In order to live in seclusion, I tricked my roommate into falling in love.

Chapter 361: This vixen, can't I help you raise her?

You should know that Maizi is currently serving as: CEO's secretary, general manager's office director, marketing director, chief communication channel specialist, and HR special specialist.

Not only does each slash identity have a position allowance, but the basic salary is also high, adding up to 40,000 to 50,000!

If it doubles again, the annual salary will exceed one million. Are they trying to cultivate a canary?
If you earn it for 30 years until retirement, it will be more than 30 million.

This does not include the monthly payment of several 200,000 yuan for the filming of advertisements to maintain his own video team and that small media company.

But the market immediately proved why Chang Yueling could not break away from Zi Xiaowei.

Even the little vixen had to be raised for him.

Less than a week after the sales started, all the cat series products sold at Ella Auto flagship stores had a reminder on their pages: "To celebrate the grand opening of the Ella flagship store in Jingxi Mall, there will be a special surprise on April 30th during Ting Annie-Xiong's live broadcast! Please follow the Jingxi Live Streaming account 'Ting Annie'..."

The Huotu platform also put up a series of advertisements, emphasizing that anchor Xiong’s live broadcast room will meet everyone at the old time of 10 pm on the last day of April.

Various self-media and sliced ​​videos have also spread like wildfire:

"The sky is dead, the era of online car shopping has arrived"

"This new car sales model, which truly abandons 4S stores, has shocked the entire industry!"

"Ella Motors achieved a miracle with a sky-high price, breaking the century-old unspoken rules in the automotive industry."

"The sales model without 4S stores has caused a stir in the industry. How can Ella Auto dare to become an enemy of the entire industry?"

It's shocking in every way.

From the first time Zi Xiaowei drove Lao Mai to the Changjiang Automobile 4S headquarters for negotiations, he expressed his opinion that the entire automobile sales industry would be cut in half by the times.

Only those who have experienced it personally will firmly believe that when change comes, it will come without any warning.

At that time, Old Mac still found it a little unbelievable.

Now, nearly half a year has passed, and the situation has obviously been affected by the fast-paced Ella Motors. The wheel of time is definitely turning faster.

These self-media may have heard the remarks made by anchor Xiong, and they have indeed received instructions from the Jingxi Live New Energy Vehicle Special Edition.

But even Zi Xiaowei didn't expect that they would write so harshly!
Anyway, all self-media outlets are not complete without shocking people.

But perhaps the biggest reason is that these self-media don’t know anything until they check, and are shocked when they do.

They were shocked when they just looked up some information themselves.

Throughout the first four months of 2023, more than a thousand 4S stores across the country are facing bankruptcy!

Among the dealer groups and 4S stores that have gone bankrupt or even run away, 80% are old 4S stores of joint venture brands!
Maybe for various reasons, people are covering it up everywhere.

Especially the dealer groups, which are the old 4S dealers that tasted the sweetness of car trading since the s, and started with Shangda, Jiang'an, Yida, Dongben and Guangben.

Including but not limited to well-known brands such as BBA, Volvo, and Land Rover.

In any case, the owner of any early joint venture 4S store must be a well-connected person in the local area.

During the golden period of more than ten to twenty years after 4, every S store that opened was making money, making money crazily.

So it was popular at that time to continuously obtain dealer qualifications for other car companies.

As they have established various local connections, they are more likely to gain the favor of more brands.

So when a company can own twenty or thirty brands, it will of course start with dozens of companies, plus various subsidiaries for accounting, funding, and investment.

A huge dealer group has been formed.

There are everywhere.

Just this week, there was a huge collapse!

It’s as if with the launch of various new energy vehicles and news about online car purchases are everywhere.

At the beginning, those car sales groups even tried to spend money to hire water armies to suppress the spread of information about this new sales model.

Unexpectedly, I was immediately attacked!

First, the boss of a car sales group in eastern Guangdong that owns eighty 4S stores ran away!

Maybe it was already very difficult for them to hold on, and they had to put on all kinds of pretense and make a scene, robbing Peter to pay Paul, but now they were wiped out by the huge public opinion.

All his struggles are pale in the face of public opinion.

All the creditors began to doubt whether the company was really going to collapse, and he felt that there was really no way to save the situation, so he simply disappeared.

This news was further spread by the public opinion about the new energy vehicle era and the new online car shopping era that were spreading wildly.

In an instant, the whole society knew that this famous large dealer had collapsed.

Then, the stock price of the second-largest auto dealer in China, and the only publicly listed group, plummeted, dropping 95%! And the self-media outlets even explained the reasons for the crash in great detail!
Why do car sales groups make money?
Many people think that the profits of 4S stores depend on selling cars, but in fact, the bulk of the income of most dealers comes from the rebates they get after meeting the manufacturer's sales requirements, as well as after-sales maintenance with relatively high profit margins.

However, this is only superficial benefit.

The real focus is capital operation.

Cars are considered heavy assets. A sales group that owns dozens of 4S stores can at least have hundreds or even thousands of cars on hand at any time.

This is hundreds of millions of assets.

How could a businessman let his assets sit idle? A common practice of 4S stores is to use the certificates of conformity of inventory vehicles as collateral to borrow money from banks, and then use the money to open more 4S stores or make other investments.

During those years of rapid development, it was easy to make money in everything, including real estate, earthwork, highways, and foreign trade factories.

As long as there is cash flow, there is no need for any earning ability or investment vision. You can make a fortune just by simple and crude financing and borrowing.

Countless consumers who buy cars are actually paying hundreds of thousands of dollars to help 4S sales groups raise funds, and they dare not default on payments.

This is also the reason why car dealers like to let users take out loans to buy cars, indirectly helping banks make money and building relationships for themselves.

Well, when the economic situation is good, this industry that naturally tends to accumulate a large amount of cash flow is a hot commodity in the eyes of all kinds of capital, and banks are also willing to lend money for such secured projects.

But once the situation took a sharp turn for the worse, investment projects collapsed one after another and suffered losses, and problems with turnover began to arise.

If I can’t even sell cars, I’m completely finished!
At this time, the bank will immediately freeze the dealership’s funds if there is anything wrong, or even seize the sealed vehicles to ensure that nothing happens to them.

There are frequent reports in the news about consumers who bought cars but were unable to get them, and they fell into this trap.

In fact, the problems have accumulated a long time ago, and the 4S stores and sales groups have long been in a state of dire straits.

The new energy vehicles dealt a heavy blow to the joint venture brands, completely making them lose their market competitiveness and rendering the sales group's capital tricks ineffective.

But the last straw was "online car shopping".

It's so light that it hasn't actually fallen yet, but it has already completely defeated the 4S sales group psychologically, and there is no hope at all.

Those bosses are not fools. They may have had some illusions before, thinking that if they also sell new energy vehicles, they can catch this boat and survive.

Even the new forces in the car manufacturing industry have not been able to shake their foundation. Even if they learn from Tesla and open showrooms in shopping malls, they still need 4S stores to deliver and repair their cars in the end.

As a result, a giant called Jingxi has emerged and merged with the monster called Ella to bypass all 4S systems.

The bosses immediately saw a replay of how Taobao strangled physical store sales.

I immediately knew in my heart that it was over!

The defeat was like a landslide!
Four months ago, they were saying that more than a thousand 4S stores were on the verge of bankruptcy, but now they don’t even pretend to be busy and are just giving up.

If you can run away, run away. If you can’t run away, go bankrupt and liquidate!
Asset sale!
The only ones who survived were Lao Jin and his gang in East China.

Half a month later, on the day when the underwear live broadcast room was banned in the middle of the month, they had a meal with Zi Xiaowei.

It just so happened that Zi Xiaowei missed a question at that time.

Inform them half a day in advance that Jingxi is going to fully enter the automotive industry.

Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai are the regions with the most shrewd businessmen.

Lao Jin and the others listened carefully to the meal, agreed with the foresight expressed by Zi Xiaowei, and knew that it would be announced in the evening!

So in the afternoon, I coaxed and deceived the 4S stores of various brands that could be sold or transferred to the buyer!
There are always ignorant idiots in the market who have just made a lot of money elsewhere, or got a pleasant surprise from demolition, and are willing to transfer the property to you at a low price. BMW 4S dealership, do you want it? We have all the formalities and staff, and we will take over everything and use it. I am going abroad to enjoy life.

There are plenty of people who take over.

It is said that they worked hard to transfer more than 4 S stores in those two days!
In fact, the closure of thousands of stores sounds scary. There are 3,000 county-level administrative regions, and on average there are 30,000 stores under ten brands.

In the market where the fittest survive, it is just a small ripple.

Even if tens of thousands of employees are implicated, among the more than one billion people... well, are there many teachers affected by the education and training industry?

Lao Jin and his team tried their best to keep only the Changjiang Automobile 4S stores in the relevant areas to preserve the relationship.

Then, any team that can repair new energy vehicles will be immediately contacted by Jingxi Logistics!

In fact, they saw the great changes in the automotive industry and took drastic measures to reintegrate resources.

He took out a large amount of funds and found Lao Chang, wanting to invest in Ella Automobile with Lao Chang!
Their series of dazzling operations is definitely the only bright spot in the entire automobile sales industry in the second half of April 2023.

It also allowed the entire Changjiang Automobile 4S store system to see who has the way to survive.

They all asked Lao Chang whether Lingzi's wedding should be a grand one to bring good luck to the entire market and reassure everyone.

(End of this chapter)