Chapter 33: A New Formula
Because many fishing tackle shops in Beijing are purchased from here, so as soon as the merchants here hear that you are here to buy the goods, they will quote you a lower wholesale price, as for whether you really take it back and sell it, who cares about you, as long as the quantity you want meets the wholesale scale.
Two people with a hammer in the east and a stick in the west, scurrying around in different merchants, when it was time to go, Wang Jian's Cherokee was almost unloaded, from the fishing umbrella, rod bag, fishing rod, fish hook, fish drift and other fishing things Hong Tao bought a little, the large ones are generally bought the same, the consumables were bought a little more, and the most I bought was 2 large bags of 400 catties of pellet feed.
Hong Tao originally prepared the bait to buy pellet feed in the official garden, almost 1 yuan a catty, and the pellet feed here is only 3 cents a catty, Hong Tao asked Wang Jian about the load capacity of the car, and bought 400 catties at once, which pressed Wang Jian's car a little up.
Back at the fishing tackle shop, Wang Jian said that he was going to pick up his daughter-in-law, bought 2 bags of bait and left. Hong Tao took Gao Ming and began to label those fishing gear on the shelves, listening to Gao Ming said, in the afternoon, a lot of people came to buy bait, about 20 bags were sold. It seems that the advertising effect of going fishing in the West Sea has begun to ferment, and today's daily turnover is close to 3,000, which is too easy to make.
With fishing rods buried on the shelves, fishing hooks and lines stacked on the counters, and fishing umbrellas and rod bags placed in the open space, Hong Tao's fishing tackle shop finally looks like a fishing tackle shop, but if you look closely at the labels of those fishing tackles, you can make the fishing people angry. In addition to the bait, all the fishing gear is labeled with "samples not for sale", you don't ask how much it is, you are even more angry when you ask, and the answer is two words: no stock.
It's out of stock, what kind of fishing tackle shop do you open! In fact, Hong Tao didn't mean to tease everyone, he didn't want to sell these fishing gear at all, because compared to his bait, the profits were too low, so low that they were negligible. And these fishing gear from all the way from Hebei, once you bid the price is moderate, sell it, you still have to buy goods, Hong Tao at this time and he has no car, the purchase has to beg others, rather than spend where to give up that face, not to make money, it is better to use these fishing gear as samples to support the façade, to make money and rely on bait.
After Hong Tao personally went to the West Sea to advertise his bait, the color scale fishing tackle shop is no longer like the door of the first few days of opening, every day there are fishing friends who come here to see, even if they think the bait is too expensive and do not want to buy, they are willing to come to see this fishing tackle shop and this master boss in person, because according to legend, the bait here is prepared by the little boss himself, no matter what waters, what weather, as long as there are fish in it, it is a fishing quasi.
This is not just a rumor, because most of the fishermen who have this special effect bait are fishermen who play in the West Sea, so most of the people who buy these baits are these people, and the boss who contracts the West Sea is unlucky these days, and he can usually catch 10 fish a day, even if he is the champion of the day, but with the increase in the number of bait sold by Hong Tao, there are many people who catch 2 or 30 fish a day in the West Sea, and it is said that there are more than 50 fish caught in a day, whenever they take the fish to the contractor where to sell, The contractor's tears were about to fall. According to the angler who came to buy bait, the person who contracted the West Sea had already released his words, and he was ready to understand that he would not continue to contract, and was looking for someone to take over.
Hong Tao's heart jumped a little when he heard the news, and he had some thoughts, the location of Xihai is really good, not only located in the center of the city, but also living water, its upstream is connected to the Jingmi Aqueduct, and the water quality is already good. And according to Hong Tao's memory, in a few years, it will become a gathering place for bars in Beijing, and a large high-end courtyard house will be built on the north bank. At that time, the fish ticket cost was already 50 people, and there was an endless stream of people who came to fish, which was a treasure of feng shui.
However, Hong Tao finally suppressed his idea of contracting, for only one reason: his connections were too shallow to play such a big field. Xihai is not like those small ponds dug by themselves in the suburbs of Beijing, as long as they pay on time, they can be contracted, and it is strictly called Jishuitan Park, which belongs to the management of the Beijing Park Scenery Management Office, that is, it is a state-owned asset.
If you want to play here, you have to know at least a person from the management office, or maybe it will be contracted to you this year, and then it will not be contracted to you next year, as for how many years of contract you said to sign, this thing and the national government department said that it really doesn't work, when the time comes, you have to go, you have to go, as for compensation or something, people are happy to give you a three melons and two dates, and if you are not happy, you will go where you will sue, there are 10,000 very legitimate reasons waiting for you.
Hong Tao pondered his current situation, it seems that he does not have the conditions to contract and manage well, and Hong Tao is not willing to let a West Sea tie up all his energy, the reason why he looks at the covetousness is mainly because there is too little water surface in Beijing for the entertainment and leisure of the people.
As for whether the boss who contracted Xihai lost or made in the end, whether he really subcontracted or not, it has nothing to do with Hong Tao P, and he doesn't have to feel guilty because of the loss caused to the contractor by his bait, since you dare to open a fish pond, don't be afraid of others fishing more, this is an eternal truth.
At present, the most important thing for Hong Tao is to readjust the formula of the bait and reduce the effect of the bait to attract fish, otherwise the bosses of other pole pits will have to follow suit! It is easy to adjust this ratio, and it is enough to test it one at a time; It's hard to say, because you have to find this heat, which should be stronger than other baits to attract fish, but not too strong, and this degree is difficult to find.
However, Hong Tao is not afraid of trouble, every day he arrives at the store, he takes a fishing rod, mixes several different proportions of bait, runs to the back sea at the door, and tries it for a day. The hard work pays off, less than a week, he tried out the most suitable ratio, compared with the mainstream bait on the market at this time, the bait has a stronger ability to attract fish, and is less affected by the water conditions, fish conditions, and weather, but if you choose the fishing position too much, the fishing skills are too poor, it is impossible to harvest very large, in general, people who can fish with a use, it is obvious that you can feel the effect, but it will not be too against the sky.
Although it took several days to adjust the formula, Hong Tao did not suffer, because the cost of the bait of this new formula is lower, the original bag of bait of 50 yuan can almost be matched into more than 3 bags, but the price of Hong Tao has not dropped, it is still so expensive, which is equivalent to raising the price more than 3 times in disguise, of course, these things Hong Tao will rot in the stomach, and no one will say.
Hong Tao also kept the original formula, and allocated a small part to hide it in the cabinet in the office and lock it, which Hong Tao planned to use for himself or for a related household like Gao Fat. After the new bait was matched, Hong Tao immediately took the original bait off the shelf, and then continued to sell the new bait, a few days later, there were also a few fishing friends to find it back, saying that the newly bought bait was not as easy to use as the original, but Hong Tao did not admit that the bait had changed, just said that the weather became colder, the fish activity was less, and the amount of food intake declined.
Although some customers are still a little skeptical, but what Hong Tao said is also reasonable, it will soon enter November, many pole pits have begun to clear the pit, even if they want to find out the difference between the two through multiple tests, they have to wait for the spring of next year, by that time, the validity period on the Hong Tao label will work, the validity period is only 3 months, and the effect will naturally decline after expiration, which is nothing to say. In fact, Hong Tao himself doesn't know how long the validity period of the road is, anyway, after his test, the earliest configuration of the bait has been almost 4 months so far, and it is still effective.
It's about to enter the winter, and there are fewer and fewer people in the fishing tackle shop, even if someone comes, most of them are not here to buy things, and it's really uncomfortable to be idle without fishing, and Hong Tao has a place to stay here, and there are a few fishing friends who are very familiar with Hong Tao and have nothing to do in the color scale fishing tackle shop to sit for a while, chat, brag, summarize this year, and look forward to next year.