Chapter 210: Chapter 203: Selling Tapes
Finally, Tang Yuxin could relax a bit. In seven days, no, a maximum of seven days, her father would be back. She didn’t know what kind of goods they would bring, but she was really looking forward to it.
Business was really good at this time. There were fewer sellers, but more buyers. Gold was everywhere, you just needed to know how to pick it up.
After around seven days, on the eighth day, Tang Zhinian finally returned. He looked suntanned and slightly thinner, but his spirits were high as his eyes sparkled more than before. Most importantly, he seemed to be more energetic.
“Yuxin, come, see what your father has bought for you?”
This time, when Tang Zhinian returned home, he obviously went to find his daughter first. He had brought back many things for Tang Yuxin, all from the south, where there were things that were not yet available in their northern part. They were everywhere in the south, but they were quite rare here.
Tang Yuxin quickly put down her school bag to go over and found a big bag on the ground. Opening it, she found hair clips, hairbands, and mostly cassette tapes.
“Is dad going to sell cassette tapes?”
Tang Yuxin asked Tang Zhinian.
At this time, cassette tapes were really sought-after. They sometimes could not be found in their area. For example, the bands like Little Tiger Team, Mei Yanfang, and Deng Lijun, were all very popular in schools.
Which young boy or girl didn’t have an idol dream? Of course, she did too. While she was a bit older, some still liked some because of their personalities, some for their appearances, and others simply liked the songs.
“Yes,” Tang Zhinian nodded, “At first I went with your Uncle Chen, but I found out that these tapes were not expensive. The wholesale price was two and a half yuan, at their place they sell them for five yuan, but in Qing’an, the price is six and a half yuan.”
If they sold them a little bit cheaper, for six yuan, they would make a profit of three and a half yuan for each. They had over three hundred tapes, so if all were sold, it would be a profit of more than a thousand yuan. This was much more than a year of farming, and they didn’t need to put in much effort, they just had to profit from the price difference.
Perhaps it was the same for all fathers worldwide. As for mothers, she wouldn’t know. She had never experienced a mother’s love.
Tang Zhinian, carrying a bag of goods, rode his tricycle and left. There were only a few hundred cassette tapes, but he had brought them all the way from the south.
When Tang Yuxin returned from school at noon, Tang Zhinian was already back.
But his expression was a bit strange.
Tang Yuxin was puzzled. What happened to her father? Could it be that he didn’t sell a single tape?
“Dad, did you not sell any?” she asked tentatively.
Tang Zhinian looked at her oddly and sighed after a long while.
“Yuxin, they’re all sold.”
“Sold out, all gone?” Tang Yuxin blinked. Was that what he meant?
But then Tang Zhinian suddenly started laughing. He stretched out his hand to stroke his daughter’s hair, “Yuxin, all of our tapes have been sold out. I sold them exactly as you suggested. Those students took them by the handfuls, five or ten at a time. In less than two hours, all of them were sold. We made nearly a thousand yuan in profit after deducting the cost. That’s half a year’s income from farming.”
“Next time, I’m planning on taking your Uncle with me. He is smart and can help negotiate the wholesale price.”
Tang Yuxin was stunned, everything was sold out in less than two hours? Could it be that business was really that easy? Actually, she was only half right, business was easy, but not to the point where everything could be sold out in a short period of time. The key point was that she tapped into the mentality that people liked to have a bargain, such as buy five and get one free, buy ten and get two free.
Frankly, the cost is still borne by the buyers, but people love this idea.
Now that Tang Zhinian had tasted the sweetness of business, he obviously wouldn’t just go back to farming. Growing vegetables for a whole year, you might not make a thousand yuan, while a thousand yuan now is equivalent to an income of fifty to sixty thousand appearing in subsequent years. Actually, according to some perspectives, it could even be several hundred thousand, because the two houses they bought were only over ten thousand yuan.