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Smart Mob in China for Retailer Discount
taweili writes "The Economist has a story about Tuangou in China. Tuangou, roughly translated into group purchasing, is basically a smart mob who arrange the meet up over the internet and show up at a retailer at a specific time and use their number to negotiate a discount with the retailer. In the story, a Tuangou group of 500 show up in Gomei (largest home electronic retailer in China) at 4pm on June 16th and negotiate a 10 ~ 30% discount for the group. Gomei not only closed the door to the normal customers but also prepared goody bags for these Tuangou shoppers. Now, that's Power to the People!"
I must be tired I saw body bags instead of goody bags that would be some hardcore negotiations.
TheADDkid.com
On, second though, I live in Norway where everything is ridioilously expensive. so the I think the answer is something like 'Spend all winter getting drunk wondering why there's only 2-3 hours between sunset and dawn, and subsequently spend all summer being happy and getting drunk while being mildly amusing at the strange shiny thing in the middle of the sky which never seem to disappear..'
"" How about taking the safety labels off everything, and let the stupidity-problem solve itself? """
You already have a mob handy, so you just burn the shop down and loot what you wanted...
Who wants to mob up on an NYC Apple store to see if they're give us a massive discount? Please leave stones at home since we don't want to break the glass house.
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So, this capitalist lackey and his bourgeoisie imperialist masters walk into this bar looking to oppress the proletariat, see, and there's a frog on this one guy's head, see? And the bartender says, "Hey...what the heck is THAT?!" And the frog replies, "Well, it started as a wart on my ass..."
--Comrade Henny Youngman
I buy very few things. My appartment has one bed...
Wait til you have a spouse, kids, and a house.
The kids will completely take over the upstairs, your loving spouse will dominate the downstairs, and you, the patriarch of your little clan, will be relegated to the garage. Where 1/2 of the available space will be taken up with kid stuff.
Notice that the copyright at the bottom of the store website says: Copyright© 2000-2008 All Rights Reserved. Is this funny or what?
...they used the word fortnight in the article. And that's just awesome.
What?
At a gas station! Duh!
Haida Manga
That's because there are at least 501 people who are willing to pay full (or double) price for a Cabbage Patch kid (well, in the 1980's...)
If you have items that are NOT in absurd demand - items that don't fly off the shelves - this makes sense. But for an item that is hugely understocked, no, you won't get people negotiating a discount, you'd get people outbidding each other.
Supply and demand.
Since I can't tell them apart, I treat all ACs as the same person.
DDoS retail style!
"linux is just DOS with a UNIX like syntax" -- Galactic Dominator (944134)
Yes, it's very bad. If you look at retail businesses, you'll find the most successful (and profitable!) are ones that don't sell anything.
Do you even lift?
These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.
worked in New Orleans with the big screen tvs!
Yes but you need a force five hurricane to pull it off right. Do you know how difficult it is to get a force five hurricane these days.... Oh wait.
May the Maths Be with you!
I don't know how well that would work. Remember, the golden rule is pillage, then burn.