Roaming In The World Of Film And Television

Chapter 440

In a corner of the most prosperous area of ​​Matai Street, a gray cloth of less than 2 square meters was thrown on the road crocks. On the inside are ten video discs with covers. In the front are rows of soft plastic bags with stickers in the middle. With labels, words such as “A Chinese Ghost Story 1”, “A Chinese Ghost Story 2”, “God of Gamblers”, “Holy Gambling” are written, because they are far away from the street lamp, and those with poor eyesight may not be able to find this shabby. Shabby stall.

A rickshaw riding a donkey was parked one meter away. Next to it was a liquefied gas tank. The hose was directly connected to the gas stove in the middle of the car. In a blue flame, the hot oil was churning, and pieces of stinky tofu were quilted. It is deep-fried into golden brown, skewered out of the pot with a squeaky sound and weird fragrance, sprinkled with peppers, five-spice powder and other seasonings, waiting for customers passing by to spend a few cents to buy one.

After fixing the stinky tofu in the oil pan, the forty-something woman in a red checkered apron took a quick glance to the side, and then she was stunned.

Behind the little stall that was somewhat elevated as described as “shabby”, a shy white guy was sitting on a pony sack with a signboard measuring 30 cm tall with six Chinese characters on it —– -Long live the Sino-European friendship.

The street light was already dim, and the man was wearing a baseball cap, covering most of his face.

“My friends, don’t miss it when you pass by, pure Guangzhou goods, cheap and durable.”

“This girl, do you want to come for one, it’s only eight yuan, if you can’t play it, you can come back and ask me to refund the money.”

“I’m from Estonia, where there are vast forests and blue sky.”

“…”

“Because I insisted on coming to China to study, I had a fight with my family. I didn’t go back this summer. I wanted to rely on my own efforts to survive in this vibrant land, so I followed my classmates to work-study in Guangzhou. Who knew that the factory went bankrupt, the boss If we don’t have money to pay wages, we will give us the CDs that are lacking in outer packaging as wages.”

“…”

“Put it down, Wai Rui Goode, great.”

“…”

Lin Yue touched the super voice changer hung under his neck, and said that he could do it hard enough to make money.

What is the most important thing about the Matai Street Night Market?

a small vendor.

How to stand out among a group of small vendors?

The low price of the product and the good quality are the next thing. The key is to let customers see you at a glance in the crowd, leaving a deep impression, or a sense of freshness.

In 1996, there were very few foreigners in China. Most of them were distributed in foreign companies and university campuses. The stalls were even rarer. If he could change his skin color and hair color, people would mistake him for a foreign student, and he would definitely attract the attention of shoppers. .

Lin Yue did this just to sell the goods quickly and earn the first pot of gold, nothing more.

Speaking of it, his best way to make money is stocks, with low risk and quick money. However, after careful consideration, he believes that it is better to build a business empire down-to-earth. This will increase the experience of Ascension himself, and also help people around him and exercise their business capabilities. After all, they are not as capable as he is. Predict the stock price for the next two decades.

There were only two shouts here, and soon a man in a dark green T-shirt came over.

“Your CD doesn’t even have an outer packaging. What if you can’t put it in?”

Lin Yue said in crappy Chinese: “Brother, those packages that cost more than ten or twenty yuan a piece, my eight yuan a piece, in fact, the effect is the same when stuffed into a VCD. Spend a few yuan to buy an extra plastic box. Don’t you think it’s a loss? If you can’t play, you can get it back and exchange it.”

“Then give me one.” The man picked two discs and gave him eight yuan: “I can’t let me go, but I want to come back and find you.”

Lin Yue said straightforwardly: “No problem.”

With the first person to eat crabs, there will soon be a second person to eat crabs.

A foreigner who sets up a street stall will attract the attention of passers-by. In addition, Lin Yue drives [Master Killer LV2] and can speak crappy European Chinese. You can imagine the attraction for big girls and little wives. .

Ordinary people have a herd mentality, which is why the more guests in some restaurants, the better the business, the more deserted the store, the worse the business.

With more onlookers, the exposure rate has increased, and the business will naturally flourish. What’s more, the discs he sells are very cheap, and there is a school story that can satisfy the national pride and vanity of passers-by. Many people take care of the business of foreign guys. The idea is also happy to support it.

In an hour, no, he closed the stall in less than an hour. Not only did he sell all fifty recording discs, he even packed the samples with the outer packaging for a rich girl in a white skirt.

The Big Sister, who sells stinky tofu next to him, looked silly, and murmured aside with his Henan accent, “Mother, this business is too good.”

Before leaving, Lin Yue bought a bunch of stinky tofu at her for fifty cents. While eating, he gave a thumbs up, and said to passers-by who looked at him again and again, “The taste of China, Good, Good.”

So Big Sister, which sells stinky tofu, has a small peak in its business.

A recordable disc costs RMB 2.7, 50 discs are sold for RMB 200, plus ten discs with outer packaging, the sales amount is less than half an hour, and the net profit is almost the same after subtracting the purchase price. There are eighty yuan.

Eighty yuan a night, a month is two thousand four, which is equivalent to the income of a working family in a big city for more than one month, and this is only the first day.

Nearly 9 o’clock, Lin Yue returned to the store on Zhujiang Road where there were more grocery stores than audiovisual stores. The boss surnamed Xiao hadn’t slept yet, holding a bowl of egg fried rice where he ate, while watching the TV screen intently.

When Lin Yue passed by, a panic flashed across his face, and he snapped the TV off.

“How did you come?”

“Come to buy the goods.”

“Restocking? Are those fifty discs sold out?”

Lin Yue nodded: “It’s sold out.”

Boss Xiao was holding a bowl and chopsticks, with a hell of expression on his face.

This kid sold more than 30 films in one night? Which university has such spending power? It is important to know that for college students who have an average life fee of only 200 yuan a month, buying CDs is considered high consumption. Generally speaking, they are more inclined to rent because they only cost one yuan a day.

Of course, Lin Yue would not tell him how he quickly sold DVDs, [Chameleon LV2], [Bargain LV3], [Sister Milk Killer LV2], plus his grasp of the national psychology and the price caused by information asymmetry. Poor, if you can’t sell VCDs overnight, it’s better to find a higher rooftop and jump to the next level.

“Boss, I want a hundred discs this time, how about you working overtime tonight?”

One hundred discs, calculated as fifty movies, the recorder runs at a speed of 4X, theoretically it can burn 3 movies in 1 hour, and it takes at least 20 hours to burn all of them.

“When do you want it?”

“Tomorrow evening.”

“Can.”

The boss settled the accounts and sold a disc to Lin Yue. His profit was at least one piece of eight, and one hundred pieces equals one hundred and eighty. Overtime? Of course you have to add it, not adding it is a fool.

Lin Yue picked out a dozen or so films that were well-reviewed by later generations in the cardboard box for him.

Boss Xiao pulls it with his hand, “Chongqing Forest”, “New Crane Needle”, “Deer Tripod”, “Tang Bohu Spots Autumn Fragrance”…

“Young man, you have a good vision.” He was really amazed by this young man. Not to mention the selling out of more than 30 films in one night, the eyesight of selecting films is not comparable to ordinary people.

Lin Yue smiled and did not speak.

Hong Kong films can rise by the wind, firstly because after several years of drastic reforms in the entertainment desert of the mainland, people have more spiritual needs after eating their meals. HK movies happen to satisfy their desire for new things. In addition, The rise of Hong Kong movies also contains elements necessary for money laundering by gangsters, so the quality of movies is uneven, there are classic movies, and there are more bad movies. After the rise of DVDs in the late 1990s, they have to be turned into good-looking discs in hundreds of disc cartons. The movie, it really feels like finding a needle in a haystack.

Self-employed people like Boss Xiao who sell audio-visual and electronic products will sit in front of the TV and watch movies every day in addition to buying and selling goods. Naturally, people who have never been exposed to the Internet know which ones are good and which are bad ones.

As for Lin Yue, would he have a bad vision as a future man?

“This is the second purchase, and the quantity is twice that of the first purchase, so according to the price negotiated last time, a disc is 2.5 yuan.”

The boss hesitated because he had to work overtime after all, but when he thought of profit, he made a decision instantly.

“Two bucks and five are two bucks and five.”

Lin Yue took a photo of 50 yuan at the counter: “This is a deposit. I will come here to pick up the goods at five o’clock tomorrow afternoon.”

“Good.” The boss collected the money and walked out of the counter to the door.

“The movie just now was “The Girl Without Buttons”, right?”

The boss’s face changed slightly.

Lin Yue waved, turned and disappeared at the entrance of the corridor.

…

An hour later, Lin Yue opened the door to the male dormitory of Jingnan University of Technology and walked into the room.

It has been 10 minutes since the lights were turned off, and the desk by the window was still lit. Chen Xiaozheng held a flashlight and was reading there. Xu Kaiyang and Xiaopang had already gone to bed to rest.

His arrival caused a commotion, and Xu Kaiyang opened the corner of the mosquito net: “What did you do, and you only returned to the dormitory so late?”

Lin Yue said, “It’s time to make money.”

Xiaopang was so happy that he patted the bed board straight, but because he was too heavy, the whole bed was shaken by wind and rain.

“Zhang Kai, can you die without bragging? You made money, how much money did you make?”