Chapter 1037: Could It Be Boss Pei Going All In?
Late at night that day.
Zhao Xuming was in his own ho, wearing loose pajamas, preparing to rest.
After work that afternoon, Zhao Xuming and Eric secretly visited the Deposit Fitness. They were relieved to see that no one was interested in the smart fitness drying rack.
The smart fitness drying rack itself did not have much to do with the money-burning war between the two companies. However, according to intel, the large amount of stock that the fitness equipnt had accumulated would bring heavy pressure to Tengda Corporation’s capital chain.
This also ant that Tengda had to be more cautious when it ca to burning money.
Zhao Xuming and Eric both guessed that the 515 Gas Festival that Tengda Corporation was organizing this ti was likely to just all talk with no action. It was mainly to brag and would not widen the gap between it and Finger Gas.
The ga was different from other industries. The skins would no longer have any cost after it was completed. However, excessive selling would also stimulate players’ passion for consumption. If they were to spend crazily during this period of ti, they would spend less in the future. In the long term, they would still reduce their inco.
That was why most gas companies would not offer discounts when new gas were released. They would wait a few months until the popularity subsided before offering discounts to attract players who had not experienced it.
On the other hand, Tengda Corporation’s capital chain was already a little tight. The preferential strategy for the 515 Gas Day could not be so radical. Otherwise, the risk would be too high.
Of course, Boss Pei’s style had always been erratic. Many competitors who had tried to predict Boss Pei’s actions had all failed, and the consequences of failure were extrely serious.
Thus, Zhao Xuming did not dare to let his guard down. He could only relax after the specific preferential strategy for the 515 Ga Festival was announced.
Eric was probably paying attention as well.
Zhao Xuming looked at the ti. It was already past midnight.
There was no need to deliberately look for the specific rules of the 515 Gas Festival. That was because the official website of all Tengda Gas and most of the websites in the industries under them had released announcents for this new festival as long as they were slightly related to it!
GOG’s ga client also displayed the publicity page for the 515 Gas Day event at the most eye-catching location. The details were written on it.
Zhao Xuming imdiately clicked on it.
In just five minutes, his expression turned ugly and his originally calm expression beca shocked.
However, there was a hint of confusion and even surprise in his shock.
The reason why he was shocked was because the details had completely exceeded his expectations!
Zhao Xuming and Eric had originally speculated that Tengda Corporation was under the pressure of the capital chain. Even if they wanted to organize the 515 Ga Festival, it could only be a preferential activity similar to IOI.
In other words, if he were to sell the products in the ga, he would only get a discount.
It could be a direct discount, or it could be a disguised discount for the event. In short, they had to collect at least a portion of the money that they could use to recover so money.
However, how was this 515 Gas Day event a discount? It was obviously a free gift!
The most frightening thing was that there are no rules directly related to discounts!
The only thing that was slightly related to the discount was that the ‘purchase of Tengda Gas’ would be given for free randomly. However, this was only one of the marginalized rules of the event.
All the other rules could basically be summarized as: as long as players went online to play gas, they would randomly be gifted things. It could be a prop in the ga, or they could directly give cash!
Zhao Xuming could not believe it. He read the rules again from beginning to end.
He thought of so problems that he might encounter, such as what if soone with ulterior motives registered a robot account and took advantage of it.
However, on further thought, the very experienced Tengda should be able to solve these problems easily.
Boss Pei had always been very professional in dealing with scalpers.
Boss Pei had the foresight since a long ti ago to give access to all of Tengda Corporation’s accounts. Be it gas, novels, live-streams, Tengda Life App, or even TPDb websites, they all used Tengda accounts to log in.
Each Tengda account had different weightage on TPDb.
Simply put, accounts that were registered early, consud a lot of money, and used for a long ti would have higher weightage. On the other hand, new accounts that were not used much and had suspicious behavior would have lower weightage.
Even if there were people with ulterior motives who kept accounts, their behavior patterns and the characteristics of the accounts were very obvious because they were all controlled by robots. It would be very easy to check.
This way, even though it looked like a “random free order” and “random free money”, the higher the weight, the better the reward. Those accounts with lower weight might be given sothing symbolically or nothing at all.
To Tengda, who held the final explanation rights for the event, these were all very normal operations. Gars would not be disgusted. After all, gars had high authority accounts with real money in their hands. It was beneficial to them to deal with the scalpers.
There were only so many benefits. Wouldn’t the real gars get fewer benefits if they were taken away by the scalpers? Everyone must understand this.
Thus, there was no problem with this rule.
The problem was that this event was too extravagant!
Even if there were many ways to defend against the robots and scalpers, Tengda had such a huge number of users. Everyone would be online to receive benefits. The expenses would still be astronomical.
What’s more, it was completely different from what Zhao Xuming and Eric had predicted. This 515 Ga Festival was not a ‘discount’ but a free gift!
This ant that the price Tengda Corporation was paying was obviously higher than Finger Gas and Long Yu Corporation!
Initially, Zhao Xuming had thought that if Tengda Corporation used ‘discounts’ to organize events, there would be a lot of room for both parties to burn money.
For example, if I give a 60% discount, you give a 50% discount. However, the value of the props in the two gas were different. It was difficult for gars to distinguish which ga had a higher discount.
What’s more, this discount could also be adjusted according to the situation. Increasing the discount limit was completely within control.
However, Tengda had managed to get everything done in one go. They were giving out for free!
That way, players would be able to tell at a glance which would be more cost-effective, even though the value of the goods in the two gas were different.
Obviously, Tengda would be more generous if they gave it away for free!
The price war had not officially started yet, but gars’ attention had already been attracted by Tengda’s 515 Ga Festival. Even IOI’s veteran gars were coveting it and looking down on IOI’s activities. What else could they do?
They were completely crushed by the other party the mont the ga started!
However, Zhao Xuming felt that there was still a chance to turn things around even in this confusion.
Boss Pei was indeed being generous by doing this. However, Tengda’s financial problems would beco even more serious.
Initially, they could still recover from the discount. However, in order to surpass Finger Gas and Long Yu Corporation, Boss Pei insisted on giving them nothing.
The result of trying to bite off more than one could chew was often swallowing one’s teeth.
However, was Boss Pei bluffing or was he strategizing and full of confidence?
No one could guess.
Zhao Xuming was thinking when his cell phone rang.
Indeed, it was from Eric.
“Boss Zhao, you’ve seen the specific rules of the 515 Gas Festival, right?” Eric’s voice was low. Obviously, this matter had completely exceeded his expectations.
Zhao Xuming nodded. “I saw it. What should we do?”
Eric sounded serious, but he was still calm. “There’s no need to rush. Let’s observe first.”
“The last person to laugh in the money-burning war depends on who can burn longer. The benefits of the 515 Gas Day at the beginning have completely suppressed us, but how long can this benefit last? Let’s say that it can last for a week and the entire ga festival, what about after that? Does Tengda still have the strength to deal with our new attack?”
“This is a long-term war. Only those who can smile till the end were the best!”
Zhao Xuming quickly said, “Understood!”
“Boss Pei’s move can be said to be cutting off all ans of retreat and fighting with one’s back to the river. Even though it can greatly motivate morale in the short term, it is lacking in montum.”
“In other words, Boss Pei did not give himself much room to retreat. The longer we persevere, the more advantageous it would be for us!”
“I will definitely observe Tengda’s movents at all tis and not miss any clues!”
Zhao Xuming felt much more at ease after hanging up.
Previously, he had been a little shocked by the benefits of the 515 Ga Festival. It was like when he had tried to add a few more chips at the gambling table, but Boss Pei directly went all in. This had caused a huge psychological pressure on Zhao Xuming. He also had deep doubts about the strategy that he had prepared.
However, now that he had cald down and thought about it, there seed to be another way to interpret this matter.
Tengda Corporation’s money could not be generated out of thin air, right? There would be a ti when it would be spent. The inventory of the smart fitness drying rack was piled up like a mountain. The movies and gas of Mission and Choice were still in the remuneration cycle. Coupled with Tengda’s other industries in developnt... Tengda should not have much money left.
Was Boss Pei bluffing?
He wanted to scare Finger Gas and Long Yu Corporation away by making it seem like he had sufficient funds and was not afraid of the price war?
Boss Pei was very crafty. He loved playing mind gas.
He wanted to see if Tengda would be able to fork out more money after the 515-ga festival as long as Finger Gas and Long Yu Corporation’s money-splitting activities could continue!
The more Zhao Xuming thought about it, the more he felt that the situation was not as pessimistic as he had initially thought. Instead, he beca more optimistic!
He cald down and went to sleep.
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