A translated full text of the Beijing Times’ story on how water melon farmers near Beijing made big money quick and easy by setting up shop over the Internet. One family saw an income of 200,000 yuan in two months, thanks to the newly-learned e-commerce:
“It was not easy!¬† A few years years ago, in order to sell watermelons, we had to rise at 2am or 3am.¬† No matter how tired we were, we had to get up and drive our watermelon-laden cars to the distribution markets at Xinfadi, Shahuo and other places, and we must sell all our merchandise before sunrise.”¬† Cao Demei said that she had to drive the watermelons to the market to wait for the customers to show up.¬† She also had to wander a few times around the market in order to understand the prices for the day, and then set her own price based up the quality of her own watermelons. [Full Text]
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