Chapter 45 Purchasing Goods
Around six or seven o'clock, people in the city began to go out one after another, and there were more and more vehicles on the street. The closer you get to the electronics street, the more congested the road becomes.
"Master, how much longer until we get there?" Gu Shu looked out the window at the bustling traffic, eager to get off and take a look. He had never seen such tall buildings or such wide roads before, and the various scenes along the way deeply attracted him.
The driver replied as he drove, "We'll be there after the next intersection."
Upon hearing this, Gu Qinglang picked up his bag, otherwise he was afraid he would forget it when he got off the bus.
Five minutes later, Mr. Huang's car stopped in front, and Gu Shu said, "Sir, just stop behind that car, thank you."
After getting off the bus, Mr. Huang walked over and pointed to the opposite side of the road: "That's the square over there. Let's walk across. All the buildings around here sell electronic products. I'll take you to find someone I know. I used to get my supplies from there. Let's go." He then led the way across the road.
Upon reaching the opposite square, Gu Yin surveyed the electronics street at this time. There were no towering buildings, no LED trading center, no international health electronics trading center, no imaging equipment city, no international trendy electronics pavilion, and it wasn't yet a hub for fashionable shopping.
The surrounding buildings are all characteristic of this era. The five- or six-story buildings are already quite old. The shops on both sides of the ground floor are all one-meter-long counters, which are filled with all kinds of electronic products. From small counters to the big world, countless small stall owners have stepped onto a bigger stage in life. Later, the "one-meter counter" became a unique landscape of the electronics street, and also left behind the hard work and legendary stories of ordinary people in S City.
Even though it's still early, in S City, it's not uncommon for things to start before dawn. In front of the thousands of one-meter counters in the mall, there are already people looking at the goods. I guess everyone is the same, hoping to make a big profit before the end of the year.
Mr. Huang led them through the crowd until they reached a transparent glass counter.
On this meter-long counter, there are many wires and various components. The surrounding environment is also very small, allowing only two people to move around inside at most.
There weren't many people around. Mr. Huang tapped on the glass counter and said, "Boss Xia, I'm here again!"
Then everyone saw a middle-aged man stand up holding a bowl of noodles.
The man glanced at them, then looked at Mr. Huang: "Here to pick up more goods? How much this time?"
Mr. Huang smiled and said, "It's the same as before. It's almost Chinese New Year, so how about a discount?"
Boss Xia came out, closed the small counter, and led them to the back. Hearing Mr. Huang's words, he was not angry, but nodded in a very easy-going manner: "Sure, then you can take more."
The group walked to the building across the street. Boss Xia pulled up the iron gate and went inside: "We recently made a new batch of goods. You can choose for yourself."
There were several rows of shelves in the warehouse, filled with goods. Gu Yin looked at them one by one and found that none of them were branded. It seemed that they were all the kind that she had assembled herself. Her uncle had spent more than a thousand yuan to buy her a phone like that.
Boss Huang's eyes lit up when he saw the goods. He quickly pointed to Gu Qingming and Gu Qinglang and introduced them, "Boss Xia, these two are brothers I know. They brought their kids over here to take a look. They want to buy some recording machines to resell and earn some travel expenses. Can you bring them over to take a look at what they have?"
Gu Qingming handed over the remaining pack of cigarettes: "Sorry to bother you, Mr. Xia. I wish you booming business!"
Boss Xia took the cigarette and nodded: "Since we all know each other, come and take a look. Radios, tape recorders and the like are all here. Take a look and see what you like. Bring it over and I'll get the goods for you. Let me make it clear first, I sell them by the bag. Different products have different prices. Each bag is expected to have 500-600 items. We have inspected all the products inside, but we can't guarantee that they are all good. We can only guarantee that no more than 20 of them will be bad."
That's acceptable: "We understand, let's take a look at the goods first!"
"Oh, by the way, if you want to try it out, there are batteries next to the shelf. You can install them yourself," Boss Xia said, then left them to their own devices and went to look at the goods. He then took the bowl of noodles he hadn't finished and sat down at the door to continue working.
Looking at the various colored radios on the shelf, Gu Yin picked up a pink one, took an AA battery from the box, put it in, and then pressed the power button. A hissing electronic sound came out. After changing a channel, clear music came out. She changed other channels, and they were all the same as the ones they had seen on the street.
Gu Yin looked at the two adults: "Do you want this one?"
Gu Qinglang nodded: "Yes, let's take another look at that radio and put the tape in to listen."
Gu Shu had already been figuring it out. Hearing his uncle's words, he quickly put the cassette tape next to him in, pressed a few buttons, and the tape started spinning, with classic songs playing.
Gu Shu pressed another button, the song changed to another one, the tape was turned off, and he could also listen to the radio. Gu Shu really liked this!
"Buy this one! This one is fine too!"
Gu Qinglang took the two items to ask the price: "Boss Xia, how much are these two?"
Boss Xia walked in, looked at the things in his hand, and waved his hand: "The small ones are 1,000 a bag, with more than 500 in a bag. The large ones are 5,000 a bag, also with more than 500. How many do you want? No bargaining, this is the cheapest!"
So, if you calculate it like this, the small and large ones are only 2 yuan each, and the large ones are 10 yuan each! If they sell the small ones for 20 yuan at home, they can make a profit of 18 yuan, and if they sell the large ones for 40 yuan, they can make a profit of 30 yuan! But they only brought 5,000 yuan in total, and the price of the large ones is still relatively expensive for them, who are from the countryside. If they sell them in town, there won't be many buyers. After thinking it over, Gu Qinglang waved for them to come over.
“How about we buy two small bags and half a large bag? That would come to 2000 plus 2500!” Gu Qinglang told them the price.
After listening, Gu Yin reached out and took the headphones from the parent's desk: "Boss, how much are these headphones?"
"5 cents."
Gu Yin then looked at Gu Qinglang: "Let's buy another 400 pairs of headphones. Radios and tape recorders wear out headphones quickly. If everyone buys headphones, we can give them away, but we can raise the price of radios and the like!" When I was in junior high school, my roommates who had radios went through five pairs of headphones in one semester! Although headphones aren't expensive, only two yuan a pair, why would we leave money to go back home after all this trip?
Gu Qinglang agreed: "Then it's settled, Boss Xia. Two bags of radios, half a bag of tape recorders, and 400 pairs of headphones. You calculate the price!"
Boss Xia took out a calculator and tapped it twice: "Four thousand seven!" After saying that, he went into the warehouse and took out the items.
"Just pick a few to check, and I'll issue a prescription if you're satisfied."
The group squatted down and randomly took out ten to test, and there were no problems with any of them. They didn't try the rest.
Boss Xia prepared the order form and issued the invoice for them: "We're a legitimate business, so don't worry, I won't ruin my reputation! My phone number is on the form, feel free to contact me if you need anything!"
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