Chapter 0914: Squeezing the Market
The country is surrounded by water on three sides, the Black Sea to the north, the Aegean Sea to the west, and the Mediterranean Sea to the south. The main body of the peninsula is the Anatolian Peninsula, which is only connected to the Arabian Peninsula in the Middle East to the east.
As a result, the coastline of the native chicken is particularly long, and there are a large number of port villages and towns along the coast, so it is very easy to transport goods ashore, and it is especially easy to smuggle.
The chicken merchant that Ilham contacts is a typical smuggler, and he is a local tyrant in the town. The house is a large walled courtyard with imported satellite TV receivers installed on the roof.
It's just that European goods are too expensive for ordinary people to afford.
The people in the town still like to watch the excitement, and when they heard that there were goods in demand, they came to the local tyrant's house and waited around the yard. The local tyrant did not let go of this opportunity for publicity, and moved a large color TV to the courtyard to demonstrate to everyone.
Assembly, positioning, wiring, these are not difficult.
A twisted pair cable is drawn down from the 'pot' that receives the signal, and the main body of the receiver is like a set-top box, placed on top of the color TV. In particular, this device is equipped with a remote control.
The TV is placed at home and can be operated from the couch.
According to the instructions, everything is very simple. As long as you adjust the direction of the roof's receiving antenna slightly, clear pictures and sounds will soon be transmitted from the TV.
Wow...... there was an uproar inside and outside the courtyard of the local tyrant.
Televisions have to have a signal to do this, but cable TV is not yet popular. Every household either uses an Yagi antenna, or just makes a 'pot'.
The Yagi antenna is the simplest, and a few cans can be put together. But its acceptance effect is too average, far less than the acceptance of low-orbit satellites.
The local tyrant pressed the remote control in his hand, adjusted several sets in a row, and was very satisfied, and said to Ilham: "This acceptance effect is good, it is simple to use, and it is much stronger than French goods." How much does it cost? ”
The price had been said on the radio before going ashore, and Ilham understood that the tyrant was going to tell the crowd of onlookers. He pondered it for a moment and said, "The retail price is five hundred dollars, and more than ten units can be discounted by 20%. ”
This is certainly not the transaction price of the two sides, but the local tyrant in the town held the remote control, pointed to the beautiful European hostess on the TV screen, and shouted around:
"Look, something so good costs five hundred dollars a piece. Buy one and go back, and you'll have something to do at night. I know some TV stations that show good things. Buying more can be cheaper, which is half the price of French goods. ”
There is a whole set of smuggling sales channels in the town, and everyone makes a living from it. The local tyrant businessman is obviously a core, and the distributors who surround his family are the ones who surround him.
At this shout, someone immediately stood up and wanted to talk carefully and inspect the goods.
The price of the 'Holy Light' in Odessa is $200 per unit, and the retail price is certainly much higher. But no matter how expensive it is, it can still be done half as cheaper than European goods.
On the day Ilham arrived at Tuji Port, all 3,000 satellite receivers were loaded and unloaded. The distributors in the town crowded over to get the goods, and after a night's work, all the supplies were divided.
That night, more than 200 receiving antennas were erected in the town. Residents find their nightlife very exciting. The abundance of TV shows is beyond imagination, especially the late-night slots, which make people sleepless at night.
European TV stations, that scale is quite large. Europeans don't realize it themselves, but it is a crit to a **** society like a local chicken, which is very beneficial to increasing the birth rate of babies next year.
With this practice, the distributors in this town are even more excited and confident in the goods in their hands. The next day, they drove various means of transport and carried goods inland.
At this time, it is a race against time, and the sooner you sell it, the more you can return the funds and buy the next wave.
Yilham made money on a trip, lived in the town's tycoon's house that day, ate roast mutton in the courtyard at night, and asked if other goods sold well except for the receiver?
"Almost every family in the town has relatives in Europe, especially many who go to Germany to work. Everyone has more or less some remittance income, and their vision is also high, and they can't look down on ordinary things. ”
When the local tyrant said this, he was quite proud in his heart.
After World War II, the European economy entered a period of rapid recovery, and labor became scarce. The French thought of their black uncles in their North African colonies, and the Germans pondered their old friend.
So Uncle Black poured into 'Fransstan' in large numbers, and the local chicken laborers worked desperately for 'Deutsche Sman'. France and Germany, the economic engines of Europe, felt they were too smart.
Just look at it in fifty years...... I don't know if it's smart or stupid. Anyway, let's just watch the joke from afar.
"The goods from Ukraine are really suitable for us. Before, the home appliances were sold very well, the styles were all up-to-date, and the prices were cheap. But ......"
Tuhao said but frowned, "There are too many household appliances recently. ”
"Too much?" Ilham was eating sliced lamb and was a little strange about it, "Can't you sell it?" ”
"It's sold out, it's cheap and easy to use, and everyone likes it." The local tyrant first affirmed, but still shook his head and said: "But the trouble is that there are so many smuggled goods that they affect the sales of our own domestic goods." ”
Native chickens also have a home appliance industry, and internal and external sales are part of its economy. However, since 92, 'Holy Light' has been reducing the sale of 'e-waste' in China to protect its own industry, and instead ship goods abroad for dumping.
The home appliances purchased from the e-commerce plane have been renovated, and both performance and price are incomparable with opponents. The local chicken provoked Uncle Zhou, and immediately found that there were more than ten times more household appliances smuggled on weekdays than in the past.
This increase of order of magnitude has terrible collateral effects. On the surface of the Black Sea are a large number of smuggling ships, which are transshipped from Odessa and then put into the domestic and foreign markets of local chickens, which directly exerts huge competitive pressure on their industries.
"I don't know why, now the 24-inch color TV is half cheaper than in the past, but the number shipped is several times more. I went to several cities and found that none of our domestic color TVs or even European brand color TVs could be sold. ”
"I talked to some owners of electrical appliance stores, saying that if this situation is not stopped, our home appliance industry will be crushed." ”
Ilham stopped the knife and asked in a low voice: "Then you will resist the smuggled electrical appliances from Odessa in the future?" ”
The local tyrant immediately waved his hand and said unceremoniously: "How can it be done?" Is it all the people in our town who depend on this business for their food? At least one or two hundred ports along the coast are doing this. If we don't do it, others will do more.
The electrical appliances shipped by the 'Holy Light' are cheap and good, who doesn't like it? Even the owner of an electrical appliance store is reluctant to make this profit. They just complained, and if there was no smuggling, they would complain even louder. ”
Yilham thought that these local chicken guys had suddenly changed their sex, and when they heard that they were still greedy for money as always, he was immediately reassured. In his opinion, the home appliance industry of the local chicken is dead, and there is still one less competitor.
The patriotism of the local tyrant failed to resist the pursuit of wealth, but he was still very worried about the state of the country, "In addition to the inability to sell domestic household appliances, our textiles seem to have been affected recently." ”