Chapter 1255 Counterattack

Until late at night, Huang was still complaining and grumbling on the phone, and she still hated Wang Xiaohua.

Huang, who was a little arrogant because of her smooth career, felt that she was humiliated by a classmate with poor conditions in all aspects - even if it was actually her own fault, she had secretly made up her mind that she would never let it go.

Speaking of which, this was also a helpless choice, because she was completely helpless against Wang Xiaohua at this time.

If there was a way, she would not wait until later, and would find a way to solve this matter now, because deep in her heart, there was a thought that if that Chaihuo girl one day surpassed her.

She also felt that everything seemed impossible when she met Jiasheng.

She secretly decided that when she had enough resources in the future, this problem must be given top priority.

It seems a bit unreasonable, but for the position of the name on the poster, the position when taking a group photo, etc., these little things that are a little more generous will not care about, or laugh off, can cause unnecessary arguments and cause smoke everywhere, and the entertainment industry feels like it has suffered a great injustice. Such a result is reasonable.

However, the quarrel between the two young girls of Beijing Film Academy, who are not influential at present, may have a long-term impact in the future because of today's quarrel, which is really nothing compared to other things happening at this time.

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At this time in Silicon Valley, in the plain or most unfeatured headquarters park of eBay in San Jose, Ellis, the head of eBay's group buying department, who followed NEXTDOOR and now specifically sniped NEXTDOOR, the original creator, hurriedly met with Queen Whitman.

By the way, after NEXTDOOR postponed their group buying activities for an hour a few days ago, Ellis thought that this was definitely not the biggest trouble he would encounter, and he guessed right.

"What's the problem?" Queen Whitman is in a good mood now, and habitually reveals her Shirley Temple-style smile.

To be honest, there are not many things that can make her feel particularly happy now. Among them, using the business model created by others to defeat this model and create a company is naturally one of them.

In the past few days, they have always adopted a follow-up strategy for NEXTDOOR's group buying business. Whatever you group buy, I will immediately launch the same project an hour later, and the price is definitely more affordable than yours.

So in the past few days, NEXTDOOR's group buying business is not only ineffective, but also equivalent to advertising for eBay's group buying.

Some people are still unwilling to take those returned shopping coupons. They prefer to buy the same products directly at a low price.

And NEXTDOOR's two countermeasures, whether it is returning coupons or postponing the event by one hour, are very weak and passive for Whitman.

She enjoys the feeling of being led by the nose by others.

As for the little complacency in secret, it is inevitable.

Whitman knew that Feng Yiping had good vision and was quite capable. She was also sure of this. Besides Feng Yiping's book, which she had also read several times, Bezos, the mortal enemy of Amazon, valued him highly.

eBay executives can be said to be the group of people who know Bezos best. They know very well that this old rival, who has less and less hair but feels more and more difficult to deal with, will not pretend to value an oriental boy for anyone or any reason.

He values ​​him very much, which means he really values ​​him, which means Feng Yiping really has the ability to be valued by him.

This can be seen from the fact that Feng Yiping suddenly launched a new project on his social networking website, which they named group buying business.

eBay was not as responsive as Amazon at the time and immediately thought of acquiring the company, but they were equally shocked.

For traditional offline physical stores, they and Amazon are new models, and NEXTDOOR's launch of such a heavily discounted online retail model is also a new model for them and Amazon.

Although the number of goods they sell every day is limited, the variety of goods they sell can be the same. Although it will not shake their foundation, it will naturally have an impact on relatively traditional e-commerce like them.

Another point is that users' shopping expenses are relatively fixed. If they spend more in one place, they will naturally spend less in another place.

In other words, the large amount of sales generated by NEXTDOOR every day is actually digging into their cake.

They did not think about this problem before, but there were too many things at that time, and they were influenced by NEXTDOOR, or simply inspired, and the group buying business they launched also developed well, so they never thought about competing with NEXTDOOR head-on in this business.

Unexpectedly, this time because of Alibaba, the two companies confronted each other, and then, NEXTDOOR, which created this new business model, was actually helpless against their own methods! Whitman felt that he saw the weakness under Feng Yiping's heavy packaging-this is really something worth celebrating.

His old rival, who he had no way to do, had no way to do Feng Yiping, but Feng Yiping had no way to do anything to him. In this way, isn't he much smarter than the one at Amazon?

This is even more worth celebrating.

Because of these two happy things, Whitman even gradually forgot about the unhappiness Feng Yiping's investment in Alibaba brought to him.

However, looking at Ellis's face, she also became serious, "What's going on?"

"Their group buying project has been adjusted again today, and it's this," Ellis opened the folder in his hand.

"Flat-screen TV," Whitman glanced. What's wrong with that?

Although the penetration rate of flat-screen TVs is not high yet, as one of the most well-known e-commerce companies in the United States, they sell a lot of flat-screen TVs on their website.

"A 47-inch LCD TV," Ellis said.

"What's the problem?" Whitman was still reading the information. This TV trademark was relatively unfamiliar to her. "PRIMA?" She looked up at Ellis.

"This is the brand of a well-known Chinese color TV manufacturer, and sales on our website are not small," Ellis said.

"If it's just right, contact them immediately and ask them to give us priority in supplying goods," Whitman said. "Also, if it's from China, then we can negotiate the price with them."

Before joining eBay, she had actually been working in a production company, so she was very aware of the ability of Chinese companies in price control. She knew that their production costs would be reduced to levels that many American manufacturers thought were unbelievably low, so when she thought of this, it was China. When it comes to production, her first reaction is to bargain.

Maybe this time, not only does the company not need subsidies, but it can also generate some profits?

Ellis looked embarrassed, "We even contacted the company's Chinese headquarters directly, but they clearly rejected our request,"

"Reject?" Whitman was a little unconvinced that a Chinese TV production company would actually reject a request from eBay in the United States. Did I hear that correctly?

As a qualified e-commerce CEO, Whitman naturally knows about some related things.

It should be said that although the market share of Chinese color TVs in the United States is not low at present, their future in the United States is either very unclear or, to put it simply, quite bad.

On May 2 last year, the United States, which basically does not have its own color TV manufacturer brand, a Tennessee company called Wuhe Electronics submitted an indictment to the International Trade Commission, accusing Chinese color TV companies of anti-dumping against the United States.

Although the ruling on this matter has been delayed repeatedly, it is generally believed that the final ruling on this anti-dumping case will be established.

Because it is said that behind this Wuhe Electronics Company, there are shadows of European Philips, which was driven out of the United States by Chinese color TV companies, and several RB factories.

Now that they have made such a decision, they must be somewhat confident.

Under such circumstances, you still don’t give me the face of the largest e-commerce company in the United States?

"Have you told him that our e-commerce network in China will also promote their products?"

"After talking, they still don't agree. It is said that such an order comes from the top of the company," Ellis would naturally say.

"From the top of the company? Oh, I understand," Whitman nodded, "This must be Feng who is acting,"

She was indeed right. Feng Yiping personally made a call to the senior management of Xiamen China regarding this matter.

"If he hasn't done anything yet, then I will be really disappointed," said Whitman, who also looked a little excited. "He is the richest man in mainland China, and mainland China is also the world's factory. It is backed by such a world factory. , this is his advantage,"

"No supply, no supply," Whitman said nonchalantly. "I look forward to the day when they beg us."

"You should immediately contact European and RB manufacturers. For the same specifications, the price is still lower than them,"

Ellis shook his head like a rattle, "We can't do this, Ms. Whitman, you can look at their prices,"

"Isn't it less than three thousand?" Whitman said. She memorized all the key elements at a glance.

"Yes, their price is less than 3,000 US dollars, but RB's products with the same specifications will not be less than 5,000 US dollars at least,"

"Their price is only 60% of RB's?" Whitman finally knew why there was an anti-dumping investigation on color TVs. The price difference was indeed huge.

At the same time, the price difference for a color TV is close to US$2,000. This time, I will never be able to get a lower group purchase price than NEXTDOOR.

Even at the same price, we can’t do it.

Because the group purchase quantity set by Jiasheng today is 5,000 units. If you use RB's products at the same price as his, you will have to subsidize at least nearly 10 million US dollars!

A group purchase requires such a large amount of subsidy. The board of directors who originally disagreed with NEXTDOOR's board of directors would not agree with this decision at all.

Whitman did not expect that Feng Yiping would not take action, but if he did, he would have no way out.

"Are we still going to keep a close eye on him? Or should we ignore him this time and launch our own products?" Ellis asked.