Chapter 549 Players Are Panicking

May 22nd, Tuesday.

The last day of Tenda's 515 Game Festival.

Pei Qian was in a good mood. He arrived at the company early in the morning and waited in his office for Assistant Xin to report on the work.

That building should have found a buyer, right?

Logically speaking, the new building bought by Sloth Apartments has a good location. In addition, with the fine decoration personally designed by Liang Qingfan and the reputation of Sloth Apartments, it would be a good choice to resell or rent it out after buying it.

In order to complete the transaction as soon as possible, Pei Qian didn't ask for a high price. The entire quotation was still within a reasonable range, and many companies, especially real estate companies, should be interested in buying it.

However, after waiting in the office for a while, Assistant Xin didn't come.

"Huh, what's the situation?"

Pei Qian was a little puzzled.

Assistant Xin is very reliable in his work. If he has found a suitable buyer, he will definitely report it as soon as possible.

Still haven't found a buyer? Impossible, right?

Pei Qian vaguely felt that something was wrong, so he immediately called Assistant Xin to inquire about the situation.

Assistant Xin reported truthfully: "President Pei, yesterday I contacted several real estate companies, and they did show the intention to acquire it at the time."

"But when I went to confirm with them today, they all said that they had considered it and changed their minds, and all gave up."

"We are still contacting new buyers."

Pei Qian frowned slightly, very puzzled.

No one wants this building?

That's impossible, the location of this building is okay, and the asking price is not very high, right?

If I didn't have any money in my pocket, if I had so much personal property, I would have wanted to buy it myself and collect rent.

Isn't it great to be a landlord?

But then he thought about it, although this building is indeed good, each company may have its own problems, such as not having enough funds, or having better projects that need money. It's only been less than a day since the news was released, and it's normal not to find a suitable buyer.

After all, normal buying and selling of second-hand houses doesn't happen in one day, you have to wait a few days anyway.

Thinking of this, Pei Qian said: "Okay, then continue to look for buyers."

After hanging up the phone, Pei Qian felt a little at a loss.

He originally thought that he would be able to hear the good news that the building had been sold when he came to work today, and he could continue to plan the next round of money-burning plans, but his expectations fell through.

Now he doesn't know what to do.

After thinking for a while, he decided to browse the web and see the players' reactions.

After all, today is the last day of the 515 Game Festival, and all the previous money-burning activities will end today.

Pei Qian wanted to see what opinions or suggestions the players had about the 515 Game Festival, and whether he could think of some new ways to burn money, so that he could immediately plan the next stage of the money-burning plan after the building was sold.

After secretly changing the probability of the 515 Game Festival activities on the weekend, the players' enthusiasm became even higher, and discussions about the 515 Game Festival could be seen everywhere.

Most players were still a little unsatisfied, but they were almost satisfied.

After all, the entire 515 Game Festival event lasted for a whole week. Although it was very enjoyable to get freebies, it was tiring to keep doing it.

If you want to get rewards, you have to go online to play games, and it's a bit difficult to play every day.

In short, the response to this 515 Game Festival was very good, and the players were very happy.

Pei Qian was also very happy.

Maybe this is a win-win situation!

However, as he flipped through the pages, the smile on Pei Qian's face disappeared, replaced by a solemn expression.

Because he saw some unexpected discussions!

A post titled "I heard that Tenda is having problems with capital turnover and is selling a building" seemed very abrupt among the posts about the 515 Game Festival, but it had already received hundreds of replies in just a dozen hours since it was posted yesterday, and it was very popular!

"I heard that Tenda seems to have some financial problems recently and is selling a building! There are many sources of information that can be used as evidence, it's definitely true!"

"How can that be? Haven't Tenda's recent projects all made money?"

"They made money, but the money hasn't been received yet! The keys to *Mission and Choice* have been delayed, and the inventory of smart fitness clothes racks hasn't been cleared..."

"I've also heard about the building sale, and it's still a building in Sloth Apartments that was just renovated not long ago, which is obviously killing the goose that lays the golden eggs! If the funds weren't tight, who would do this?"

"I have a friend who works at Tenda. It seems to be true. Many Tenda employees don't eat snacks and voluntarily save money for the company."

"Tenda is so difficult, and they still hold the 515 Game Festival? They even increased the probability of the event themselves?"

"Oops, we've been enjoying the freebies, but what if the sheep is sheared to death!"

"Tenda must not have any problems! This is the hope of domestic games. If it really collapses, wouldn't we have to go back to the dark ages many years ago?"

"The dark ages are unlikely, but it is definitely a huge loss for domestic players, no, for players all over the world!"

"It's not just games. Tenda's movies, digital products, and physical industries are all industry benchmarks. If something goes wrong, the loss will be too great! Unimaginable!"

"I've gotten so many benefits from Tenda for free, I can't just sit idly by at this time! I've decided to buy a few more games to support them!"

"I'll buy a smart fitness clothes rack."

"I'll eat Lazy Cat Takeout these few days!"

"I'll buy a few skins in *GOG* to support them!"

At first, many people didn't believe that Tenda would have financial problems. After all, judging from the existing information, Tenda was developing very well, and all kinds of projects were making money.

But more and more netizens joined the discussion, including many people who knew internal staff of Tenda and local enterprises in Jingzhou, confirming that Tenda had indeed encountered some difficulties recently and was selling a building!

So the players couldn't calm down.

The 515 Game Festival hasn't passed yet, and almost all players have benefited from Tenda. Now that they heard that Tenda had to sell a building to turn over funds in order to give players benefits, how could this be possible?

The netizens decided that those with money would contribute money, and those with strength would contribute strength. Even if they spent a few dollars to buy a skin, it would be considered a small contribution to Tenda.

The G1 phone, which had just stepped up production and restored supply, was trending towards being out of stock again.

Looking at the discussions of the silly netizens, Pei Qian was completely stunned.

What's the situation!

Are these players all crazy!

I'm just doing normal business, and selling the building is purely normal capital turnover. Why do I feel like these players are like company shareholders, more concerned than I am!

Tenda actually has so many spiritual shareholders?

Pei Qian had a bad feeling, so he quickly opened the official website of Ouhai Technologies to check the product page of the G1 phone.

Sure enough, sold out!

In fact, the G1 phone was sold out the day after the press conference, but Ouhai Technologies immediately prepared a second batch of stock, which went on sale again some time ago.

By preparing stock while selling, they finally delivered all the phones that had been pre-ordered, and also ensured that there was stock available, so there was no need to "play the monkey" anymore.

As a result, it's sold out again!

Pei Qian endured the pain and found the page of the smart fitness clothes rack again.

After refreshing, it showed that there were 12 units of stock remaining.

After refreshing again, sold out!

Pei Qian fainted.

He leaned back on his office chair and felt like his body was hollowed out.

"My smart fitness clothes rack!"

"My so much stock!"

"Where did it all go?!"

Pei Qian was so angry that he pounded his chest and stomped his feet.

He originally thought that the smart fitness clothes rack would definitely not sell much, so in order to spend more money, Pei Qian asked Ouhai Technologies to prepare a lot of stock, filling all of Tenda's warehouses in Jingzhou, a full 10,000 units.

That's 10,000 units!

Pei Qian remembered that when he looked at it a few days ago, although it was selling fast, there were still several thousand units of stock that hadn't been sold. Why is it sold out when he looks at it again today?!

Are the players so ruthless?

Or... were they bought by some people with ulterior motives?

For example, scalpers?

He quickly searched the Internet for the keyword "smart fitness clothes rack" to see the netizens' discussions.

"Damn it! I just wanted to buy a clothes rack to exercise at home, but it's sold out?!"

"It's normal for such a large item to have less stock and be sold out."

"It's not normal at all, okay? Didn't President Chang say at the press conference that he prepared 10,000 units and would definitely not sell out?"

"This clothes rack has also become popular since *Fitness Battle* came out. Many streamers and up masters are broadcasting it. 10,000 units distributed across the country is actually not that many, right?"

"I think something is wrong. There is no purchase limit for this thing, so it must have been targeted by scalpers!"

Those netizens who couldn't buy the smart fitness clothes rack were very speechless and cursed the scalpers online.

Pei Qian's first reaction was the same as the netizens, thinking that it was mostly the scalpers!

After all, the smart fitness clothes rack is different from the G1 phone. The G1 phone has a purchase limit policy to prevent scalpers, but the smart fitness clothes rack does not have any purchase limit policy, because Pei Qian never thought that this thing could sell so much.

But after thinking about it, he felt that the possibility was relatively low.

Which scalper would speculate on this kind of thing?

Scalpers prefer to speculate on smaller items such as concert tickets or mobile phones. After all, these things have a high unit price and don't take up space, so the income from speculation is considerable.

The smart fitness clothes rack is so big, wouldn't it take up space?

If the scalpers buy hundreds of pieces at that time, where will they put them? They would have to rent a large warehouse to put them down, and they would have to pay another sum for express delivery fees.

Of course, this assumption is based on the premise that the income from speculating on the smart fitness clothes rack is not high.

If the income is very high, the scalpers will definitely overcome many difficulties to speculate on it.

Although Pei Qian hates scalpers very much, at this time, he vaguely has a kind of expectation in his heart, hoping that it was done by scalpers.

Because if it wasn't the scalpers, it would mean that the smart fitness clothes rack is too popular and sold out!

Investigate, we must thoroughly investigate!

Pei Qian immediately called Chang You and asked him to check the order records of the smart fitness clothes rack to see if there were any signs of scalper activity.

Not long after, Chang You called back: "President Pei, there are indeed signs of suspected scalpers."

"The records show that there are several large orders."

"The two largest ones each bought 2,000 smart fitness clothes racks."

"There are also a dozen smaller orders, some buying dozens of units, and some buying two or three hundred units."

"If we exclude the possibility of overall procurement, it is mostly the scalpers who are doing it."

"Relatively speaking, these dozens of orders are more like scalpers. The identities of these two orders that directly bought 2,000 units... are a bit unclear. In general, ordinary scalpers are unlikely to use such a large amount of funds."

"I'm sorry, President Pei, I was negligent this time. I thought that the unit price of the smart fitness clothes rack was so high and it was inconvenient to transport, so there would be no scalpers targeting it, so I didn't specify relevant purchase restriction measures..."

"President Pei, what do you think we should do now?"

"Should we continue to increase stock as before?"