At 9 o'clock in the evening, that is, 9 o'clock in Lighthouse Country, Meg Whitman replied to Zheng Xigui's email after going to work.

Fifty-five million soft sister coins, which works out to more than 6 million U.S. dollars, and the annual interface fee is more than 6 million U.S. dollars. This price is too cheap compared to the lighthouse country.

eBay's annual advertising fee on AOL is US$18.75 million.

August 22, 2003.

After Zheng Xigui returned to the capital, he called Brother Ma.

"Mr. Ma, the headquarters has agreed. I will arrange for someone to sign the contract later."

"Thank you very much, Mr. Zheng. I will arrange for someone to prepare the contract first."

Zheng Xigui hurriedly called Brother Ma because he was afraid that Brother Ma would not figure it out and would increase the price again.

...

In the past two days, due to the "No Love in Shichahai" reason, Kirin Taobao's sales have once again climbed to 40 million a day.

...

The box office of Golden House reached 37 million in the 12 days after its release, and it is expected to reach 70 million by the time the movie is released. It surpassed movies such as Rush Hour, Two Heroes, and other movies in one fell swoop, and was second only to Infernal Affairs III and Heroes of Heaven and Earth, and entered the top ten movie box office in 2003.

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(For some reason, I cannot write about the incident of eating civet cats, so that incident did not happen in the parallel world. 2003 was a very normal year.)

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Fast forward to August 25, 2003.

The Kirin Taobao Shopping Festival is finally over. In the three days before the end of the shopping festival, the average daily sales volume of Kirin Taobao was 35 million.

Kirin Taobao generated a total of 149 million sales during the seven-day Home Appliances Shopping Festival.

Sales in these seven days surpassed eBay's total sales in nine months.

When Zheng Xigui saw the data sent by the operations department, his face turned as dark as Bao Zheng's.

In just seven days, they sold more than they sold in nine months. During this period, eBay sales dropped to freezing point, with eBay sales falling to less than 50,000 yuan per day.

In addition, Ying Yanwen, director of the operations department, also told Zheng Xigui two other pieces of bad news.

"Mr. Zheng, merchants are unwilling to participate in our shopping festival. They say that listing on eBay requires a listing fee, and there are transaction fees for transactions. Now we have to ask them to pay, so we can't even think about organizing a shopping festival.

In addition, some merchants have said that they have opened stores on Kirin Taobao, and if we do not cancel listing fees and transaction fees, then they will remove eBay products." Ying Yanwen said tremblingly.

What news could be worse for eBay than these two.

"These ungrateful guys have made a lot of money from eBay over the years. Now they drink water and forget about the well digger, right?" Zheng Xigui said, patting the table.

"Mr. Zheng, what should we do next?" Ying Yanwen asked.

"You tell them that no matter who they are, they have to participate in the company's activities. The company allows them to sell at a premium. Before the shopping festival starts, let them adjust the prices of the items first, and then secretly adjust them back after the event. How much more?

Promote the company's philosophy to merchants. The company charges fees to provide better services. Although Kirin Taobao is free, are their services better than eBay?" Zheng Xigui thought for a while and said.

"Okay, Mr. Zheng, I'll notify the merchant right away." After Ying Yanwen said that, he immediately left Zheng Xigui's office.

The order Zheng Xigui just gave him is undoubtedly a very bad order. Don't you treat consumers as fools?

But Zheng Xigui has nothing to do about it. Meg Whitman will not allow eBay to be free, and eBay is not doing well in lighthouse countries charging fees.

Why can't eBay continue to operate when it charges fees? Is it because you have not implemented the company's philosophy? Is it because you, Zheng Xigui, are not capable? If you are not capable, then the company should find someone else to do it.

Ying Yanwen returned to the office and held a small meeting with the people from the operations department, and then members of the operations department started calling the merchants.

"Mr. Zhang, I am eBay Xiao Chen."

"Why are you calling again? If you don't tell us about our products, you don't know anything about them. Including shipping costs, the profit is only ten yuan. You still want us to pay for coupons. Isn't this asking us to give you money to do business? You can do whatever you want.

Asking if anyone is willing to do this, wouldn’t this be treating our merchants as fools?”

"Mr. Zhang, I know this. I know it all. Our boss said that you are allowed to adjust the price up before the event, and then secretly adjust it back after the event is over."

"Also adjust the hammer. Have you ever gone to Kirin Taobao? The same product is 5 yuan cheaper than mine. Because it is listed on Kirin Taobao, there is no listing fee or transaction fee. This five yuan is saved. You

Do you know how hard it is to earn five yuan? If you were a customer, you would also choose the cheaper one."

"Mr. Zhang, aren't we charging fees to provide you with better services? Can the services provided by Kirin Taobao be better than our eBay?"

"Brother, don't think I'm a fool. Your eBay checkout cycle is one month, and I owe you hundreds of thousands of goods every month. I don't have any capital to do business with you. Kirin Taobao only needs customers.

After confirming receipt, the money will be credited to the merchant's account immediately. Even if the user forgets to confirm receipt, the money will be automatically settled after a week."

"Mr. Zhang, that is all Qilin's publicity. How could the actual situation be like this? They are all deceiving you."

"Dududu~~"

...

This guy Zhang makes hardware products with relatively low profits.

For Mr. Zhang, let alone raising the price for an event, he wouldn't be able to sell it even if he didn't raise the price. How could eBay ask him to cooperate with eBay?

Of course, not everyone is as irritable as Mr. Zhang. There are also many merchants who are willing to raise prices to participate in the event. There is no loss for them. After all, eBay still has a certain amount of traffic after operating for such a long time.

Merchants who have already opened stores on Kirin Taobao are also willing to participate in eBay's event. Although sales on Kirin Taobao will be better, eBay is also a sales channel. Maybe eBay's activities can also sell some goods.

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On the afternoon of August 25, 2003...

A coffee shop in Longgang District.

Luo Ying came from Futian District to Longgang to meet this man.

The person Luo Ying wants to meet this time is the technical director of Haitian Electronics Factory in Longgang District.

The scale of Haitian Electronics Factory is less than half that of Kirin Electronics Factory, because the products produced by Haitian Electronics Factory are mobile phones, but they do not have a mobile phone license, so the mobile phones they produce are all black mobile phones, which is doomed

As a result, they were unable to expand their production scale.

This birth certificate is not so easy to obtain. Since the decision was issued by the superiors to "suspend the approval of new production projects of GSM mobile communication products", and began to slow down the issuance of mobile phone licenses and reduce the scale in 2002, since Samsung, basically
Chapter completed!