While many people liked those Poke Balls and wanted to buy them, Poke Balls were not cheap items. When purchasing, people would certainly be more cautious and deliberate.
Therefore, apart from a small number of wealthy individuals who directly placed their orders, most people were frequently inquiring about the product's lifespan and warranty.
In response to this, Ding Yun simply issued an announcement. She specifically guaranteed a ten-year warranty and a daily usage lifespan of over thirty years. Additionally, the internal crystal energy chip would need to be replaced approximately once every ten years.
The price for a replacement chip was ten thousand yuan.
Overall, this price was genuinely not expensive. Coupled with the ten-year warranty and the assurance of around thirty years of usage, the cost per year became even more affordable. Calculated over thirty years, even including the cost of two energy chips, it would be about four thousand yuan per year, which is roughly equivalent to a month's rent.
At this price, why wouldn't you buy it? Buy it all!
Following Ding Yun's announcement, the sales of the three models immediately and rapidly increased, soaring at a pace many times faster than before.
In less than twenty-four hours.
The total sales reached one hundred thousand units.
The total sales revenue even exceeded ten billion yuan.
This was unavoidable. With a high unit price, as soon as sales volume picked up, the final revenue figures became quite staggering.
Some real estate companies' assets, which appeared to be trillions, were calculated in a similar manner.
As for why the sales volume was only one hundred thousand among a population of over a billion, firstly, many people were still observing, waiting for feedback from others, and thinking there was no rush for such a purchase.
Secondly, most people genuinely couldn't afford the cost and needed to save up or were reluctant to spend the money.
Many young people lived paycheck to paycheck. While they might be able to afford it through installments, directly paying one hundred thousand yuan, without any loan options, was truly difficult for them. Older individuals might be planning to get married, already be married, burdened by mortgage and car loans, and have children to consider, spending money on their upbringing.
How could ordinary income earners come up with another hundred thousand yuan in cash?
In reality, most families nowadays were similar to companies. Some companies, despite having assets worth hundreds of billions on paper, couldn't even produce five hundred million yuan in cash. Similarly, some families, with net worths in the tens of millions, actually had all that value tied up in property, with only a few hundred thousand yuan in readily available cash.
As for the even older generation, those without dependents and with savings, they had little interest in these products.
They cared more about health supplements than these items.
Therefore, sales were moderate, and one hundred thousand units were normal.
Moreover, ten billion yuan in funds was more than enough for Ding Yun to place large orders for mass production, not only sufficient for paying substantial deposits but also allowing her to stockpile enough natural crystals for the next few decades.
After all, natural crystals were not expensive. One catty of natural crystal was enough for Ding Yun to manufacture hundreds of chips.
Furthermore, she estimated that the price of natural crystals would definitely skyrocket with the widespread use of her crystal energy. Therefore, if she had more income in the future, she would likely continue to hoard natural crystals.
This was to prevent future price increases from affecting her supply.
With this capital secured, Ding Yun quickly began contacting various contract manufacturers to produce different parts, which would then be assembled and shipped uniformly.
Concurrently, several technology and mechanical manufacturing companies, coveting Ding Yun's technology but unwilling to incur substantial costs, dispatched commercial spies to secretly steal the blueprints Ding Yun had provided to the contract manufacturers. They then planned to analyze and reverse-engineer the latest version of the Poke Ball and ice storage samples that Ding Yun had given to the streamers.
Their hope was to quickly replicate the products and, if possible, launch mass production and sales first. This way, they might even have a chance to use public opinion to criticize Ding Yun's Poke Balls as inferior, mass-produced products, while theirs would be considered premium and authentic.
As for piracy and reputation, with profits in the hundreds or even thousands of billions at stake, who cared about such things? Who needed dignity?
Unfortunately, they completely missed the core of the problem. Even if they successfully stole the blueprints Ding Yun provided to the manufacturers and managed to mechanically replicate the crystal energy chips identical to those in the sample Poke Balls, their creations would only be superficial replicas.
They wouldn't even function normally, let alone be activated.
They would be nothing more than exquisitely crafted toy Poke Balls. They could open and close, but that was all. There was no storage space, nor any function for people to enter and exit. They were purely useless items.
This was understandable. Without an energy supply, how could the Poke Balls demonstrate their spatial abilities?
If they couldn't even be activated, they would be like toys, wouldn't they?
Just empty toy balls.
The researchers and responsible personnel who discovered this situation were both angry and anxious. Angry because they suspected they had been tricked and the stolen blueprints were fake. Anxious because they had almost guaranteed their success, and now that the project had failed, they didn't know how they would be reprimanded, or if they would even be fired.
But no matter how angry or anxious they were,
The true core secret would not magically appear in their minds. They could only continue to research diligently, trying to figure out what the problem was.
Meanwhile, they had to face questioning from their superiors.
After two to three months of this, they could still only produce superficial replicas, devoid of any Poke Ball functionality.
Ding Yun's company, on the other hand, had already begun shipping products.
In this battle, they had clearly overestimated their own reverse-engineering capabilities and underestimated the confidence and backing Ding Yun possessed to distribute blueprints to contract manufacturers so openly and without reservation.
She was confident that others couldn't crack her core secret, which was why she dared to provide the blueprints to the contract manufacturers without signing any non-disclosure or leak-prevention agreements.
If non-disclosure or leak-prevention contracts had been signed,
Even if those large manufacturers could have eventually found ways to obtain the blueprints, it wouldn't have been as easy as it was now, leading to a flurry of activity that ultimately produced only a pile of useless items.
However, the enormous potential profits made them unwilling to abandon the idea of imitation and sales, so deeper research continued.
Concurrently, the first batch of one hundred thousand customers who had paid had received their express deliveries within two to three days. Following the video tutorials on the official website,
They completed fingerprint and iris binding.
Then came the flood of praise, boasting, and live streaming of their purchases. In an instant, related trending topics skyrocketed once again.
The trending search rankings were almost entirely occupied by them.