Chapter 67 Huge Risk
The reason why the supervisor wants to seize this opportunity is because it is becoming more and more difficult for small family-style workshops in the business world.
Especially for workshops like theirs, which specialize in producing various classic styles and old mobile phones, the sales volume is getting worse every year.
After all, electronic products have no collectible value, and even the occasional nostalgic customers will be extremely price-sensitive.
Take the Motorola v3 mobile phone as an example. At that time, it was the first mobile phone in the world with sales exceeding 100 million.
How many people dream of owning one, hoping to make a very chic flip in front of their friends, classmates, and colleagues.
One year, a teenager even sold his kidney in order to buy an iPhone.
This vanity environment pollutes everyone.
It is precisely because of this sense of vanity that classic mobile phone models one after another have left a deep mark on people's hearts.
At that time, the price of this mobile phone made people not even have the courage to dream about it. That is, today, more than ten years later, they are willing to spend a little money to make up for their regrets back then.
But even now, if the price of a v3 mobile phone exceeds 300 yuan, many people will hesitate to buy it.
It is precisely because business is getting harder and harder that the manager wants to make a major upgrade to his business.
Many years ago, among the merchants that made nostalgic mobile phones, every one of them was a factory that made knock-off phones in the era of feature phones.
However, as smartphones have completely eliminated feature phones in the consumer market, these small copycat factories can only transform themselves into making nostalgic mobile phones.
The current supervisor also wants to upgrade his own factory and say goodbye to feature phones completely and transform into producing smartphones.
Especially when live streaming is very popular, the supervisor has already thought of a routine.
Make a batch of knock-off smartphones with decent configurations, and then work with a famous online anchor to sell the products.
As long as we can sell in large quantities, everyone can make money.
Not far from where the supervisor is located, there is a small factory that has been transformed through this cooperation model.
It is said that a live broadcast can sell tens of thousands of mobile phones, and the sales volume in a month is hundreds of thousands.
This kind of sales has exceeded some brands and models with poor sales among regular brands.
At this moment, the opportunity is in front of you.
Since the crew in front of us intends to build a factory for filming, we must find a way to convince him and make sure he convinces the director and producer.
Be sure to purchase brand new equipment, and a complete set of new equipment.
In the future, after the movie is finished filming, I can recycle it from second-hand prices.
A set of equipment used to shoot movies will not work 24 hours a day, and even the entire shooting process only needs to be powered on for dozens of hours.
A set of equipment that is powered on for dozens of hours has almost zero loss.
At that time, if you recycle it at a very low second-hand price, even if you give the producer or director a small kickback, you will still make a lot of money.
but...
After all, the crew only serves as props, not productivity tools. If the price exceeds 10 million, the deal is probably expensive.
In desperation, the supervisor had to carefully calculate the cost in his mind.
Suppose the plot of the movie requires that the male protagonist builds a mobile phone production factory with a monthly production capacity of 1 million mobile phones.
First, 5 SMT placement machines are needed, and one such production line costs 8 million yuan, and 5 of them cost 40 million yuan.
In addition, 12 corresponding assembly lines are needed, with 26 workers on each line.
Calculating only workers' wages, the average monthly salary of each worker is 3,000 yuan, so the monthly salary of employees on 12 production lines is nearly 900,000 yuan, not counting water, electricity, rent, and depreciation of machines.
Even if planned according to an SMT chip placement machine production line, the entire investment, not including land and factory buildings, but simply counting equipment, would still require more than 11 million.
For a film and television crew to spend 20 million to build a section of ancient streets, city walls, and palaces, they might not even blink an eye.
Because this kind of investment can be recovered through subsequent use by other crews.
However, spending 10 million to invest in a smartphone production line, 11 million is a bit too much.
"Can you convince the director and producer to actually build a mobile phone production line?
We are all workers, and it is not easy to make any money.
so...
If you can convince the director and producer, or even the investors to agree, I can help you get this set of equipment.
I can help you build a production line with a monthly production capacity of 200,000 mobile phones at a price of 10 million." When the supervisor said this, he hid the 1 million out of 11 million because the supervisor planned to subsidize this by himself.
As long as the other party sells second-hand equipment, the money can be resold to you.
When the movie is finished filming, the 6 million yuan for this set of equipment will be transferred to me. Counting the current 1 million yuan in subsidies, the entire set of equipment will only cost 7 million yuan.
It is equivalent to saving an investment of 4 million at one time, which is a very cost-effective deal.
However, in order to ensure that it can be sold to yourself later, a contract must be signed for all of this.
Seeing the message sent by the other party, Su An laughed out loud while lying on the bed.
"Our total investment in this movie is 700 million, and all the big names and top-notch actors are participating in the film.
An investment of 10 million is not unacceptable.
However, for shooting needs, the mobile phone we will eventually produce is the Motorola v3 smartphone.
This will involve a series of production line modifications, and you have to help us get it done.
For example, all the materials used must conform to the setting of the script. In the script, this is a story that took place in 2003. Therefore, there must be no signs of gangsterism.
All materials used on the mobile phone must be the company name and logo given by us!
If Qualcomm chips are to be used, they will also be polished with lasers and then reprinted with the company information of the hero in our movie.
Even the matching of Hongmeng system requires you to find qualified talents to help me.
Furthermore, what I told you before about hoarding a batch of v3 nostalgic mobile phones was not a joke.
Anyway, I want to place an order for mobile phones from you. Why don't you help us assemble them for production first?
After completing this order, the equipment will be packaged and shipped to me via logistics." Su An decided to take the risk.
I will definitely need a large number of mobile phone production lines in the future, which will need to be purchased from 2022.
At this time, you must have an absolutely reliable team.
If the team on Xianyu is its own software team, then this store is its own hardware team.
Will you be defrauded of 10 million? This is indeed a high risk.
However, everything is traded through a certain treasure. As long as the other party is not a particularly idiot, he should also know that he can go to the police with the payment record at any time.
"..." The supervisor was a little excited. It was obvious that this opportunity to make a lot of money was promising.
"This is a big investment of 10 million yuan. We are just a small factory..." The supervisor was a little excited. At this time, he did not think that he might be tricked.
Usually, when someone orders hundreds of mobile phones, they are a little nervous when it comes to delivery.
But today, with a big investment of 10 million, even though he said he was a small factory, the manager didn't hesitate at all.
To put it bluntly, even if this is a bastard customer, it is all just to make fun of myself.
However, this equipment had to be purchased, and the transformation of this factory also had to be carried out.
At worst, just think of it as a transformation of the factory, and you won't suffer any losses inside or out.
"You quote a price for the mobile phone you want to produce, and produce a few prototypes for me at the same time. After I confirm there is no problem.
I will pay you a deposit of 5 million immediately!
As a reminder, after I receive the phone, I will find a professional to disassemble and inspect it.
You must be careful enough and meet all the requirements I mentioned.
In fact, every part used in the mobile phone must be listed in detail from the purchasing channel, as well as matching parts of the same type in 2003." In order to ensure nothing goes wrong, Su An set out a series of stringent conditions.
After the conditions were set out, Su An sent the company's logo and name.
"No problem, I will mail you the prototype within two weeks.
After your confirmation, as long as your 5 million deposit is received, I will purchase the equipment immediately.
In a month at most, I can get the equipment in place." When the supervisor replied to the message, he also saw the company name and logo sent by Su An!
"Nah... this is really a movie!" Looking at the classic cartoon image of the Minions, coupled with the name of the Minions Network Co., Ltd., the supervisor no longer had any doubts about the identity of Su An's prop master.
Chapter completed!