"I'm very sorry, dear friends. All the numbers in our store have been sent out. For those who are still in line, we don't recommend you continue to line up because I'm afraid it will be difficult to buy a new cell phone." The staff member behind Anna spoke loudly with a microphone, trying to dissuade the crowd who wanted to continue to line up.
However, there were still many people who simply ignored the staff's dissuasion and stubbornly lined up behind Anna.
After all, there were so many people in line. As long as one or two people gave up buying, then the people behind 1000 still had a good chance to buy a cell phone!
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"Oh my God, I can't believe it in my life. I actually stood in line for four hours to buy a cell phone. I didn't even eat lunch!" At two o 'clock in the afternoon, Anna, who could finally see the door of the steam game store, exclaimed.
Indeed, this intensity of the queue was really shocking. At the same time, Anna had seen at least four waves of TV reporters, with the staff carrying cameras behind them, running here to interview the customers in line.
Anna, who was at the end of the list and had the 1000th number, was naturally the focus of the interview. Anna was interviewed in two waves on the oscilloscope, which made Anna feel a lot better. She could actually appear on TV in this way. Life was really very wonderful!
Finally, at about three o 'clock in the afternoon, Anna and Anna entered the steam game store and bought two Daqian 5 from the exhausted salesperson.
But surprisingly, the shelves were empty. The two Daqian 5 in Anna's hands were the last two Daqian 5 in the entire store.
This made Anna very surprised. Although the two of them did get the last two numbers, among the 1000 people who got the numbers, it was impossible for all of them to buy the phone. There should be two or three people who gave up on buying the phone for various reasons. It was normal for them to do so!
"It seems that the Daqian 5 is really popular. No one is willing to give up!" Anna finally sighed.
Of course, the naive Anna didn't know that in fact, there were a few Daqian 5 that were not sold, but these were secretly hidden by the staff.
It was pitiful to say that although the staff of these stores were guarding 1000 Daqian 5, they did not have the right to buy Daqian 5. At the same time, according to the regulations issued by Daqian, 1000 numbers must be issued for users to buy. Once a store is found to hold back the number, the franchise qualification will be immediately cancelled.
However, there are countermeasures and policies. 1000 numbers can be issued, but customers who received the number but did not buy it, their remaining Daqian 5 will naturally become the property of these staff. They will replace these customers and buy the precious Daqian 5 for 999 USD.
"Please choose the TF card you want!" After the phones were sold out, the staff reminded him and took out a TF card with 12 different content packages printed on it.
However, eight of the TFs had been sold out stickers, which meant that they were no longer available.
"Music!"
"Game!"
Two voices sounded at the same time. Anna and her boyfriend looked at each other, and finally chose the TF card they wanted, and then left the store as if they were running for their lives.
Only ten seconds later, they heard a lot of desperate shouts. Those were the buyers behind Anna and her boyfriend. Among them, the 1,001st person was also the one who waited in line for nearly 5 hours with Anna and her boyfriend. In the end, there was really no one left. This feeling is really too desperate.
However, for this kind of Daqian, Daqian also has a strategy to deal with it. The staff said that for customers like them who waited in line for too long but didn't buy anything, they can give them a reservation ticket for Daqian 5. With this reservation ticket, they can register and sign, and pay the full amount of 999 USD in advance. Then, when the second batch of Daqian 5 is released on Christmas Day, they can directly come to the store to receive their Daqian 5, the kind that doesn't need to wait in line.
These staff thought that if they had to pay the full amount, they would have to wait two months to get their cell phones. This behavior would certainly not be accepted by most people.
But he didn't expect that the guys who had been waiting in line until now would all pay the full amount of 999 yuan without hesitation.
Are you kidding me? Do they still have to wait in line after 2 months?
Besides, if they don't pay 999 USD today, how can they be worthy of their 5 hours of hard work!
On the other side, when Anna took her cell phone and left, she was immediately blocked by four or five people. Anna was so scared that her legs went soft, thinking that these people were going to rob her.
But it doesn't make sense. This is Seattle, the most prosperous area, and the police are standing next to her. How can anyone dare to rob her?
As a result, when these people opened their mouths, Anna was dumbfounded.
"Beauty, are you selling your Daqian 5? I'll buy your cell phone for 1100 USD!! "
"Get lost, 1100 USD. Beauty, sell it to me. I'll pay 1200 USD. Pay up now!!"
It turned out that these big men were all scalpers. They wanted to spend money to buy the cell phones in Anna's hands. Moreover, the price was not cheap. The most ruthless one of them had already increased the price from 999 USD to 1350 USD, which was a premium of 351 USD!
Then Anna's boyfriend sold one of the Daqian 5 to one of the scalpers very quickly, making a net profit of 351 USD!
"Now you know why I want to buy two!" The boyfriend said proudly. Anna's eyes suddenly twinkled with stars. For the first time, she found that her boyfriend was actually so smart.
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The Daqian 5 cell phone gave the market an unimaginable answer. On the first day of the Daqian 5's release, the global stock of one million cell phones was all sold out. Even India, which was a somewhat backward market in Africa, sold out the first batch of Daqian 5.
Later, someone learned that 100,000 cell phones were allocated to the Hua Xia market, and there were still 20,000 units left on the first day. As a result, some capable foreign scalpers directly flew to Hua Xia and used their connections to buy all the Daqian 5 phones in the entire Hua Xia market.
Then, they increased the price by 1000 USD and directly sold them back to the United States … Even if these cell phones were all Chinese operating systems and needed to be manually adjusted to English mode.
Yes, the Daqian 5 was so crazy. After selling out on the first day, the price in the scalper market rose to 1600 USD on the second day.
On the third day, the price broke through 2000 USD per unit. At its peak, it even sold for 2900 USD per unit.
Even so, there was still a demand but no supply. Countless customers waving USD in their hands couldn't buy the Daqian 5 at all. They could only helplessly wait for the arrival of Christmas.
However, Daqian Group said in an interview that although the production line was constantly optimized and the yield rate had improved, the production of Daqian 5 cell phones was really very difficult. The production was limited in two months, so when the Christmas sales came, only 800,000 units were produced.
However, Daqian Group said that they had started to install two new production lines. By the end of December, the debugging would be completed. The production capacity of Daqian 5 would be doubled. By January, the third batch would be able to enter the market!
Well, fortunately, in this day and age, monkey show was still a simple noun and not a derogatory term. People didn't know what hunger marketing was, so customers said that they understood very well.
After all, the Daqian 5 was really too cool. The high-tech level was visible to the naked eye. It was normal that such a cell phone was very difficult to produce. Otherwise, manufacturers like Nokia and Motorola would have eagerly announced the release of their new phones with the same features one or two months after the Daqian 5 was released.
But now, Nokia and Motorola still didn't do anything. They just treated the Daqian 5 as if it didn't exist. It was difficult to explain the problem.
Of course, the most important thing was that there was only one camera phone in the market now, Daqian. Even if customers wanted to complain and buy other products, they didn't know which one to buy.
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