EBE Chapter 267 This thing is so awful and worthless!
Chapter 267 This thing is so awful and worthless!
Chapter 267 This thing is so awful and worthless!
Eight coins a stick, that's a bit expensive!
Buying several hundred at once is already considered wholesale, and wholesale prices apply.
For the first collaboration, it's essential to negotiate a good price. If you don't manage to get a lower price the first time, it won't be so easy to do so later!
Lin Xiaotang looked up at the butcher, her eyes clear and bright, her face a half-smile.
"Uncle, we've monopolized almost all the live pig trotters in Dushui County, Pingding County, Wucheng, and the two small counties next to Tong County. You should know what prices other vendors are selling them for."
Some butcher shops couldn't sell their raw pig trotters, so they threw them away overnight. Rich people looked down on them, and poor people couldn't afford them. Even if they did buy them, they didn't know how to cook them, and the cooked ones didn't taste good. So, ordinary families would save up their money to buy some meat to eat, or someone would buy them at a low price to feed their livestock. In short, raw pig trotters simply couldn't fetch a good price.
If you don't want to store them in the ice cellar anymore, then sell them to us at a lower price. Our shop is located in Dushui County, and we can have a long-term partnership. Then you won't need to freeze your raw pig trotters in the ice cellar anymore. How about it?
Her words struck a chord with the butcher.
Currently, this is the situation: rich people look down on raw pig trotters, which have little meat and many bones, while poor people tighten their belts to make ends meet. They finally manage to save some money, and they will definitely buy meat during the New Year. So, no one really buys raw pig trotters!
If there are opportunities for long-term cooperation, there's no need to worry about these worthless things being stuck in our hands. With such opportunities, who wouldn't want to make money?
The butcher rolled his eyes, thinking that the little girl must still think it's expensive, but eight coins a piece isn't too expensive. Even though raw pig's trotters don't have much meat, there's a saying that even fly legs are meat.
He glanced past Lin Xiaotang and looked at Wu Yu. "Young man, eight coins a stick is already very cheap. Look how late it is. Why don't you two discuss it some more? If it works out, we can load it onto the truck. If not, we can talk about it another day."
Anyway, he has an ice cellar, so he can store the food for a longer period of time, but their pig trotter shop is going to have a promotion, and if the quantity is not enough, it definitely won't work.
Who will make money in this deal depends on who is more anxious right now!
Lin Xiaotang knew that things weren't that simple.
Merchants are profit-driven. Such a large ice cellar would contain at least several hundred pig trotters. If each trotter is cheaper by two coins, several hundred trotters would be cheaper by several hundred or even a thousand coins, which would be about one or two taels of silver.
One or two taels of silver may not be much to a wealthy family, but for a poor family, it could be the cost of several years' worth of expenses.
The butcher wanted to earn more money, just as she wanted to pay less and make more profit.
The raw pig's trotters in the ice cellar looked like they had been stored for many days. Since the butcher was trying to use psychological tactics to force her to compromise, she would play along.
So she tugged at Wu Yu's arm and whispered, "Brother, he's not willing to lower the price, so let's go home first. Anyway, Dad and Uncle Shuisheng have already bought some in other counties. We just came out to ask around, and we're not in a hurry to use them. There are already extras in the carriage. If it weren't for the fact that they're selling them cheaply, I wouldn't want them."
Wu Yu was a smart man, and he immediately understood that Xiao Tang was saying that on purpose, so he immediately played along.
"Yes, you're right. It's a waste to buy so much that we can't use it all. We're tired of eating this every day. We might as well buy something else to eat. Speaking of food, I'm hungry. Are you hungry?"
Lin Xiaotang nodded obediently, rubbing her stomach and saying, "I'm hungry. Let's go eat quickly so we can go home."
Lin Xiaotang lowered her voice, but deliberately let the butcher hear her, making him think that Lin Xiaotang and the others were having a normal whispered conversation and that they really didn't want to buy from her.
He noticed that the two people ignored him and started walking away as they were talking, which made him anxious.
"and many more!"
He rushed forward and blocked Lin Xiaotang and Wu Yu's path.
“We were just discussing this, how can you just leave like that? If you think it's too expensive, I'll give you a discount of one coin. We're all business people. Look at how much ice my ice cellar uses every day, the cost isn't low. You're eating meat, but you have to let me have some soup too…”
"Six coins a stick, we'll leave if that's not enough. You can wait and see if any other customers buy it."
That's definitely not the case!
Even if someone buys them, they'll only buy one or two at a time. Trying to buy them all is like waiting for a pie to fall from the sky!
But at six coins a stick, a hundred sticks would only cost six hundred coins, less than a tael of silver. This stuff is so cheap and worthless!
There are only five or six hundred pieces in this ice cellar, which would only be worth three or four taels of silver. So many things, and only that little bit of silver. Just thinking about it makes my heart ache.
The butcher closed his eyes, a pained expression on his face, and said, "Six and a half coins, not a penny less."
Wu Yu felt that six and a half coins was already very cheap, considering that the ones in the carriage cost seven coins each.
Just as he was about to speak, Xiaotang winked at him without making a sound, and he immediately swallowed back what he was about to say.
Lin Xiaotang, with a serious expression, refused to budge an inch, saying, "Five coins a piece!"
When the butcher heard Lin Xiaotang continue to haggle, his face immediately turned ugly.
I never expected that a little girl of only a few years old would know so much, speak so eloquently about principles, and bargain so fiercely!
He really underestimated her!
He looked at Wu Yu and said, "Young man, why don't you keep an eye on your girl? Listen to how fiercely she bargains. Six coins a piece is a real loss. This thing is still meat, no matter what. Where can you buy such a big piece for six coins?"
We're all business people, we like to discuss things amicably. How can we let a little girl who's only a few years old make the decisions, right?
Wu Yu blushed suddenly. He smiled and said, "You've misunderstood. She's the young owner of our pig's trotter shop. I'm just a shop assistant. I can't make decisions for her. But don't treat her like a child. She's very smart."
The butcher was stunned.
This little girl is actually the young master of the business. She's so young, yet she's already taking a shop assistant out to negotiate business.
This is simply unbelievable!
“If the uncle is willing to sell, we will sincerely buy. If the uncle feels it is a loss and is unwilling to sell, we can go to another store. Anyway, we are just looking around.”
The butcher was in a terrible dilemma. If he sold it, it would be too cheap; if he didn't sell it, who knew when he would find a customer willing to buy it all at once again, since it would be stored in the ice cellar.
Ugh!
It's tough, doing business is really tough!
Lin Xiaotang noticed the butcher's uncertain look in his eyes and knew he was struggling with his decision.
She said, "Uncle, you shouldn't feel like you're losing out. Think about it, you slaughter a dozen or twenty pigs every day, and you've already made back the money from selling the pork. These raw pig trotters are unwanted anyway. It's best if you can sell them, but even if they rot in your hands, you won't lose money. You've already made money, haven't you?"
The butcher knew perfectly well that he made a lot of money just from selling meat, but unfortunately, pigs have four legs, so he couldn't make much money from those four legs.
He sighed and said, "Six coins it is, but we have to agree that you have to make sure I buy from you from now on."