1643. Business is business
Qin Shiou snapped his fingers again. Today, he showed off a little too much and was slightly drunk.
Nelson quickly opened his black suitcase, which was a black pearl inside, arranged in a row according to its size, looked orderly, emitting a shiny brink of pleated light, and blinded Vincent and the other two.
Seeing so many black pearls, Vincent was not happy, but his expression became a little ugly. He said, "Qin, I treat you as my little brother. Is it a bit too much for you to do this?"
Black pearls are jewelry, and the quantity can be produced every year is quite large, but Qin Shiou provides top-quality black pearls, which are high-end luxury jewelry. Only Tahiti, Australia can produce some, and it is expensive.
Moreover, even ordinary wild black pearls can produce very few places in the world. Strictly speaking, there are only two. One is Tahiti Island in the Polynesian Islands, which produces 95% of the world's black pearls; the other is Penlin Island and Majushiki Island in the Cook Islands, which account for 4% of the total output, while the output in other regions is less than one percent.
This is a natural black pearl. Nowadays, more black pearls in the world are breeding black pearls. Thirty years ago, the French Polynesian Islands developed the black pearl breeding technology. However, the black pearls cultivated are cored black pearls, with color and roundness not as good as natural black pearls. Therefore, even in 1976, the American Gemological Academy recognized that the breeding black pearls produced on Tahiti Island were "a natural color breeding pearl", but in the high-end luxury market, breeding pearls are incomparable to wild pearls.
What is the difference between them? That is, the feeling that the most important thing about these wild black pearls provided by Qin Shiou is that their color has a sense of mystery. This is a black that can make people devote themselves to, while the color of the breeding black pearls is dim. After being soaked in sweat for a long time, the color is even more ugly.
Luxury jewelry such as wild black pearls have specific market targeting. Only those who can buy them, and their value determines that it cannot be faced with the whole society. According to the rules of market supply and marketing, things are rare and expensive. The smaller the number of high-quality black pearls, the higher the price. If there are too many, it will be worthless.
At first, Vincent and the other two quoted Qin Shiou based on the entry of one hundred high-quality black pearls into the upper class of the United States. If you knew from the beginning that he had two thousand such high-quality black pearls, then Vincent would have to bargain at least half of the price!
Qin Shiou knew this, but business is business. Auerbach and Bruce have repeatedly emphasized to him this business rule. People and business cannot be mixed, otherwise they will definitely suffer.
So, when he sold these black pearls, he used some tricks. Instead of showing all the black pearls, he took out a hundred to price them first.
It cannot be said that he cheated Vincent. First of all, these black pearls are definitely worth the price; secondly, Vincent's price at the beginning was a bit low. He squeezed the value of these black pearls from him. As the saying goes, business is business, and the two of them do not care about the personal training. They are now doing business.
This is a bit similar to when Qin Shiou and Butler tricked Takata Tezuka together. They first sold him a bluefin tuna with excellent meat at a high price, and then when Takata Tezuka bought it and brought it back to Tokyo to make a big fight. Butler brought three bluefin tunas of the same quality.
At the beginning of last year, this incident made Takata Tezuka so miserable. Kiyomura Co., Ltd. has been a little slumped since then. He has been with the bluefin tuna for too much money.
However, Qin Shiou naturally could not treat Vincent like Takata Tezuka. He had a solution and asked first: "Don't worry, Tiffany's husband, I want to ask, what are you black pearls going to do?"
Vincent said: "It is made into jewelry, big ones for headwear, necklaces or other jewelry, small ones for studs, lip beads and other jewelry."
Qin Shiou laughed and said, "So, why are you anxious? Although I still have two thousand black pearls in my hand, it has no conflict with you. Your plan is to disperse the black pearls. I want to make these black pearls into sets of jewelry, and each set of black pearls is at least 100!"
Vincent asked, "You mean, aren't you going to sell these black pearls?"
Qin Shiou nodded and said, "Yes, that's what it means. I won't sell them to you, nor to other stores. I hope you can make classic jewelry like the Queen of the Dark Night, and I will deal with them at the auction store."
This was his first idea. In fact, he had another idea, but he couldn't say it now, it depends on what Vincent meant.
Vincent knew the value represented by these black pearls. He wanted to get it into his pocket. With Tiffany's strength, there was no financial pressure to buy all the black pearls. As long as he had more than two thousand top-quality black pearls, he believed that Tiffany would not have to purchase black pearls in the next two years.
Even in the past two years, they can use these top black pearls to market and make various black pearls special topics without purchasing other types of super jewelry such as blue diamonds, pink diamonds, jadeites, etc., and they will definitely achieve certain success in this regard.
The reason for such confidence is that Vincent knew that the value of the black pearl had not been fully discovered. You should know that just fifty years ago, the black pearl was still an ordinary decoration. If it weren't for the 'Black Pearl King' Salvador Assal, the black pearl would probably still have no value now.
Speaking of Black Pearl, we have to talk about it from the beginning of World War II. At that time, there was a big diamond businessman in Italy named James Assal. He fled from Europe to Cuba for refuge.
There, he found a way to make a living. At that time, the US military needed waterproofing meters. Assal obtained a large number of high-quality waterproofing meters through his relationship with the Swiss jewelry industry, so he made a lot of money.
However, after the end of World War II, the US military no longer bought waterproof meters, and Assal's business reached its peak. At this time, there were still thousands of Swiss watches left in stock. The Swiss waterproof meter he obtained was all high-end goods, and the cost price was also very high, so he could not throw it into his hands.
Then things began to turn around. The Japanese needed to watch the show at that time, but they had no money. However, they had pearls until now. Japan was also a major pearl producer, but they produced white pearls.
Soon, James Assal and his son started bartering and exchanged Swiss watches for Japanese pearls. The business was booming. Not long after, his son Salvador Assal was called the "King of Pearls".
But at that time, the Ansar family still operated the White Pearl business. The Black Pearl was still a black glass ball, and it appeared after the turn. (To be continued.)
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Chapter completed!