Chapter 38: Doing business is unreasonable
In the convenience store outside the computer city, Lu Yiming generously treated Li Yiwen and Li Quanwang to smoothies.
"Wait a minute, you two go in and pretend to chat. Say you two want to purchase 600 computers. We now want to find sellers in the computer city, and we don't know which one has better products." Lu Yiming said.
After listening to this, Li Quanwang suddenly realized: "You are smart. In this way, we can find the seller with the lowest price."
Lu Yiming smiled and shook his head: "No, I still want to ask Lao Qian to buy it. I said I would help him get rich. Besides, the whole computer city is full of good and bad people. It's more reliable to ask Lao Qian."
Li Yiwen was a veteran who had been working in society for several years. He immediately understood Lu Yiming's idea. He patted Li Quanwang on the shoulder and urged him, "Don't ask. Just do it."
"All right."
Li Quanwang scratched his head, still looking confused.
Li Yiwen and Li Quanwang started to "activate" things in the computer city.
Although it is reasonable to pay the money and receive the goods at the same time.
But business is often unreasonable. In a market environment with oversupply, buyers are the real bosses, and it is common for sellers to be forced to accept credit.
After all, if you don't do it, there are plenty of people who will, and once you miss the opportunity, you may never see it again.
As expected, not long after Li Yiwen and Li Quanwang walked out of the computer city, Lu Yiming received a call from Qian Hongli.
He was moved.
Now the news that Lu Yiming is going to purchase 600 computers has spread like wildfire in the computer city. Many people can accept the three-month payment period. After all, Lu Yiming has proof of property, and everyone is not afraid that he will not be able to pay the bill.
Qian Hongli was worried that if he didn't take action, he would have no chance of winning the deal.
After answering the phone, Lu Yiming snapped his fingers and said with great joy: "Very good, the first step has been completed. Next, we need to find a big house."
Li Quanwang was puzzled: "What are you looking for a house for? To be a warehouse?"
He still didn't quite understand why Qian Hongli called Lu Yiming so quickly. Not only did he have no objection to the three-month payment period, but he also took the initiative to say that he would prepare all 600 computers within a month.
And now Lu Yiming has to find a house again. With Li Quanwang's cognitive ability, he is of course looking for a house to store these 600 computers, and then find a chance to sell them for money.
But Lu Yiming smiled slightly and gave an answer that he didn't expect: "No, I want to open an Internet cafe."
"Open an Internet cafe?"
Not only Li Quanwang did not expect it, but even Li Yiwen did not expect that Lu Yiming bought these 600 computers just to open an Internet cafe.
Li Yiwen has always been a good student. He has never been to an Internet cafe, let alone this industry. He immediately asked: "Is it profitable to open an Internet cafe?"
You know, 600 computers cost more than 2 million to buy, and the payment period is only three months. Is it possible to make more than 2 million in three months by opening an Internet cafe?
Li Quanwang, who was standing aside, also had a lot of questions in his mind. Although he often went to the Internet cafe to use other people's computers to play, and he had no clear idea of how much money the Internet cafes made.
Compared to the two of them, Lu Yiming obviously knew more about the ins and outs of this business, so he was full of confidence: "Of course I can make money, and it's not just ordinary money. Opening an Internet cafe can make money faster than robbing a bank! And it's completely legal and reasonable!"
"real?"
Li Quanwang and Li Yiwen were both skeptical.
Little did they know that Lu Yiming, who had seen how Internet cafes "robbed money", had decided to run an Internet cafe after making his first pot of gold from Microsoft.
The reason for choosing to open an Internet cafe was that this industry was very profitable until the Blue Speed incident in 2002.
As early as 1996, the first Internet cafe in China was established in Beijing.
The first Internet cafe was called "Internet Cafe" and was located near the Capital Gymnasium. Although there were less than 10,000 Internet users in China at that time and the Internet fee was as high as 5 yuan per minute, many people still came to surf the Internet.
Although the price is not cheap, it cannot stop people from pursuing new things. Internet cafes are basically full every day. There are more than ten computers lined up against the wall in a small house of dozens of square meters. They can earn at least 200,000 yuan a month. It is so cruel.
Lu Yiming has more than 2 million yuan in capital in his bank account. He has to wait until August to short the ruble. Of course, he can't do nothing now, so he has to find a way to make money from money so that the capital in his hands can grow like a snowball.
It has to be said that this is truly a great era full of change and opportunities.
As long as you make the right choice, you can easily pick up money from the ground.
"Of course it's true." Lu Yiming said, "If you don't believe me, I'll take you to see it."
At that moment, Lu Yiming called a taxi and went to Jinyuan Street near No. 1 Middle School.
There is an Internet cafe here.
Lu Yiming and Li Quanwang had come here many times to "pay tribute" before, so they were very familiar with it.
It's a small store with only 19 machines. Even though it's not a holiday, it's still packed with people. There are even several people standing behind each machine , staring at the screen in fascination.
Lu Yiming said, "The internet fee here is 15 yuan per hour. If the computer is turned on for an average of 10 hours a day, that's 150 yuan. The overnight fee is 40 yuan, which is about 200 yuan a day. With 19 computers, we can earn more than 3,600 yuan a day, which is 100,000 yuan a month."
Li Yiwen, who had never been to an Internet cafe, was shocked and his scalp went numb. He quickly calculated in his mind: "Even if the computer costs 10,000 yuan, it will definitely pay for itself in these two months. The rest is pure profit. This money is too easy to make!"
It was the first time he knew that the profits of Internet cafes could be so high.
In 1998, this secret had not been discovered by many people, and the first batch of Internet cafe owners all chose to make their fortunes in silence.
But secrets are something that cannot be kept sooner or later. Around the millennium, with the rise of the domestic personal computer market, Internet cafes truly entered the public eye and then experienced a full-scale explosion.
Before that, Lu Yu still has a year and a half to enjoy the food.
Lu Yiming said with a smile: "Cousin, what do you think? Do you think this business is worth doing?"
Li Yiwen nodded rapidly: "That's quite interesting!"
Lu Yiming laughed loudly, and finally revealed his true intentions. He patted Li Yiwen on the shoulder and said, "Then you should go back and quit your job, and come here to take care of this big mess for me."
Li Yiwen: “…”
