Ch 191: Now this Is Professional

This timing is frustrating.

The Princess’s wedding was the day before, broadcast globally.

Before the wedding even ended, major cosmetics tycoons had already begun global promotion of cosmetics, promoting X essence.

The major tycoons spent an unknown amount on promotion fees that day.

The result…

TC’s bankruptcy liquidation was exposed the next day.

Not only did all the previous publicity go down the drain, but even the popularity from the wedding was wasted.

The Princess’s wedding, a century wedding, how many years does that happen? It was wasted like that?

The loss was too great.

…

A luxury goods store outside a large domestic supermarket.

A woman who looked very bourgeois rushed in excitedly.

“Three X gift boxes, B-level,” the woman went straight to the counter.

The salesgirl smiled wryly: “None left.”

“What? How could there be none?” the bourgeois woman exclaimed.

The salesgirl said: “We just got several boxes from the central warehouse, and as soon as they arrived, a woman came and bought them all at once. The car was full.”

…

The bourgeois woman looked unhappy: “Why didn’t you limit the quantity?”

“She’s a high-level member,” the salesgirl said.

“I’m also a high-level member, I don’t care, hurry up and get me the goods, I want three… thirty boxes, B-level, C-level is fine too.”

“There are no levels left, we have applied for replenishment, but the warehouse can’t be reached by phone, everywhere is out of stock.”

The bourgeois woman was anxious: “Then what should I use? You need to figure something out, I am a high-level member.”

“Okay, okay, beauty, don’t worry, I’ll call again and ask.”

As they spoke.

The shop door was pushed open again, before the person arrived, the voice came first.

“Do you have X gift boxes?”

“Sorry, sir.”

“Damn, you women are so troublesome, why do you have to have the X gift box?”

The man cursed and turned to leave, got into his sports car, and drove away.

The bourgeois woman felt there was no hope today, why does it feel like the whole world is out of stock?

After a while, a few more women came, they looked like wealthy women.

As soon as they entered, they all wanted X gift boxes, and said they wanted as many as there were, and they could pay extra.

…

A certain store abroad.

A foreign woman bought an X gift box.

She was lucky, she made an online reservation, and finally got the goods.

I heard this thing is very hard to buy now.

She thought it was okay, anyway, she made a reservation and got it.

A man came out from the side and whispered: “Selling?”

“What?”

“I said, are you selling? Uh, are you selling your B-level X gift box? I’ll offer this much.” The man extended a finger.

The woman was moved.

The man extended another finger: “Plus one more, if you sell, we trade, if not, then forget it.”

“Sell.” The foreign woman was delighted.

The scalper was also delighted.

The transaction was quickly successful, and the scalper left with the X gift box.

This thing is good, anyone smart knows it’s about to take off.

Doubling the original price several times is effortless.

Especially B-level or A-level~~

The higher the level, the more it doubles.

As for the lower levels, they can probably be speculated on, but it won’t last.

Only AB level can be kept casually, the longer the time, the more valuable it becomes.

This foreign woman could never have imagined that because of this transaction, she would regret wanting to kill herself.

The foreign woman took the money and went back into the luxury store.

Taking out half the funds: “I want to buy another X gift box, B-level.”

“I’m sorry, ma’am, we’re out of stock.”

“There are clearly some over there.” The foreign woman pointed.

“Sorry, ma’am, those are reserved, they will be picked up soon, there is no stock anywhere else.”

“What do you mean no stock?”

“No stock means that except for those reserved by phone and online, it’s impossible to buy it anywhere else.”

“???” The foreign woman had thought it wasn’t hard to buy before, after all, she got it with a reservation.

But now…

She felt something was wrong.

The foreign woman pointed to the door: “Someone at the door bought a box from me at double the price, did I lose out?”

The salesgirl raised her eyebrows: “Of course, it’s already been speculated to more than three times the price.”

“Shit~~~” The foreign woman cursed, rushed out of the store, but couldn’t see the scalper anymore.

Helplessly, she returned to the store, with a bitter face: “For God’s sake, can you sell me another box?”

“Sorry ma’am… we really don’t have any stock now, you can wait a while, or try online reservation, if you are lucky, there might be some.”

…

…

Such incidents happened all over the world.

Few people were lucky.

Or rather, because there wasn’t much stock, few people were lucky.

Most people couldn’t make reservations, couldn’t get through on the phone, and it was impossible to buy it in offline stores.

As for other cosmetics, they were readily available, but without X essence extract… many people didn’t even bother to look.

In just a few days.

Many enterprises had consumed their inventory of raw materials.

There were still some finished products in stock.

This was the result of controlling the quantity, if it had been like before, allowing free purchase, the stock would have been gone.

Don’t think that so many people are buying, making it seem lively.

However, in the secondary market, stocks best reflect expectations, cosmetics companies were chattering endlessly.

More and more negative reports.

Even some ordinary happy people who didn’t usually pay attention to the news already knew the situation.

The raw materials were gone, and the effect of the cosmetics was greatly reduced.

The X gift box series was in short supply.

Money couldn’t buy it.

This illustrates a problem; these people have money, but not much.

Truly wealthy people could still buy it.

They could buy it from scalpers; it was just a matter of how much extra they paid.

Don’t think that only China has scalpers, actually, foreign scalpers have a long history, existing before 1900, and are very powerful.

For example, the Olympics two years ago.

International scalpers flooded into China, driving up ticket prices to ten times the original price.

That’s what I call professional.

Therefore,

In just one week, the X gift box series cosmetics, regardless of grade, from the lowest F to the highest A, were at least ten times the original price, and the highest could reach fifteen times.

And there was no sign of stopping.

Because the price rose too much, many scalpers became greedy, holding onto their stock and not selling much, occasionally releasing a batch just to test market demand.

Once they found the demand was still very high, they wouldn’t move most of their goods, waiting for the price to continue rising.

This created a vicious cycle.

Even scalpers weren’t selling, it was difficult to buy even with money.

Unless you were extremely wealthy, you could make a phone call to the CEO of the cosmetics headquarters, and you might be able to buy a little from the warehouse.

But there are very few such people.

Besides.

Cosmetics companies aren’t stupid, the price outside is doubling and doubling and doubling… again and again. They couldn’t possibly sell at the original price.

Rather than sell at the original price, it’s better to find a few large scalpers, sell to them at a high price, and let them resell.

Everyone wants to make money, right?

Why can you make money, but not me?

…

It was crazy in China too.

There are also many wealthy people.

All kinds of connections, running around, just to hoard some goods.

Even though many people still had X gift box series cosmetics to use, and hadn’t finished using what they had at home, they were anxious.

They would eventually run out.

Don’t buy now, and you won’t be able to buy it later.

…

This happened during a major holiday.

The popularity was catching up with reports of traffic jams everywhere.

Many media outlets also have people who exploit situations, taking the opportunity to spread the idea that domestic morals are bad, fighting over cosmetics, queuing, things like queuing overnight.

This is the so-called national inferiority.

They completely ignored the situation abroad.

A lot of people actually believed it.

There were a lot of people online who didn’t use cosmetics, their comments were sarcastic, saying that Chinese people lack culture, they follow trends, they hoard salt, and now they are hoarding cosmetics, and they queue because they see others queuing, etc.

All sorts of things were said.

Seeing these comments and the deliberate guidance of some small media outlets, Cao Cheng shook his head and smiled, ignoring them.

Too weak.

That’s all?

This is child’s play in the future.

Moreover,

Cao Cheng couldn’t possibly engage with these little trash, it’s beneath his dignity.

He could easily crush them with a single hand.

And it wouldn’t take long.

Soon there will be a boomerang effect.

Cao Cheng merely had people record the editors and authors of these media and reports.

And then wait!

…

Two weeks later.

Someone noticed a problem.

Major international cosmetics companies, the X gift box series from A to F were all severely out of stock, prices were more than ten times higher.

Only one company remained unaffected.

Miracle Cosmetics!

Miracle Cosmetics seemed completely unaffected, providing a small amount of stock online every day, allowing people to compete for speed, to grab them.

For two weeks, no matter how much was out of stock, Miracle Cosmetics could produce Bronze to Diamond gift boxes.

Many people were able to grab some.

Those who grabbed them resold them for money, just like Moutai.

…

Weibo.

“Thank you, Young Master Cao, I grabbed a diamond one today, love you oh~~~”,

“Envious… it was the original price, Miracle Cosmetics is generous, other cosmetics have skyrocketed, and are impossible to buy.”

“Wow, what kind of hand speed is that? How many years have you been single, rich woman? Your little brother doesn’t want to work hard anymore.”

“Rich and lucky, rich woman, will you help the poor? I’m very poor.”

“Miracle Cosmetics is really amazing, everyone else is out of stock, but Miracle Cosmetics still has stock?”

“That’s not right, before Miracle Cosmetics was always out of stock? It was other companies that had unlimited supply… why now that everyone is out of stock, Miracle Cosmetics isn’t?”

“Damn, I smell a conspiracy.”

“The people in our country play conspiracies and open strategies, foreigners die without knowing how.”

“Do you mean this is related to Young Master Cao?”

“I don’t know, but there must be an indirect relationship, otherwise why isn’t Miracle Cosmetics affected?”

“Nonsense, these are all guesses, maybe Miracle Cosmetics just had stock, after all, they were out of stock before, couldn’t they quietly hoard some??”

“That’s true.”

“Young Master Cao bless me, let me grab a box too.”

“Bless you? I’m not dead yet!!!!”

“Whoa, Young Master Cao appeared.”

“Hahaha, this is hilarious…”