"Fifty jin of cured sausage sold for one hundred yuan, with a total cost of less than seventeen yuan. Rounding up to seventeen, today's profit is eighty-three yuan."
Looking at the shopping records and counting the money in her hand, Ding Yun quickly calculated the net profit.
However, she wasn't very satisfied.
The income wasn't high, and she only made this much after selling fifty jin. How many would she have to sell to save a thousand or eight hundred yuan? Moreover, if her sales volume was too large, it would be too easy to attract attention.
So, after thinking, Ding Yun felt she needed to find a way to sell items with higher unit prices and less conspicuous items:
"Bicycles are actually very easy to sell, but bicycles are a bit large and not very convenient. Hmm, radios won't work either; it's really hard to find such old radios to sell.
It's better to sell watches.
Let's see if there are any suitable mechanical watches, preferably old-fashioned, slightly out-of-style inventory."
At this time, there weren't many things to sell. Besides food, the items that could be sold and were expensive yet small in volume were even fewer. So, it didn't take long for Ding Yun to figure out what she should buy next and started searching online, carefully examining each watch.
It wasn't that she was afraid of poor quality items; she was mainly worried about not carefully reading the product page details and buying things that didn't belong to this era or had far superior technological content to sell. That would easily attract attention and misunderstandings.
Therefore, she had to be a little cautious.
After a thorough search and review, Ding Yun quickly found two relatively suitable mechanical watches, one for men and one for women. The reason for the inventory backlog was that the styles were old and no one bought them.
However, the items were well-preserved and undamaged, and there were absolutely no problems with normal use.
But it was too late that day.
So, Ding Yun just bought the items and didn't go out to sell them. After tidying up a bit, she went to sleep.
The next morning, she ate two leftover steamed buns.
She also bought some near-expiry cosmetics and deliberately made herself look like a middle-aged woman. Then, Ding Yun, carrying the watches, continued to sneak towards yesterday's black market.
She intended to sell all the watches as quickly as possible.
But this time, it wasn't as smooth as yesterday. Food and watches were different. Food was relatively inexpensive and a necessity. Buying some to take home could feed the whole family, and most people could afford it.
As for watches, everyone wanted them.
But not everyone could afford them.
And whether they were willing to spend the money was another issue.
But regardless, people willing to go to the black market to find something to take home for their families were generally not too poor, so some people were still interested. After wandering for most of the day, and with low prices, even though Ding Yun clearly told them that the items were backlog inventory, she still managed to sell two after they were inspected.
Although selling two watches earned a lot, Ding Yun didn't have that much time to sell them slowly.
So, in the end, she had no choice but to directly ask people at the black market, contact the boss behind the black market, and sell a batch of watches to him at a low price.
Fifty yuan each, no coupons needed.
And after inspection, the items were fine.
He could easily make seventy to eighty yuan profit by reselling them. Who wouldn't want this business? Therefore, Ding Yun eventually sold one hundred watches to him very smoothly. The profit was still decent; she bought the watches for ten yuan each, only making forty yuan profit from him per watch.
She didn't even make as much as he did reselling them to others.
Including yesterday's earnings,
She still hadn't accumulated five thousand yuan.
But over four thousand yuan was enough for Ding Yun for now. So, as soon as the items were sold and the money was in hand,
She quickly found a place to remove her makeup and returned to the guesthouse.
Picking up her luggage, she headed straight for Dawang Village.
However, after walking for a short while, Ding Yun felt she had overestimated her strength. Her calves were already trembling slightly, and according to the information she had gathered,
Dawang Village was at least ten kilometers away.
Walking without carrying anything might have been fine, but with so much luggage, she really couldn't walk. There were no buses or anything nearby, and she hadn't even seen a single ox cart.
To avoid torturing herself further, Ding Yun could only hopefully open the Near-Expiry Inventory Sales Network in her mind, intending to see if there was any inconspicuous mode of transportation she could buy and use.
She no longer intended to pretend to be poor.
Why not openly display her wealth and connections? As long as she appropriately shared some benefits with others, people wouldn't be too hostile. In this era, who could refuse someone who could provide them with low-priced and abundant supplies?
Though she thought so,
Finding something to buy was really difficult!
There were many bulk clearance items like cars, trucks, and lorries that were hard to sell, but vehicles like these, of which there were only a few in a county, were too conspicuous.
Tricycles were okay, but her golden finger was a Near-Expiry Inventory Sales Network, not a second-hand market.
It wasn't a scrap recycling station either.
Although those tricycles were inventory, they weren't broken at all. With a little wipe, they looked almost new. Ding Yun felt they were still too conspicuous no matter how she looked at them.
So, she had to specifically add words like "old" and "flawed" to the search bar, hoping to find a slightly worse-looking, not-so-new tricycle.
Fortunately, her efforts were rewarded.
After searching for a while, Ding Yun finally found a batch of clearance special offer tricycles in a hidden corner. These had been soaked in water and were rusted. They were priced at eight yuan each.
It was incredibly cheap, touching her heart.
Since she couldn't find any worse tricycles, Ding Yun could only choose this one and quickly clicked to buy. The delivery address was right beside her.
A few minutes later, the item appeared next to Ding Yun. It was a green tricycle, looking quite brand new. Ding Yun couldn't even find the rust at first.
"Uh... it was supposed to be rusty!
Where is the rust? This looks just like new..."
Unable to find any rust, Ding Yun specifically pulled out the product page again and carefully read it from beginning to end. Only then did she discover a small line of text at the very bottom of the product description: "This batch of flawed items has been repainted. Please rest assured to purchase."
Seeing this, Ding Yun felt like spitting blood. If you're selling flawed items, sell them as flawed items. Repainting them and still selling them as flawed items, isn't this kind of conscience a bit problematic?
But since she had already bought the item, Ding Yun could only brace herself, load her luggage onto the back of the tricycle, and also bought some food and daily necessities from the sales network to put on the back of the tricycle. Then she rode the tricycle and continued on her way to Dawang Village.
She hadn't bought food and daily necessities earlier because she was worried about the items being too heavy to carry, thinking she would buy them at the village entrance or take a vehicle from the village a few days later.
But now that she had a tricycle,
She could bring them all at once, so why make a second trip?