Chapter 55: Annual Salary of 5,000 Taels (5)
This is a bit of a big deal, and now they are packing tickets empty, and they can only ask them not to blame, Crimson can't believe it, so please hire another Gao Ming.
Speaking of which, the point in the crimson story is that they are dissatisfied with their price being too high, far beyond the price they can set by "borrowing" the Liuli Pavilion signboard. These traveling merchants themselves know it. It was they who wanted to sell this batch of jewelry through the signboard of Liuli Pavilion. Also, they came all the way to make a trip, not to mention a million profits, but also to make a lot of money, and it is not incomprehensible that they are red. But with this idea, the "rent" they give is too little. Liuli Pavilion has been open to business in the capital of Chongyang for a long time, and it is important to pay attention to a long stream. The Qixi Festival is once a year, and the opportunity is rare, but it is also every year. This is the first time that I have helped them once, and if we can reasonably benefit each other, we can continue to cooperate in the coming year and even in the future. It's because they haven't mentioned this intention themselves, and Crimson naturally treats this as a one-time deal, so it is necessary to maximize their own interests, and there is nothing to sell for later use.
Finally, on the third day, the group of traveling merchants "discussed" a "reasonable" price with Crimson. Except for this price cut by half, everything else is business as usual. As a result, the result of this third day is to sell less.
Crimson had foreseen it a long time ago, so that night these traveling merchants finally proposed to terminate the "cooperation" with Liuli Pavilion, Crimson smiled and did not do anything to keep it. Everyone settled the "rent" for these three days, and on this day, Crimson also helped them oversell two pieces of jewelry, and the excess Crimson didn't ask for it.
It's the fifth day. In the morning, the group of wandering merchants came to the door again. At that time, the glazed pavilion had just opened, but there were already many customers in the store, and Crimson "took the time" to take them to the back to talk again.
One day yesterday, this group of traveling merchants tried to use the same method to seek "cooperation" with several shops with a slightly less famous Liuli Pavilion. They were all rejected by those stores. The reason is very simple, the jewelry that Liuli Pavilion can't sell, and they can't do it.
After that, the group of traveling merchants only found a newly opened small shop that was not well known for a short time, but it was better to win because it was located in the east and west of the city, and the façade was also on the main street, and the customer flow was still good, and it was willing to "cooperate". As a result, it's no different from setting up a stall.
The small shop itself sells small jewelry, and the maximum value of the goods in the store does not exceed ten taels of silver. The style of jewelry is also ingenious and exquisite, but it is mostly made of fine silver or gilt, and the jade inlaid on it is also made of fine pieces, and there are no large pieces. They are facing the well-to-do families of the common people in the city or the concubines of some large families who are not favored and eager to behave, and the most of them are guests such as custom women. What this kind of guests want is a good look, the most important thing, the price, of course, the cheaper the better.
This group of traveling merchants set up a table in such a store, and there are really many customers who like their jewelry. But when they asked the price, the other party didn't bother to bargain with them, so they dropped the jewelry and turned around.
Damn! No matter how you look at it, the jewelry is only worth two or three taels of silver, and they actually open their mouths and ask for twenty or thirty taels. What else is there to discuss? Some of the shops in the capital of Chongyang have negotiated their buying and selling prices, but the range that can always be talked about is at most 1/10. These jewelry should be at least half of the price of the jewelry, and they have to cut half of the price before they consider whether to buy it. Then they will all decide not to buy it in the end. When they're stupid? Even if they're stupid, they don't have that much silver in their pockets, isn't they? What? And they ask for hundreds of taels? This shop is crazy, isn't it? Hey! After careful consideration, this jewelry is still real gold, not gilded? That's not worth the price, right? The pure gold jewelry in Liuli Pavilion is not so expensive, and they really have so much money in their pockets to buy it in Liuli Pavilion, okay?
As a result, after a whole day, they didn't sell a single one. This group of wandering merchants is bitter. I knew that they would have stayed in the Glass Pavilion. Now that I have changed to such a small shop, I have to reduce the price to the "reasonable" price that was originally recommended by Crimson. But because of the different levels of customers, it can't be sold.
So, the next day, the group of traveling merchants returned to Liuli Pavilion and wanted to discuss with Crimson, so they continued to borrow Liuli Pavilion to sell their jewelry according to the price given by Crimson.
Crimson agreed again, but at this point she changed the recommended pricing for them and cut it in half. Moreover, this time, Crimson only lent them the counter in the corner of the store, and the customers also asked them to greet themselves. Everyone agreed to "cooperate" with them again, and they had to respond to these arrangements one by one.
As a result, in the morning, they still did not sell a single piece of jewelry, not even anyone who asked them for a price.
One of them thought it was a little strange, so he ran to the neighborhood to inquire about it, and learned that the news that they had moved to a small shop to set up a table in the past day had already been spread. A few days ago, they asked for hundreds of taels of jewelry in the glazed pavilion, but when they arrived at the store, it dropped to twenty or thirty taels. At this time, they returned to the Liuli Pavilion, and the guests of the Liuli Pavilion could no longer look at their jewelry. The price is half lower, but the guests of the Liuli Pavilion are not greedy for that cheapness, but only look down on their jewelry even more.
As soon as the leader of the group heard this, he wanted to see it, and he was afraid that their jewelry would not be able to sell it again. I came all the way to four or five days, but I didn't make enough money when I came. How to bring basically all the jewelry and how to bring it back, and when you go back, you have to hire a dart to escort it, which is another amount of money. It's a loss!
However, this group of traveling merchants is also engaged in jewelry trading in the end, and the loss of this time is not a big loss. They just thought, there are still two or three days left, so it is better to have a good time in this capital of Chongyang, and it is not a loss for them to come all the way to this trip.
So they begged for crimson so that they could temporarily store their jewels in the glazed pavilion. In the end, they would still pay the "rent" for these days, but they didn't plan to sell the jewelry, they just wanted to spend two days in the city and then went back.
At this time, Crimson actually offered to buy their jewelry, but the price was cut by half. Crimson bluntly pointed out that they sold all these jewelry to Liuli Pavilion at this price, and they could not only return to their capital, but also still make a small profit. Even if they bring all these jewels back to their home countries and sell them, they can't sell them for more than that. And they can save the money of hiring a dart escort on the return trip. Why not?