Era: Starting from cave dwellings in northern Shaanxi

Chapter 287 Sales are booming

"Xiangyang, sometimes I really want to pry open your head to see how it grows. Using the method you mentioned, the high-end health-preserving dates in the Friendship Store are in short supply now. Even my family members asked me about these health-preserving dates."

In the office, Kang Mingyuan was talking on the phone with Sun Xiangyang.

The two were talking about the high-end health-promoting dates that have suddenly become popular in Beijing.

Although Sun Xiangyang did not come to Beijing, he had already called Kang Mingyuan and discussed how to sell it.

The method he used would have been very common in later generations, but nowadays, it is extremely useful.

The first thing is to find someone to help you.

Then comes the publicity, and creates a tense situation where demand exceeds supply.

Once someone really buys it, someone will come forward and be willing to buy it at a higher price.

In this case, how could those who had managed to grab it be willing to sell it?

Even if it is really changed hands and then bought back, Sun Xiangyang will still not suffer a loss.

Because the profits from these high-end health-preserving dates are so huge, only a few people are willing to resell them. Will people who can spend more than ten yuan to buy a box of high-end health-preserving dates resell them just because the price is increased by two or three yuan?
After all, nowadays, this kind of high-end health-preserving dates is in short supply. If ordinary people want to buy them, they have to beg for help from others.

This sunk capital alone does not allow them to resell it.

The essence of finding someone to help you and paying a higher price is to give them peace of mind.

Let them understand that the high-end health-preserving dates they bought will make others willing to spend more money to buy them, and even if they don’t sell them, they will feel like they have made a profit.

In addition, the packaging is really exquisite, giving people a high-end feeling at first glance, so just a little secret promotion made this high-end health-preserving date completely popular.

"So, you made money?"

Sun Xiangyang asked on the other end of the phone, and next to him was Su Huiwan.

Ever since this batch of high-end health-preserving dates arrived in Beijing, the person who cared the most about it was naturally Su Huiwan, who even became unable to sleep or eat.

Even though Sun Xiangyang personally controlled it remotely later, she still didn't have much confidence.

Anyway, she felt that if it were her, she would definitely not be stupid enough to buy this kind of high-end health-preserving dates.

"Yes, it's not just about making money, it's about making a lot of money. The 5,000 boxes you shipped last time would have been sold out by now if I hadn't been holding on to them. When will the rest be shipped?"

Kang Mingyuan said slowly.

The factory price of this high-end health-preserving date is a bit high due to its packaging, as high as three yuan. The purchase price of the dates is only 20 cents, and a box of five kilograms costs one yuan.

The remaining two dollars are mainly related to packaging, labor and other issues.

The price supplied to the Friendship Store is ten yuan, which means that the net profit of a box of high-end health products is only seven yuan, after all, there are transportation costs to ship them to the capital.

The price for takeout at the Friendship Store was 12 yuan, and Kang Mingyuan only made 2 yuan per box. In other words, Kang Mingyuan never thought of making money from this thing.

For Sun Xiangyang's sake, he chose to make concessions.

However, this profit was not given to the real buyers, but to the so-called middlemen.

These middlemen are mainly those who have the ability to enter the Friendship Store. However, due to their status, they will definitely not show up in person, but let their younger brothers do the selling.

The middlemen have channels and abilities, and they can earn five yuan from a box of high-end health-preserving dates. For the younger brothers who sell them, earning one yuan is enough to make them ecstatic.

As a result, when it reaches the hands of "ordinary people", the price of a box of high-end health-preserving dates reaches 18 yuan.

Strictly speaking, this kind of behavior constitutes speculation and profiteering and needs to be severely cracked down on.

But it also depends on the identity of the people who make money.

After all, there are not many simple characters who can enter the Friendship Store.

In the beginning, Kang Mingyuan even found a few friends who were idle at home and had nothing to do.

With the energy of those people, they could easily get a few hundred boxes and earn one or two thousand yuan. Who wouldn't want to do this kind of business? In fact, there is no shortage of smart people in this world. In the 1980s, a group of dealers emerged who specialized in using their own connections to trade various certificates and quickly transformed into rich people.

This kind of thing will be nothing more than a trick in a few years, and those who really have connections and status will not even bother to care about it.

But now that these people can make money, they will be more willing to work hard and promote the products.

Naturally, Sun Xiangyang also earned more.

Even if you make seven dollars per box, for the first batch of 5,000 boxes, that would be thirty-five thousand.

It seems like a small amount, and Shuangshuiwan doesn't even care about this little money.

But don't forget the gap between cost and profit.

Even though large-scale jujube planting had not yet begun, Su Huiwan followed Sun Xiangyang's instructions and not only purchased them in her own county, but also went to neighboring counties to purchase them. According to preliminary estimates, this batch of high-end health-preserving jujubes weighed more than 100,000 kilograms.

What is restricting the high-end health-preserving dates right now is not anything else but the production capacity of the carton factory.

Even if the final scale is 30,000 boxes, this time it can still bring in a net profit of 200,000. This is because it was hastily launched in the first year and most people were not optimistic about it.

When large-scale planting is carried out in the future, the output will be increased tenfold or even dozens of times. At that time, it will bring at least several million in income to the county each year.

Several million in the late 1970s and early 1980s was a huge sum of money even for a county.

Of course, this is something for the future.

After all, even if we cooperate with the Academy of Agricultural Sciences and want to plant date trees, it will take two or three years before we can harvest them.

However, with this successful start, as long as the people in the county are not fools, they will know what to do next.

If you don't know how to seize this kind of opportunity, you deserve to be poor.

"It's already been loaded. It will arrive in a few days. I'm calling you this time just to tell you about it. I'll give you a truck schedule later and you can have someone go to the station to haul it back."

Sun Xiangyang said on the phone.

"No problem. By the way, are you going back to Beijing before the New Year?"

Kang Mingyuan's voice came over.

"Is something wrong?"

Sun Xiangyang asked curiously.

"It's nothing to talk about. Let's talk about it when you come back."

"it is good."

After Sun Xiangyang finished speaking, he chatted with Kang Mingyuan for a while before hanging up the phone.

"Successful? We succeeded?"

At this moment, Su Huiwan couldn't help herself any longer and looked at Sun Xiangyang with surprise on her face.

"Yes, we succeeded. Can you rest assured now?"

Sun Xiangyang nodded.