He took out three hundred and seven dollars and put it on the counter, then wanted to put the bracelets away.
Xie Wan was a little dumbfounded. A pair of pure gold dragon and phoenix bracelets was only three hundred and seven dollars?
The hotel they stayed in cost $320 a night.
She felt that the clerk was trying to rip her off, so she held down the pair of dragon and phoenix bracelets and said, "Did you miscalculate the price?"
There was a flash of panic in the clerk's eyes.
He pulled out a newspaper from under the counter and pointed to a piece of financial news. "Today's gold price is $118 per ounce. I rounded it up for you."
Xie Wan knew that one ounce was approximately equal to 28 grams, and the bracelet was 2.6 ounces, so the weight should be correct.
But gold was only $118 per ounce, which was a huge difference from the daily gold price of more than $1,000 that Xie Wan often saw.
She quickly took a closer look at some of the financial reports in the newspaper.
Since 1973, global energy prices have been falling.
The U.S. economy is in recession and the Dow Jones Index has fallen by one-third.
The year 1974 was relatively good, with the price of gold rising slightly and breaking through $100 per ounce.
Two years ago, the price of gold was only a few dozen yuan per ounce.
Xie Wan then realized that the price of gold had increased so many times in the next few decades?
Suddenly, she no longer wanted to sell the gold jewelry in the space in large quantities.
She observed that the clerk had a guilty look on his face, and she felt something was wrong.
Xie Wan asked righteously: "Since you didn't make a mistake, why do you feel guilty?"
At this time, a strange middle-aged man who had just entered the store interrupted and said, "Because the value of your bracelets cannot be calculated simply by the gold price."
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