Chapter 1354 Brother Bao, We Need a Price Increase! (Ten Thousand Words, Seeking Monthly Tickets!)

After carefully considering his words, Min Jingchao dialed Bao Xu's number.

"Brother Bao, how are you doing lately? Are you busy?" Min Jingchao asked cautiously.

"Not bad, a little busy, but very fulfilling!"

"What, are you thinking of supporting my work?"

Bao Xu on the other end of the phone was clearly a little surprised.

Since he became the person in charge of Suffering Travels, these old friends of his had been filled with fear and the number of times they contacted him by phone had dropped sharply. It seemed as if they were afraid that contacting him would remind Bao Xu that they existed, and they would be arranged to participate in the next Suffering Travels.

Bao Xu wanted to cry out in protest.

The list for Suffering Travels was determined by President Pei, I didn't participate at all!

Of course, if Bao Xu were to decide the list, he might be even more insane, but for now, the blame still lay with President Pei.

Min Jingchao hadn't called since going to Yangcheng, so this phone call was a little suspicious.

Min Jingchao quickly said, "Supporting your work? Oh, no, no, no, Brother Bao, you've misunderstood. No, actually, it's not a misunderstanding."

"It's like this, my new colleagues at Tianhuo Studio are quite interested in Suffering Travels, so they asked me to inquire about some information from you."

In order to avoid getting burned, Min Jingchao could only "create a friend from nothing."

But this also seemed more realistic. After all, Bao Xu knew very well that Min Jingchao himself would definitely avoid Suffering Travels like the plague. It seemed more reasonable that people from Tianhuo Studio who didn't know the inside story were asking, which helped Min Jingchao hide his true intentions.

As expected, Bao Xu didn't suspect anything. Instead, he was very happy: "Really? Ask anything you want. Tell your new colleagues that registration for Suffering Travels will open soon, and they're welcome to participate enthusiastically!"

"We're all acquaintances, easy to talk to. I'll definitely take special care of them when they come!"

"Ahem." Min Jingchao coughed twice, feeling that Bao Xu's personality had changed drastically after his complete corruption. He was a completely different person.

"Actually, they know a little about the content of the daily training, but what they're most concerned about right now is the price."

"What are the specific charging standards for this Suffering Travels?"

Bao Xu introduced, "There is already a general charging scheme within Suffering Travels, but it hasn't been announced to the public yet."

"After Suffering Travels is officially opened, each session will still be two months long, one month of indoor training at the base and another month of outdoor travel. The accommodation conditions will definitely be very good, plus air tickets and various travel expenses, the assistance and cooperation of professional staff, and some hidden costs, such as the designation of scientific training programs and the logistics support team..."

"Currently, Suffering Travels is all within the country. The charging standard for each person is 35,000 yuan. This is the price after Suffering Travels has negotiated a preferential price with related merchants and tried to lower the profit as much as possible."

"However, each session of Suffering Travels goes to different places, and the price will definitely change. If we go abroad, the cost of air tickets, accommodation, and other things will increase across the board, so the price will definitely increase accordingly."

"Suffering Travels also has a plan to establish an outdoor special training base. If it can be realized, this price should be able to be reduced a little more."

"But it will generally fluctuate around this price."

Min Jingchao was thoughtful: "Hmm, 35,000..."

It was hard to say whether this price was expensive or not. It depended on how you compared it.

If you said it wasn't expensive, it was after all for two months.

Some European group tours cost about 30,000 yuan for two weeks.

And for some domestic attractions, according to the price of a tour group, it costs about 2,000 yuan for 5 days. Playing for two months would cost more than 20,000 yuan.

Don't even mention those particularly scammy low-priced tour groups. More or less, there is induced consumption, which is more scammy and the experience will definitely not be good.

The accommodation conditions arranged by Tengda are definitely better, and you have to consider the cost of the training content. After all, a personal trainer at a gym costs two or three hundred yuan an hour, and Suffering Travels also teaches rock climbing and various wilderness survival skills.

This price of 35,000 yuan can roughly confirm two points.

First of all, Bao Xu definitely didn't consider making more money. The current pricing is simply not losing money, or not losing too much.

This may be because of President Pei's instructions, or it may be that Bao Xu himself wants to attract more people to suffer by lowering the price, in order to achieve his ulterior motives.

Secondly, the accommodation standard should be a high-quality route, but there is also a certain cost performance. It doesn't blindly arrange five-star hotels or the like.

After all, Suffering Travels is about suffering.

Bao Xu must think that it is necessary to ensure the rest of all the members, but it can't be too extravagant and wasteful, which violates the original intention of Suffering Travels.

In Bao Xu's own opinion, this is obviously already a ridiculously low price.

And for those who are not interested in Suffering Travels at all, this price is not affordable.

35,000 yuan, wouldn't it be better to go abroad and have fun? Why run to the mountains to suffer?

And a very important factor is time.

Suffering Travels lasts for two months. Which office worker can get a vacation of up to two months?

People with a lot of time often don't have money, and the fee of 35,000 yuan is even more unbearable.

So seeing this price, most netizens will definitely say "never mind."

Of course, Min Jingchao definitely doesn't look at this price from the above two perspectives.

What he has to consider is, will the price of 35,000 yuan per person really hurt Zhou Muyan?

Hmm... It might hurt, but it might not be 100% enough to make Zhou Muyan give up.

After all, after the project is successful, Tianhuo Studio may distribute tens of thousands of yuan in bonuses to each person.

Based on Zhou Muyan's attention to Suffering Travels, it would be a bit difficult to change his mind with a mere 35,000 yuan per person.

So, he still had to find a way to trick Bao Xu into raising the price again!

Min Jingchao had already thought of his excuse in advance: "Brother Bao, I think... oh, no, my colleagues think that this pricing is not very good. It's a bit of a blow to their enthusiasm to participate."

Bao Xu was a little surprised: "Hmm? How can that be?"

"This price is already very low. Let's not talk about anything else, even taking a personal rock climbing lesson would cost two hundred yuan, right? Although that's one-on-one, this is one-to-many, but considering all kinds of logistics support and other expenses, it's hard to lower this price any further..."

Min Jingchao quickly said, "Brother Bao, let me finish. I'm not saying that this price is expensive, but that this price is too cheap!"

Bao Xu: "Ah?"

Min Jingchao explained, "Brother Bao, what kind of people are the employees at Tianhuo Studio? Although the overall welfare benefits are not as good as Tengda, each of their employees is not short of money!"

"If a project is successful, the monthly bonus is tens of thousands. For them, two months is much more valuable than this 30,000 yuan!"

"Your pricing of 35,000 yuan is obviously not hitting either end."

"For people who don't have money, they are already tired from working hard every day, so where do they have the leisure and money to suffer? For this kind of person, even if you lower the price to 20,000, they won't come."

"For people who have money, they are willing to spend two months suffering. Does it make a big difference whether the pricing is 35,000 or 50,000? The key is that you have to give them good enough service so that they feel that these two months have been very rewarding and have irreplaceable value."

"The service you are giving now may seem good to ordinary people, but in the eyes of these people, it is probably not enough."

"When they hear that it only costs 35,000 yuan for two months, they feel that there can't be any interesting special content arranged. It doesn't have any style at all. They might as well fly to Europe, take a photo, and post it on Moments."

Bao Xu was silent for a moment, then tentatively asked, "So you mean... we have to raise the price?"

Min Jingchao nodded: "Yes, we have to raise the price! And we have to raise it a lot!"

"I think it's more appropriate to raise it to 50,000 per person!"

50,000 yuan is not a small number. It's half a year's salary for many white-collar workers.

Moreover, after raising it to 50,000, it will be clearly different from the cost of general travel.

For Zhou Muyan, he can definitely afford this money, but in his opinion, the cost performance is likely to become very poor.

Like many people when they consume, for the same product, a price reduction of 500 is a good deal, and a price increase of 500 is outrageous.

After thinking for a moment, Bao Xu said, "But the services we currently provide probably don't reach this level of 50,000 yuan."

"In other words, we have to upgrade the content of the service a little bit? For example, add some suffering projects?"

Hearing this, Min Jingchao felt a little chilled.

Good heavens, you're still adding suffering projects?

I can't let anyone know that I suggested this, otherwise I'm done!

But since he had already said it, Min Jingchao could only say, "You consider it yourself."

He didn't really want Bao Xu to "upgrade the service," but it wouldn't make sense to not upgrade the service after raising the price.

Bao Xu was silent for a while, then seemed to understand and said happily, "Thank you, this suggestion is very inspiring to me. I will seriously consider it!"

"Thank your colleagues for me. When they come to participate in Suffering Travels, I can directly give them a huge internal discount!"

Min Jingchao laughed inwardly.

My colleagues? Sorry, they definitely won't go.

When Zhou Muyan sees that the price is so expensive, he will probably choose other alternatives. At that time, everyone will be happy: the colleagues of the *Bullet Marks 2* project team will have a pleasant paid trip and escape the doom of suffering.

"Okay, Brother Bao, you go ahead and get busy. We'll talk later."

After hanging up the phone, Min Jingchao breathed a sigh of relief.

Half the battle was won. Next, he had to find Zhou Muyan to complete the other half.

After the lunch break, Min Jingchao came to Zhou Muyan as usual to report on the development progress.

After the report, Min Jingchao pretended to casually mention something about Suffering Travels.

"By the way, President Zhou, when I was chatting with a friend from Tengda before, I inquired about the price of Suffering Travels."

Zhou Muyan, who was originally looking at the plan, immediately raised his head: "Oh? How much is it?"

Min Jingchao said, "It should be more than 50,000 per person."

"Hiss..." Zhou Muyan couldn't help but frowned slightly and took a breath of cold air.

50,000 per person?

That's a bit too much.

Although Zhou Muyan was very satisfied with the content of Suffering Travels, was it really worth spending so much money just to practice rock climbing in the gym and do some wilderness survival?

If he organized his employees to travel, it seemed like they could have more fun.

Zhou Muyan frowned and said, "It's a bit expensive. I think it would be acceptable if the pricing was around 30,000."

"Why don't you discuss it with Sun Xi and change the plan?"

Min Jingchao was overjoyed, but he couldn't show it too obviously and tried his best to remain calm: "Well, of course we have no problem. We'll listen to your arrangements, President Zhou."

Zhou Muyan said, "Okay, then I'll find someone to investigate other alternatives, whether it's a paid trip or a paid vacation, in short, I'll consider it again."

"And there's no rush to reject Suffering Travels. Isn't the price not out yet?"

"Of course I trust your information, but the price hasn't been finalized after all, and there might be changes."

Min Jingchao couldn't help but secretly laugh in his heart. The price will indeed change, but Bao Xu has obviously been tricked by him. Even if it changes, it will only be higher, not lower.

Excellent, the plan to escape Suffering Travels has been a great success so far!