Jiangnan Group has suspended the sale of the "Shui Tian Yi Se" blind boxes. The most significant outcome is that it has gone viral, making people who were uninterested or unaware of "Shui Tian Yi Se" now know about this blind box. It's also the follow-up to "Long Feng Cheng Xiang," released during the "Liu Shang Qu Shui Cai Wei" event. This has opened up the market considerably, with more and more people showing covetousness for "Shui Tian Yi Se."
As for the scalpers, their feelings are quite complex; they are both surprised and delighted.
Surprised because Jiangnan Group has already targeted them, indicating that restrictive measures against scalpers will inevitably be announced. Although they don't know what methods Jiangnan Group has prepared, these methods will undoubtedly affect the difficulty of acquiring blind boxes for scalpers. As for whether they can be completely eradicated, scalpers absolutely do not believe so. As long as this item is still sold on the market and there is a profit margin, scalpers will never be eliminated.
As for their delight, it's naturally because with the fermentation of this news, the number of customers interested in "Shui Tian Yi Se" is growing. They believe that the items they have stockpiled will surely increase in price.
Some scalpers have even begun to predict the new policies that Jiangnan Group will introduce, such as identity card binding. They are already preparing to obtain a large number of fake identity cards and then purchase in bulk. After all, in 2003, the nationwide networked real-name identity card system had not yet been established. So-called identity card binding at most involved checking the identity card. Therefore, these scalpers were very confident that even if Jiangnan Group's policies were released, they could completely circumvent them.
After about ten days of waiting amidst all the commotion, while countless customers were anxiously awaiting, Jiangnan Group finally announced that the "Shui Tian Yi Se" blind boxes would resume sales and simultaneously introduced a brand new sales policy. However, upon the release of this policy, everyone's eyes nearly popped out.
This is because the "Shui Tian Yi Se" blind boxes will now suspend offline sales and completely transfer to online sales, specifically on the Jiangnan Mall. According to the announcements posted by Jiangnan Group at all sales points and on their website, Jiangnan Group is serious this time.
Firstly, physical stores will no longer sell the "Shui Tian Yi Se" blind boxes. The remaining 8 million blind boxes will be entirely transferred to the Jiangnan Mall for online sales. The sales method is as follows: starting from April 8, 2003, one million "Shui Tian Yi Se" blind boxes will be available on the Jiangnan Mall every evening at 8:00 PM. All purchasing users must have an oo account in advance and must have a balance of Jiangnan coins in their oo account to purchase the "Shui Tian Yi Se" blind boxes on the website. Each account is limited to purchasing 10 boxes.
Concurrently, each computer's network IP address will only be allowed to log in to one oo account. If a switch to another oo account is required, a 5-minute switching cooldown period must be observed. This is Jiangnan Group's latest anti-scalper sales strategy. According to Jiangnan Group's explanation, because these one million boxes are open for purchase to all users in China simultaneously, the hassle of queuing is eliminated, and users can purchase blind boxes concurrently. This way, the scalpers' advantage of using repeated queuing to purchase blind boxes in large quantities no longer exists, as the total number of scalpers is limited, and each purchase requires switching oo accounts. However, each oo account switch operation takes at least about 5 minutes. Therefore, users who genuinely wish to purchase "Shui Tian Yi Se" blind boxes have a fair chance in the first 5 minutes of public sale; everyone has the same purchasing rights. If they are late and the scalpers gradually snatch them up, then they can only blame themselves for not truly loving "Shui Tian Yi Se," as they would otherwise be at their computers at the first moment, waiting to grab the blind boxes. If you can't get one within five minutes, who can you blame?
Thus, as soon as this policy was announced, almost all customers exclaimed "Jiangnan is awesome!" and excitedly began preparing for the online rush. Of course, a considerable portion of customers had no prior experience purchasing goods on the Jiangnan Mall. However, Jiangnan Group also considered this. Therefore, in the announcement, Jiangnan Group specifically highlighted that Jiangnan Group's exclusive stores nationwide would establish a special functional area for online shopping tutorials. Service staff would be arranged to guide all newcomers on how to shop on the Jiangnan Mall. If you want to buy this batch of "Shui Tian Yi Se" blind boxes but don't know how to shop online, you can go to these tutorial areas, and service staff will guide you hand-in-hand on how to purchase. Not only that, but Jiangnan store employees will also give you a 10-page online shopping tutorial manual. These manuals are impressive because they are all color-printed, with screenshots of computer screens on each page, and the mouse click positions are specifically circled. Detailed explanations are also provided in the blank spaces. For example, the first page shows the computer desktop, with the mouse cursor positioned over the browser icon, marked with a bold red circle. The text on the page reads, "On the desktop after the computer boots up, find the icon for the IE browser, which looks identical to this one, and then double-click the left mouse button to enter the IE browser." The second color page shows the IE browser window opened, with the mouse cursor clicking on the address bar, also marked with a bold red circle. New instructions are written: "Click the address bar with the left mouse button. When a blinking vertical line appears at the far left of the address bar, you can type on the keyboard..."
3. Open cash top-up functionality. Users can top up their Jiangnan wallet with cash offline at various Jiangnan stores. For every 9.5 yuan in cash, 10 yuan will be added to the Jiangnan wallet balance.
4. Jiangnan wallet will cooperate with 140,000 internet cafes nationwide. All cooperating internet cafes will sell Jiangnan top-up cards. The face value of Jiangnan top-up cards will be equal to their selling price, and they will not enjoy the 5% discount. Additionally, Jiangnan wallet will cooperate with China Telecom, China Mobile, and China Unicom. Users can also top up their Jiangnan wallet with cash using recharge cards and calling cards from these companies, by providing the card number and password. The specific top-up ratio will be determined through negotiation with each channel, and detailed information will be announced in a few days.
5. Open online banking top-up functionality. If users have a debit card from Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, they can go to their local ICBC branch to activate online banking services. After activating this service, they can directly top up their Jiangnan wallet with cash through the ICBC online banking transaction page. The top-up will also enjoy a 5% discount.
6. All products on the Jiangnan Mall will be categorized. Some products can only be purchased with Jiangnan coins, some only with cash balance, and some can be purchased with both currencies. The specific purchasing method can be viewed in the product details. The "Shui Tian Yi Se" blind boxes this time can be purchased with 20 Jiangnan coins or with a 10 yuan cash balance.
7. In response to the national call for re-employment of laid-off workers, to enrich domestic commodity circulation, and to save more enterprises on the verge of bankruptcy, Jiangnan Group is launching a free store opening service! All natural persons, operating units, and enterprises can apply to open an online shop on the Jiangnan Mall through the Jiangnan Online Store platform () and then sell their products online. You can directly click "I want to open a store" on the platform, and specialized personnel will contact you and visit you to guide you through all the specific matters related to opening a store. Due to limited customer service capacity, only 10,000 online store slots are available at this stage, and there are also quota restrictions for different industry products. If you wish to carve out a niche in online business, you can visit the Jiangnan Online Store platform for consultation.
The territory of the Three Realms has finally begun to be established.