore." ”

Lao Ma still tried a few phone calls, and all of them were turned off, "Son of a bitch!" Even Lao Wu turned off his phone! Now what? ”

"It seems that Chen Dadian and Lao Wu are together, and when they saw that we had jumped their business, they made this move, drove out our two thorns, and made an example of them, so that no one would dare to openly do it against them and destroy their monopoly in the future."

"Let's do the aftermath together, and we can basically withdraw from this business without going into debt." I sighed and said, although I don't want to admit that I have already reached the Tao, but what can I do?

"Exit? We've just opened the market, so why not keep doing it? ”

"No money! There is no time! ”

"I don't have any money, I can ask my dad for it."

"If we don't have time, we will have a summer vacation soon, the store rent and manpower will drag us to death, and all of a sudden, we will not be able to find a reliable supplier in a short time."

"We still have the slips in hand, we can go and sue Chen Dadian, this bastard!"

"Forget it, a businessman like Lao Chen, who is so ordinary that he can't be ordinary anymore, will come up with a conspiracy, this kind of person who will not attract an audience even if he is pulled out of the street and shot a thousand or hundreds of times, and now he is running to our minds as the protagonist!" I'd say we're too tender.

"Ke Guoquan, casually saying that giving up is not your style!"

"Refusing to admit the facts in front of you is not your old horse's style." I took a deep breath and said, we must take care of his love during this period, otherwise he will magnify his mistakes and quarrel with me, and we will have only one consequence, that is, the ending of a shot and two breakups.

"Let's take a break, save our energy, and we'll have to clean up all the garbage later, which is enough for us to move for a while."

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It was the most painful time for me and Lao Ma, and the physical and mental trauma was more painful than that of a boxer after a big defeat. In addition, I have to take advantage of other people's rest time every night to run to the back of the school with computer parts on my back and throw these waste parts in sacks. In addition to the huge amount of loss, I am also frightened, afraid that people will know that there is a problem with our second-hand accessories, and other people who have already purchased it will have to return it, and then they can only go bankrupt.

"How?"

"Be careful, when I came to throw it the night before, I saw a poisonous snake infested, and it was even worse if I was accidentally bitten."

"Shh The old horse gasped after hearing this, this person is not afraid of the sky and the earth since he was a child, he is not afraid of lions, and he is not afraid of tigers, but he is most afraid of poisonous snakes!

Blame me Luo, the old horse is most afraid of snakes, and since that night, he has never wanted to go out with me at night. I had to carry my bag out and take out the garbage.

Because we were afraid that the deeds would be revealed, causing a collective panic and returning the goods, we didn't dare to ask the students to do the destruction at all. This incident took us nearly two months of time and energy, and we were physically and mentally exhausted and miserable.

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(To be continued...... )