Chapter: 3974

From that plastic replica bronze wine jar alone, it's clear that these two people only want to scam each other and are absolutely impossible to let the other get a good deal.

So he gave Zhang Erma a pleading look, his face filled with pain, saying, "This gentleman, I very much admire your eloquence, but from now on, I won't say anything else."

After that, he looked at Ye Chen and said, "Sir, please give me an appraisal for this painting!"

Ye Chen nodded seriously and said, "The Mona Lisa involved in plagiarism is currently being treasured in the Louvre Museum in France. Although it's impossible to take it out to auction, I estimate that if it were sold, at least 10 billion US dollars could be fetched."

Bernard Arno heard this and his whole person was taken aback.

He cursed himself mentally: "If you dare call this broken thing such a high price, I'd rather not participate in the Spring Bazaar auction or accept your kind of supply model!"

Just then, he heard Ye Chen laughing and say, "I'll just let Mr. Arno take it as a gift, this painting, along with that transmission jade seal and that bronze wine jar, three items together, twenty billion yuan you can take away!"

Bernard Arno finished listening, his whole person already agog.

Twenty billion?!

He couldn't understand, what kind of person would stoop to this level, just for three worthless items, and yet still dare to ask for twenty billion!

So he immediately spat out: "Twenty billion is a bit excessive! Even if I were to lose hundreds of millions or even one billion, it's not like it would cover the loss of that hundred million order!" He gritted his teeth: "If you're so shameless, then I'd rather give up this auction than accept your outrageous demands!"

"Don't worry." Ye Chen said calmly. "There are many wealthy people attending the Spring and Autumn Auctions, one more or less won't make a difference. It's like those packages in your store - there are always people willing to buy them at any price. Those unwilling to spend money will just leave, you'll never have to worry about it."

He added: "Mr. Arno, I need to remind you that if you refuse the order this time and withdraw from the auction, all future auctions will be forever prohibited to you. You'd better think carefully."

Bernard Arno listened and instantly grew frightened, hurriedly saying: "Even if I were to order it, there's no need for it to start at twenty billion? Can't we just reduce it a bit?"

Ye Chen looked at him coldly and said: "I'm sorry, Mr. Arno, but here there is no room for bargaining. You have so many luxury goods stores around the world, each year earning countless fortunes from orders alone. One trillion might even be understated, and now you're only willing to offer ten billion? If that's the case, then I think you shouldn't participate in this auction at all - just take your money and go back to France!"

Bernard Arno was filled with anger at this moment, but deep down he had already realized his mistake.

He himself was the founder of the order industry, having earned hundreds of billions by relying on orders. So he well understood why merchants dared to ask consumers for orders - because they were absolutely confident in their products.

As soon as they knew that consumers were willing to pay any price for this product, they had enough confidence to ask consumers to place orders. A package worth tens of thousands needs to be paired with twenty thousand dollars' worth of goods, and a watch worth twenty thousand needs to be paired with forty-five thousand dollars' worth - it's all precise psychological manipulation to control customers, so they can mercilessly take advantage of them.

Now, he was unable to get what he wanted from Huaqiao, let him arrange the logistics, and he could only grit his teeth and accept it.

After all, you can't mix business with morals.

Thinking about this, he could only nod in agreement, saying to Ye Chen: "Alright! Twenty billion for twenty billion!"

Ye Chen nodded slightly, saying calmly: "Later, Mr. Arno, the chairman of Goldstone Palace will give you an invoice here, and you can arrange your finances to transfer the money directly."

"Good." Bernard Arno nodded reluctantly, suppressing his anger and said: "I'll make sure to arrange for payment..."

Ye Chen smiled slightly and said: "Mr. Arno, in the future, doing business should be a bit more righteous. Set a price and sell at that price, don't always think about relying on scarcity marketing and logistics systems to earn extra profits. As we Chinese say, doing too many bad things will harm one's reputation, which is not beneficial for generations to come."

Bernard Arno asked gruffly: "Don't you people do the same thing?" JrNovels.com