Two hours wasn't long, but it wasn't short, either!
To be honest, that was a tight window for giving someone a gift! But if all someone wanted was to give a present to their parents, partner, or another relative, without worrying about surprises or anything else, it was enough time.
Of course, this inevitably had other drawbacks. But for now, compared with the damage caused by scalpers reselling Phantom Spirit Phones, inconveniencing a few users who wanted to buy them as gifts was insignificant.
Besides, even if someone really did take more than two hours and the phone became locked, they could simply unlock it a month later. Consumers wouldn't suffer any actual loss.
For Scalper Gang, however, unless they had found a buyer beforehand, selling a phone within two hours of getting it was practically impossible.
And once the phone was bound to a user after those two hours, they wouldn't be able to sell it.
They could sell it after unbinding it a month later, but would it still fetch such a high price then? What if Phantom Immortal Technology's production capacity suddenly increased enough to meet market demand? Who the hell would still pay Scalper Gang a premium for a phone?
"Let's set the time limit at that. It won't stop Scalper Gang completely, but at least they won't run quite so rampant," Shen Bing said. "Have the Administration Department draft an announcement immediately and send it to all the Offline Experience Stores to post at their entrances. Have the Network Department post an announcement online explaining this, too."
Wang Sheng agreed immediately. He, too, felt this was a fairly practical way to handle things for now.
Just as Wang Sheng was about to hang up, Shen Bing suddenly added, "Mr. Wang, there's something else I need