Chapter 1163
The flagship shop in Xiangzhong City.
After a two-month hiatus, the offline shop finally opened its doors again today for official business.
In fact, the major offline shops didn't really close their doors just because the products were discontinued, and then all the staff took two months off to do nothing.
The offline retail shops were built by Cheng Ze to become an offline social venue.
After the products were announced to be discontinued, they were just not sold anymore, they were still open every day, and even though they had not sold any products for two months, their popularity did not drop much.
When the flagship shop opened at nine o'clock on time, the dozens of young, handsome and beautiful staff were a sight to behold.
No wonder the offline shop can maintain its popularity without selling products, there is such a group of young and beautiful ladies and handsome young brothers chatting every day.
That said there are really quite a few customers who have found a man or woman here.
"Hey, pretty lady give me three sets of 2.0."
"Sorry, PHC 2.0 is limited to one set per customer."
"What? What the hell? You're not allowed to buy it even after spending money?"
"It's like this handsome, because the 2.0 is built with a new fully domestic production line system and there is a shortfall in capacity ......"
"To interrupt, I don't think it's the lack of capacity that's the problem, it's the fact that Boss Lee is inflated."
"Uh ......"
"Haha, just kidding, okay, one set then."
"Okay handsome please show your ID card."
"ID card? I don't seem to have it with me, can I swipe it?"
"Handsome you are the first in line, how can you not know the purchase requirements."
"I'm just asking, here, here's the ID card."
"By the way beautiful, what is your WeChat?"
......
"What? No more?"
"What's wrong with you, you open at 9am and at 3pm you say you're out of stock?"
"The broken company takes date pills."
"Flagship shop, but have you done your market research?"
"What a shitty marketing plan, do you know how long I've been waiting?"
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm so sorry, we'll sort it out as soon as we can." The shop manager himself came out to apologise and appease the group of consumers, but faced with this group of grumpy leopard owners, the shop manager was also bitter in his heart, the film director had already given an explanation, and only one word was returned: out of stock.
As for how to solve the problem of appeasing these irritable consumers in the offline shops, that depends on the shop manager's ability, and if he messes up, he will have to roll up and leave.
Consumers are definitely agitated, they've been queuing for so long at the offline shops, and to be out of stock on the first day is a personal grievance.
In fact, the total inventory of each large area has goods, and very sufficient, but are pressed not to ship.
......
A week later, North America, Colorado.
300 pounds of fat uncle David Steny was mowing the lawn in front of the house, the mower was able to carry him simply bear the unbearable weight ah.
Then a car comes to a stop in front of his door with a huge logo: UPS.
A tall, thin young man unloaded a flat, rectangular box and came to the fenced doorway: "Block 5, 5th Street, David Steny?"
"Yes that's right, I'm David." Stanny stepped down from the mower and approached suspiciously.
"Sign for it."
After completing the sign-off and glancing at the UPS delivery man driving away, Stanny foxed, he didn't remember having a delivery.
"Whatever, let's see." Shrugging his shoulders, Stanislaus carried the not very heavy package into the house.
Opening the outer layer of the parcel's rough paper, Stanny saw a small note set in, opening it, "Hi mate, sorry I may not be able to give it to you in person, but I've sent it to you via UPS Express, I don't expect them to be any faster than S.F., but let's hope it's quick."
"But you should be there by the time you see this message, pay me directly via Paypal, you know my account number, oh yeah, 15% duty deducted, that's it Fun."
"After reading this message note, Steny's smile gradually let loose.
"Shredded coconut, shredded coconut, shredded coconut, yah ha ha ha oh ooh ooh ooh ...... milk sizzle!"
Instantly happy to be two hundred pounds of fat paper, he pulled out a lift of his smartphone and opened the Paypal payment software, then Danny Shi got sleepy and then grabbed a calculator, despite the calculator function in his phone.
"41,999RMB$, converted to USD$, plus customs deductions of 15% tax, the total is ......7135USD$...."
After doing the maths, Danny Shi couldn't help but whisper and curse, "Fark, those bastards in the black market are really making a fortune, PHC2.0 is speculated to $29,000, God."
But he didn't dwell on it for long, paying his friend Chan $7,500USD$ straight away and throwing his phone away, Stanny giggled and started disassembling the express box.
He didn't even remember making that one post on Reddit after his angry one ten days ago, and as for his comment about FutureTech never making a cent off him ...... alas, never mind.
After unpacking the case, a flat rectangular box with a clean white surface and the Future Tech logo in the middle of the box came into view.
David "Cool......" Steny comes out licking his tongue and concentrating on the whole thing like a 41 year old kid with a beloved new toy.
It's hard to imagine him as a cynical, suspicious and grumpy old man who works in marketing, and who has a home worth at least $200,000 to $300,000, which in North America would cost $400,000 to $500,000 for a small estate mansion.
Opening the box, Danny carefully took out the PHC 2.0. Although there were many electric products in the house that were more expensive than this PHC set, to Danny it was a perfect work of art, priceless.
It's not even available in North America, the black market price is going up to $30,000 and demand is outstripping supply.
Danny rubbed his palms together and stared happily at the device in front of him. The case of the PHC 2.0 was made of a graphite crystal film and was a rich, technological silver-grey colour, with only a simple logo of future technology.
Chapter 1164
"What? Why won't it turn on?" Stanny tapped the start virtual button and waited a long time for no response.
"Ayu Falkenkrimi?" The cranky old fat man was undoubtedly a baby one moment, and the next moment this tantrum exploded straight away.
"Damn, forgot to plug it in."
Stanny covered his face, only then remembering that the PHC 2.0 looked just that little bit bigger than a laptop, but wasn't actually a mobile electric product.
After pulling an outlet cord and turning on the circuit, he tapped the virtual on/off button again.
After a moment, the logo on the PHC2.0 case suddenly "came to life" and the top side suddenly became a holographic image, and Danny couldn't help but shout out loud, his expression gradually becoming excited.
The scene in front of him was suddenly rippling in space, with furniture and appliances undulating, all in a holographic visual effect.
Of course, the logo didn't really become movable, it was all a visual dead zone caused by the hologram.
"Cool!" Danny's face was full of excitement, as if he had opened the door to a new world.
A holographic floating caption was presented to him, but he had a hard time seeing it again, as the square letters presented to him were only understandable to an archaeologist.
It was a pain in the brain.
In North America, if you know French, the locals will praise you, if you know French and German at the same time, the locals will feel surprised at you.
If you speak Russian, the locals will be impressed. But if you say you know Chinese, the locals can't believe it and look at you like you're a monster.
If it was a normal product, he would have smashed it, but it was a PHC 2.0, which you can't even buy with money, so it was precious.
So Danny had to go to his PC again and log onto the Reddit forum network to look through the help threads, which had long been filled with all sorts of advice on the proper way to open PHC 2.0.
"So the system comes with an Anglicisation feature that automatically recognises it? Just speak English?" Stunned to himself, just after saying a word, the holographic floating display immediately turned into an English version, with all information presented in English.
"It's OK? That high end?" Stanny had also seen how others could easily play with PHC 2.0."
A short while later, he only saw him try a hand gesture and a floating screen was instantly drawn out, tapped and the screen shattered, with the few system-owned applications inside immediately presenting three-dimensional icons floating in front of him.
"Cool ......"
He swore he would never use a PC again, compared to PHC 2.0, PCs were as old as 500 years ago.
The rest of the time, Steny was so addicted to it that he could even play with a screen opening gesture for half a day.
He said that Future Technology would never make him a penny again, but when he opened the PHC-Store, he was slapped in the face.
First, he upgraded HOS OS to the Professional version, bought another set of HOS-Office, a must-have for the office, and then purchased PHC Smart Butler Assistant.
This is what netizens commonly call the PHC standard three-piece set, although Future Technology did not engage in bundled sales to avoid monopoly lawsuits, but these three applications are almost all PHC users must install.
All kinds of buying.
Well, what happened to the promise to never earn a penny off you?
He swore not to spend a single cent, and once PHC 2.0 arrives, his hands will be chopped up. As for that angry post on Reddit, consider it a fart he made and let it go.
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Future Technology headquarters, chairman's office.
Li Linfei was looking at a novel and opposite to him, Nini Wang was standing and was reporting the sales of PHC2.0 to Li Linfei.
"The morning meeting of the group company has just ended, this is the third quarter business statement of this year, thanks to the listing and sale of PHC2.0, the ringgit business increased by 38.4% compared to the last quarter, but the year-on-year figure dropped by 57%, which was caused by the loss of overseas business ...... "
"What were the exact sales figures for 2.0 this week?" Li Linfei asked.
"The first week sales figure for 2.0 is 1.83 million units, if the ban on purchase restrictions is lifted, this figure may increase by about 70%, but even according to the existing actual sales, the closing figures for this year are predicted to achieve 20 million units shipped to the Greater China market, internal optimism is maintained."
Seeing Li Linfei's eyes gesture, Nini Wang comprehended its meaning and made him a cup of tea, handing it to him after standing next to him watching him fiddle with the equipment, and then said, "The hardware's best-selling has driven the PHC software ecology's business revenue-generating growth, with the holographic operating system HOS version 2022, office software HOS-Office, and only the housekeeper Xiao Yin's three major industries increasing revenue in line with expectations ."
"Among PHC - Store and other businesses, the largest incremental revenue is the advertising business draw, the entire second quarter generated 12.78 billion RMB￥ of draw revenue, the second strongest revenue point is the sale of intelligent butler assistant virtual image, in the introduction of ....... "
"The Future Technology Group generated RMB324.75 billion throughout the third quarter, a 43.8% increase in the YoY figure and a 60% decrease in the YoY figure, with a net profit of RMB103.5 billion in the second quarter, with total revenue for the group company expected to be at RMB116.7 billion in 2022, equivalent to US$170 billion, and a profit of RMB245.4 billion, equivalent to US$35.88 billion."
"Although the total revenue is much less than last year, the profit is not pulling away too much and will earn $1.72 billion less this year according to the forecast figures."
Wang Nini was in the end the secretary to the chairman, so much data could be spelt out in full and in full without looking at the documents at a glance, even without saying that talent must have been put in.
"Not bad." Li Linfei smiled.
The company temporarily closed its overseas business, this year's revenue compared to the past can be said to have plummeted, to know the future of technology's total revenue accounted for, overseas revenue accounted for more than 60%, if not for the business of the Greater China region to maintain a high growth trend, the revenue gap may be widened to $ 150 billion.