E-Ladies: Navigating the Wired World
Chapter 152: Episode 152 Joint Disaster Relief Charity Sale 3

Chapter 152: Episode 152 Joint Disaster Relief Charity Sale 3

"Toss, toss, toss! I’ll talk to Wang Weiping later. Holding onto things from an age ago...does she think she’s a hamster or something..." Zhou Xueyin complained irritably, "It’s just a Beijing residence permit, what’s so great about that, I don’t understand these people’s way of thinking..."

"Don’t look down on that Beijing residence permit, you know why Liu Feifei is so spoiled and pampered? She’s a local from Beijing, and her husband is from out of town, treats her like she’s a queen or something..." Wang Anqi continued gossiping.

"Ugh, even a queen... Alright... Only these sugars and food flavorings are within the expiration date, the rest are all expired..." Zhou Xueyin put the items that weren’t expired aside and locked the warehouse door.

As for Zhongonline’s assets aside from outdated keyboards and mice, there were just barely usable off-brand graphics cards and long-obsolete CPUs... These couldn’t really fetch any price.

As for mobile phones, don’t even mention them; they were ancient monochrome screen phones that had been phased out long ago, the kind that nobody would want even for free.

After taking stock of the warehouse, they had gathered less than 50,000 yuan worth of goods altogether.

It looked like if they wanted the charity sale to heat up a bit, they could only rely on sponsorship from manufacturers...

Back on the 20th floor, Zhou Xueyin pushed open the door of the office only to see Liu Feifei lying back in her chair napping, with her snores resounding like thunder.

She helplessly rolled her eyes at her, picked up the phone, and started calling those manufacturers who still owed payments.

To drown out Liu Feifei’s snoring, she even had to deliberately speak extra loudly.

"Hello? Director Xiang? I am Zhou Xueyin from 51buy... Aiyo, I’m not here to press for debt. I know you’re having difficulties... Yes, I know, can’t even pay your workers’ wages, right? Oh. No worries, I’m not pressuring you for money." This Director Xiang, clearly struggling to make ends meet, still insisted on purchasing a 3-year ad term, playing at being more capable than he was.

The payments from the past two years had been settled by offsetting with assets, and this year was likely no exception.

"Don’t rush, let me finish speaking, okay? I know you’re having difficulties, that’s why I’m not pressuring for the debt! We’re planning to organize a disaster relief charity sale, you see what supplies you can provide... Yes, these supplies will count as debt payments! Your company’s name will be mentioned, it surely will!" Giving not much money, not much supplies either, lots of hassle, and still insisting their names be listed as sponsors...

It’s only because their product quality had always been guaranteed that they continuously supported without conditions, otherwise they would have terminated the contract and cut losses a long time ago...

"Why do you have to speak so loudly when making calls? Afraid people won’t know you’re on the phone..." Liu Feifei was woken up by the noise, obviously not in a good mood since it wasn’t natural wakefulness.

"It’s working hours now, well past lunch break. Considering you’re pregnant, I didn’t wake you up." Zhou Xueyin rolled her eyes at her and kept making calls.

"Director Li... I am Zhou Xueyin from 51buy..."

She had hardly spoken a few words when Liu Feifei, as if intentionally provoking her, kept endlessly clicking the cap of her ballpoint pen, creating an annoying "click, click" noise.

"Our company is preparing... one moment, please..." That "click, click" noise was distracting her from speaking.

"Liu Feifei, stop clicking! I’m on a work call!" Zhou Xueyin glared at her.

"Director Li? Still there? Sorry about that... Oh, you’re a bit busy, send the requirements to your email? Sure, sure!" Getting supplies over the phone hadn’t worked, and emailing was even less likely to be successful.

No choice but to make another call.

However, the "clack clack" sound once again rose, and it was faster and stronger than before.

"Liu Feifei, are you doing this on purpose? Haven’t your family ever taught you not to make noise when someone else is on the phone or talking?" Zhou Xueyin yelled angrily.

"Hey, listen to you! Didn’t your family teach you to speak softly when others are sleeping?" Liu Feifei retorted unreasonably.

"Is this your sleeping place? This is an office, a company! Not your home. If you want to sleep, go home. Sleep however you like there, no one will stop you or disturb you! But not at the company!" Zhou Xueyin was furious seeing Liu Feifei’s unreasonable demeanor, "If you really want to sleep, the meeting room next door will do!"

"Psh, I’ve slept on the 9th floor before, and nobody said anything... What are you so proud of? If it weren’t for the group taking over, could you have landed such big clients?" Liu Feifei changed the subject, as if she had controlled the acquisition of 51buy.

"Thank you so much! But no matter what you say now, you’re still the deputy general manager, a position below me! Understand?" Normally, Zhou Xueyi didn’t want to assert her rank, but she had no choice with this unreasonable person in front of her.

"Psh... Big deal you’re a general manager... Fine, you keep making your calls, I’m going to the meeting room to sleep." Liu Feifei picked up the cushion that had been behind her back and left the office, and indeed headed to the meeting room next door to sleep.

"William Lee! You big liar! You didn’t change the company structure, but putting such an ancestor under me is unbearable!" Zhou Xueyin vented in the office while stabbing her notebook with a pen.

"Ding ding ding..." Someone knocked on the glass door of the office.

"Come in!" Zhou Xueyin regained her usual composure.

"Yinyin, it’s me..." Liu He opened the door and entered.

"What’s up?"

"My son Yiyang said he would offer 4 limited-edition China Red watches, each worth 2000 yuan, but they can be sold for 500 yuan each at the charity sale," Liu He brought an exciting piece of news to Zhou Xueyin.

"Your Annson is really a patriotic youth! In that case, for this year’s advertising fees, give him a 20% discount!" Zhou Xueyin said happily.

"Don’t get too excited yet, he also said he’ll provide another 100 watches originally priced at 500 yuan, each to be sold at 99 yuan. All are this year’s brand-new models! Not surplus stock!" Liu He also handed Zhou Xueyin the promotional flyer of the products prepared for the charity sale by Li Yiyang.

"If only all our manufacturers could be like your Annson, I’d have much less to worry about!" Zhou Xueyin looked gratefully at Liu He.

"Yinyin, great news!" Jixiang burst in excitedly, "Check your email!"

"What great news?" Zhou Xueyin nonchalantly clicked open her email.

The inbox neatly displayed the list of manufacturers participating in the charity sale, as well as the list of products they provided, including the original and charity sale prices.

"Jixiang, did you secure all these? That’s awesome!" Zhou Xueyin’s eyes sparkled as she looked at Jixiang.

"I don’t have such skills... Some of them were negotiated by President Chen, the IT ones by President Liu. The cosmetics were secured by Wanwan and me," Jixiang marked the negotiators with different colors, making it quite clear at a glance.

"If all these goods could be sold on the day of the charity event, then the total donations could exceed 1.5 million!" Zhou Xueyin looked at the comprehensive data with satisfaction.