America's Road to Fame

Chapter 286 Gift List
It is precisely because of the Greek debt crisis that the market's confidence in the euro has been seriously affected, and it has begun to spread to Portugal and Spain, which are economically weaker members of the euro area, forcing the members of the euro area to take measures to rescue Greece.

Under the bailout plan, eurozone member states will provide loans at an interest rate of about 5%, equivalent to half of the current Greek bond market interest rate.

The Eurogroup hopes that the rescue plan can help Greece stabilize public finances and implement economic structural reforms, and enable Greece to re-enter the international bond market for financing.

Members of the euro zone pledged to provide Greece with the first loan in time to help Greece repay a large amount of maturing debt on July 7.

After the release of the plan to rescue Greece, European markets reacted calmly.

On July 7, the Greek stock market first rose and then fell, while the stock markets of Germany, France and other countries fell slightly.Analysts believe that's because the plan was expected.

However, some investors remain skeptical about whether the rescue plan will really work.Optimistic economists believe that this time the rescue plan will help ease creditors' concerns about Greece's debt default.

But some economists worry that if the rescue plan fails to appease the market, EU member states may eventually need to spend more money to rescue some other member states.

European Commissioner Rehn, who is in charge of economic and monetary affairs, said that Greece is an exception and cannot be compared with other countries when answering reporters whether it plans to provide similar rescue loans to other euro zone member states.

To put it bluntly, whether it is a stock or other financial investment product, the price often does not depend on its true value, but depends more on the sentiment of investors, or more specifically, the expectations of the mainstream investment community for its future .

For a company with exactly the same operating conditions and assets, its stock price may even differ by several times when the market is frantically optimistic and when the market is generally bearish.

What you have to admit is that in the financial field, Wall Street controls the most powerful media and public opinion tool in the world, and they can easily influence the sentiment of public investors.

But by this time, the attention of more ordinary people around the world has been focused on the upcoming wedding of Chen William and Ivanta.

It is worth mentioning that their attention was not attracted suddenly, but since William Chen and their wedding invitation were sent, they have been constantly bombarded by social media and news reports, and they have always stayed there.

Why is this so?
In American weddings, there is no such custom as in Huaguo. More newlyweds will provide relatives and friends with a list of gifts they hope to get, most of which are daily necessities. Relatives and friends will choose a gift from them.

The wedding of Chen William and Ivanta showed this form in a very modern way.

In the gift box that comes with their invitations, all invited guests will find an explanatory sheet with a gift list.

For the sake of convenience and environmental protection, guests can use their mobile phones to download the corresponding APP, scan the code, and enter the gift list of Chen William and Ivanta.

The APPs that guests can choose include Taobao APP in Greater China and Zoom APP in other regions.

After using these two APPs to scan the corresponding QR codes, the APP will jump to the page of Chen William and Ivanta's gift list. Guests can check the gifts they are going to give, fill in the giver's name and After the congratulations, make payment with Alipay or PayPal, and their gifts will be delivered to the homes of Chen William and Ivanta.

If it is the Taobao app, it will be sent to Yan’s Garden in Shanghai; if it is Zoom, it will be sent to the Long Island Manor in New York.

William Chen and Ivanta's gift lists are items selected by the two of them that can be used in daily life to avoid waste.

Soon, some media exposed their gift list. The price range of gifts is very wide. The most expensive gift is nearly 1 US dollars, and the cheapest is only 100 US dollars. All guests can choose gifts according to their financial ability.

However, almost all the guests they invited were not short of money, at least they would not hesitate to face the items in this gift list, and finally turned into a game of grabbing gifts with prices ranging from high to low.

In the check results as of July 7, the rest of the gifts are the cheapest, and the Chanel single headband with the lowest price of $6 has not been checked by anyone.

Interestingly, after the gift list of Chen William and Ivanta was exposed, all the gifts in it, whether it is the high-end tableware of the Hermes Mosaique Au 24 series, the French Ercuis brand stainless steel tableware, or the William Yowad brand A goblet, or a sterling silver photo frame from Buccellati...

In short, all the brands and supplies on the gift list have seen a surge in search volume on major e-commerce websites around the world. Everyone wants to see the usual supplies of the super rich, and why they can be sold at such prices.

And many middle-class people with considerable assets will choose one or two of them to buy and try.

Now these brands are equivalent to a free advertisement around the world, and they are so happy that they can't wait to sponsor all William Chen's wedding equipment.

Of course, William Chen would definitely not accept it. He himself did not expect that the gift list would be exposed in such detail, but fortunately, he was prepared. Only by scanning the QR code on the APP can he place an order for gifts, and Each guest's QR code is unique and becomes invalid immediately after use.

In addition, their invitation letters are accompanied by a proprietary QR code for Taobao APP and Zoom APP. Once one of them is used, the other one will also become invalid at the same time.

Otherwise, maybe someone with good intentions scans the QR code from the Internet to give him a gift, and then he doesn't know how many gifts he will receive.After all, William Chen has fans all over the world, especially fanatical female fans. I don't know how many there are.

Of course, there are also many people who are depressed after reading this gift list——

"I usually use a bag of headbands that cost 2 yuan, but Ivanta uses Chanel headbands that cost $100 each. Poverty really limits my imagination..."

"Upstairs, the key is that this hair rope is too cheap, no one chooses to give it away, does it feel more sad?"

"William Chen's assets exceed 300 billion U.S. dollars, and my total assets do not exceed 30 Chinese dollars, so even the most expensive gift of 1 U.S. dollars, in his opinion, should be nothing more than a dime in my eyes, that is, There is a hair rope in a pack of hair ropes for 2 yuan upstairs, there is nothing wrong with it..."

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Of course, in addition to the supplies manufacturers in the gift list, the ones who benefit the most are the Taobao APP and Zoom APP, as well as the corresponding Alipay and PayPal.

This wave of traffic has directly increased the number of downloads of the two apps, because not only the guests will download the two apps to give gifts, but also the people who eat melons that are many times larger than the guests will also download the two apps. One of them, to check the list of gifts for Chen William’s wedding, and the process of checking, which greatly increased the popularity of these two apps, especially Zoom.

Zoom has currently covered half of the states in the United States, and the other half is also in full swing.Guests and those who eat melons after downloading Zoom, within their service area, will inevitably try to buy some items, and this first attempt to shop in this way is often the most rare, if you get a satisfactory shopping Experience, it is likely to become a loyal user of Zoom because of this.

At the same time, the QR code application co-operated by Meta R&D Center and Alipay also shined in this event. Soon everyone fell in love with the convenient way of scanning QR codes, which also made the hand held The Meta Group, which scans the QR code and scans the patent, has benefited a lot.

But where there is joy, there is trouble.

Of course, the most troublesome one is Amazon. The sudden appearance of Zoom made them feel threatened.Zoom has been developing slowly and steadily before, and the user experience shown at this time also made Amazon CEO Bezos have to admit that Zoom may be one of Amazon's biggest competitors in the future.

In addition to Amazon, Jingdong's eldest son is also a little unhappy. He is also his shareholder. Why didn't William Chen let Jingdong appear in the invitation letter?Compared with Taobao, Jingdong needs this kind of exposure more.

William Chen was also invited to his wedding this time. When he saw the gift list description page at the back of the invitation letter, he felt a little bad. Sure enough, Taobao got a lot of traffic because of this.

Depressed, he couldn't help calling William Chen and talking about it.

"Haha, after all, we need to use a QR code this time. Jingdong is not ready yet. Don't worry, I will definitely find you next time."

After listening to Chen William's words, Da Dongzi felt a little better, this time it's fine...

Suddenly, he realized something wasn't quite right... Next time? ?

(End of this chapter)