Chapter 144 SUG Club

Several club managers who had decided to sell their GOG divisions were waiting for Manager Li to state his position.

"Manager Li, why hasn't President Pei announced the transfer of the GOG division yet? There's still no news about it online!"

"That's right, President Pei's behavior is a bit abnormal. Even if this price isn't necessarily sellable, he should at least promote it and look for potential buyers, right? Or is President Pei planning to take over himself?"

"Alas, I don't know what to expect now. Should we expect a lot of people bidding and making a fortune, or should we expect no one to buy..."

The club managers were getting a little anxious.

Because this matter, from beginning to end, was completely beyond their control!

Originally, Manager Li had already arranged everything, greeting several major clubs and telling them not to take over.

Manager Li felt that President Pei would definitely promote this matter widely in order to beat them, letting many people come in and bid.

But if President Pei did that, it would be exactly what they wanted.

Because of Manager Li's prior operations, even if President Pei promoted it, there wouldn't be many bidders, which would mean that President Pei would have to pay out of his own pocket to take over at a high price, and it would also mean that the inflated valuation of these GOG divisions would collapse.

At that time, SUG club would take the money and leave, then change a team and re-enter the GPL league. Such a simple trick would earn them several million, which could be said to be very satisfying.

Other clubs basically had similar ideas.

But now, President Pei didn't promote it in a big way at all!

Why was that?

Manager Li tapped the table lightly, lost in thought.

After a moment, he said in a deep voice, "I understand President Pei's plan. He... should be playing a trick of 'hoarding goods to drive up prices.'"

"He probably already sees through our thoughts."

"Think about it, if President Pei promotes it in a big way, but not many people come to bid, it means that the GOG division is not worth so much money, and this show can't go on."

"So, President Pei decided to hoard the goods and only promote it in a small area, letting the people around him buy a little, and then stepping in to cover the rest. This will create the illusion of 'being in short supply.'"

"To put it bluntly, it's the same routine as some merchants speculating prices."

"Limited quantity, selling little by little, raising the transaction unit price, and slowly 'reducing inventory.'"

"This way, it won't collapse, and you can make more money!"

Other club managers suddenly understood.

So that's how it is!

President Pei, having already seen that not many people would take over, planned to hoard the goods himself. Deliberately not releasing the news, creating the illusion that "ordinary people can't buy it, and internal staff are snapping it up," thereby maintaining the high valuation of these released GOG divisions and GPL entry qualifications.

After Tenda bought them all, they could continue to hoard the goods and slowly sell them through other methods, artificially creating scarcity and raising prices.

"Then what should we do?" Someone began to panic.

If President Pei really succeeded, then they, the sellers, would definitely suffer, and it would be difficult to buy them back.

Manager Li chuckled: "What's the panic! We have plenty of ways!"

"The easiest way is to directly buy internet trolls and promote it in a big way, saying that the GPL is about to collapse, and several clubs are transferring their GOG divisions because Tenda's unfair regulations make the league unable to continue!"

"We have already told the other major clubs, and they will definitely not take action."

"People's nature is to buy when prices rise and not when they fall. As long as the expectation of 'falling' is formed, other capital will also wait and see and will not buy."

"At that time, President Pei's hoarding technique will collapse without being attacked!"

"After all, the premise of hoarding is that you have to make a small number of transactions. If no one wants it at all, what are you hoarding?"

Several club managers' eyes lit up: "Okay, we'll arrange for internet trolls right away!"

Manager Li couldn't help but sneer: "Hmph, President Pei is nothing more than that."

"How is he as powerful as the legends say?"

...

...

November 2nd, Wednesday.

Pei Qian got up as usual and went to Lazy Café to eat brunch while browsing his phone.

He didn't really care about selling the GOG division, because there was no need to care.

He was just waiting for these divisions to fail to sell, and then for Tenda to take over!

While browsing the news for the day, someone suddenly called.

Pei Qian focused his eyes and saw that it was Lin Chang calling!

What was he calling for?

The new movie of Fei Huang Workshop was still far from being finalized!

With doubts, Pei Qian answered the phone.

"Hello? President Pei, I heard that there are clubs in the GPL league organized by Tenda that are transferring their existing GOG divisions and GPL qualifications, is that right?"

A question mark instantly floated over Pei Qian's head.

?

He hurriedly said, "Did Lin Wan tell you?"

Lin Chang smiled: "There's no need for A Wan to tell me, it's all over the internet!"

Pei Qian: "???"

He quickly waved to the waiter to bring over the laptop, and while holding the phone, he searched for relevant information online.

As a result, there was a lot of information!

It was unknown where it came from, and even the quotation information of various clubs was available. A large number of netizens had been discussing it since last night!

He casually glanced at a few posts.

"More than ten million? So valuable!"

"When I win the lottery, I will definitely buy one, and professional players will accompany me to play games!"

"EK sold even after getting second place? Crazy?"

"It seems that the news from some time ago is true. Tenda is squeezing the clubs too hard, and the clubs plan to quit together, so they all have to sell! This means they won't play with you anymore!"

"I think Tenda is going to suffer this time. The bottom price is so high, who will buy it? This money is enough to buy a small club and still have some left over!"

"It is said that Tenda will cover the bottom if it can't be sold? Really?"

"That's impossible, Tenda doesn't need to cover this, is there too much money to burn?"

The onlookers were all talking about it, some were on the side of the clubs, and some were on the side of Tenda.

Pei Qian was dizzy.

Who did it!

Who leaked this to me!

I just wanted to lose some money quietly, but now it has attracted so much attention, what if someone comes to grab it?

On the phone, Lin Chang said, "President Pei, is it not going well to organize the GPL league? Looking at the online public opinion, those clubs don't seem to listen to you very much."

"In this way, I discussed it with my second brother. The football club he runs already spends a lot of money, and the publicity effect is good. I told him to take out some spare money and buy a GPL team."

"Anyway, I believe that President Pei will definitely run the GPL well. It would be nice to see Shenhua's team in the game at that time!"

Pei Qian: "???"

Feeling that Lin Chang seemed to be about to hang up, Pei Qian hurriedly said, "No need! Really no need, I have the situation under control, no need to help!"

On the phone, Lin Chang smiled: "Oh, this is not helping, we buy a GPL team to promote ourselves."

"Don't worry, President Pei, this is small money. My brother's football club has to pay 20 million for a player's transfer fee. It's cost-effective for him to buy an existing GPL team for more than 10 million."

"That's it, I'll go to Jingzhou to drink with you another day!"

After Lin Chang finished speaking, he hung up the phone directly.

Pei Qian looked at the phone screen: "I'm f***ing..."

He looked at the information on the Internet again.

Although most of the information on the Internet is not optimistic about this matter, and they all think that the GPL league will definitely be affected by the joint resistance of so many clubs, Pei Qian vaguely felt that things would definitely not develop as expected on the Internet.

It's bad!

There are only six teams in total. If one more team is sold to a third party, Tenda will have to cover one less, which will cost more than 10 million less!

Without delay, he hurriedly called Zhang Yuan.

"Hello? Zhang Yuan, how many people have contacted you recently to buy a GPL team?"

Zhang Yuan's surprised voice came from the other end of the phone: "President Pei, there are at least about ten buyers who have expressed their intention to buy!"

Pei Qian's heart skipped a beat.

Ten?!

He originally thought that there would be two or three, but how could there be so many people!

Pei Qian hurriedly asked: "Who are they?"

Zhang Yuan replied: "President Li's Fuhui Capital and investors want to buy two; President Lin of Shenhua Real Estate wants to buy one; Xue Zhebbin, the rich second generation of the coal boss, wants to buy one; President Zhou Muyan of Tianhuo Studio wants to buy one..."

"In addition, there are some large companies that have long wanted to cooperate with us, as well as speculators who have seen business opportunities and want to buy out the GPL quota and then resell it at the right time..."

Pei Qian was silent.

If he counted like this, there were indeed more than ten!

He was just a little puzzled, why were Xue Zhebbin and Zhou Muyan getting involved?

Xue Zhebbin opened a restaurant with President Li, and he was also a young man. It was understandable that he was fooled by President Li and wanted to buy a club. But why was Zhou Muyan doing it?

Pei Qian said to Zhang Yuan: "Okay, find a time to arrange everyone to bid, the sooner the better!"

Pei Qian dared not wait any longer, otherwise things would change.

The more people who participated, the higher the price would be raised, wouldn't that be terrible!

After hanging up the phone, Pei Qian immediately called Zhou Muyan.

He wanted to ask Zhou Muyan why he came to join in the fun!

Soon, the phone was connected.

"President Zhou, why did you run over to buy an esports club when you have nothing to do?" Pei Qian was very confused.

On the other end of the phone, Zhou Muyan was a little surprised: "What's wrong, can't I?"

"...Okay, but this is more than 10 million yuan. Tianhuo Studio supports such a club without making money. What are you trying to do?" Pei Qian was very puzzled.

Zhou Muyan smiled: "Oh, so President Pei is afraid that I will spend money wrongly."

"You don't have to worry about this. Tianhuo Studio is originally a game company. Supporting a club, showing its presence in front of players, advertising itself, and promoting new games, isn't this very reasonable?"

"President Pei, don't worry, our studio's income can afford these costs, that's more than enough."

Pei Qian: "..."

Indeed, Tianhuo Studio is a well-known krypton gold game company. There are many games with a monthly revenue of over 100 million. It is easy to spend more than 10 million to buy a club.

Zhou Muyan spoke with reason and evidence, and Pei Qian could not find a way to refute it for a while.

"Okay." Pei Qian hung up the phone very helplessly.

Zhou Muyan looked at the phone with a confused expression.

Why did he feel that President Pei was not very happy to support him?