"That won't work either. How about this, I can give you those pearls, but the clothes are only two yuan each, that's the lowest price I can offer. I'm only giving you this price because you want a lot of them."
"To be honest with you, these things are basically just helping out; the profit is really minimal."
The shop owner couldn't bear to part with those lipsticks.
He thought he had found a generous customer, and the quantity he wanted was indeed very generous, but at that price he would rather sell it to an individual.
"Let me think about it." Suti hesitated for a moment, and only agreed when he saw that the owner seemed to regret it and was reluctant to sell.
Li Baichuan followed behind, looking completely bewildered, and paid the money. The last time he came to buy clothes, even shirts, cost six yuan.
This coat would cost around twenty yuan in a department store, and you'd need a coupon, but I bought it here for only two yuan.
And those lipsticks, they were very easy to sell on the black market back then. They were supposedly imported goods, and they cost more than thirty yuan apiece, right?
The packaging doesn't even look as nice as this. How much is it now? Six yuan a stick?
He didn't know much about the jewelry; his wife said the ones they chose last time weren't pretty, but this time the price was reasonable.
So they just gave away a bunch of extra pearl jewelry? Li Baichuan felt they had been ripped off last time.
"We can only deliver these goods to the dock for you; we won't be responsible for anything after that." The man now looked frustrated.
He needs to carefully calculate whether he has lost money; the clothes business definitely doesn't make any profit.
The jewelry they need isn't much, and considering the cost of the pearls they give away, the profit margin is probably just average.
The only things that make money right now are lipsticks and perfumes. Thinking about it, he might as well just sell lipsticks and those. Why does he have to sell so many other things?
"Of course, now that we're here, everything is definitely prepared." If Su Ti hadn't come this time, Li Baichuan and the others probably wouldn't have brought these things back.
Lipsticks are all about packaging; if they're even slightly scratched, they won't sell well. And perfumes in glass bottles are so fragile; they break easily.
Even the boat couldn't get through, let alone the bumpy road ahead.
And those shampoos and shower gels are heavy and difficult to carry, so transportation is indeed a problem.
Li Baichuan also thought of his wife's private parts, looking very confident. Lu Guoan, standing to the side, thought that his brother Chuan and his sister-in-law were really amazing.
He was stunned by the way his sister-in-law was negotiating with someone, and his brother Chuan arranged everything so perfectly.
He was still worried about how to transport these things back, but looking at his brother Chuan, it was clear that he had already thought of a backup plan.
"Please take the lipsticks and other items to the dock first. We'll get the clothes and accessories later."
"Guoan, you stay here and keep an eye on things. While you're at it, organize your things and pack them up. Don't take them with you."
Li Baichuan had the boss deliver the goods to the dock and left Lu Guoan here to guard the place, mainly because he thought it would be easier to store the goods in his spatial storage since there was no one there.
"Okay." The boss had someone drive the car over and carefully loaded the things into it.
He was afraid of damaging the goods, otherwise he would lose even more, as the entire truck was packed full of cargo.
Lu Guoan followed his brother Chuan's instructions and stayed to watch over the clothes, fearing that the boss would change them for him.
He looked at them with a serious expression, as if to say, "If you dare to touch me, I'll fight you to the death." The boss quickly told those people to stay away from him.
Li Baichuan and Su mentioned the port, but seeing that there weren't many ships there yet, they realized it wasn't the right time to leave.
He had his men unload the goods and then let them leave.
Li Baichuan carefully looked around. It was relatively dark and spacious, so it felt safe. He then nodded to his wife.
After Suti put those things into his spatial storage, he led the others on a leisurely stroll back along the harbor.
"Wife, you're really amazing. Putting everything else aside, those lipsticks will definitely sell easily." Li Baichuan still felt that he had lost out big time last time.
"I guess this will only happen once. The owner will definitely not be willing to sell to us again next time. But we need a lot of things this time, enough to last us for a while."
Su Ti knew that lipstick was a luxury item, and the mainland had not yet reached that level of consumption.
Buying one or two will last a long time. They mainly sell clothes, and these are just something they sell on the side.
"Okay, we'll send a portion to Shanghai later, but you'll have to come along, honey, because that stuff is really hard to transport."
Li Baichuan figured that Beijing probably couldn't handle it all at once.
"Okay, that's what I was planning too. This is just a side project. I'll focus on clothes from now on."
"I'll talk to the boss when I get back. I think he's quite interested in my clothes."
Suti thought that even if the negotiations didn't go well, they could still come back and look for those clothes next time.
It's impossible for it to be this price again. This time, they included those lipsticks in the deal; it was a psychological tactic. The owner probably regrets it now.
After all, these business tactics matured decades later, and people back then are still very pragmatic.
When the two arrived, the clothes were already packed into several woven bags.
"Brother Chuan, sister-in-law, I've been watching, nothing's missing." Lu Guoan was relieved to see that they had returned.
These clothes were all under his watchful eye; he was terrified that someone would switch them.
"Okay." Li Baichuan untied them and checked; they were all genuine.
"Brother Chuan, what should we do with all this stuff?" Lu Guoan thought to himself that there were quite a few clothes.
"Someone will deliver it to the dock in a while, put it on the boat, and then we'll drive it back. The other things will be transported by another route."
Li Baichuan asked him to watch the things here, as he would need to help him move them later.
Suti went straight to the boss and laughed as he watched the boss busy calculating the accounts.
"What's wrong? Is the goods not right?" The man was taken aback. He had just finished calculating the prices of the clothes and the accessories. Fortunately, he hadn't lost money and had broken even.
Those lipsticks and similar items should be pure profit, just a little less.
"No, I just wanted to ask the boss if he knows any garment factories around here? I'd like to talk business with them."
Suti glanced at the accounts in the boss's hand; they were so densely packed that he couldn't understand them at all.
"A garment factory? What else do you want to buy?" The man thought back to her earlier attitude and decided to give up; the garment factory would probably lose money anyway.
“I’m not buying anything, I’m selling things. The shop owner thinks what I’m wearing is good, but I designed it myself.”
"I've also designed quite a few outfits and I'd like to discuss this business with them." Suti thought that he would always have to deal with clothing factories when sourcing goods.
Only after hearing her say that did the shop owner remember that he had also taken a liking to the clothes she was wearing, but he had forgotten to ask her about them because she was talking about this and that.
Hearing that she designed the clothes herself, she perked up.
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