Courtyard Houses: Starting as a Purchasing Agent

Judging from your selling price, you sell it to the people of China for 500 yuan a unit, so fine, you give me 250 yuan in taxes. You sell it for 600 yuan, so you give me 300 yuan.

That's how high it is.

Little Neon also needs to ensure its own profit. Under normal circumstances, their cost is 180 yuan. The cost of transporting from Neon to China plus the distribution cost is about 230 yuan, plus a profit of 70 yuan per unit.

That would cost 300.

The key issue is that there's also double the tariff.

So when this thing gets into the hands of ordinary people, it becomes priced at 600 yuan.

But Xiao Ni Hong can only earn 70 yuan per TV set.

This gives us a price advantage.

I sell them for 300 each, you sell them for 600 each.

Who will the people choose?

No need to think about it.

With its huge price advantage, Liu Aiguo's televisions instantly entered the market.

On the busiest street, Wangfujing, the doors of a nearly 200-square-meter prime shop in a central location slowly opened.

The red cloth covering the entrance was unveiled the moment the first rays of the autumn sun set.

Shenlong TV Specialty Store in Sijiucheng!

The words are large, clear, and impressive.

The decoration of this storefront alone has overshadowed all the other large storefronts around it.

Looking at the store's decor, the lights are bright, and the spotless floor tiles shine brightly.

A dozen or so pretty girls in work uniforms stood at the door.

The bustling crowds on Wangfujing Street paused slightly at this moment, with many people stopping in their tracks and turning their gazes in that direction.

"Huh... a TV specialty store?"

"Are you selling TVs?"

"Wait... what kind of TV is this?"

"Shenlong TV? Never heard of it."

"I know... Didn't a TV factory in Beijing recruit workers a while ago? Could this be a TV set produced by that factory?"

"Let's go... let's go take a look!"

"What an impressive store!"

"The waitresses are beautiful too!"

……

In this day and age, bicycles are no longer a luxury item.

What people remember most fondly is the television set.

That's right...

At that time, television was like the bicycle Liu Aiguo had just traveled through time—something many people could only dream of but never have.

Bicycles, most of them are domestically made; you can buy one if you have a ticket.

But televisions are different; initially, they were only available as foreign products.

You want to buy it?

Sorry, there's nowhere to buy it.

Because imported goods don't have dedicated stores, once they enter the market, they're taken by various second-generation rich kids and circulated among high-end individuals.

An ordinary eight-inch neon TV set could cost over a thousand yuan, up from six hundred.

The department store had no stock at all.

And now, it has arrived.

Domestically made products are here.

"They're really selling TVs..."

"Very good……"

How much does one cost?

"Can I watch it?"

A dozen or so young people flooded into the shop. Some genuinely wanted to buy something, some just wanted to watch the excitement, and others were there because of the pretty girls. Everyone had different motives, but the sales clerk treated them all seriously.

"Clap clap clap..."

With a series of operations, more than a dozen television sets were turned on, displaying various images.

Some are clear, some are blurry...

This has nothing to do with the TV set; it's related to the channel and the signal.

Liu Guangtian was assigned to be the store manager of this newly opened specialty store, and he personally climbed up the utility pole to adjust the signal.

Finally, after more than ten days, the television screen became clear again.

"Our own television set made in Beijing..." Liu Guangtian used the same old trick, advertising through the megaphone: "A 14-inch black and white TV, only 300 yuan!"

"If you take three hundred yuan home, you'll be the coolest kid in your compound!"

This advertising slogan was learned from Liu Aiguo.

"How many?"

"Three hundred per unit?"

"so cheap?"

"It's crazy..."

People don't really believe it.

After all, those imported Japanese stuff sells for a whopping 600 yuan apiece, and the worst part is they're always out of stock. By the time you actually get your hands on one, it's already over 1,000 yuan.

Liu Guangtian almost vomited blood: After announcing such a low price, instead of a buying frenzy, it attracted even more criticism.

Why is your TV so cheap?

"Your TVs aren't fake, are they?"

"It can't be fake, but the quality is probably not very good!"

"Definitely not!"

"If it were possible, it wouldn't be sold this cheap!"

Liu Guangtian vomited blood!

"No!" He quickly picked up the megaphone and explained, "The televisions we produce are absolutely reliable in quality. The boss said they come with a three-year free warranty, and you can return them if you're not satisfied within seven days!"

"We have official 1.5 invoices and national sales certificates. Take a look!"

"We're a big company, you know. We recently recruited 5,000 people in Beijing... We're not kidding!"

After hearing this, people immediately began to believe it.

"Three hundred really... Okay, give me one, I want one..."

Three hundred yuan is a lot of money for most ordinary people, but it's not much either.

After all, a high salary is two or three hundred a month, and a low salary is forty or fifty. Buying a TV is difficult, but it is definitely not unaffordable.

And so, on the first day, Liu Guangtian's store sold twenty television sets.

This thing spreads like wildfire.

The next day, there were eighty units.

On the third and fourth days, more than one hundred vehicles left.

The prices kept rising, and Liu Guangtian couldn't keep up with the demand for delivery and installation technicians.

Chapter 135 The First Television Set in the Courtyard

Shenlong TVs are a hit.

And it became incredibly popular.

It's not that production can't keep up, but that there are too few sales channels.

Many people want to buy it, but they can't buy it directly.

The problem now is that no one expected it to become this popular so suddenly, so there aren't enough installers.

The factory had no choice but to temporarily transfer more than 200 employees from other factories, train them on installation overnight, and request a large number of delivery trucks to alleviate the problem.

The key point is that, in the entire city of Beijing, there is currently only this one exclusive store.