Chapter 964: Another Trap
"Unscrupulous merchants, please supply the goods quickly!"
"Supply the goods immediately in accordance with the agreement, or we will see you in court!"
"Where's this year's avocado quota? If I don't ship them, my store will be smashed by customers!"
A large group of sellers blocked the door of United Fruit and demanded shipments.
Even though United Fruit is domineering abroad and dares to organize armed rebellions, overthrow local governments and do all kinds of evil, it still has to behave itself at home. Otherwise, an antitrust law from the federal court will make it suffer.
If someone dared to make such a fuss at the doorstep in a foreign country, they would have set up machine guns and started firing.
But this is China, they can only appease them with kind words and delay as much as possible, while changing channels to purchase some avocados for emergency use.
However, because Zhang Tuohai raised the price by two times, other channel dealers raised their prices by more than three times in order to make a profit.
They even picked out some good quality ones, labeled them as "selected" and "fine", and the prices increased five or even ten times.
All channel dealers offer this price, so you can imagine how high the retail price will be.
United Fruit looked around but couldn't find anyone with a lower price than Zhang Tuohai's.
Moreover, they are all sold in limited quantities, so a small amount might be enough to fool one or two distributors, but United Fruit is too big, and this small amount is just a drop in the bucket and cannot meet the demand at all.
Occasionally there are a few companies of similar size that can provide emergency assistance, but they just stand by and do nothing.
Competitors are enemies. They usually appear to be friendly on the surface, but secretly they all wish the other party would die quickly so that they can monopolize this market.
Now that there is a chance, it's good enough that you don't add insult to injury. Are you still expecting help?
After searching everywhere, it seems that only Zhang Tuohai can supply it, and at the moment, the price is still the lowest in the market?
Shit!
In desperation, United Fruit had to go back to Zhang Tuohai to discuss the contract, hoping to lower the price.
Unexpectedly, Zhang Tuohai directly raised the price and doubled it, and also required full payment before the goods could be shipped.
"Why don't you go and rob?" the United Fruit representative asked angrily.
"I'm just trying to grab it, right?" Zhang Tuohai said leisurely while lying in the boss chair. "Anyway, the price is this price. You guys should decide quickly. Avocados are in short supply right now. The price is rising every hour. It won't be this price in the afternoon."
Bang!
Zhang Tuohai hung up the phone without giving the other party a chance to refute.
“Are you really going to ship them?”
Miranda asked from the side.
"How is that possible?" Zhang Tuohai sneered, "They can't be forgiven for building a dam to block the water and causing 80% of the people in the entire Straw City to suffer from diabetes."
"So you want them to pay the full amount?"
"I'm asking for compensation for you," Zhang Tuohai said with a smile. "If you want to ask them for compensation, it will take at least ten or eight years to win the lawsuit. Even if the court makes a ruling, there is no definite time to get it. Last time on 9/11, they tricked the firefighters into going to the rescue, but now more than half of them have died of cancer, and the compensation has not been paid yet."
"These are their own people. They have dragged on for more than 20 years and there is still no result. Do you think that you, who are talking tools from a third world country in their eyes, will get compensation? You are dreaming."
"So, I can only use this method to help you get compensation."
Zhang Tuohai said with a sneer.
"This..." This was the first time Miranda had heard of such a secret. She checked online and found that it was indeed the case. However, it was drowned out by the vast amount of celebrity gossip and only attracted a few thousand people's attention, most of whom were probably the victims themselves and their families.
"How could these people be like this? It's too cruel, isn't it?"
Miranda didn't know what to say.
"It's just greed at work." Zhang Tuohai said, "You can't expect these capitalists who drink human blood to have a conscience. People who can even refuse to pay for their lives can only be punished in this way."
"Yeah, okay."
Miranda nodded. Those with diabetes really needed such money.
The United Fruit Industry should indeed be held accountable for this.
This does not even include compensation for local ecological damage in recent years.
Zhang Tuohai has already finalized the plan, and United Fruit is also holding a board meeting.
"Tell me what we should do. The company is in a critical moment now, so everyone should stop making your own plans."
asked the chief executive of United Fruit.
The directors looked at each other, and finally someone asked.
" Is there really no way to purchase goods from the international market? We can't just keep our heads down and get ripped off. If we keep going like this, what about next year, the year after, and other regions? If we set such a benchmark, then I'm afraid we won't be able to control other places, and everyone will follow suit. This trend cannot be encouraged and must be severely suppressed!"
As the man spoke, he pressed the cigar in his hand hard into the ashtray.
"Do you think I don't know how to suppress it?" The executive director sneered, "Military coup, street protests, assassinations, poisoning, commercial crackdowns, all the tricks have been used, but to no avail! Otherwise, do you think that guy can stand in front of us to negotiate terms?"
"We can't let him get away with it that easily. I think it's better to acquire it internationally."
The director said.
"Okay, but if we buy from overseas, we'll have to pay for it with about a year's profit. Who's going to pay for it? You?"
The CEO asked with a sneer.
No one spoke.
You can share the money, but it’s impossible to ask them to pay out money to advance the company. What if they suffer a loss? Who will compensate for their losses?
"If no one speaks, then let's vote. It's a secret ballot and the votes will be counted in ten minutes."
The CEO asked his secretary to hand out sheets of white paper.
Ten minutes later, the statistical results came out, and it was unanimously approved to purchase goods from Zhang Tuohai.
After the statistical results came out, a specialist immediately called Zhang Tuohai to communicate, and through superb ventriloquism, persuaded Zhang Tuohai to pay 50% of the pre-sale payment first, and the rest would be settled after the goods were shipped.
Zhang Tuohai did not comment.
As soon as the money from United Fruit arrived, Zhang Tuohai immediately had people packing the picked avocados and loading them onto cargo ships for shipment to other continents.
As for the money, the payment for purchasing avocados will be made up first according to the original purchase price, and the rest will be divided equally among the sick people as compensation.
At the same time, a portion of it will be set aside as a charitable fund to be used specifically to assist citizens in need.
Zhang Tuohai from United Fruit Industry hadn't delivered the goods for a long time, so he called to ask about it anxiously.
"Didn't I tell you that you need to pay the full amount before you can ship the fruit? It's very difficult for me to do this since you only paid half. I've already had the fruit picked and they're being packed. If you can pay the full amount, I'll have it shipped. If not, I'll have to sell it to someone else. You guys decide for yourself."
Zhang Tuohai hung up the phone.
