pjbooks Chapter 174 Pinduoduo's 1 Yuan Purchase Officially Launched
Chapter 174 Pinduoduo's 1 Yuan Purchase Officially Launched
Chapter 174 Pinduoduo's One Yuan Purchase Officially Launched
Pang Yonghui is a person with a level three disability, suffering from strabismus and moderate epilepsy.
Because he suffers from epilepsy, he has difficulty finding a job. When he does work, he doesn't know when he will have an epileptic seizure. Once a seizure occurs, he lies on the ground convulsing. Which company would dare to hire him?
Moreover, if it were just epilepsy, that would be one thing, at least when he's not having a seizure, he looks like a normal person.
However, Pang Yonghui is also cross-eyed, which makes him feel very inferior. He dares not go out to work and can only lock himself at home.
However, he didn't completely give up at home. Relying on the internet, he started farming gold in the game Fantasy Westward Journey. Although it required some initial investment, he could earn more than 1000 yuan a month.
In addition, he would look for all sorts of money-making opportunities. For example, when a new World of Warcraft server opened, he would farm gold. When the server first opened, the price of gold was very high, and with luck and experience, he could even earn 500 yuan a day when he was lucky.
Just today, he found a new opportunity: a 1-yuan flash sale on Pinduoduo. Pinduoduo releases 50 [yuan flash sales] every day.
A Xiaomi phone, originally priced at 2000 yuan, is available for purchase in a flash sale with 2000 slots. Each user has a 1/2000 chance to snag the phone for just 1 yuan. If a user fails to purchase the phone, Pinduoduo will compensate them with a 5 yuan no-minimum-spend coupon.
Previously, Pang Yonghui had never heard of Pinduoduo. He browsed the site and found the goods incredibly cheap, ridiculously so. With this 5 yuan no-minimum-spend coupon, he could practically get things for free—it was practically free!
So, Pang Yonghui started borrowing accounts, borrowing a total of 10 accounts. He used a mobile phone emulator on the console to open 10 windows in a row, logged into these 10 accounts, and even activated 10 auto-clickers simultaneously, specifically for snatching mobile phones.
At noon, 50 Xiaomi phones went live on the 1-yuan flash sale page, and the auto-clicker went on a crazy spree. Pang Yonghui hadn't had high hopes; he originally intended to use the 50-yuan no-minimum-spend coupon to buy paper and supplement his family's income.
However, to his surprise, one of the 10 screens displayed a message on the simulator interface that read, "Congratulations on successfully purchasing a Xiaomi phone."
"Wow, I actually managed to snag one!" Pang Yonghui quickly took a screenshot as evidence, and then filled in his mobile phone number, bank card number, and shipping address on the interface.
He didn't waste the remaining nine accounts either. Using nine 5-yuan no-minimum-spend coupons, he made some freebies on Pinduoduo. He mainly bought tissues and toilet paper; paper products are already cheap on Pinduoduo, and with these 45-yuan coupons, he managed to get 40 yuan worth for free.
Packed tissues.
Looking at Pinduoduo, Pang Yonghui suddenly saw another business opportunity: things on Pinduoduo were so cheap, could he wholesale goods from Pinduoduo and sell them in the countryside? However, he gave up after just a brief thought; making money that way was too troublesome, and he didn't want to go out and show his face. He didn't have the courage. If possible, he still wanted to make money online.
But Pang Yonghui didn't forget about it. He's a disabled person with a disability certificate and a member of the Disabled Persons' Federation. The Federation organizes local disability aid groups and creates online communities for disabled people to exchange information and communicate. For example, the gold farming project in World of Warcraft was taught to him by someone in that group.
Out of gratitude, and with the thought that giving roses leaves a lingering fragrance, Pang Yonghui wrote down this newly discovered business opportunity in a document and posted it in the Disabled Persons' Federation group.
After some time, the Xiaomi 1 phone he had snapped up arrived, along with 40 packs of tissues and a box of apples he had gotten for free. Pang Yonghui looked at the pile of goods on the deliveryman's truck and scratched his head in a bit of a predicament.
Because he doesn't work often, his physical strength isn't very good. He couldn't carry all this stuff in one trip, and carrying it several times would leave him exhausted. "Maybe I should just pay the delivery guy to help me?" he was thinking when, just then, a kind, honest voice called out, "Yonghui, you bought so much stuff? I'll help you carry it upstairs!"
Pang Yonghui turned around and saw that the person was his neighbor, Li Xing. Li Xing was also a man with a tragic past; he had lost his arm in a factory accident. The factory owner was extremely unscrupulous; after the accident, he refused to pay a single penny and simply closed the factory and ran away. Li Xing's wife also left him, leaving only his elderly mother at home.
But Li Xing did not give up on life. Even though life was difficult, he looked for work everywhere and relied on the help of people around him to do a little bit here and a little bit there to make ends meet.
Pang Yonghui quickly replied, "No need, brother, I can carry it myself a few more times."
"Oh, it's just a quick thing." Li Xing used his only arm to carry the heaviest box of fruit upstairs.
Pang Yonghui smiled with satisfaction, picked up the Xiaomi 1 phone box in one hand and 40 packs of tissues in the other, and followed them upstairs. They lived on the third floor, just a few steps away. Once on the third floor, the door was open, and the two went straight inside, placing their belongings on the floor.
After putting his things away, Li Xing said somewhat hesitantly, "Um, Yonghui, I have something I'd like to ask you."
Pang Yonghui's heart tightened, followed by a surge of helplessness and pity. He figured Li Xing probably wanted to borrow money, so he said, "Brother, just tell me, what's wrong? I'll help as much as I can."
Li Xing asked, "I saw the Pinduoduo project document you posted in the QQ group, but I don't quite understand it. Could you teach me how to buy and sell things on it?"
So that's what it was about. Pang Yonghui felt a little ashamed, then asked, "Brother, do you have a smartphone?"
Li Xing asked somewhat awkwardly, "What is a smartphone?"
Pang Yonghui was taken aback and speechless for a moment. But out of pity and a desire to help him to the end, he said, "Well, brother, actually I don't know if this project will make money."
"Use my phone first, let's go through the process and see if it works. If it does, I'll get you a used smartphone, and you can pay me for it when you make some money."
Li Xing forced a bitter smile and said, "Yonghui, I'll leave it to you then. Good deeds will be rewarded."
Pang Yonghui sighed inwardly: "What kind of good person is he? He's just a miserable man." He then shared his thoughts with Li Xing.
In short, it involves wholesaling cheap toys, bracelets, and jewelry from Pinduoduo. After receiving the goods, they put them in a cigarette box from the Republican era, hang it around their necks, and sell it at tourist attractions and school gates at several times the original price. If they can sell it, they sell it; if not, they return it all using the 7-day no-reason return policy.
He had studied Pinduoduo's mechanism and found that many merchants, because their products were cheap, would simply give the items to buyers who wanted to return them for a refund, as long as they didn't leave a bad review.
Of course, there's a risk in doing this: if you return too many items, you might get blacklisted. But that's okay, he has many accounts and can keep switching between them.
Although it's somewhat unethical to do this, they're just trying to survive.
Li Xing thought about it and realized that this project seemed complicated, with many uncertainties.
but--
His face was full of bitterness. He really had no other choice but to bite the bullet and give it a try. He had always dreamed of having his own little business.