Chapter Seventy-Nine

Moreover, we've now negotiated a price of 75 cents per piece with the boss.

Ji Wanmei brought the goods back to Pingquan County. Even if she didn't sell them for five yuan a pair, she could still make four hundred and fifty yuan from selling them for three yuan a pair.

In fact, in times when information was less developed, making money often depended on courage and boldness.

If you dare to take risks that others dare not take, you can obtain profits that others cannot.

Ji Wanmei made the decision immediately: two hundred pairs of thong pants, take them!

Luo Chunyan was truly astonished; this was completely beyond her comprehension, and she wanted to persuade Meimei to calm down.

"Meimei, have you thought this through? Two hundred pairs of pants, that's a hundred and fifty yuan in initial investment! What if they don't sell well? Not everyone is willing to buy them. Aren't we going to buy other goods? You need to consider whether you have enough capital on hand."

Ji Wanmei was full of confidence and said with a smile, "Chunyan, don't worry. Even if we don't sell all two hundred pairs of pants, even if we only sell half of them, we won't lose money."

Luo Chunyan had never run a business before. She had only helped her parents buy groceries, cook, and take care of her two younger siblings since she was a child. She was used to being frugal and making the most of every penny.

She couldn't bear to spend 150 yuan to buy 200 pairs of pants all at once.

In her opinion, she should buy twenty or thirty first, take them back and try selling them. If they sell well, then she can buy more.

But Luo Chunyan's vision couldn't possibly consider that time is also money.

Take their train journey to Zhejiang for example. They had to sit on the train for a whole day and night. This doesn't even include the food they brought from home. If they didn't bring it, buying boxed meals on the train would also cost money, and all of that would be considered part of the cost of the goods they brought.

In addition, after landing in Zhejiang, she stayed in a guesthouse. The three meals she ate over two days were covered by the receipts from Officer Li, who could take them back for reimbursement under the guise of a business trip, thus saving Ji Wanmei some money.

But next time, if the two of them come by themselves, they should pay for their own accommodation, meals, and taxis.

The expenses for this purchase alone are enormous.

It's not that Ji Wanmei can't afford it.

But now, she's considering this from a business perspective, so she has to think long-term about everything.

It seems that the owner of this trouser shop has his own partner manufacturers, and the output volume is quite large and stable. If she can become a long-term supplier and get his contact information, Ji Wanmei can simply make a call to ask him to ship the best-selling and most fashionable new products to her stall in the next batch according to size and quantity via freight back to Pingquan County.

This saves both manpower and costs.

Ji Wanmei didn't have time to explain everything to Luo Chunyan in detail, so she said, "Don't worry, I know what I'm doing."

Ji Wanmei went over and asked the stall owner to pack two hundred pairs of thong pants for her. She paid, got a receipt, left her shipping address, and waited for the freight logistics company to pick up the goods.

After finishing up here, Ji Wanmei went with Luo Chunyan to another stall, where she planned to buy some women's handbags.

When sourcing goods from Zhejiang, it's best to choose items that are not available in Pingquan County, or are simply unavailable there.

In this way, scarcity increases value, and once it's taken back, it can attract a large number of customers.

If you travel all the way here just to buy a scarf or a pair of socks that are a penny cheaper than in the county, then it's not worth it.

After arriving at the women's goods section, Ji Wanmei found the curling iron she wanted. When she asked the price, it was only two cents each, with a minimum order of five.

This is quite cheap. Ji Wanmei calculated the money in her hand. She only bought thirty of these because she was not sure if the women in the county could accept this kind of perm, or if they would prefer to go to the hair salon for a permanent perm.

Wandering around the huge wholesale market, Ji Wanmei's eyes were like radar; she could spot anything that marked the latest trends at a glance.

Sunglasses, perfume, face cream, nail polish, and the like.

They seem like inconspicuous little things, and not expensive at all, but when Ji Wanmei puts them together in this way, you can gradually imagine what kind of prototype her women's products will take.

While purchasing goods, Ji Wanmei didn't forget to tell Luo Chunyan, "Chunyan, when you're shopping, pay attention to how the stall owners hawk their wares and attract customers, and how they explain things when customers come to inquire about the products. You need to learn these professional terms so that when you return to Pingquan County and run your own shop, you can explain the uses of these things to your customers."

Luo Chunyan nodded quickly, then pricked up her ears and leaned closer to listen carefully to how the wholesale stall owners were selling their goods.

This news opened a whole new world for Luo Chunyan.

She never knew that doing business could be done with such exaggerated claims.

Not to mention the retailers were thrilled to hear this, even she wanted to buy several large bags of goods as soon as possible so she could make money immediately!

Luo Chunyan used to think she was quite eloquent, but this trip really opened her eyes.

There are always people more capable than you, and there's always something beyond your understanding. She felt that compared to the business people in these big cities, she was still far too inexperienced.

There is so much for her to learn.

Luo Chunyan absorbed the new information from this coastal metropolis with great eagerness.

Meanwhile, Ji Wanmei was in charge of shopping.

She also saw a shop that specialized in wholesaling posters of Hong Kong and Taiwanese celebrities. Because the cost of printing paper is very low, the wholesale price of those posters was actually very cheap.

Moreover, Ji Wanmei thought about it and realized that she hadn't seen this sold in the county.

After all, in Pingquan County, only a minority of families own televisions. Most people rely on radios to listen to broadcasts and news to receive information about the outside world.

Listening to music was the same; everyone rented cassette tapes to listen to music.

At that time, Teresa Teng was very popular.

After thinking for a moment, Ji Wanmei ordered ten posters of each of the household names like Teresa Teng, Bruce Lee, and Brigitte Lin, thinking they would sell well.

Ten photo posters cost only five cents, which works out to five cents per poster. So cheap, Ji Wanmei picked out several popular Hong Kong and Taiwan stars who have been popular for decades.

These posters, if you take them home, you can sell them for five cents each, and then resell them to make a tenfold profit.

After shopping for a whole morning, Ji Wanmei finally stopped and counted the money in her small handbag. The initial investment of five hundred yuan, which she had planned to keep to a minimum, was now down to just one hundred yuan.