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Qian Du Weigou was personally spearheaded by the big boss. To make it happen, he and his business team spent over two months convincing platforms like Jingdong, Sunning, and Yihaodian.

Jingdong was backing out just like that? Were they just yanking his chain?

”Pinbei and Ah Li have laid down the law: any merchant who joins Qian Du Weigou will either have their traffic restricted or their store shut down. What choice do the merchants have?”

Xu Lei explained with a bitter smile.

This ”choose one of two” ultimatum was a classic overt scheme. It was all about the big bullying the small. If you were weaker, you had no choice but to take the hits.

Jingdong had done it before, and so had Qian Du.

But now, they were the ones getting played!

”Ma Liyun and Huang Zheng are such bastards, aren’t they? Is there any paper trail?” Li Mingyuan cursed.

”President Li, if it were you, would you be stupid enough to send out notifications by email or text?” Xu Lei retorted with a disdainful scoff.

Li Mingyuan fell silent. He had done similar things himself, so he naturally knew how to avoid the risks.

If even he wouldn’t make such a rookie mistake, there was no way Ma Liyun and Huang Zheng would.

Meanwhile, Sunning’s suppliers also rushed to delist their products from Qian Du Weigou.

”@Ma Liyun @Huang Zheng Let me ask you two, what kind of bully platforms are Pinbei and Ah Li? Forcing merchants into a ’choose one of two’ ultimatum? The e-commerce industry can only flourish in a fair and orderly competitive environment. I hope the Market Supervision Association can step in to restrain such malicious competitive practices.”

Unable to swallow his anger, Zhang Jindong called them out on Weibo.

”President Zhang, can you please ship the refrigerators first?”

”A man’s word is his bond. President Zhang, surely you haven’t forgotten what you said two weeks ago?”

”FUCK YOU! REFUND!”

”Give me back my ten-yuan refrigerator!”

But as soon as he posted on Weibo, the comments section was flooded with netizens demanding their refrigerators from him.

Zhang Jindong seethed as he read the comments.

’It was a third-party store, and there wasn’t much money from the sales in the account. If I didn’t cancel the orders, was I supposed to just eat the loss myself?’

’They weren’t even products sold directly by Sunning, so on what grounds were they demanding refrigerators from him?’

’These damn buyers!’

”@Zhang Jindong Pinbei is an open e-commerce platform. Merchants are free to come and go as they please, and we would never demand they ’choose one of two.’ President Zhang, you can be careless about what you eat, but not about what you say!”

Huang Zheng retorted self-righteously.

Ah Li, for its part, used Taobao’s official Weibo account to dismiss the accusation with a simple, ”A complete fabrication, inconsistent with the facts.”

The attitudes of both companies were perfectly aligned: we did it, but we’re not admitting to it!

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「At two in the afternoon」

Chen Yansen pushed open the door to conference room A6, with Chen Jie following closely behind him.

Zhou Shouzhi wasn’t present. He was on a business trip to France to discuss collaborations with local carriers.

Compared to Eastern Europe, Western Europe had a larger population and higher income levels.

If Orange Mobile Phone wanted to increase its international shipment volume, it couldn’t afford to ignore the importance of the Western European region.

The room, over forty square meters in size, was filled with the heads of Orange Technology’s product, R&D, marketing, sales, and customer service departments.

”Old Yan, let’s begin. First, let’s look at last week’s sales data,” Chen Yansen instructed Yan Peng, the head of the e-commerce department.

Yan Peng acknowledged, connected his device to the projector, and opened a PowerPoint presentation. He began, ”In the fourth week of March, total sales for the mobile phone division were 6.999 million units. New models accounted for 99.15% of that, with 6.94 million units sold. The breakdown by model is: Qingcheng D2 at 5.9 million units, Orange C3S at 766,000 units, and Yaocheng X1 at 274,000 units.

Older models made up the remaining 0.85%, totaling 59,000 units sold. The breakdown for these is: Qingcheng D1S at 29,000 units, Orange C3 at 17,000 units, and Orange C2 at 13,000 units.”

It was clear that under the pressure from the new products, the sales cycles for the Qingcheng D1S, Orange C3, and Orange C2 were rapidly nearing their end.