Roaming in the world of film and television

Leaving Jingnan University of Technology, Lin Yue boarded a bus bound for the city center. When the passengers looked at each other, he focused his attention on the system space and pulled down the menu to the skill list.

Looking at the "3" behind the existing skill enhancement points, he tapped the "+" sign behind [Bargaining LV2] without any hesitation, and the skill enhancement points fell back to "1", and the bargaining skill came to LV3.

[Bargaining LV3] (Explanation, the discount obtained by bargaining is further increased, and it is easier to attract customers as a seller, it can be used in conjunction with [Teacher Killer LV2].)

In the evening, I came to a market specializing in selling electronic products on Zhujiang Road.

The audio-visual store in that era can be described as disorganized. The shelves with colorful tapes were placed at the door, and the boxes next to them were dusty celebrity posters and photo cards. There were pocket radios and tape recorders under the store counter. Goods, and the treasure of the town store is of course all kinds of VCDs.

Love many VCDs.

Strange sound VCD.

Malata VCD.

...

There are also various VCD accessories, microphones, signal lines, etc., and there are VCD discs on the opposite wall, most of which are Hong Kong films, and there are also Taiwan films, and there are few resources for American films.

Lin Yue wandered around the mall, and went straight into an unnamed shop hidden in various circuit boards, broken stereos, and old discs.

The boss is a middle-aged man wearing glasses. He is sitting in front of a TV and watching a movie intently. The cigarette between his fingers has burned to the point where only the filter is left.

Lin Yue passed the woven bag in the aisle, walked to the boss and turned his head to look. The classic Hong Kong film "A Chinese Ghost Story" was being shown on the TV. The plot was that Ning Caichen was sleeping in the guest room of Lanruo Temple, and the skeletons below were one after another. The part of the activity.

"boss."

He patted the middle-aged man on the shoulder, which made the uncle tremble, and soot fell from his fingertips.

"What are you doing? Be quiet, scare me to death." The middle-aged man pressed the pause button while talking, for fear of missing this exciting scene.

Since VCD became popular and entered thousands of households, HK movies have swept the mainland like a trend. A Chinese Ghost Story series, Young and Dangerous series, God of Gamblers series, Mr. Zombie series... have injected infinite vitality and color into this entertainment desert.

"Boss, are there any CDs, the ones that can be recorded?" Lin Yue looked at the various posters on the wall, and then flipped through the DVDs in the cardboard boxes on the counter.

The middle-aged man pushed the frame of the mirror and took a deep look at him: "Yes, it costs two yuan a piece."

"Are you kidding me?" Lin Yue said, "The shops at the end of the street only cost more than one yuan, and you only sell it for two yuan."

"How many do you want? If you want more, I can give you a cheaper price."

Lin Yue stretched out a hand.

"Five?"

"Fifty."

"You have to buy it sincerely, and I will count you one yuan and five."

Lin Yue walked out without saying a word.

"Hey, don't go, if you are not satisfied, the price can be negotiated again."

Lin Yue was not surprised by the middle-aged man's reaction, because the monthly income of workers in small and medium-sized cities in this era is only five or six hundred yuan. For a store of this level, fifty CD-ROMs are considered a considerable deal. .

"It's not that I didn't buy it in good faith, it's that you didn't sell it in good faith. They told you that the two stores at the end of the street only offered a little more than one yuan, and I wanted fifty of them at once. You offer me one and five yuan here. Seeing that I'm a student, it's so deceitful." no?"

"Then how much do you want?"

"From my standpoint, of course the less the better."

"One piece and two."

Lin Yue turned his head and left without saying a word.

"One piece, one piece for the head office."

Lin Yue stopped, walked back to the front of the counter, and pointed to the recorder next to him: "How much is it to burn a disc?"

The boss said, "Two yuan a piece."

"I buy a CD-ROM and a disc from you, how much can you give me at least?"

"Fifty full engravings?"

"Fifty full engravings."

The boss took off his glasses and wiped them on a spectacle cloth stained with oil: "The disc plus the recording fee are three yuan a piece."

"Two seven dollars, no more."

The boss pondered for a moment: "Okay, two sevens is two sevens."

After negotiating a good price, the boss took out fifty empty discs from under the counter. Lin Yue rummaged through the cardboard box next to him and found ten video discs.

They are "A Chinese Ghost Story" 1-2, "God of Gamblers", "Gambler", "Gambler" and two zombie-themed films.

"A little bit of each of these films."

The boss picked up the discs on the counter, with a puzzled look on his face: "Young man, I'm curious what you're going to do with engraving fifty discs at once."

"Of course it was sold."

"Sell it?" The boss was stunned.

"You know, we students don't have a lot of money. A VCD is used by several dormitories in turn. Buying a CD is also a big expense. Everyone thinks that it can save a little bit. If you are a student, you are willing to Come to me and buy cheap unpackaged discs, or go to a video store and buy discs in packs?"

"Uh." The boss was really surprised by him. These days, not to mention young people who are still in school, even workers who have been in the society for many years, generally still have the mentality of working to earn money, and only those who have the idea of ​​self-employment A small portion of this group.

As Lin Yue said, there is essentially no difference between the CDs placed in cardboard boxes at the counter and the blank CDs that have been burned. There are multiple outer packagings. When customers enter the store to buy CDs, they usually look at the pictures and introductions.

CDs with outer packaging are priced at 10-20 yuan depending on how old they are (there were two VCDs and one disc back then). How much are the CDs in the hands of young people? The cost is only five bucks four.

"It should take a lot of time to burn fifty CDs. In this case, I will give you 20 yuan as a deposit. I will come here to pick up the goods tomorrow afternoon and pay you the rest."

"OK."

Lin Yue took out twenty yuan and handed it over, and the boss wrote him a receipt.

After leaving the store, he went to look at other stores that deal in electronic products, and went shopping on Matai Street after dark, and returned to school at almost ten o'clock.

In the evening of the next day, he came to the audio-visual store on time and tried the projection effect on the camera. Lin Yue paid the balance and agreed to give him another ten o'clock for the second cooperation. After that, he left Zhujiang Road and drove to Ma Taiwan Street.

In 1996, the Matai Street Night Market could be said to be the largest night market in the city, with 600 stalls alone, selling snacks, fruits, toys, audio-visual products, and daily necessities... the air was floating in the air. With the smell of oily smoke and the sweetness of fruit, the sound of bargaining makes the whole street noisy. Children holding popsicles in their left hand and cotton candy in their right are enjoying themselves, and the sound of bicycle bells always comes from the street. Ring to the end of the street.

Lin Yue came here to sell discs. He told the boss that selling discs at school was just a casual talk. How much spending power does a group of students who can't even afford VCDs have? More people watch movies and choose to rent discs. The rich second generation like Mr. Xu is not universal, but the night market is different. The traffic is very large. This is a provincial capital city, and the income is generally higher. People spend a dozen Buying a few CDs for 20 yuan is not considered a high consumption. After all, 1996 was not like the time Lin Yue lived in. Computers were not yet popular, and the Internet was a new thing. Watching DVDs was basically a national entertainment activity. .

At the moment when information interaction is underdeveloped, many people simply buy VCDs to play video discs. As for recorders, who knows what that is.

Lin Yue's idea is very simple --- use the asymmetry of information to grab the first pot of gold.

However, although his discs have a price advantage, they are not packaged, and they are definitely not as good-looking as the products offered by other audio-visual product stalls, and other people's stalls are filled with dozens or hundreds of colorful discs. Let it go, the guests can choose whatever they want, he is simply incomparable in terms of diversity.

There is no packaging and the scale is small. These two defects will bring about a crisis of trust. For ordinary people, the only way to improve the customer's impression of the booth is through long-term operation. Lin Yue does not have so much time to waste on this matter. His The goal is to sell out all the DVDs in one night.

Confidence comes from 【Bagging LV3】?

No, this is just one of his reliance. Besides this business skill, he also has a novel and interesting idea.