Chapter 13 The First Business
“All the arcades are sold?”
Guan Fei had just returned and had not yet taken a sip of water when Xue Yangyuan grabbed the sleeve and refused to let him go even if he died. He asked about the outcome of the negotiation.
"I said to Manager Xue, at least you can let me drink a sip of water before speaking. I spent an afternoon with Ms. Fang, Shaw. My mouth was almost on fire now!" Guan Fei was so entangled by him that he had no choice but to raise his hand to surrender.
"I'll pour it for you, you'll talk first!" Xue Yangyuan was extremely attentive. He let off Guan Fei's clothes and immediately went to get the water bottle. He kept not believing it, "Is it really sold? All?"
"Yes, yes, all sold! I said, Lao Xue, are you a little ambitious? We only built twenty game consoles in total in ten days, and it's no big deal to sell them all, why are you so surprised? If we sell tens of thousands or tens of thousands of units at one go, you will make sense, twenty units..." Guan Fei did not continue, just smacked his lips and even disdained.
Shaw Brothers Film has twenty cinemas in the prime location of the downtown area. Among the twenty cinemas, there are four wholly-owned cinemas belonging to Shaw Brothers, seven of them have stakeholders, and the rest are franchise-oriented.
This time, Shaw bought all twenty game consoles in his hand in one breath, and two were placed at the entrance of each theater, but there were only two left. After payment, the assistant Fang, who was in charge of the negotiation, added another twenty orders, intending to allow each theater to have an additional income.
"It's like you're proud. Now your eyes are growing up to the top of your head!" Xue Yangyuan has been with him for so many days and has figured out his temper. He knows that he is actually easy to talk to. As long as he doesn't talk about work, he often talks and jokes with his soldiers, and does not put on the airs of leadership. "If your game console is only sold for a few hundred Hong Kong dollars, it's fine, but your offer is 9,88! You know how much money an ordinary Hong Kong person earns a month is only 1,566! The money of your game console is the salary of others for half a year!"
He took the water and handed the water cup to Guan Fei in anger.
"I offer so high because it is worth the price!" Guan Fei gulped, and after drinking more than half a cup, he burped, and then said, "We went to the Lidu gate to try business. What do you think? There were so many people, and they were rushing to play. In order to compete for the position, those people almost started fighting! By the time the stall was closed at 10 o'clock in the evening, we poured out 1,207 coins from the cash box! The other one also had more than 1,150! You don't know, the manager named Zhao at that time looked straight. It was probably because they looked at it for another day and confirmed that this thing really made money. Then today Assistant Fang would come to us to negotiate to buy the game console."
Xue Yangyuan also knew the grand occasion of the first day.
That night, Guan Fei and others came back, opened a heavy sack and poured out coins all over the floor. He still remembered the scene of him still vividly.
The next day, when Guan Fei and his friends went to deposit money at Bank of China, the counter staff was stunned when they faced a sack of coins. They waited for several people to find, and they worked hard for nearly an hour before counting the coins. Guan Fei said that this was just a day's income. When so many coins were sent to deposit every day in the future, Xue Yangyuan noticed that not only did the lady at the counter look dull, but the corners of the bank manager's mouth were twitching.
A game console can earn more than 1,000 Hong Kong dollars in a day. This is faster than grabbing, more earning, and more legal and safer!
Shaw Brothers bought the game console and it seemed that the investment was relatively large, but it also quickly recovered the investment. This business would definitely not lose, but it would make a big profit.
Although Shaw Brothers movies have a box office of millions, they can’t make much money by deducting the shooting costs, release costs, and employee expenses. In order to increase revenue, cinemas will also sell popcorn, soda and other snacks.
All this little money is worthy. They are even more unlikely to let go of the huge profit growth point of arcades. Forty arcades, each income of each one is not a thousand, or a few hundred yuan a day, which can increase dozens or millions in a month to the theater! The arcades are placed next to the ticket booth, so that the ticket seller can just take a look at it, without any extra cost. All income can basically be said to be net profit!
"I said, since game consoles are so profitable, why do you want to sell them? Why do you want to rent out all the major cinemas and the land at the entrance of the theater. You can make a fortune by relying on this." Xue Yangyuan asked in confusion.
This is a golden rooster that lays eggs. It’s a pity that I just sold it like this?
"It's not worth it!"
Guan Fei drank a full water, sat down with a chair, leaned back comfortably, closed his eyes, relaxed his body, and waved to Xue Yangyuan. Today I was too tired, the little girl named Fang was too difficult to deal with. Not only was she smart, she was also very stingy, and she had to fight with him for every piece and every tiny, which was more brain-strapped than fighting a war.
"Why can't you pay for it? One thousand and two days a day, more than ten thousand in ten days, and more than 34,500 in a month! Twenty game consoles can bring in more than 600,000 in income per month, but you don't think it's enough?"
Xue Yangyuan felt that Guan Fei was a little confused and could not settle the account anyway.
"Old Xue, your vision is too short-sighted, even worse than a woman. People can see the future market of game consoles more accurately than you!" Guan Fei was so nagging and couldn't rest well by Xue Yangyuan, so he had to open his eyes and tell him clearly, "When Assistant Fang was negotiating with me today, he took out a statistical table, which showed the income situation in the past few days.
On the first day, the two gaming consoles had a total income of 2,366 yuan; on the second day, the income was 2,300 yuan; on the third day, the income was more than 2,100 yuan..."
"Ah, there are fewer people playing?"
"No, it's all full. You have to queue up to play games. There are many people, but there are more people who can play games!" Guan Fei exposed the reason behind the decrease in income. "At the beginning, everyone had never been exposed to electronic games, and they didn't know how to play faces. They were absolutely rookies. Most people almost just touched the joystick and died immediately. The people behind them followed and came up to pay coins. The two of them died quickly and could earn about three Hong Kong dollars in an average of one minute.
But after playing for two days, everyone has basically gotten to it: how space monsters attack, how to avoid each attack, and how to fight more efficiently. Players have also figured out the tricks bit by bit. They have never played before. Seeing that they have been fighting for so long, they have a secret in their hearts, and they won’t be over as soon as they come up.
To put it bluntly, electronic games are a fixed program. Machines are dead and people are alive. As long as you master the tricks, the better the more you play, it is inevitable. Although no one has passed the level yet, this situation will not take long.
After a while, the players have practiced it, and it is not surprising that they pass the level with one coin!"
"So that's it! So when everyone gets familiar with it, that is, in normal mode, how much income do you think a gaming machine can earn in a day?" Xue Yangyuan understood that it turned out to be a quick money.
"The entertainment method is too monotonous now. It is either watching movies or playing cards. The pace is too slow. People have a high acceptance of fast-paced and exciting leisure methods like electronic games. In addition, there are no competitors at the moment, and it is estimated that under normal mode, you can earn four or five hundred yuan a day. After all, there are always few experts. After playing electronic games, the test is the reflex nerve. Most reflex nerves can only be said to be average. Passing the level for a few coins is a normal level. Only experts can pass the level for one currency." Guan Fei explained.
"That's not bad, hundreds a day..."
Guan Fei pushed his palm forward to stop his infinite divergent thinking: "Old Xue, Lao Xue, I said you have a shallow vision, but you don't believe it yet!
We know that gaming consoles make money, and other bystanders are fools?
If they were fools, Shaw Brothers would not contact us and come to buy it at home! These two units were placed at the door of Lido. With their influence in Hong Kong, they can protect this piece of fat from being stolen. Without the shade of Shaw Brothers, we can keep it?
How many smart people are there in Hong Kong? Those big bosses are holding lots of money in their pockets and are experiencing opportunities to make a fortune. If we only operate exclusively, do you believe it or not, we will be eaten up by others in less than a month!
Okay, let’s change the angle and find people to visit the venue. One place will find four or five young and dandy people to visit the venue. Ten places will require forty or fifty people, and a hundred places will require four or five hundred people... I said, brother, am I here to run the business or run a club?
Even if I recruit hundreds of people, there are more people than me! There are so many Hong Kong communities, and hundreds of thousands of people are involved in the underworld. Can I fight for it?
If you take a step back, I will not refuse to fight!
Do you need money to raise a person? If you beat him to death, you always have to give me pocket money. If you are injured, you have to bandage your family. If you are disabled, you have to pay for your family. If you are dead, you have to pay for funeral money... It's easy to start a club!
People are killed every day when fighting and slashing people, don’t the police need to deal with them?
There is a mess all day long, why don’t social public opinion consider it? What should players do if they are scared away? Seeing that the business is hot, will the cinema raise the rent?
OK, I have accepted all these, so after all the expenses, how much can I earn in a month?
One hundred thousand or two hundred thousand?
I have worked hard to make this little money by doing all the work?
I sell game consoles and make 30,000 or 400,000 yuan per month. Which one is more cost-effective? Think about it yourself!"
Xue Yangyuan felt a little dizzy after being said by his long speech. He felt like this, but it was a little wrong. He couldn't summarize what was wrong for a while.
No matter what he thought, Guan Fei could stop urinating, and he would just close his eyes and rest.
Of course, selling game consoles is not as easy to make money as he said, and the difficulty is not simpler than opening the show.
Production capacity, sales, and being counterfeit and pirated are several major problems that must be faced.
However, he didn't need to explain these difficulties in detail to Xue Yangyuan. He said he was dizzy and had a good rest.
"By the way, I still have some serious matters and didn't tell you..." Xue Yangyuan thought for a while, but couldn't figure it out for the time being. He remembered something and forgot to tell Guan Fei, and quickly said, "You didn't ask me to tell that matter before, and there was a reply in China..."
"What reply?" Guan Fei stopped resting when he heard this. He immediately opened his eyes and sat up straight, staring at Xue Yangyuan tightly.
Chapter completed!