LIGHTNOVELONLINE Chapter 25 There is really gold everywhere
Fang Bai had lunch and then took a rickshaw to Yaming Electronics Recycling Company.
This is a relatively large company that specializes in recycling and processing electronic products.
The electronic warehouse site covers an area of 20 to 30 acres, and many bosses come to buy goods on site.
Fang Bai's goal was to import foreign junk TVs. What caught his eye were mountains of old and worn-out TVs, and many of them were in good condition.
Taobao customers mainly collect useful TV parts or repair usable TVs, then assemble and renovate usable ones for sale.
That's what Fang Bai wanted to do.
Most Chinese people don't understand why foreigners don't want these things, and Fang Bai had trouble understanding it before.
Doesn’t a broken TV have value?
If you think about it, it's easy to understand. It's not like mechanical equipment. Even if you sell scrap metal, you can still make a lot of money.
But not the TV. The worthless plastic casing and glass account for a lot of weight. The valuable things are the wires and deflection coils, which contain copper wires that are about ten times more expensive than iron.
The copper wire contained in a TV does not weigh much and is troublesome to disassemble.
If it is a solid recycling factory in the future, the wires and deflection coils will be recycled directly, and the remaining glass, shell and other parts will be crushed into particles, and then classified and sold through professional separation and screening methods.
Products such as phosphors, electron guns and circuit boards will be further refined to obtain metals such as rare earths, copper and gold and silver.
However, the processing methods of solid recycling plants in this era were relatively rough. Due to the lack of professional maintenance and inspection personnel, the technical level was low, and it was impossible to professionally screen like later generations. Generally, they were directly crushed and refined without classification, and only TVs with good quality were Parts are then picked out for those refurbished customers to choose from.
If it is not a solid recycling factory, like ordinary dealers who buy second-hand TVs, they are mainly interested in the copper on the deflection coils, wires and transformers in the TV. Other parts have little recycling value, or the recycling cost is high.
In developed countries, labor costs are high, and ordinary households will not dismantle coils and wires that are worthless to them. Useless or outdated TVs are simply thrown away as garbage.
When Chinese people see this market, they specialize in collecting these electronic waste. As long as they pay the shipping fee to transport it to China, it is a business without capital.
Therefore, undisassembled TV sets and circuit boards are sold by the ton.
Nowadays, TV sets are a best-seller and have a long service life. After buying one, most families will not replace it for a few years, treating it like a family heirloom.
New 14-inch black and white TVs from domestic brands such as Panda, Feiyue, and Konka sell for two to three hundred yuan, while imported brands such as Toshiba, Sony, and Panasonic cost double the price.
A few years ago, domestically produced 14-inch black and white TVs sold for three to four hundred yuan, and prices dropped rapidly.
As for new color TVs, imported 29-inch Sony TVs cost more than 10,000 yuan, and 21-inch TVs cost four to five thousand yuan.
CRT color TV is the mainstream type of color TV today. It uses cathode ray tube technology and the screen is a recessed glass panel.
At this time, there were very few domestically produced color films, the picture quality was too poor, and the size was small. Even so, the market was still in short supply.
Families these days don’t have mortgages or car loans, and there are few types of supplies they can buy. Most of the family’s income is used to improve their lives. They can buy TVs worth thousands of dollars and motorcycles worth tens of thousands of dollars at a time.
Future generations would like to understand why a family with a household worth tens of thousands of yuan spends several thousand yuan to buy a color TV, so that it can be used to start a business or buy a house.
If you don’t know about future housing prices, don’t know that electronics will be worthless in the future, don’t know that currency depreciates so fast, don’t know… then it’s easy to understand.
If you save money and have nowhere to spend it, what else can you do?
Right.
There are a dazzling array of products in later generations, such as spicy crayfish delicacies, you can hold a princess in KTV for a few hundred yuan, cars, houses, endless online shopping, and helpless betrothal gifts, but you spend a lot of money.
Just like now, Fang Bai wants to go out for a while, but it's troublesome to find a car, transportation is inconvenient, and there is no Internet. The best entertainment is to stay at home and watch TV.
Every night, villagers go to other houses with flashlights to watch TV. This is a common phenomenon in rural areas.
Therefore, watching TV is an indispensable part of people's lives and the main medium for obtaining external information sources.
Fang Bai recovered his thoughts and walked into the TV classification venue. Like other customers, he could browse at will. Some bosses took people to move the selected TVs to an empty area, and finally weighed and calculated the money.
A good-quality black-and-white TV, regardless of specification or brand, costs 700-900 yuan per ton. For example, a 14-inch black-and-white TV weighs 10-12 kilograms, and you can buy about a hundred of them for 1,000 yuan.
Color TVs are more expensive, with good quality ones costing 2,500 yuan per ton. The size is mainly 21 inches, with a small amount of 14 inches and 29 inches, and very few larger sizes. The largest currently on the market is 34 inches.
The price of these products in good condition is too expensive for most renovation owners, and it also requires a lot of time to detect where there are problems. The technical requirements are too high, so they generally will not choose this one.
TVs of different quality are relatively cheaper and come with complete dismantled parts. This is the target of shoppers.
If future generations see these second-hand TVs, they will never believe them: Couldn’t these TVs just be repaired?
Why hasn't anyone else found this?
Waiting for Fang Bai to get rich?
Are there so many fools who just watch the gold without picking it up?
Not so easy!
First, there is the problem of information gap. It is estimated that few people know about foreign garbage;
Not to mention this era, how many people would know about electronic waste without using mobile phones and media? I know there is this thing in T city.
Even if you know it, they sell it by the ton, so you have to have the capital to purchase it, and you won’t sell it in pieces.
In this day and age, how much savings can an individual have?
Second, although it seems simple, it is actually difficult to repair. You have to find where the fault is.
Of course, good second-hand TVs were picked up by Yaming Company, or sold to refurbishment companies at high prices.
Of course, there are some things on site that are difficult to maintain, and only Fang Bai can pick them up.
This is not something that a simple electrician can do.
If it were a later generation electrician who was knowledgeable, he might be able to fix it.
In this era, capable people are all in the workplace. Not many people think about electronic waste, and there are not that many technical personnel.
Therefore, in this era, there is gold everywhere and it is relatively easy to get it.
In addition, if the TV is designed for use in island countries, the voltage is 110V, and a conversion transformer is required. If it is exported, it is usually 220V, but it can be used directly in Hua.
Fang Bai touched a 21-inch Toshiba color TV produced in 1988 and found that the picture tube, screen, etc. were all in good condition. The bad parts were: there were two burnt capacitors on the circuit board, the speaker was broken, and the degaussing coil had a defect. It's broken.
If you know what's broken, it's not difficult to repair it.
Fang Bai only needs to hire people who know a little bit about circuits, mark the problematic parts for repair, and it doesn't take much time to repair them, and then refurbish the TV.
Is it possible that if an imported color TV with an original price of about 4,000 yuan is sold for 1,000 yuan or even a few hundred yuan, no one wants it?
As for cost?
It weighs about 20 kilograms and the purchase price is about fifty yuan.
Including transportation costs, labor maintenance costs, purchasing new parts and refurbishment costs, plus sales costs and other costs, it is estimated to be about one hundred yuan.
Multiple profits!
Damn, what a huge profit!
Of course, things are here, and you need to have the skills to do this.
Having the ability is like picking up money. In this era, there are so many opportunities to make a fortune.
However, the vast majority of people do not have this ability and do not know this information.
Therefore, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a monopoly business.
"There is really gold everywhere, it just depends on whether you have the ability to catch it."
Fang Bai thought to himself, and was surprised again and again. It was so easy to find a TV that could be easily repaired.
What others can't do, he can do it easily!
He had read a lot of fantasy novels. Everyone found a treasure map, but the most important treasures were all picked up by the protagonist.
Now, Fang Bai is just like the protagonist in the novel. This TV junkyard seems to be a Taobao map specially set up for Fang Bai!
You are not afraid of others taking away too much, and such treasures are constantly being sent to China from abroad.
The domestic TV market is so huge that supply exceeds demand!
It’s so fucking exciting!
This feeling of pleasure is different from the ordinary feeling of making a lot of money.
Relaxed, free, and not too competitive.
It's a pleasure!