Chapter 21: No Profit Auction House (Give a Recommendation Ticket)

With the aura of the first place in the primary school promotion competition, Shen Lingxi has not practiced recently, but has devoted himself to a career of making money.

With the efforts of Shopkeeper Qin and his companions, the medicinal herb shop in Dongshi sold out the backlog of medicinal herbs in the first three days, and the return was about 10,000 taels of silver. In the remaining seven days, the shopkeeper Qin went to the medicinal herb merchant to wholesale a batch of commonly used medicinal materials, and made about three thousand taels at a price significantly lower than the market retail price.

In this way, after ten days of tearful sales, Shen Lingxi returned a total of 13,000 taels in this medicinal herb store in Dongshi.

As soon as the promotion ended, Shen Lingxi drew the winning numbers in a cardboard box full of numbers in front of everyone.

Shen Lingxi held the cardboard box and shook it violently, and under the gaze of everyone with bated breath, he drew a number with the number 1532.

Everyone in the audience hurriedly looked down at the number in their hands, and in the midst of the sighs of most people, a middle-aged uncle shouted excitedly: "I won, haha...... Hit!"

The middle-aged uncle was so excited that he ran to Shen Lingxi and took out the number 1532 in his hand to show Lingxi.

Shen Lingxi asked the name of the middle-aged uncle, and then called the shopkeeper Qin and asked him to check the book with the registration number.

Sure enough, the name and number were matched, Shen Lingxi said congratulations with a smile on his face, and in front of the crowd of onlookers, he put the exquisite box containing a seventh-grade high-grade qi gathering pill into the hands of the middle-aged uncle.

It can be seen that the middle-aged uncle is dressed ordinary, and his family background may not be too good, and he is only six layers of cultivation when he is old, so it can be said that he is an ordinary ordinary family.

This Qi Gathering Pill worth one hundred taels may not be anything to a wealthy family, but it is a few years of income for ordinary people.

The middle-aged uncle excitedly held the exquisite box, not to mention this seventh-grade high-grade Qi Gathering Pill, just this beautifully made box, it felt like it was worth a few taels of silver.

"Thank you to the young owner of the Shen Medicinal Material Shop, I just bought ten taels of silver medicinal materials, but I didn't expect to win. I'm so grateful, I can't say anything else, so I'll bow to the young owner!"

Saying that, the middle-aged uncle bowed to Shen Lingxi in front of everyone.

Shen Lingxi hurriedly waved her hand to stop it, she didn't expect people in this era to be so simple, this marketing method is just a marketing method, she doesn't care, and she doesn't feel that it is a favor.

"Good ......"

The onlookers were still a little depressed, but when they saw the middle-aged uncle's actions, they also applauded and applauded, thankful for Shen Lingxi's generosity and the benefits of the middle-aged uncle.

The ten-day promotional activities of the entire Shen's medicinal herb store were pushed to a climax in such a warm atmosphere.

Shen Lingxi thought that from today onwards, even if the fame of Shen's medicinal herb shop started in this East Market, taking advantage of this good atmosphere, it was a good time to launch an auction house.

So he nodded to the shopkeeper Qin on the side, the shopkeeper Qin already knew the thoughts of Young Master Lingxi, and he also felt that the appearance of this auction house was very novel, so he announced to all the customers present: "Distinguished customers, thank you for taking care of you in the past ten days, although this promotion is over." But in order to facilitate everyone's future transactions, our Shen Mansion decided to hold a public auction every three days. ”

Seeing that the lottery of Shen's medicinal herb store was over, many onlookers were about to leave, but they were attracted by the "public auction" announced by the shopkeeper Qin, so they all stood still, wanting to hear if there was any benefit waiting for everyone to take it.

"What is a public auction, Shopkeeper Qin, you should be clear, what is the benefit of this to us customers?" Some bold customers couldn't wait to know what the benefits were when Shopkeeper Qin finished speaking.

Shopkeeper Qin saw that he had successfully attracted the attention of the crowd present, so he continued proudly: "Presumably everyone can also feel in ordinary life, the grade and appearance of some items are not easy to distinguish, this requires a professional eye to make a judgment, if you mistakenly recognize the low-grade items as high-grade good goods, I am afraid that everyone will experience this loss." ”

Shopkeeper Qin paused, saw that some people couldn't help nodding, and continued: "This auction house can solve everyone's troubles, and we will organize professional personnel to identify the grade and condition of the items, and make a guarantee for the quality of the goods." And the transaction price will follow the market, when there are many people who want to buy, the price is naturally the highest price, but when the market is not good, when there are few bidders, it will be traded at the reserve price. Our auction house only takes 2% of the transaction price as a commission for the secured transaction, if you are interested, you can take care of our store in the future. Thank you for your support!"

After the introduction of the shopkeeper Qin, the two shop guys picked up the flyer in their hands and rushed to the crowd, shouting advertising slogans while stuffing a leaflet when they saw someone.

The person who got the flyer was already familiar with this kind of operation, and they have carefully studied the contents of the flyer, and it has to be said that this new auction house can indeed make the transaction of ambiguous items transparent, which is beneficial for both buyers and sellers.

Although there is no benefit of pie in the sky this time, this young master of the Shen Mansion can indeed bring convenience and benefits to everyone's transaction for a long time. So the news that the Shen Mansion was going to open an auction house spread from the East Market.

Since Shen Lingxi was stimulated by the high price of the alchemy furnace, he didn't plan to continue to open this medicinal herb shop, after all, small profits and quick sales could not last long, and after a long time, sales would inevitably decline, and profits could not satisfy Lingxi.

So Shen Lingxi planned to simply close the medicinal herb shop and transform it into an auction house, so that his own goods could still be sold here, and he could also absorb other people's goods to sell here, and then collect commissions. You must know that if someone sells tens of thousands of taels of items here, they can get a commission of a few hundred taels after the transaction, or a transaction without capital, this is really not too cool.

The reason why the auction was held every three days was to consider taking two days to absorb other people's goods, and to do some publicity work to promote the things to be auctioned on the third day to as many people as possible.

After designing these, the herb store closed its doors and carried out decorations. Shen Lingxi turned the lobby of the medicinal herb store and some rooms in the back hall into an auction hall, she planned to sell different types and grades of items in different rooms, and even considered getting some membership cards to set up VIP private rooms for some large-value transactions for buying and selling.

For Shen Lingxi, who doesn't have much capital now, this is already the best way she can think of to make a profit.