All of Musk's mobile phones were sold overnight. In the blink of an eye, he made a profit of 45000 US dollars. This made Musk very emotional.
"Unfortunately, this is just a one-off business. I'm afraid I won't be able to do it next time!" Musk's expression was a little sad. Indeed, this mobile phone reselling was just a one-off business. After all, the first batch of Daqian mPhone 5s had been sold out, so there should be a second batch in the future. However, could the second batch have the terrifying impact of selling out in an instant?
Even if it could, how many scalpers would try to join in at that time?
Anyway, Musk estimated that there would be countless scalpers around the world who would join in at that time. As a person who did it alone, he was afraid that it would be GG sooner or later.
"And there is only a profit of 45000 US dollars at one time. Even if there is the same profit for the second time, this money is too little. It is not enough for me to pay off my debt, let alone realize my dream!" Musk rubbed his temples with a headache. At this time, Musk already felt that he had found an important tool to make a comeback, but he didn't know what to do next!
"It would be great if there is a long-term and stable way to sell mPhone 5 to the market!" Musk's idea seemed to be a bit wishful thinking, but he was a person who would not give up until he hit a wall. So Musk began to search for information about the global sales of mPhone 5 on the Internet.
However, there was not much information to be found on the Internet at this time. After all, mPhone 5 had just started selling. Until Musk thought of Taobao, the competitor that destroyed his previous startup product.
"I may be able to find what I want from Taobao!" Musk tried to search for mPhone 5's news on Taobao, but it was similar to the market. Taobao was also in a state where there was a price but no supply.
At this time, most people might give up, but Musk was different. He suddenly found that Taobao here was all products from the United States. However, Taobao was the largest e-commerce brand in Hua Xia. How could there be no Hua Xia stores?
"Unless Taobao locks the area and doesn't let us see the sales of products in Hua Xia!" Musk had an idea, and then he immediately checked the URL of Taobao. Sure enough, he found that the URL of Hua Xia and the United States were not the same, and the results displayed on the search engine were also different.
However, Hua Xia already had her own wall. Musk couldn't enter the wall under normal circumstances, but it didn't matter. For Musk, who had once worked on a payment system, climbing over the wall was a piece of cake. With just a little trick, Musk successfully climbed over the wall. Then, he successfully opened the domestic Taobao and began to search for the price of the MPHONE5.
Then Elon was shocked.
"Why is the MPHONE5 so cheap in Hua Xia!!!!" Musk exclaimed. On Hua Xia's Taobao, the average price of an MPHONE5 was about 15000 RMB.
This was unbelievable. The current exchange rate between RMB and USD was 6. 8,2999 USD. If it was converted into RMB, it would be 20393 RMB.
But now it was only about 17000 RMB. If it was converted into USD, it would be 2352 USD. It was almost 650 USD cheaper. Wasn't this a scam?
"The MPHONE5 is sold out all over the world. The United States wants to increase the price, but Hua Xia is cheaper. This is simply unreal!! There must be something fishy about this!! " Musk was excited. If he could find out that the Daqian MPHONE5 was sold at two different prices in the United States and Hua Xia, and that Hua Xia's price was cheaper, it was obvious that they were trying to scam the United States. Then, he could directly destroy the MPHONE5. At least, he could ensure that the MPHONE5's reputation in the world would be greatly damaged.
Although this would cause Musk's MPHONE5 business to disappear, Musk's hatred for the failure of his previous business was all on the Daqian. He didn't mind using this method to make the Daqian explode in an instant.
It was just that when Musk investigated the reason, he shook his head helplessly. Because the price of the MPHONE5 in all the Daqian centers in Hua Xia was indeed 19999 RMB per unit. Although it was still a few hundred cheaper than the United States, it wouldn't cause too much of a stir.
In fact, if the United States' tariffs were calculated, then the price in Hua Xia was actually more expensive. However, in order to prevent the problem of counterfeiting, the Daqian tried to maintain a balance in the pricing.
But the problem was that this batch of low-priced MPHONE5 was the contract of the major operators in Hua Xia.
At this time, the mobile communication network operators in Hua Xia were mainly Mobile and Unicom. In order to attract customers, they all launched MPHONE5 contract machines. They even used the slogan of buying MPHONE5 for 0 yuan.
Of course, it was impossible to really buy it for 0 yuan. If users wanted to buy the MPHONE5 contract from the two communication companies, they still had to spend a lot of money, and they also had to pay a one-time purchase fee of 19999 RMB. In fact, it was the same price as buying the original MPHONE5.
So, how could the contract machines claim that they were buying it for 0 yuan?
Of course, this was because the operators claimed that they would refund the phone bill every month.
Generally, the contract was calculated according to two years and 24 months, and 834 yuan of phone bill would be returned every month.
This phone bill seemed to be very exaggerated. How could a normal person spend 834 yuan of phone bill in a month!
But don't forget, this was mainly the cost of the 3G mobile network.
At this time, in Hua Xia, the basic coverage of the 3G network in the country had been achieved, more than 68% of the total area of the country.
The so-called basic coverage was that all the cities and towns had achieved 3G network coverage. Except for some wilderness, any place in Hua Xia could directly use the 3G network, so Hua Xia's 3G network was very mature.
Understanding this, Musk himself was very shocked. Even in the United States at this time, only some major cities had 3G network coverage, but the really vast villages and farms in the United States didn't have 3G models at all … No, not to mention 3G signals, some places didn't even have cell phone signals and broadband networks. These areas were still in the primitive ecology of basic satellite phone communications.
Hua Xia's network development had greatly surpassed the United States!!
This discovery made Musk unable to believe it. This was completely different from the Hua Xia in his impression. How could Hua Xia be so advanced?
So Musk began to investigate further and found that China had been building a 3G network since 1994. Although it looked like a 2G network at that time, it was only a 2G network.
All the communication base stations used by Hua Xia were base stations based on CDMA technology, and these base stations were almost all provided by Huawei.
The 3G technology was established based on the CDMA standard, so it was very simple for Hua Xia to change from 2G to 3G. They only needed to upgrade the original base stations.
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