160: Sell or not?! I'll offer a high price!
Chen Kai held the Old Pakan in his hand, and the exposed jade meat from the Windowing on the Jade Rough Stone refracted a dazzling green radiance through the sunlight.
Xiao Chen couldn't sit still anymore; he gasped and immediately stood up.
A look of disbelief appeared in his eyes, and he exclaimed out loud.
"An Old Pakan piece! Hiss! And such a high-quality one at that! I have a client looking for this kind of Old Pakan material. Brother Chen, do you want to sell it? I'll offer you a high price!"
"I'm also short on this kind of Old Pakan material. Whether it's for cutting myself or expanding the Windowing to sell, there are plenty of people who need it, Brother Chen!"
The entire market is currently short on Old Pakan material, and a bunch of unscrupulous merchants are taking advantage of the fact that goods from the Little foreigner can't get in to sell at exorbitant prices.
Goods that used to sell for tens of thousands are now being sold for a hundred thousand. If he bought it, he would be a total sucker.
Selling goods that were originally worth tens of thousands for a hundred thousand is equivalent to making the customers buying the finished jade products bear the premium. Originally, you could buy top-quality jade for a hundred thousand, but now you'd only be getting something that used to cost tens of thousands for that same price.
Customers definitely wouldn't be happy, and in the end, they would definitely be stuck with these stones in their own hands.
The kind they can't even sell. As soon as foreign goods come in, the value of the stock in their hands will definitely plummet.
Just as Chen Kai was about to nod, A Tao, who was on the side, also stood up, his face full of respectful smiles, with a hint of fawning.
A Tao had a pretty good eye; he recognized at a glance that before the supply shortage, this piece would have been worth at least 110,000 to 120,000. Now, if he bought it for 150,000 to 160,000, he could turn around and sell it through his channels to some sucker who didn't know anything.
He could make at least 20,000 to 30,000, and it would be risk-free.
This was the real big haul. He was only interested in big goods; the items brought in earlier were too small and held no interest for him.
"Hey! Brother Chen, it's me, A Tao. Why don't you bring such good goods to my shop? You name a price for this, and I'll take it. The current market price should be around 120,000 to 130,000."
A Tao rolled his eyes, chuckled, and deliberately lowered the price.
"Will you sell it for 120,000 to 130,000? I'll pay you cash right now and take it."
A Tao said with a grin and gave Xiao Chen a wink.
Xiao Chen acted as if he didn't see it and muttered with a face full of sincerity.
"Brother Chen, your goods are too good. But the current market is too inflated; there's basically no profit to be made if I buy it. How about 150,000?"
Chen Kai immediately nodded, completely ignoring A Tao.
With this kind of attitude, the remaining three pieces of Old Pakan would never be sold to A Tao.
It was better to just let him watch, to taste the feeling of watching him fail to acquire the material while it was sold to someone else.
Chen Kai handed the Jade Rough Stone directly to Xiao Chen. "It's sold to you. Transfer the money."
Xiao Chen was overjoyed, his eyes filled with disbelief. Was this too straightforward?
He had originally thought Chen Kai would haggle, or perhaps drive up A Tao's price, letting the two of them argue so the highest bidder would win.
He didn't expect him to be so straightforward and just sell it to him. Given the quality of this stone, 150,000 was definitely a Score a Bargain.
He could make ten thousand just by turning around and selling it to someone else without doing anything.
However, that ten thousand was the value of his connections; if sold on the market, it would probably only fetch a little over 150,000.
But he had these connections. Now it depended on how he wanted to handle the stone—either make a risk-free ten thousand or cut it into pendants, which might even lead to a huge profit.
Seeing Chen Kai hand the stone over to Xiao Chen, A Tao immediately panicked.
Why didn't he play by the rules? Shouldn't he have driven up the price while he negotiated it down?
This isn't right!! Why didn't he drive up the price?? Shouldn't the two of them be competing, and the highest bidder win?
Why didn't he play fair?
"Wait... Brother Chen, shouldn't you have driven up the price? Then I would make another offer. Let's not do this; I also need this kind of material."
"How about you don't be in such a rush to sell it to him? Let's discuss it again!?"
A Tao's face was full of urgency. He had quoted based on his usual price-suppression tactics. He hadn't expected Xiao Chen to not play fair, but why wasn't Chen Kai playing fair either?
Chen Kai shook his head with an indifferent expression.
He handed the stone to Xiao Chen. "Transfer the 150,000 to me later."
"I like doing business with sincere people. As for those who directly suppress prices and try to fool me like an outsider, forget it. Doing business with those kinds of people is too exhausting."
"Even though we're all insiders, you still want to play these fancy little tricks. I don't understand why you keep doing this."
"And I also don't understand how someone can only come to you when they need something from you, but when they don't need anything, they ignore you or even mock you?"
Chen Kai smiled faintly and prepared to head back to find a place to sell the mutton fat jade ring.
This thing could also sell for several tens of thousands. mutton fat jade is priced similarly to jade, though a Jade Shop definitely wouldn't buy it.
A Tao was immediately agitated by these words. "You! You! Don't beat around the bush! Isn't it just a piece of crappy Old Pakan?"
"I really don't care about it. Don't you just have this one lousy stone? Big deal, I'll just buy from someone else."
"Don't think you can anger me with just one stone. I really don't believe you can come here every day to sell Old Pakan, with each piece better than the last!"
Chen Kai was stunned. Wow, he's actually a prophet.
He smiled faintly, and after receiving the money, he left.
After thinking for a long time, he didn't know anyone who specialized in mutton fat jade.
He might as well go to Zheng Liu Chang's livestream to take a look.
Maybe he could sell it in his livestream.
He immediately drove his mercedes-benz gle towards Yunshang Pavilion.
...
Less than half an hour later, his mercedes-benz car stopped at the entrance of Yunshang Pavilion.
He slowly got out of the car, felt his pocket again, and after touching the mutton fat jade ring tucked inside, he pushed the door and walked into the shop.
Just after arriving in the shop, he discovered that Zheng Liu Chang was livestreaming, and there was another man in the room.
The man was holding a courier box, sticking a tracking number and a seal on it.
"Thanks to Brother 1888 for the sports car! What does Brother want? You want to buy the sword of goujian, right? Turn right out the door and head to the mental hospital!"
"Oh my! Thanks to Brother Tiantian for the sports car! What does Brother want from our shop? You want a blue and white porcelain plate, right? We have it!"
"And our shop's blue and white porcelain plates are authentic! Authentic all the way to the Southern Heaven Gate!"
"Alright! It's already been packed and shipped for Brother! Brother, DM me later!"
"Oh my! Thanks to Brother Xiaoma for the carnival~~~"
"What? You want a ring? What kind of ring? We don't have diamond rings in our shop; that stuff doesn't hold its value."
"Oh~~ You want a mutton fat jade, jade ring? We don't have it."
"We really don't have that, Brother. Don't ask for a refund, Brother. I'll go ask for you right now, okay?"