Luo Yi and other Coolpad mobile phone dealers in India all gathered at the Indian headquarters of Coolpad Mobile. They stayed in a hotel nearby and came here every day to inquire about news.
Coolpad's mobile phone account was seized by Asan's Law Enforcement Bureau and fined hundreds of millions of yuan. The idea is to make money in India and spend it in India. Coolpad's statement is very tough: it said it would appeal to the court and withdraw from the Indian market!
This is a pain for dealers like them.
Luo Yi rubbed his face with a frown, and sat with two familiar dealer friends in the small conference room of the Coolpad Mobile India headquarters building. They had tea in front of them, but they had no intention of taking a sip.
The time difference in India is two hours slower than that in China. When it is already about 9 pm in China, it is only 7 pm here in Bangalore.
"Lao Luo, you are a dealer in Gujrat. Do you know the executives in Coolpad Mobile Phones? Has the above mentioned how we should arrange it?"
"Yeah, it's nice to have the Coolpad phone withdrawn like this. What will we dealers do? I still have tens of millions of dollars in payment."
"If you want me to say, just move the goods away. Your goods can still go out, and the money in my Indian company's account is also being targeted. If the legal battle for Coolpad mobile phones is lost, my tens of millions will be in vain. Mader
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"Asan, who breaks the law, knows that you can't win a lawsuit. They can use the law to punish you. We have to rely on the country to stand up for us."
"It's hard for me to see. Rebus's company has also been investigated, and the fine of nearly 5 billion has not been withdrawn. Now Xiaomi's dealers are spreading rumors that they will probably get most of it, but they will definitely give Ah San a bite.
Blood."
Luo Yi couldn't help but sigh, "Hey, what relationship can I have with Coolpad? Just wait!" His college football teammate Jing Gao is a rich man. He came to India to start a business with Lao Jing's 5 million.
But he would definitely not talk about this relationship with his "friends".
Faced with the current predicament, he is now helpless and can only resign himself to his fate. Indian law does not prohibit the import of complete mobile phones, but the taxes will be very high. Therefore, if they want to gain something in the Indian market, global mobile phone manufacturers can only
Build a factory in India and reduce your own costs.
Therefore, if Coolpad wants to withdraw from the Indian market and does not invest in building factories there, none of their dealers will be able to survive because there will be no mobile phones at the right price to sell.
What awaits them is either to turn to other mobile phone manufacturers or to leave.
But "switching" to other mobile phone brands is not so easy. Because the sales system between major mobile phone manufacturers is competitive, it is not harmonious at all. The same is true for these large dealers.
So if you switch to another system, can you really achieve success? This is probably hard to say.
The four people in the small conference room were anxious in private here. Suddenly Luo Yi received a call, "Mr. Luo, are you still in the headquarters building now? President Wen asked you to come up and talk?"
"Yes, yes, I have time." Luo Yi answered the phone in the corridor, and he suddenly felt excited. Things seemed to be turning around, so he quickly agreed.
Luo Yi came out of the small conference room area, went to the elevator entrance, and took the elevator upstairs to the floor of Coolpad India General Manager Wen Tianlei on the 32nd floor. The assistant Wen Tianlei who called him just now was already waiting at the front desk, "
Mr. Luo, please come this way!"
The capable female assistant took Luo Yi to the office inside, poured two cups of tea and left.
Luo Yi sat in the chair in front of the desk, drinking tea, waiting for Mr. Wen to finish his work. As a distributor in India, and a relatively important one, it is not like he has never met Mr. Wen. He came to this office.
There are many times.
Wen Tianlei finished replying to the email at hand, picked up the water glass and took a sip, and said: "Mr. Luo, you are an important distributor of our company, and the company headquarters has formulated a compensation plan for you.
Can you see if it fits?"
He said that the decision was made by the Shencheng headquarters, but it was actually a call from Mr. An (An Xiaoqian)'s assistant Wang Youxuan. In other words, it was Mr. An's intention. Of course, with Mr. An's prestige in Coolpad Mobile, she made the decision
The decision is equivalent to the decision made by Coolpad headquarters.
Luo Yi was a small man and agreed with a smile. In fact, he was secretly complaining: I don't think it's appropriate, can it be changed?
Wen Tianlei said slowly: "The first option is that all Indian dealers will move to South America and Africa to develop business. The company will provide certain loans and purchase price support. The second option is that if you don't want to continue to be a Coolpad
Mobile phone dealers, let’s get together and part ways. The company will take all the inventory currently in the hands of dealers and settle the accounts clearly. Of course, the payment period will not be so fast and will take some time.”
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Luo Yi thought for a moment and said with a wry smile: "Mr. Wen, who doesn't know that the mobile phone market in Africa is dominated by Transsion, and our Coolpad phones rush into it, do we have any chance of winning? Besides, there are various climates,
Whether you can adapt to it or not depends on factors such as diet and culture.
This cannot be compensated by the company's compensation.
But it is not what we want to withdraw from the distribution system of Coolpad mobile phones. If we are familiar with this industry and rashly change industries, we may lose everything."
Wen Tianlei couldn't help but shook his head. This kid is still almost mean! He wants benefits but is afraid of hardship. Coolpad mobile phones are currently developing around the world, and they will definitely not rely entirely on local dealers, but on the Chinese.
Going out, fierce competition is inevitable. You can't make money, risk-free, and be comfortable at the same time. How is this possible?
Do you know the saying "Money is hard to make, food is hard to eat"?
Speaking of this, he was not in a hurry to give the "preferential treatment" requested by Assistant Wang to this little man. There is a way to sell favors, and it is not so easy to give it too easily.
"Well, Mr. Luo, you can go back and think about it. You can also talk to your friends about the company's plan. We can discuss it after you think about it."
"OK."
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Luo Yi took the elevator down with a heavy heart and returned to the small conference room on the third floor. Three dealer friends were communicating inside. Seeing Luo Yi come back, he joked with joy: "Mr. Luo, have you heard any good news?"
?"
Luo Yi explained the two plans he had just met with Wen Tianlei on the 32nd floor, and sighed: "What the hell is this! We have opened up channels in India and have done everything, and now we have to move to a strange place.
In a country where we have to start all over again, two years of time will be completely wasted.”
All three friends were filled with indignation.
"That's right. This is completely treating our dealers as cattle and horses!"
"Oh, if you can return the phone, it means that Coolpad is doing things very well. Take my money back, I don't want to do it anymore. Let's go back to China and find a small city to live in. Whoever wants to go to Africa can go, but I won't go anyway."
"Yeah, are those countries in Africa so easy to get into? I saw a video on Station B of an up owner named Xiao Zhong going to Africa. Alas, it's not suitable for us Chinese to survive. The conditions are too bad."
"It's the same in Brazil." A fat dealer continued. Among the BRIC countries, now that the Indian market is gone, the market in South America will definitely be limited to Brazil. Is it possible to do it in Cuba and Argentina?
market?
Luo Yi agreed: "It is difficult to develop, the environment is difficult to adapt to, there are various problems, and the future is uncertain. It is difficult to rely on the small subsidies from Coolpad Company! I don't have the courage to try again."
Several people agreed, complained together for a while, and then dispersed. Luo Yi went straight back to the hotel and called his parents, "Dad, I am going to return to China to develop..."
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After Luo Yi called home, he fell asleep a little late. He was woken up by the ringing of his mobile phone at around six o'clock the next morning. Without even opening his eyes, he answered the phone: "Hello!"
A capable female voice came over the phone. She was Wen Tianlei's assistant: "Mr. Luo, are you still at the Radisson Bengaluru City Center Hotel in Bangalore? The three dealers you came with yesterday have all signed new distribution contracts with the company.
Negotiate an agreement. Have you considered it?"
"Ah..." Luo Yi woke up from his nap and asked hurriedly: "Where are they going?"
"Nigeria, Angola, Ghana."
Luo Yi anxiously took his phone and started to get dressed, saying: "I will go to the company immediately and tell Mr. Wen that I will choose the first option."
He was tricked by his "companion". Obviously, the earlier he signed a new dealer contract with Coolpad Mobile Phones, the easier it would be to choose a good area, but he wasted the opportunity!
He still can't compare to these old fritters who are used to doing business.
Mudd, these grandsons!
It seems that returning to China for a blind date and marriage will take three years.