Chapter 218 Malicious Business Competition
The disguise plan prepared by Hugo was successful to a certain extent.
At least these believers of the Church of Knowledge who arrived in Ceylon Territory from Green Harbor were indeed not discovered by the Knights of the Glow God who were patrolling all the way to the border.
When all the knights who checked saw that the team was full of stinky refugees, they decisively stayed away.
Their focus is on individuals or teams whose identities are unknown and whereabouts are unknown.
With the arrival of the Hunting Month, there will be a lot of excitement near the border. In addition to the professionals trying to obtain canonization and the merchants swarming in, there will definitely be people fishing in troubled waters trying to cause trouble.
A group of refugees temporarily hired to transport goods?
No threat at all.
Even if they want to cause trouble, nothing will happen.
Gathering people begging at the border?
The patrolling knights of the Glow God Cult didn't take Hugo's team to heart at all.
But there is another group of people.
Not only did she take Hugo's team seriously, but she also hated them to the point of death!
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A few days ago.
In the city of Ceylon.
In a luxurious private room upstairs in a tavern.
"Vicious competition!"
"There is no doubt! This is definitely malicious business competition!"
A fat man with a beard slapped the table angrily and roared.
Although the other people in the luxury private room didn't say anything, the expressions on their faces meant the same thing.
"Too much!"
"The rules are well stipulated, this guy is just here to disrupt the situation!"
"It's just too much!"
They have a common identity.
A weapons and equipment merchant near Ceylon Territory.
The main business is selling weapons and armor made by various blacksmiths.
Usually when the hunting month comes every year, it is the best time for them to make a lot of money.
Professionals from all over the Kingdom of Reyak went outside the border to hunt and destroy monsters for the king's commendation and canonization.
If you want to fight monsters, you must have the right weapons and equipment!
These equipment merchants will arrange several border defense camps in the Ceylon Territory in advance and transport the weapons and armor they have produced.
Then mark it with a slightly lower price than the usual selling price to act as a discount.
The Hunting Month lasts for the entire month of September. During this period, there will always be problems with the equipment of professionals during the battle with monsters in the dark forest. Whether it is repair or replacement, in order to save time, the Border Defense Camp is their best choice.
Especially those descendants of nobles hope to obtain inheritance rights or canonization by virtue of hunting and killing the moon, and they spend money to buy these weapons and equipment without blinking an eye.
The equipment dealers near the Ceylon Territory were originally planning to make a lot of money.
As a result, when they hurriedly transported the equipment that was either overstocked or rushed to be produced in their shop, the bad news came:
It couldn’t be sold!
Because I don’t know when a batch of equipment called “Handcrafted by the Dwarf Forging Master Malen” appeared on the border defense line.
Not to mention excellent quality;
The most outrageous thing is that his prices are simply driving other equipment dealers to death.
A set of "fine iron light armor" costs only 99 silver coins!
What is the difference between this and giving it away for free?
You must know that when these equipment dealers hunted the moon in previous years, their selling prices were at most a few silver coins lower than the normal price.
For example, light armor sold for 4 gold and 19 silver at the original price will be sold for 4 gold and 10 silver after the discount.
Although their business is inherently profitable.
The purchase price of the stone castle is more than 2 gold coins, but when it changes hands in the Kingdom of Leyak, it can be sold for 4 gold coins.
But that can’t lower the selling price below 1 gold coin! They can't even recoup the cost of purchasing the goods.
Equipment dealers quickly reached a consensus.
"This product of the dwarf forging master Maren, who appeared out of nowhere, must be here to engage in price war and malicious competition!"
The bearded man made a decisive judgment.
Because they used this trick to torment their colleagues to death.
There are only a few blacksmith shops in Ceylon that are qualified to sell dwarf equipment.
It’s not that others don’t want to get a piece of this industry.
But those who tried to enter the industry were bullied by the bearded men and their "offensive and defensive alliance" and lost their money.
They will use various simple and vicious business warfare methods:
such as price wars.
Bracing the loss, they forcefully mark an ultra-low price that cannot even earn back the purchase cost.
It forces peers to follow suit and lower prices, and whoever loses all their money first has to get out.
After driving away other ignorant colleagues, Luo Shihu and several other blacksmith shop owners formed a business alliance. In the Ceylon Territory and its surrounding areas, the prices of equipment were set at a unified price, and everyone raised prices together to gain customers.
As a result, this year's hunting month encountered someone who came to disrupt the situation.
When everyone goes to Stone Castle to purchase goods, the cost is more than 2 gold coins, which is the same for everyone.
Dare to sell for 99 silver coins, this is not malicious commercial competition!
When Luo Xihu and the others engage in price wars to suppress their peers, the price is at most a dozen silver coins lower than the cost, and they have to bear great pressure to lose money.
Just cut it in half and it's still lower. They don't dare to follow this price war.
But that doesn’t mean they don’t have other ways to “drive away their peers.”
Bearded and others tried to find this disruptor who suddenly appeared.
After investigating the area near Ceylon Territory for a long time, there were no clues at all!
The only thing linked to "Dwarf Blacksmith Maren" is a small blacksmith shop called "Dwarf Precision" in Ceylon City, and it closed down some time ago.
These ultra-cheap weapons and equipment seem to pop out of thin air.
Unable to find the other party's store or warehouse, they could only resort to the next best thing, looking for transportation channels for the goods or relevant personnel.
After an investigation, they finally located the goblin named Hugo Seavey.
The first time the products of "Dwarf Blacksmith Maren" were sold, he was the one who hawked them.
This clue is very clear, because the other party is a goblin, and he also admitted that he grew up in Ceylon Territory.
The only person who meets these two characteristics is Hugo Seavey.
After confirming the target, Lu Hu became restless.
In addition to price wars, there is also a worse and more useful means of commercial warfare.
When the hunting month comes, everyone will transport goods near the border defense line.
Ceylon leads this place... Isn't it too much to see a few gangs of robbers and bandits pop up occasionally?
Luxury quickly entrusted an intermediary to help him contact several stalkers who believed in the God of Shadow.
"Intelligence shows that Hugo Seavey often travels between Ceylon City and the border defense line, and he likes to stay out at night."
"My request is simple."
"In the wilderness, unfortunately, you encountered robbers who robbed you. The target was killed on the spot, and the goods were robbed by the robbers and all the goods were 'lost'. They disappeared without a trace."
"Can it be done?"
The bearded man spoke harshly.
He must resolutely curb this unfair and malicious commercial competition.
Only his business alliance can do equipment business around the Ceylon Territory!
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(End of this chapter)