High School Belle Fell in Love with Me

Chapter 541 - 239: The Cost of Business Warfare (Part 3)

"I really appreciate everyone’s attention to Extreme Shadow Cars, regarding the procurement issue, I’ll give a brief response"

"I’ve seen the evidence online, it is indeed our Extreme Shadow Cars’ procurement list, not a forgery.

Extreme Shadow Cars’ component procurement is indeed more expensive than others, some even doubled. But regarding these, I can justify a bit.

Take Huichuan Power’s motor system as an example, others cost over two thousand per system, while Extreme Shadow Cars’ costs over four thousand. Essentially, it’s the same system, with the same model for motor and electronic control. However, we’ve signed other contracts with Huichuan Power, if their products have issues, we have the right to hold them accountable, which is also our responsibility to our users.

It’s like when you join a company, and the company asks you to sign a non-compete agreement, if they don’t give you a salary increase, would you be willing to sign it?

The same logic applies, Huichuan Power needs to bear responsibility, so increasing the purchase price is reasonable.

Of course, I know just this point alone doesn’t justify the price increase, some people might find it unconvincing.

But in reality, there are many hidden costs in this.

As everyone knows, all products have defect rates, and motor systems are no exception. Because we’ve signed a liability agreement with Huichuan Power and offered such a high price, they’re not allowed to deliver defective products to us, so those delivered to our company have gone through dozens of manual inspections and testing to ensure there’s no fault. These costs, anyone who’s done business would understand.

For instance, a fruit market in the Capital City can sell a single plum for eighty yuan, whereas road stall plums, even with good quality, can’t be priced over twenty yuan per jin. Is there a difference between an eighty yuan plum and a few yuan per jin plum? Looks a bit better? I refuse to believe that in dozens of jin of plums, you can’t pick one that looks nice.

Tastes a bit sweeter? Similarly, in dozens or hundreds of jin of plums, you can definitely find sweet ones.

We’re making cars, not mobile power stations. Our cars are on the road every day, often running over a hundred kilometers per hour. So the product quality must be rigorously checked, because if issues arise, it concerns people’s lives.

If you purchase Extreme Shadow Cars, you should know the promise we make, as long as it’s a problem with the car itself, we offer unconditional returns and exchanges. Our three-electric system comes with a lifetime warranty, with no mileage or year limitation.

As for talk of interest transfer, do I need to do that? If I wanted money, I wouldn’t be making cars, to whom would I be transferring interest? If I stopped making cars, wouldn’t the money just belong to someone else?

Besides, our sales personnel start with a base salary of over ten thousand, I own Green Water Group, which opened a supermarket in a small county, where all sales and service personnel start at a salary of six thousand and up. According to your logic, is this also interest transfer?

I’m willing to pay for high-quality service, the cost isn’t being passed onto others, is this interest transfer?

Why don’t I see you guys transferring interest? Treat partners better, treat your employees better.

You certainly can’t treat your employees like cattle and horses and expect others to treat their employees the same."

"Viewing our procurement list requires signing a confidentiality agreement, and according to our investigation, the person who signed the confidentiality agreement took photos of our procurement list and sold it to a certain media outlet for a mere two hundred yuan profit.

To be honest, I’m reluctant to pursue that person’s liability, just for a measly two hundred yuan.

Can’t you treat your employees better? Spending hundreds of thousands or millions on marketing wars, while they might live under the shadow of this issue for life, how can you only give them two hundred yuan?"

Finally, I’d like to mention that Extreme Shadow Cars’ procurement costs may be even higher in the future because I believe the companies working with us will soon enhance their technology, or even upgrade it. Even the smallest enhancement, I’m willing to pay higher prices for. Paying for technology, I do it willingly, better than using the hard-earned profits of the company to tarnish others in such an unrewarding and laborious manner."

After Li Yang posted this Weibo message, he initially thought it would likely cause a stir, given the number of trolls.

The whole Weibo was largely organized troll activity.

But after having a meal, he checked again and found all the top comments were discussing wages.

"The service staff at Extreme Shadow Cars earn over ten thousand? Is that true?"

"I don’t know, damn, my bestie joined there and never told me."

"Isn’t there no educational requirement? Why is the salary so ridiculously high? The average salary in Jiangbei is just over five thousand..."

"Is there some hidden threshold? Like you must be handsome or pretty?"

"I don’t know about Extreme Shadow Cars, but as someone from Jiang City, I know an ordinary service worker at Green Water Heaven and Earth supermarket earns over six thousand a month."

"Is it true or false, just let President Li hire me, I’ll test the waters for everyone. Even if there’s a confidentiality agreement, I’ll risk it to inform everyone."

"President Li, when’s the next recruitment? You said it was in December last time, now it’s almost February."

...

Netizens’ focus entirely shifted to employee benefits, completely disregarding the previous procurement list issue.

Maybe some trolls mentioned it, but the ordinary folks just didn’t care.

Who cares about your procurement costs? It doesn’t affect them anyway, they can’t afford Extreme Shadow Cars.

But if the wages are true...

...

"Master Li, aren’t you afraid the entire auto industry will unite against you? You’ve thoroughly offended them."

The cost of Li Yang’s business war was just the Weibo traffic.

"How can they target me?"