14 Market research

At 4:30, Chen leaves his rental house and rides his electric donkey to a nearby market for a stroll....​

It was not yet light, but the market-place was full of vendors who had risen early and were ready to sell their wares for the day.

Park outside and walk into the market place.

After a turn in the market-place, he saw a fish-shop, and entered.

The boss is not busy at the moment. Looks like he's got his fish haul in order for today's sale.

Inside the store are a number of large and minor glass fish tanks, and inside the glass tanks are a number of large and minor aquatic products.

Fish, shrimp, crabs, octopus are all available.

And conch. You can find them all around here.

"Hey, is the boss finished?"

The boss, who was writing, heard someone talking and looked up. Then he saw a tall, young, handsome man.

As a businessman, the most essential thing is to be kind.

"Yes, yes, yes, what do you want?"

"Don't worry, boss. I want to ask you something. Let's have a cigarette first."

"And he pulled out a box of Chinese from his backpack.

He doesn't smoke. He had cigarettes in his backpack because he had bought them at a convenience store on the way over.

Someone handed over a cigarette, and the boss, not one to be denied, also took a look at China.

"Excellent ah, beautiful boy, also smoke Chinese, but just finished, now do not smoke, and later to smoke"

"And he put the cigarette to his ear.

A stranger will not smoke if he has a little common sense, and the devil knows what is mixed in.

Business people cannot say no, which is why the boss mentioned it.

Seeing that the boss was not smoking, Chen Yu did not get annoyed.

"Hey hey, the boss told you something. I am doing Anhui fish farming. I want to ask you do not need Anhui fish here?"

Chen describes herself as an Anhui fish farmer.

"Well, we have our own supplier, which is a bit of a dilemma."

"Oh, what does this have? I only do Anhui fish. Your exclusive supplier should do all fish wholesale?"

"Well," the boss nodded, not denying it.

"Yes, I only sell Anhui fish. Your exclusive supplier supplies you with a wide variety of fish.. It doesn't matter."

"Well, then, pretty boy, what's the price of your fish?"

"Well, I just came here, and you are my first target of sales, so I'm not very sure about the price here in the provincial capital. Please tell me the price."

"Oh," the boss thought for a moment.

In the end, he offered a very low price.."Let's say, 9 yuan a catty, 12 yuan a catty if the fish is beautiful."

Beautiful it is not that the fish is beautiful, but that the fish is perfect.

Chen Yu heard, and f * * *, the price of this was cut in half.

Heard to give such a little price, he did not turn to go, business is like this, this truth he is to understand "so cheap? Can you go a little higher?"

"For this, I can only pay 10 yuan per jin. The price was given by my supplier there..I can't make more money if it is higher."

There is a ghost that believes what he says, and Chen Yu certainly does not believe that a thirty or forty-yuan jin of Anhui fish, such as it is, can not make money?

The owner must have seen that he was so young that he deliberately kept the price low, and his suppliers would not have kept it so low.

"I have to discuss this price with my cooperative friend. Otherwise, if the boss gives me your number and he agrees, I will call you immediately."

"Fine, fine, fine, fine. I'll say you do it."

The boss said Chen Yu took out his mobile phone "good boss you say."

"Well, my number is 1xxxxxxx."

"Yes, it's 1xxxxxxxx, right?"

"Yes, that's it. My name is Wang."

"Ok, I've got it down, Boss Wang. I'll talk to his side and they promised to call you right away."

"Well" boss Wang is not impatient, if he can really use this price to receive Anhui fish, he can earn more than ten dollars a catty.

Why not? Especially to see such a descendant of Chen Yu, and to talk about business so unfamiliar, a look that has not had much contact with the business, and so dare to put such low pressure on prices.

Chen Yu then walked out of Wang's Aquatic Products store, ready to go to other stores to make inquiries.

In the end, the highest price paid in this market was 16 yuan per catty.

That's even lower than we thought.

The idea of selling a catty for twenty or thirty dollars did not occur to these fishmongers, who did not expect to sell more than ten.

He lost money at such a low price. Although it was a free sale, it was not half as much as he had expected.

An Anhui fish weighing more than 10 jin can be sold for more than 400 or 500 yuan, but only 100 yuan can be sold to those vendors.

That's a lot of money to lose. He would not pay.

If not, I must sell it myself.

Selling it for less than the market price is much better than selling it to a fishmonger for sixteen yuan a catty.

That's the only way to do it. To-morrow, during the day, I am going to buy some big buckets, and I am going to buy oxygen pumps and electric scales and all that sort of nonsense.

And the most important thing of all, the tricycle, he was going out to sell fish.

After daybreak, he goes outside to breakfast and then rides around on his electric donkey, ready to buy some items to set up a stall.

The result of his day was to buy everything he needed to set up his stall, except the tricycle.

Once again, his wallet had less money in it.

We are going to be in trouble if we do not get some more money..I'm not kidding.