185: Chapter 185 Take advantage of the chaos and share a drink with me.

After all, this document states: 1 million handmade paper cranes (valued at 10 million), 10 million in cash and supplies...

"What's inappropriate about it? Paper cranes are their custom; they donated plenty in '08. If it weren't for the sake of appearances, I would've crossed out that last line or replaced it all with paper cranes.

We haven't entered the Japan market; this is a humanitarian donation. They can take it or leave it."

Huang Tianya thought about it and realized it was true. In Japan, whenever other countries experienced war, earthquakes, or fires, they would send boxes of paper cranes.

Transsion could be considered as respecting their culture; it might even play a more important role than material supplies.

After all, spiritual civilization is the most important thing.

It's just that... when a group of disaster victims see a shipping container filled with the "paper cranes" they were expecting.

That image is beautiful just to think about.

"By the way, President Shen, Samsung's prices have risen by another 5%, and they've been secretly probing for information about us."

But there hasn't been any movement on the surface."

Shen Fei stood up and walked over to Huang Tianya: "Of course there's no movement."

He poured himself a cup of tea...

Huang Tianya immediately took the teapot: "They must think we'll go and beg them."

Then they can fleece us even better.

They aren't generous enough to forget the losses in the Africa market."

Shen Fei looked at him with a smile: "Then, do you think we'll go and beg them?"

Huang Tianya was clearly stunned for a moment, then replied with the same mischievous smile.

"Why would we? We have a trump card product; we're not lacking any parts for Feature phones, and we can produce all the core products for Smartphones."

Ever since Bird became a sub-brand of Transsion, the price of second-hand phones has returned to normal, with a recycling price of 20 yuan per phone.

Relying on an excellent reputation, Transsion has basically swallowed up the entire waste mobile phone processing business in the country.

Furthermore, the Black Tech Dismantling Center has undergone a technical upgrade. It can now process not only waste mobile phones but also waste computers, and even the production capacity has been upgraded.

Last year alone, it processed 90 million waste mobile phones.

To maintain capacity, they even specially imported a batch from abroad.

Inventory shortage... Samsung should keep dreaming.

...

April 1st, Mr. Adebayo stood in the warehouse of the Transsion factory in Nigeria.

Currently, this place is heavily guarded with three shifts, absolutely ensuring no unauthorized personnel can get near.

After all, what's stacked inside is priceless storage and lenses.

He casually opened a box; inside were some repaired RAM modules, packed in corresponding bags.

The Chinese technician stationed there said: "President Adebayo, this batch is 128MB LPDDR1 RAM. They have all passed testing, and there is absolutely no problem using them for Feature phones."

Mr. Adebayo nodded; these were all good things.

"Guard this warehouse well. I heard from headquarters that storage and lenses have gone crazy with price hikes."

"Yes, sir. Storage has risen another 10% compared to yesterday and has doubled compared to last year. Other parts are also rising across the board. The reaction from terminal mobile phone manufacturers is that everything is rising. If the production line stops, there's no product to sell, but if the production line doesn't stop, they lose even more. Now, everyone is starting to downgrade their configurations."

Mr. Adebayo immediately grasped the key point in these words.

This was a great opportunity for Transsion, an opportunity to completely dominate the Africa market.

He hoped they would continue to raise prices; then Transsion could expand from China to Africa, and subsequently conquer the whole world.

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South Korea, Samsung Electronics.

Lee Kun-hee looked at the report, his expression growing uglier and uglier, his face filled with disbelief.

"Transsion is still lowering prices in Africa and in China?"

The person next to him nodded: "Chairman, not only did they not raise prices, but they actually lowered them by 5% in the Africa market and 10% in the China market."

Lee Kun-hee saw this report and was a bit skeptical. He had clearly already driven up the costs of storage, lenses, and screens by 1.5 times. It was one thing for them not to take the opportunity to raise prices, but to actively lower them?

"Do you mean to say that a month has passed, and they still haven't used up their inventory?"

"President Lee, don't be anxious; it should be soon. After all, they recently added a certified refurbished phone business in China, with prices 20% cheaper than new phones. They claim these are phones collected through trade-ins, all of which have been factory-processed and are no different from new ones. At the same time, they offer a one-year official warranty."

Lee Kun-hee finally heard the news he wanted to hear. That's more like it!

He had colluded with other suppliers to lower production capacity; how could anyone have so much stock? If they don't increase orders, do they not take Newton seriously?

Putting refurbished phones on the shelves proves their inventory really has problems. The opportunity to harvest them has finally arrived.

"Since that's the case, let's issue another public announcement: due to the continued shortage of raw materials, Samsung is once again shutting down some production lines in some factories."

"Understood!"

A chain reaction quickly occurred again. Micron and Elpida followed suit, and the prices of flash memory and RAM rose again. This, instead, allowed Xinyuan Technology to reap the benefits once more.

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Shenzhen, Huaqiangbei.

At a certain Xinyuan Technology warehouse, before the doors had even opened, a long line had already formed.

When the staff began to set up the temporary counter, a group of second-hand dealers immediately rushed up, shouting.

"Is there any flash memory in stock?"

"Get aside, do you know how to queue?"

"Security, kick those who are cutting in line out..."

About 5 minutes later, the temporary counter was finally set up.

It was filled with various "inventory parts": RAM, flash memory, screens, batteries, cameras. Regardless of the category, the price was 20% lower than the market price.

A middleman finally reached the front:

"Boss, how much 128MB and 256MB LPDDR storage do you have left?"

The clerk didn't even look up, and the people behind him chuckled. Another person who didn't know the immensity of heaven and earth, actually trying to test Xinyuan Technology's inventory with the pocket change they had...

"How much do you want?"

"Ten thousand of each."

The clerk pulled out a calculator and pressed a few buttons: "630,000."

The middleman was stunned for a moment. This wasn't just 20% lower than the market price; according to today's market conditions, this was at least 30% cheaper. As expected, there are many opportunities in the South.

"So cheap?"

The clerk looked at him without the slightest intention of persuading him: "Do you want it or not? If not, wait behind..."

The middleman gritted his teeth.

"I want it. Give me 20,000 of each."

He picked up his bank card and paid a total of 1.2 million.

The clerk gave him a discount of a few tens of thousands. After confirming the payment, the receipt was issued.

"Go to the warehouse in the back to pick up the goods."

The middleman took the receipt and squeezed out, while the people outside surged forward again. But without exception, their eyes were filled with greed.

Xinyuan Technology is basically giving away money... Must buy, even if I have to sell my house or car, I must buy.

Under the influence of this atmosphere, those who originally wanted to buy 20,000 units increased their orders to 50,000 or even 100,000...

The clerk didn't stop them; they were all adults who had to pay the price for their own actions. Besides, Samsung shouldn't be increasing production capacity in the short term. As long as they don't keep hoarding, they shouldn't have to cosplay as a flying man.