July brought seventy thousands of dollars in profits. I settled with Vladimir for the car - never liked it when hanging any debts. Affiliate almost reached its peak development: each day brings the most part empty registration - all strong partners of those who love novelty, has worked with us. A draw conservative audience still had not soon, it was necessary to secure a foothold in the market.
My apartment turned into a nursery: unceasingly worked washing machine, baby cries, the smell of wet nappies, constant requests for help to hold or bear. Work was made possible only at night, but it was not the answer: a couple of weeks, I fell asleep at the monitor. So I just took a one-room apartment across the street and moved the computer there. This was my office. In the morning I kissed Oksana and passed into the neighbor's house to go back for dinner and then on the night. She did not mind.
I asked Oksana to sign, but She firmly stated that he wants a big and beautiful wedding with many guests. She was so insistent and convincing that even I was taken aback and lost. Wedding so the wedding. I'm even more surprised when she appointed her as much as April next year, in order to prepare. And my mother supported it - it is absolutely I was disarmed and forced to surrender and leave the battle field for women. Still, my verse was the Internet rather than the relationship between the sexes.
Most I have now spent time in pressing the Update button. When you look at the statistics affiliate - it calms and relaxes. Just update the page and notes how increased your profit. Sweet feeling. Absolutely nothing you do not want to do. Profit was clearly more of my query - why bother?
But I am a worm gnawing doubts. Too nice, everything turned out. Had a feeling that someday will come a moment, and Vladimir easy to leave me for fuel, and he will hide in his Singapore. Moreover, nothing is guaranteed to me that he can not find another more experienced boy who was giving away the focus pogryaznee, What I did with Paul. In a large game, and rates should be rather big, but my bet was an animal fear.
Nevertheless, I already understood that the scope of business network and one that could be in real life, not even in different times - on the orders. I've been selling through affiliate order of ten thousand units, but only in Russia could spread to the shops for hundreds of thousands. Detailed computations Vladimir never tired to send me a mail. According to him, it was for small - to come and take the market.
scheme itself won over by its simplicity: the goods should be imported containers from China through Kazakhstan, then customs clearance already in Samara and from there spread across dozens of wholesalers. The weak point was the cumulative stock - I have so far stood in front of the Moscow riot police surrounding the warehouse Paul. I intended to do without the stock - to sell the wheels. To do this, I needed a specialist in sales. And I found it by mid-August.
Anton worked Deputy Director of the Samara Branch of the Euroset. Good post, promising work, but Anton was too active and too open to move quickly through the ranks. To the deputy he had grown relatively quickly, but then ran into the back of his head, who ignored attempts Anton jump over his head. Anton same time ceased to feel the old joy of working in his company.
We'd hardly had once crossed, but life is full of chance: we introduced a friend Oksana. More precisely, we crossed one family party. Anton accounted familiar to someone from company's girlfriend, and in our town he had lived his aunt, whom he sometimes visited at the request of his mother. We met, talked, and I mentioned that I have the opportunity to organize the delivery of modern mobile technology from China for a good price. Frankly, I initially hoped that both will go out in Euroset, as a potential buyer technique. However, after a couple of days Anton called me himself with another proposal.
- Hi, remember me? - His sonorous voice was hard not to know.
- Yes, of course, Anton. For what reason? - In one hand I was holding a bottle of artificial milk, Oksana became gradually reduce the dose of the natural product. In the other hand, I was Masha, snapping eyes and a servo for the manipulation of the bottle. So I was a little inconvenient to talk.
- I've got another idea is ripe.
- About what?
- Yesterday you told me about the gadgets. You can import them?
- Yes - I perked up. Conversation began to take an interesting turn.
- I thought it might help with the sale of goods. I am not the first time to organize sales of equipment, I know almost all the directors stores, so that problems would not - oh, those magic words about the lack of problems.
- You sure?
- Of course. If the goods are worthy, we can very quickly it scatter around the shops.
- So ... Wait. We can continue this conversation in person already?
- Yes, but you are in your Ensk, and I was in Samara.
- This is not a problem. I have five hours I shall be with you.
Masha, together with a bottle carried over into the hands of Oksana, and I was gone. It was time to run a serious business.
We met Anton at home. I explained the idea of \u200b\u200bpre-sales contracts. I wanted to contract shops gadgets at once in bulk, but our storage warehouse wore temporary in nature, you only need to overload the goods from the containers onto trucks that are being delivered to stores.
- Nothing is impossible, - said Anton and I gave him the go-ahead to prepare, and he went on to customs clearance of cargo. And by early September, I made myself a birthday gift, I will lay the first batch shop at the realization. A small temporary warehouse was used exactly two days, after which we gave up the lease.
At this point, I almost did not sink the network. Why? Affiliate worked itself - its staff has grown to five people, and my direct involvement was not required. Other projects I have not appeared. And, frankly, I am a bored watching the bustle of the sale of air. Every day there and burned the new affiliate program, but this time from one side of their pursed billings, with other media and negative information background. Get into this barrel with wasps second time seemed to matter uninteresting.
But the rise of social networking became a question of interest. I'm due to adult somehow missed the craze for communicating through classmates and vkontakte. And now, when there was time, this communication is did not seem so much strange and confusing. I started a few accounts in fictitious names, to inquire, where are my classmates. With surprise found his old friend Nicholas in St. Petersburg - he joined the Saint Petersburg State University. I fucking wanted to write to him, but not sure he would have realized that for Masha Verkhovtseva wants to be friends with him. So I decided to postpone our communication to better times.
With sales all went very well. The first batch sold out completely Samara on shopping and was sold in two weeks. Reviews were so good that we were simply overwhelmed by requests. Some shops are not only paid to us for an old game, but made an advance payment for a new one. Vladimir, this time sent twice as many containers, which we have taken and scattered by clients for the same two days - our experience has grown by leaps and bounds.
That's where the problems started. Bigger than you, so you are visible: an elephant can not hide behind a tree. A simple investigation found that Customs has put information on our DAEC, and those already come with a warrant in our small office. I was at home when the call Anton pulled me out of a nap. Several men in civilian clothes, showing crisp, wanted to talk with the director, that is with me. Since I could not come quickly, it has delegated authority to talk to Anton. And he sat in the Audi and drove off to the side of Samara.
When I came into office, he was already empty: empty of computers and papers. They took everything. Anton dissolved employees and waited for me, playing on the phone in a scarf.
- What happened?
- They came, showed crusts and notification. And all taken away.
- say something?
- How do you do you think? What we suspect in the smuggling and trafficking in counterfeiting. I argued, but not much. It was evident that they are tuned to something else. When it began pulling out, One of them asked me in the hallway and offered to settle the case for one hundred thousand dollars.
- How much?
- Over a hundred. I said that such issues without the director does not decide and they continued exemption.
- A bill? Arrested.
- None. Only equipment confiscated.
- wonderful. Do transfer balances to Vladimir and tomorrow to lawyers dui. After a week to arrive new party - we need a new firm.
And what do you think? While DAEC conducted a study of seized documents, I had introduced a new party, while Anton scattered her shopping. But since to come down and stop, and the firm - had come to an agreement. And who will negotiate with the boy of nineteen years in the glasses - I'm not Harry Potter, all shouting "elected." Anton is also not suited to the role of negotiator. And we brought Uncle Vasya.
Uncle Bob was not my cousin, he comes distant acquaintances my father, and the only friends who live in Samara. Uncle Bob has served twenty-five years in the armed forces, which lost last remnants of conscience. He ruled the army not only second-degree scoliosis, but hundreds of gear sets, blankets and other Soldiers utensils - Uncle Vasya was zampotylom one of the parts. He might even agree with the devil, that's why I chose him for the role of negotiator.
a couple of weeks of visits Uncle Vasya investigator's office he was able to understand the complex structure of the bribe. No one could directly and did not want to sound like a new price and haggling. But long work with the staff DAEC led him to a person occupying a modest position of Deputy Chief of a department. He suggested that a certain solution, which we are not a bit did not suit. We did not need to close the case, we had to fundamentally solve the problem of Failure to initiate new ones.
Such an approach changed the contact person at the other deputy, who is Uncle Vasya came out, whispering the right people. As a result of complex negotiations and a significant drift sums of money, deprived us of all profits from sales, we managed not only to agree to dismiss the case and the return of our documents and equipment, but also to get protection for the relatively modest amount per month thereafter. We have received a license to work in the territory of Samara and could now safely engage in trade.
In October, I decided to move to Samara. Work, spending a week more than twenty hours on the road was very difficult. I'm crazy tired. We began to quarrel with Oksana - she was jealous of me unfounded. However, I saw her so rarely that quarrel only added spark to our relationship. But when I said I was going to rent an apartment in Samara and spend there working week, the mother of my child stretched into a string and firmly stated:
- We go with you. Whether you like it or not.
- Okay. Pick up things, I'll just say Anton that we need three bedroom - I smiled to himself. Oksana began with the birth of a child more skittish and I even liked it. Although, I confess, sometimes I missed the stillness and calm, when we started living together.
I opened my phone и отправил в твиттер, который завел буквально несколько дней назад: "мы переезжаем в Самару. #samaracity". Потом я, ожидая, пока сообщение отправится, подошел к окну и увидел, that on the opposite side of the road outside my window someone is watching from a dark blue BMW. The observer saw me and sat back deep into the machine.
few seconds I was thinking, should I worry, but then he threw this idea out of my head: all of my interests are focused in Samara and the Internet. Why would anyone watch me in our city? I went to bed Mashka and showed her a goat. She smiled in response.
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