Chapter 624 Spread
Snatching the Black Label lighter from the scalper's hand, Rossi pressed the lighter and used it for a long time. It felt very smooth and no abnormality was found.
But the price of the lighter in Rossi’s hand was different from the one he bought last night by fifteen hundred liras, which was one dollar!
"How many of these lighters do you have, I want them all!"
Rosie ripped the lighter out of the scalper's hand, threw down the money, and went straight to the gang Lao Lao rushed over.
Rossi's gang was in a single-family house where the boss lived. When he entered, there were already many people sitting inside.
"You're late, Rosie!" Seeing Rosie coming in, the gang boss stared at Rosie and said.
Of course a gang cannot have as strict rules as a law enforcement agency, but as the boss, he doesn’t like to wait for others. The more a gang is maintained by force, the more it pays attention to the boss’s face. He needs his subordinates. Fear him. Once he loses this fear, he will no longer be the boss.
On a normal day, Rossi would have been unable to handle being stared at by his ruthless boss, but today, Rossi was confident.
“I’m sorry, but there is a reason why I came late today!”
As he spoke, Rossi poured a bag of Black Label lighters from Little Scalper on the table.
The room was silent for a while. Rossi's boss and several other small bosses were sitting there, looking at each other in confusion, wondering what Rossi was up to.
"Rossi, we know that you want to do things for the boss, but you won't let us sell this thing!"
Sitting under the gang boss, a man with a beard, looks like The rugged man said, causing a burst of laughter.
Although gang members like them will do anything to make money, let them sell contraband, firearms, smuggling and other things, they are familiar with the way.
But asking them to resell lighters is something they have never thought of. They also want to save face. If word spreads, how can they still hang out on the street!
Rosie didn't mind the ridicule, "Who has a Piccolo lighter?"
A small boss took out his Piccolo lighter and gave it to Rosie.
Rossi picked up Bic with one hand and the Black Label lighter with the other hand, and said to the gang leader, "Bic sells for 7,500 lire in the supermarket in Naples. This Black Label is A street scalper sold it to me for 6,000 lire, and his superior supplier would get a lower price.”
I pressed the two lighters at the same time, and both flames came out. Among them, the flame of the Black Label lighter had been very stable, but after a while, the flame began to flicker.
"Of these two lighters, the Black Label seems to be better than the BAK." Rossi is not a professional. He can't speak any professional terms, but it is obvious that the Black Label lighter seems to be more stable than the BAK lighter. "But they The price difference is fifteen hundred lire, which is one dollar!”
“Naples consumes four to five million lighters a year, or even more, if other cities in Italy and even France are included. , What about those areas in England?
What will happen if we sell it to Italy or even other parts of Western Europe? " Rossi said holding the black label lighter in his hand.
At this time, the gang boss had already sat upright after hearing this. If Rossi hadn't told him, he would never have thought that there was a way to use lighters.
Rossi didn’t know that the entire old European lighter industry was in competition, but he sensitively discovered that there was room for manipulation.
Not to mention taking over the entire Italian lighter market, if you can make millions of dollars in the Naples market alone, it will be a huge income for the boss of the Rossi gang!
Are gangs so easy to mess with? For hundreds of thousands of dollars, two small and medium-sized gangs can fight each other. Human life is the least valuable in this industry.
And the most important thing is that the risk of lighters is too low!
Who has nothing to do? Check this thing. The police stations in Italy are fighting the mafia and they have to check all kinds of contraband. If it is smuggled cars, arms and so on. , that was probably a major case, but for the smuggling of lighters, the Italian Customs Agency probably didn’t even bother to deal with it.
After squeezing his palms, the boss of Rossi's gang saw that all the leaders in the room were obviously a little excited and were gearing up. Many of the little leaders looked at Rossi with different eyes.
For people in gangs, what is the reason for joining? It is not just for women and dollars. Showing prestige is one thing, but after a long time, the standard of whether a boss is good or not is still whether he can lead his younger brothers to eat well and drink spicy food. Can you afford to go to nightclubs and find women to smoke contraband? These all require money to maintain. What gangster can bear to drink Mistral every day?
And Rossi now has the most important ability to be a good boss, which is to make money.
"Rossi, you go find the source of Black Label lighters. You find warehouses and contact channels for bulk goods. Let's do it first!" said the gang leader.
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"Sorry, we don't accept individual reservations!" In the Budapest Global Trading Company, a salesperson picked up the phone and said familiarly, no, it's Fixed formula.
"What, you want 500,000 black label lighters?"
The salesperson smiled, 3% commission, if she makes this order, tens of thousands She got the US dollars. To be honest, she made more in these few days than she had in all the years she had been working!
"I'm sorry, Global Trading does not accept personal orders!"
"Please don't hang up the phone," the salesman heard Rosie's frustrated voice and immediately spoke with a voice actor level tone, and said to the other party, "If you really want to cooperate with our Global Trading Company, we are willing to provide corresponding help!"
"Where are you, Naples?"
The salesman who answered the phone reached out to the supervisor, who immediately found a document from the information and handed it to the salesman.
“What do I call you, Mr. Rossi?”
“Mr. Rossi, although our Global Trading has not yet entered the Italian market, we have corresponding partners in Italy. , you contact this number.
No, you don’t need to pay extra. This company will help you with the whole process of registering your company, including paying taxes. The cost will be borne by us. You only need to pay. Take two hours!
But I'm afraid we can't help you with the subsequent transportation and warehousing in Naples. You need to solve this problem yourself! "
When Rossi heard this, he couldn't help but waved his fist, "You don't need to worry about this, I will solve it myself! ”
“If you are responsible for the subsequent transportation, warehousing, publicity, etc., then our company can supply it to you at a price of three US dollars per unit, which is 4,500 lire. Black label lighters, but the prerequisite is that you need to make a one-time payment of more than 500,000 pieces. For the cost of black label lighters, we only accept payment first and then pick up the goods.
You can come in person to inspect the goods, and after payment, you can pick them up on the spot! ”
“Deal! ”
Rossi suppressed his excitement and said that the supply price was even lower than he expected. Even if it was sold in Naples at a price of seven thousand, even six thousand, or five thousand five hundred lire, one stick would Black label lighters, this batch of goods can also earn a price difference of 500,000 to 600,000 US dollars!
At the same time, there was a sound of congratulations to the salesman who spoke to Rossi in the Budapest Global Trading Company.
Sold 500,000 black label lighters in a single batch. According to the previous agreement, as long as the payment for this batch of goods is received, the salesman can take away a 3% commission, which is US$45,000. !
What is chicken blood, what is wolf culture, and what is the whipping from the US dollar? There is no need for Gabor, the general manager of Global Trading Company, to urge them. These salesmen will work hard to pull orders.
Gabor even had to force them to go home and sleep after get off work, for fear that they would die suddenly in the company after placing orders 24 hours a day. Global Trading is just a handbag company now, and he didn't want to It's causing trouble and killing people.
With the help of an Italian public relations company, Rossi registered a leather bag company and went straight to Budapest.
After seeing 500,000 boxed black label lighters in the warehouse rented by Global Trading Company, Rossi paid on the spot. After being verified by Global Trading Company, Rossi directly purchased the goods through gang channels. Back to Naples.
Then the goods were distributed through various channels overnight. In fact, the Bic lighters in Naples now sell for 7,500 lire, and Rossi sells them for 6,000 lire. There is no such thing as a lighter that cannot be sold. Condition!
As for some places, such as some supermarkets, tobacco shops, bars, etc., that have signed contracts with Bic and are unwilling to accept Rossi’s goods, what should I do? What kind of reasoning can I expect from the gang? Anyway, Black Label Lighters spread in Naples at an alarming rate.
At first, the black label was in Naples, but within just two or three days, it began to appear in Milan, Rome and other places.
When a scalper or gang in the old European Union region started reselling black label lighters, other colleagues soon discovered the secret. Some even BAK and dealers of other lighter brands directly turned against them. Started selling black label lighters as an agent.
Black label lighters are pouring into the market at an alarming rate through various channels. They were originally regarded as back gardens by several established lighter companies such as Bic. For mainland China-made lighters, water cannot be poured out and needles cannot penetrate. The old European Union lighter market!
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Hanxi, Pingyang Torch Group Industrial Park. At this moment, the entire industrial park is like boiling water. Companies that produce lighter parts, assembly companies, warehouses, and logistics are all spinning. , the third phase of the project that was previously rumored to be suspended is now under construction day and night and is ready to be put into production as quickly as possible.
In the headquarters office building of the Inland Lighter Import and Export Association in the Torch Group Industrial Park, it is a different scene.
"Xinhai Company, you must complete this order of three million black label lighters as soon as possible!"
"Yaohui Company, the quality of your order of two million units must be guaranteed. If it happens again, Regarding the last problem, don’t even think about taking orders from the Lighter Import and Export Association in the future!”
“Old Liu, your Lan Yan Company also has to bear the burden. This order of one million units, three It must be completed within days!”
(End of this chapter)