Chapter 464: Top up your phone bill and get a free phone

  Chapter 464: Top up your phone bill and get a free phone.

  Yang Shuan and Guo Zihang showed a playful expression, walked into the house and walked to the kitchen door, put the mutton and roast chicken they brought into the refrigerator, turned around and sat on the chair.

  At this time, Jiang Qin finished his meal, put his chopsticks on the empty plate, looked up at his two adopted sons and godsons: “Old Guo, do you like washing dishes?”

  Guo Zihang: “…”

  ”What about Shuan, do you like washing dishes?”

  The corner of Yang Shuan’s mouth twitched: “Uncle, take your time, we are waiting for you.”

  Jiang Qin couldn’t help frowning: “I told you, coming to uncle’s house is like going back to your own home, why are you so polite every time?”

  ”Be more polite, after all, we are not relatives, right, Old Guo?” Yang Shuan nudged Guo Zihang with his elbow.

  Guo Zihang nodded immediately: “Yes, yes, yes, although my godfather doesn’t treat me as an outsider, I still have to be self-aware.”

  Jiang Qin’s face was dark, and he was angry at the two of them for being so distant. Then he went into the kitchen, cursing, thinking that young people nowadays are so lazy and don’t want to help with housework at all.

  After washing the dishes, the three of them put on their coats and went out of the house, and walked around the annual meeting market.

  This is a vacant lot left during the renovation of the old city. This year, it was temporarily used as the annual meeting market. The scale is smaller than Wu’an Mountain, but there are no fewer vendors selling things. Hundreds of stalls are crowded together, and you can hear the bustling sound before you even get there.

  Jiang Qin walked forward with his hands in his pockets, still muttering to himself: “I am usually occupied by Feng Nanshu, otherwise, how could you have the opportunity to go shopping alone with such a handsome man like me.”

  ”Ah, right, right.”

  ”You go home with me tonight. If you accidentally tell her about your experience of shopping with me, she will be so envious that she will cry. What’s the good of going shopping with my mother? You are so disappointed!”

  Guo Zihang and Yang Shuan looked at each other, thinking that he really had a lot of opinions about Feng accompanying her mother-in-law shopping instead of himself.

  Two sentences, actually repeated twice.

  Jiang Qin came to the roasted food stall calmly, bought some melon seeds, some roasted chestnuts, and then spent ten yuan to put a ring, put in the air, put in the boss’s smile, and turned around to buy two skewers of grilled squid.

  Look, the time without the little rich woman sticking to him is still very happy!

  ”Uncle, why are you not so happy? There is no expression on your face.”

  ”Nonsense, I don’t know how happy I am now.”

  Jiang Qin was a little angry. He cracked a roasted chestnut with a click, then reached out and pulled out a branch that looked like a “sword” from the green bushes, and shook off the snow on it. It was straight.

  Behind this open space is No. 4 Middle School. It is estimated that some high school student secretly sealed it here and planned to take it back after school.

  Seeing this scene, Yang Shuan and Guo Zihang were greedy.

  ”Uncle, let me play with it.”

  ”Foster father, please pass on the sword to me.”

  Jiang Qin held the branch and swung it twice: “You are so fucking useless, I will play first!”

  Yang Shuan and Guo Zihang followed eagerly, waiting to take over the branch, and from time to time, there were arguments such as “I am the eldest prince” and “Why are you the eldest prince?”

  In fact, no matter how old a man is, he is always childish in his heart.

  Some people who seem mature are just forced by the shackles of society. Putting aside these, it is really the older you get, the more childish you become.

  From the beginning to the end of the market, Jiang Qin bought a lot of things, including a hair flower with a red ribbon, a metal hairpin with the auspicious words of the Year of the Rabbit, some New Year cards, and the kind of pendants that can be tied to mobile phones.

  ”Uncle, give me a sugar man.”

  ”Okay, what shape do you want? You can write words, draw the Chinese zodiac sign, or a little rabbit?”

  A pattern flashed through Jiang Qin’s mind, a big bear [heart shape] and a little rich woman, and then he turned to look at Guo Zihang and Yang Shuan: “There is a public toilet opposite, go and pee.”

  Guo Zihang was stunned for a moment: “I peed when I came here.”

  ”You want to pee again now, go quickly, otherwise you won’t get a red envelope during the New Year!”

  ”…”

  The two looked at each other and ran away.

  Jiang Qin turned to look at the uncle selling sugar men: “Give me three, write a big bear on one, write a little rich woman on one, and draw a heart on the last one.” The

  uncle selling sugar men scooped a spoonful of syrup and muttered something, thinking that big and small were okay, but the last four words were really useless.

  The uncle’s craftsmanship is quite good. He wrote cursive characters with sugar quickly and well, and the heart was also very round.

  Jiang Qin took out the money while eating the heart, leaving nothing behind. He then walked back holding the remaining two.

  It was as if the heart had never existed in this world. It was simply a genius.

  Guo Zihang and Yang Shuan had already returned. They looked at the two sugar figures in Jiang Qin’s hand with puzzled expressions, thinking, what was so shameful about this? Why did they have to be sent away?

  Jiang Qin laughed at their confused expressions, thinking, I had already eaten the shameful ones, and no one else could even look at them.

  ”Uncle, look over there.”
  

  ”What?”

  Jiang Qin looked over and saw a staff member coming out of the mobile business hall opposite and pasting a poster at the door.

  It said that there was a year-end bonus. If you deposit 300 yuan in phone bills, you will get a Samsung smartphone for free. The words “Samsung smartphone” were also highlighted in red.

  ”You can get a mobile phone for free if you deposit 300 yuan? It must be fake.”

  ”Really.”

  ”Wouldn’t that mean you’d lose a lot of money?” Guo Zihang looked confused.

  Jiang Qin looked at Guo Zihang and said, “This is a marketing method. Giving away mobile phones is to cultivate the market and gain market share. When the audience grows, the losses in the early stage can be recovered later.”

  The speed at which feature phones were replaced by smartphones was very fast, and it was almost completely rolled out around 2012.

  Jiang Qin still remembers that he hadn’t graduated from college at that time, but everyone around him had already used Coolpad, Meizu, HTC, and Xiaomi, which was born for fever, and it also used hunger marketing to instantly open up the market.

  At that time, many people used Samsung and Apple, and the phones of Motorola, DOOV, and Bird disappeared from the market since then.

  There was also a generation of mobile phone king Nokia, which refused to repent and insisted on using the Symbian system developed by itself. As a result, its market share shrank wildly. Even after being acquired and launching a Windows version, it did not make any waves in the end.

  Smart phones are inevitable in the development of the times, but what really accelerated the change of the times was the routine of giving away mobile phones for recharging phone bills.

  At that time, in order to expand its share of the domestic market and obtain more user groups, Samsung specially launched contract phones and cooperated with telecom operators to give away mobile phones for recharging.

  Depositing phone bills and giving away mobile phones, and getting broadband also giving away mobile phones. Except for the contract period, everything seems to be picked up for free.

  But this routine is really fierce, because the threshold for free has always been the lowest. This routine not only provides operators with a large number of contracted users, but also makes the mobile phone manufacturers famous.

  The most important thing is that many kings of the feature phone era have just smelled the taste at this time, and have not yet innovated in technology. As a result, because of the accelerated burning of money for charging phone bills and giving away mobile phones, they were thrown far behind and could not catch up.

  Yes, it is this kind of marketing method that directly defeated 80% of competitors in the mobile phone market.

  Later, ZTE and Huawei also joined the market of giving away mobile phones for recharging phone bills, and became well-known mobile phone manufacturers from being unknown.

  This thing seems to be a loss, and a lot of money has been burned, but for long-term development, the focus is on the subsequent benefits.

  Giving away low-end models to cultivate users, and then raising prices little by little to launch high-end models, the return rate of this thing is almost tens of thousands, which is almost the same as burning money in group purchases.

  Jiang Qin took the two people into the business hall, recharged 300 yuan of phone bills, and changed the phone.

  It was white, with a Tianyi 3G logo on the back and a Samsung logo on the front. The plastic back cover can still be opened, and an original battery is included in the box. There

  are not many pre-installed software after the phone is turned on. The simple operating interface looks even a little ugly, but compared with feature phones that can only answer calls, send text messages, and use WAP, this is already a dimensionality reduction.

  ”The app needs to be done quickly, otherwise how can it catch up with the bundled pre-installation.”

  Jiang Qin turned on the music player, which had a trial song “Thousands of Miles Away” pre-stored in it.

  ”This phone feels better than the one I bought.” Yang Shuan stared at it for a long time, feeling a little regretful.

  He just changed to an HTC before the New Year, spending two thousand dollars, but it is not as smooth as the free one given by Jiang Qin.

  ”So, sometimes winning or losing is doomed from the beginning. You have to go high-end before the market is developed, but the free ones given by others are more durable than the ones you buy with money. How can you win?”

  ”…”

  It was already evening when they returned from the market. When the three of them entered the house, they saw Yuan Youqin cooking in the kitchen, while Feng Nanshu was sitting on the sofa watching Mango TV’s opening drama “Accidentally Falling in Love with You”.

  This is a romantic idol drama specially tailored for Ah Hai by Hunan TV after Meteor Shower made him popular, and it was exciting for the little rich woman to watch.

  ”I took Guo Zihang and Yang Shuan out shopping today.”

  Jiang Qin sat next to Feng Nanshu and emphasized: “We went shopping for a whole day.”

  Feng Nanshu was stunned for a moment: “I also want to go shopping with you for a day.”

  ”Who told you to go shopping with my mother so early in the morning? You’re at a loss, right? But I brought you a gift.”

  Jiang Qin took out the two sugar figures with the words big bear and little rich woman, which instantly made the little rich woman’s eyes light up. She took the sugar figure and looked at it for a long time, and then handed the one with the little rich woman to Jiang Qin.

  ”I eat you, and you eat me.”

  Guo Zihang and Yang Shuan turned their eyes away when they heard the words, thinking to themselves, how can you elders talk so dirty, and the children can’t listen to it at all.

  Jiang Qin couldn’t help but raise the corner of his mouth, and stretched out his hand to hand her the Nokia in his pocket: “Here, let you play with my spare phone.”

  Feng Nanshu: “?”

  ”I changed to a new one, this is the spare one.”

  (End of this chapter)