Feng Jie hesitated further. After some thought, he advised, "President, we just ran a promotional event not long ago. Giving out coupons now might not have a good effect..."
Ou Minghan said with disdain, "You've been by my side for so long, how can you still be so stupid? Why don't you just hold a lottery? Everyone is guaranteed to get a coupon by participating in the lottery. Then, prepare a few mobile phones, some keyboards, and small gifts to be drawn. The grand prize will be a car worth five hundred thousand yuan. You can rig it so that someone from our side wins, and make the event a big splash. Isn't that enough?"
Feng Jie wanted to say something but stopped. If it were any other time, he would naturally think Ou Minghan's method was good.
But now, with Taoxun's reputation in tatters, how could others easily be convinced? Moreover, rigging the car prize was essentially cheating!
However, seeing Ou Minghan's impatient expression, he didn't dare to ask any more questions and quickly agreed.
Afterward, Ou Minghan personally went to the company to supervise the repair of Qianbai's mobile application. However, this time he learned his lesson and didn't give any more foolish orders. He simply kept an eye on the project team, urging them not to slack off.
Still, these few days were also very difficult for Ou Minghan.
Other mobile manufacturers successively updated their systems. Except for a small number of people who, in their anger, physically destroyed their phones, most users' phones were gradually restored to normal.
Of course, this did not change Qianbai's current state of being criticized. After all, during the period when the phones were malfunctioning, how many people missed important calls and messages? Even for those who didn't miss anything, no one could accept a phone that didn't work!
Major social media sites and forums were filled with骂 (scolding) Qianbai and Ou Minghan. Although Ou Minghan was spending money everywhere to get websites to delete posts, some forums were not swayed by him.
Ou Minghan angrily sent lawyer's letters to those forums, but they ignored them. They were not court summons, and more lawyer's letters were just like paper in a toilet to them.
Those who were silenced on major websites flooded these forums, continuing to curse Qianbai Company.
Seeing that their efforts to silence the criticism were only moderately effective, Ou Minghan had to resort to his ultimate move: the lottery.
The grand prize of a car worth five hundred thousand yuan did indeed attract many people. The number of participants surged, even reaching two million. However, people were still cursing while participating.
Ou Minghan couldn't care anymore. Being infamous was still being famous. He set the draw time for three days later, half an hour before Qianbai's mobile application went back online.
The three days passed quickly. Ou Minghan had been keeping a close watch on Taoxun. Seeing that they hadn't made any moves for three days, his contempt for Ye Zhi grew even stronger.
The time for the draw arrived. When the participants received the coupons sent by Taoxun, they were dumbfounded!
Immediately, the voices denouncing Taoxun on major websites intensified, reaching a point where even deleting posts couldn't keep up.
"Scumbag Qianbai! What do you mean by giving out coupons as a lottery prize?! You broke my phone, and now I have to buy things on your website and give you money?! Humph—spit!"
"I don't have a problem with receiving coupons, but what do you mean by giving me a 2 yuan Porsche discount coupon? If I could afford a Porsche, would I care about your two yuan?!"
"Family, have you checked the winner's homepage? One of his photos was taken inside the Qianbai company! He's clearly an employee of Qianbai Company! This lottery is rigged; he was pre-selected!"
"Hahaha, if the two million of us each gave you one yuan, it would be enough to buy four cars worth five hundred thousand yuan. And now we're just playing a lottery game with them? We're still losing money and not learning!"
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Feng Jie looked at the scolding online and became worried. He had felt it was not quite right before, but he never expected that the coupon giveaway would backfire so severely!
What's more, he hadn't anticipated that the rigged lottery would be discovered so quickly! Although he had immediately asked the person involved to delete the photos, the quick-handed netizens had already taken rapid screenshots and widely circulated them.
Feng Jie had no choice but to go to Ou Minghan and explain the current situation.
"President, should we redraw the lottery now..."
Ou Minghan looked at him as if he were an idiot. "What nonsense are you talking about? If we redraw, wouldn't that be admitting that we actually faked it?"
"Then..." Feng Jie hesitated before advising again, "Should we wait a while before launching the application? Our company's reputation isn't very good lately..."
"So what if our reputation isn't good? Isn't that still attention? Launch it!" Ou Minghan said impatiently.
Feng Jie was helpless. When ten o'clock arrived, he could only re-launch the application. Feeling uneasy, he took out his own phone to try downloading it. But as soon as he clicked the download button, an interface popped up on his phone.
"Warm reminder: This application has significant risks and may damage your phone. We recommend downloading Taoxun."
Seeing the Taoxun mobile application icon pop up, Feng Jie was completely stunned!
He finally understood why Taoxun had been so quiet all these days. They weren't inactive; they were waiting for this moment to deliver a fatal blow!
Those people who had been manipulated by the lottery would inevitably come with full anger to give Qianbai negative reviews when Qianbai's mobile application was launched. When they accidentally clicked download and saw the pop-up interface, Feng Jie could already guess their reaction!
All the hype they had created had turned out to be a stepping stone for Taoxun!
He rushed to find Ou Minghan, who was so angry that he smashed the table again. He truly hadn't expected Taoxun's mobile application to be secretly launched at this time!
Ye Zhi was clearly aiming to step onto the throne by crushing Qianbai!
He frantically called major mobile manufacturers, demanding that they remove the pop-up.
But all the mobile manufacturers had the same attitude: "Your application does indeed have risks, and it does damage phones. What's wrong with us providing a helpful reminder to our users?"
"What? Remove the pop-up? That's not possible. Netizens are currently scolding us for colluding with Qianbai to sell new phones. We have to prove our innocence."
After making numerous calls, not a single mobile vendor agreed to remove the pop-up.
Ou Minghan was both angry and frustrated, but utterly helpless.
At this moment, Ye Zhi looked at the ever-increasing download volume on the backend and smiled happily.
"Thank you, Qianbai. Gratitude to a fellow competitor," Ye Zhi asked with a smile, "Chen Wei, do you think I should call Ou Minghan and thank him specifically?"
Chen Wei: ...
How malicious! This kind of direct mockery, is Ye Zhi not going to stop until Ou Minghan faints from anger?