Chapter 107: Extreme Rush

"Five thousand?"

“Yes, I want 5,000, but they have to be this quality,” the woman, carrying a solid-colored bag, bargained at her stall in Tangyuan. “If you want a different color, I’ll give you 70 cents for the price.”

Tang Yuan does not currently have 5,000 hair bands.

During this period of tea season, the number of hair ties sold is only about 250 per day on average. Zheng Man can sell 100 by herself. She runs a business here by herself and now she can sell about 100 per day. She has accumulated more and more hair ties and now she only has 2,000 hair ties in stock.

Even if we assume that 500 of the 5,000 pieces are delivered every day from Yun Province, it will take six days to make the remaining 3,000 pieces, and the people in front of us may not be able to wait that long.

However, it is not impossible to make hair circles in the game space.

"When will you pick it up?"

"Let's meet here again in three days," the other party said, "If the hair bands you bring are of good quality, we can cooperate long-term."

"Sure, but I want 80 cents," Tang Yuan said, and without waiting for the other party to reply, he picked up the hair ties that were selling for $1.3 and $1.4 on the stall. "I promise you, there are at least 1,500 hair ties made of this material among the hair ties I give you."

5,000 70-cent hair ties and 5,000 80-cent hair ties, a 10-cent difference can result in a $500 price difference.

If you buy them for 80 cents, even if you only sell them for 130 cents, for 1,500 of these good quality fabric headbands, that's a difference of $750.

In reality, it may even be more than that. The other party may not only sell the hair bands back for $1.3 or $1.4. As long as the price of each one is slightly higher by 10 cents, a lot of extra money can be made.

This rule is in the other party's favor. Without this rule, she could just take the hairband made of the worst quality fabric, even if it only costs 70 cents each, the other party would still lose a lot of money.

The prices of scraps of cloth are not much different. At most, you can buy a bag of scraps of better material for 50 cents more, or Hong Kong dollars. When sewing hair bands, the price is not determined according to the quality of the scraps. They are all 2 cents each.

So when she sold them wholesale to Zheng Man, she always sold them at 80 cents.

It’s the same now. Wholesale is allowed, but the price is still 80 cents, which is about 80 cents.

The man took the two hair ties from her hand and looked at them carefully for a long time. He actually stared at them for a long time before nodding in a daze: "Okay, I'll take these, at least 1,500 of them, all for 80 cents each."

"No problem!" Tang Yuan saw her confusion, but since the other party had already accepted it, he did not explain further, "The day after tomorrow at four o'clock in the afternoon, we will meet here again. My name is Amy."

"I'm Mona."

After agreeing on a transaction time with her, Tang Yuan did not leave the area directly, but got on the bus with her "temporary residence". Five thousand hair bands were not a small number, and she could not pick them up near the market. It would be more appropriate to transport them via the bus.

However, she did not waste the time on the bus. When she closed her eyes and pretended to rest, she immediately returned to the game space. Then she took the scraps of cloth and the finished hair bands, used Xiaofang's body to push open the door, and communicated directly with the four parents-in-law, asking them to make hair bands for a few days and to work overtime at night.

The temperature is rising now, the night temperature is not too cold, and it gets dark late, so it is no problem to work overtime at night.

The four of them were all experts at sewing. They knew how to do it as soon as they saw the hair tie. As soon as Tang Yuan left the hair tie, they started to work skillfully. In the blink of an eye, they had already sewed half a circle.

At this rate, it would not be a problem for each person to earn more than one yuan a day, which means that each person can give at least fifty.

Seeing that they were all fine, Tang Yuan returned to the game space, called up the drawing panel in the cloakroom, and looked for the basic hair band drawing.

It is not difficult to make hair bands and wallets here, and it can even be said to be very easy, but she would rather subcontract the work out than do it one by one by herself. There is no other reason, it is just too tiring.

It takes more than a minute to make a hair tie, and she can make 40 to 50 hair ties in an hour. In ten hours, she can only make 400 to 500 hair ties. The quantity is indeed faster than manual work, but she feels very uncomfortable sitting here all day.

If she had the time, she would rather go out and set up a stall.

In three days, she made a basic 2,000 hair ties, plus nearly 600 hair ties delivered from Yun Province every day, more than 200 hair ties made by her four-year-old mother-in-law and her mother-in-law every day, and 400 to 500 hair ties she had to make every day. Finally, she managed to make the remaining 3,000 hair ties before the deadline.

Finally, I put the hair ties into two bags, each bag contained at least 800 hair ties made of high-quality materials. I got up early in the morning and carried two large bags to catch the afternoon bus.

The bus in the afternoon sun.

Tang Yuan leaned against the car window and closed her eyes to rest, thinking that it was a good thing that she had the golden finger of "temporary residence", otherwise she really couldn't stand going back and forth like this every day.

In order to avoid a similar situation from happening next time, she even had to work overtime herself, and she also asked her four parents-in-law to continue posting on social media for a few days.

Anyway, there is sufficient stock of small wallets at the moment, so hair bands are more important.

The shuttle bus arrives at a fixed time. Just in case, Tang Yuan took an earlier bus. The bus arrived on time at 2:50 pm.

Mona hadn't arrived yet at this hour, so she arrived at the stall early to set up the stall and put out a batch of extra small wallets and rags for sale.

"Amy."

At half past three, Mona appeared in her sight.

"Mona, I've brought all the hair bands," Tang Yuan pointed to the two bags of hair bands beside him, "You can count them now or take them home for counting. If you have any questions, I'm here from 3 to 6 pm every day, so you can come to me anytime."

Mona glanced at the two large bags and said, "I believe you. In fact, I have been watching you for a few days. I came here to buy things because your goods are good. If this batch of goods can be sold, I will come again. By then, you must prepare the inventory in advance. I want it the next day."

"Really?" Tang Yuan asked in surprise.

Five thousand hair bands is not a small number. Although her business here is okay, she only sells dozens to hundreds of them every day. It will take her more than fifty days to sell five thousand.

"Of course, I want to do this business." Mona nodded.

Tang Yuan looked at the car parked not far away, and thought of something. He took out a note from a bag on the shelf: "Mona, it's inconvenient for you to come here. This is the phone number over there. If you need to post something on social media, call me one day in advance and I will prepare it. In this way, you can come and take it away directly."

When renting a stall, she gave cigarettes to people according to her habit, and successfully established a relationship with the manager of the market and even got his phone number.

I thought I wouldn't need a phone for a long time, but I didn't expect to use it so soon.

"That's great," Mona took the note, "I'll call you in advance then."

"No problem!" Tang Yuan nodded with a smile.

Afterwards, Mona took a quick look at the hair ties in the bag, and after making sure that there were basically no problems, she handed the $4,000 worth of hair ties to Tang Yuan.

Tang Yuan took the money, took the bag and put it in her car.

During the conversation, she finally got to know Mona's general situation.

She came here to visit her relatives and have fun. While she was there, she noticed that her stall was doing good business. She would keep an eye on it every time she came to the market. Now she is about to return to her hometown, and she thought of her hair bands, so she thought of bringing some back to sell.

Mona has many friends who own shops and she plans to send her hair bands to those shops for retail. If the shops do good business, she will naturally continue to cooperate with Tang Yuan.

Of course, there are also hair bands in other places, but the prices are not that low. The price Tang Yuan gave was almost wholesale price, so she was tempted.

"If it's not done well, maybe you don't need it," Mona looked at Tang Yuan, "Amy, maybe you don't need to ask people to do so much."

"It doesn't matter, just do your business, I will be responsible for my affairs," Tang Yuan replied with a smile, "Of course I hope your business can be successful, but even if it is not, we are still friends, welcome to come and visit again next time."

Hoarding hair bands is just like hoarding wallets, it is something that needs to be hoarded. She still has the market at Aunt Li and Aunt Lan's place that has not been opened up. It would be best if she could keep getting them from Mona. If that doesn't work out for her, maybe she can go out and have a look.

A hair band costs two cents each, and the scraps of cloth cost almost nothing. The current exchange rate of RMB to USD is 1.5:1. Let alone 80 cents each, even if the price is reduced to 10 cents each, she can still make a profit.

But now that no one is competing with her, she won't get involved with herself.

It doesn't have to be 10 cents. According to what Mona said, as long as she sets the price at 50 cents each, there will be many businessmen willing to purchase her goods. If not, she can set it at 40 cents or 30 cents. If she doesn't believe it, she won't be able to sell it.

After seeing Mona off, Tang Yuan returned to his stall and continued selling things.

When closing the stall, I went to find the person in charge, handed over a cigarette, and asked him to help me remember the content of the phone call. He gladly accepted it.

After returning, Tang Yuan immediately found the four grandparents and asked them to continue making hair circles for a while.

As for small wallets, only Aunt Li and Aunt Lan are still selling them now. Without Zheng Man's, there is no need to worry about insufficient stock.

The four of them made hair ties very quickly, and almost each of them could make at least sixty per day, which meant two hundred and forty for four people. And over in Yun Province, perhaps because the new people became more and more skilled in the movements in the next few days, the average number of hair ties delivered per day successfully exceeded six hundred. In this way, the total number of hair ties delivered by both sides was eight hundred and forty.

After deducting the one hundred sold by Zheng Man, there are still at least seven hundred and forty left in stock.

There were too many scraps and the stock of scraps was repeatedly consumed. Tang Yuan really didn't have time to sort them, so she simply handed the sorting work over to several parties, allowing the workers to pick out the appropriate fabrics from the bags of scraps themselves, and return the unsuitable ones to her in bags.

In this way, not only is the efficiency greatly improved, but there are also more small wallets and hair ties based on personal aesthetics, such as patchwork small wallets and large double-loop hair ties.

It seemed that Tang Yuan could be sold, so he simply didn't say anything and let the workers do it on their own.

The main reason is that she has collected a lot of scraps of cloth during this period, and she has earned a lot, so it’s okay to waste them. If Mona wants a larger quantity later, the worst that can happen is that she will spend more money to buy complete cloth.

As she thought about it, she looked at Zheng Man, who was riding a tricycle with a load of rags.

The efficiency of the tricycle is very high. A bicycle has to carry the scraps of cloth back and forth for many times, but she can carry them back in one trip.

"There's another truckload of stuff. They said it's been sitting there for a long time and they just can't bear to throw it away," Zheng Man stopped the car. "It's all good stuff. The price is a bit higher, ten yuan a bag. Do you want some?"

"Yes," Tang Yuan said without hesitation, "Bring them all back, all of them!"

There's no other way. If they insist on forcing it into her hands, she'll just have to use the cheap material for a while.