Crazy. The entire market, customers, and car dealers were all crazy.
Mercedes-Benz's cheapest and longest car advertisement in history actually generated more than 100 million views on the Internet. Everyone called this car the car of the future.
At the same time, with the release of the advertisement, this car was also opened for online pre-sales … This was not a pre-sale that just needed to be registered. It was a pre-sale that required one to pay a thousand US dollars deposit through the Internet or 4S stores. If one did not pay in time to pick up the car, then the deposit would not be refunded.
But it was impossible not to pay because Mercedes-Benz officials said that in order to prevent bad incidents such as price increases in 4S stores, everyone must strictly line up through the pre-sale.
As a result, on the first day of pre-sales, Mercedes-Benz created an amazing pre-sale record of 200,000 units … After all, such an electric car from the future, the basic version was only sold for 39999 US dollars. It was simply too cheap, as if it was free.
After a week of pre-sales, the number of pre-orders had exceeded one million. The car that was still in the video had become the world's car king of the year … If Mercedes-Benz could deliver one million cars this year, there was no doubt about it.
Instead, the sales of the car brands began to drop. Many customers said that after watching the Mercedes-Benz video, only a fool would buy a stupid car like theirs.
Just like milk tea and the United States' gold-plated turkey, which one to choose was a fool's choice.
What, you said that you already drank milk tea at home, and you only occasionally ate turkey … No, it was a pheasant.
Oh, then this was very reasonable.
In short, the sales performance of all the car dealers began to drop at a speed visible to the naked eye … But it seemed that it did not matter. Anyway, they were about to stop production because of the loss of all the parts supply. It did not matter how much the performance dropped.
Of course, these car dealers were not willing to sit still. They quickly united together and held a countermeasure meeting.
"Everyone, according to the information we have obtained, this technology is not Mercedes-Benz at all, but the latest intelligent solution for the Daqian's third-generation electric car!" said the representative of Volkswagen.
"Nonsense, I don't need you to tell me!" Everyone cursed in their hearts.
Everyone was in the same industry and knew each other very well. Of course, they knew what kind of goods Mercedes-Benz was. They also knew that Mercedes-Benz was the first company to completely abandon all research on electric scooters and was completely bound to Daqian. They were shameless people who claimed that Daqian's latest technology was their own.
Of course, Mercedes-Benz had the best relationship with the Daqian. After all, Mercedes-Benz was the first to cooperate with the Daqian on electric scooters and was the first to support the Daqian's power station.
Most importantly, Mercedes-Benz had put in a lot of effort to convince the German government not to ban the Daqian. In the end, Mercedes-Benz was the first to receive the Daqian's third-generation AI solution.
"If only we had supported the Daqian …" Many people regretted it.
"Everyone, it's not too late to change your mind!" Suddenly, a company representative said with a smile.
"Peak, what do you mean by Citroen?" Many people asked.
"Everyone, let me tell you a piece of good news. Citroen will introduce a new model with the third-generation AI solution at the end of this year!" Peak said with a smile.
"That's impossible. Citroen still has France, but … wait, you …"
"That's right. We have already convinced the government that there's no need for our country's enterprises to get hurt in a fight between a certain country and a Chinese. Therefore, our government is already negotiating with Da Qian. I estimate that it won't take long for you to get a result!" After that, the representative of Citroen left directly.
Logically speaking, if the new contract with the Daqian did not stipulate that Citroen must tell all the other automobile manufacturers about this news, Citroen would not tell others that they had reconciled with the Daqian. Wouldn't it be better to delay the introduction of the third-generation electric scooter?
Sure enough, on the third day, France's national media directly announced on TV that five days ago, France's government took the initiative to talk to the Daqian Group and criticized the Daqian Group for the various problems that had occurred in recent years.
In response, the Daqian Group accepted the criticism very sincerely and promised that they would not make similar mistakes in the future. The chairman of the Daqian Group, Jia Yapeng, also apologized in person over the phone and said that he was willing to donate 10 million USD to France's charity foundation.
After feeling the sincere attitude of the Daqian Group, France's government magnanimously forgave the Daqian Group and both parties signed a memorandum of understanding.
In the memorandum, all the previous punitive sanctions were canceled. Both parties reaffirmed the principle of mutual benefit, win-win cooperation, and abiding by the law.
At the same time, the Daqian Group promised that it would restore the product supply of all enterprises as soon as possible, restore the production license of all equipment, restore all the previous technical cooperation, and immediately pay the owed commercial funds. At the same time, the Daqian Group would also restore all the normal operations in France.
As soon as this news was announced, the whole world was silent.
There was actually a country's government that admitted defeat!
Although in the joint announcement between France's government and the Daqian Group, the Daqian Group admitted its mistake, apologized, and donated 10 million USD.
However, in the eyes of the discerning people, it was obvious that the Daqian Group won.
First of all, the Daqian Group apologized. Don't think that it's difficult for a big company to apologize. It depends on who the person is apologizing to. If it's an ordinary consumer, it's impossible for them to apologize.
But if it's a country, if an apology can solve the problem, then they can keep bowing … This is something that the Fusangs are very good at. After all, if it's nuclear pollution, an apology will solve the problem.
After a few decades, it's the fault of the ancestors. What does it have to do with me?
Not to mention, this is a worldwide ban. If the Daqian Group can solve the problem with an apology, it's definitely a huge gain … If you study it carefully, you will find that the Daqian Group's apology only exists in words, and it only exists in the joint announcement. The Daqian Group did not apologize, let alone a written apology letter.
This is simply too awesome.
In the end, the 10 million USD donation was a small loss. But note that this is a donation, not a compensation. This means that the Daqian Group did not admit their mistake at all, and France's government can't make the Daqian Group admit their mistake. In the end, they can only use the donation to make up for it.
So this time, the Daqian Group did not lose, but the Daqian Group won completely. They directly let France, one of the P5, end the sanctions against them.
Wait, so this time, France is the first to surrender?
You've already exceeded your reading limit for today. If you want to read more, please log in.
Login
Select text and click 'Report' to let us know about any bad translation.
