Now that Kisha thought about it, they had sold hundreds upon hundreds of spiritual fruits, all of which were gone the mont she restocked them. She realized that only a few were probably real custors, while the rest were higher-level rchants from the upper realms, reselling the fruits at a premium.
She couldn’t do anything about it; it was just business. But then a mischievous grin spread across her lips as an idea struck her.
"Then, if they’re selling our produce at sky-high prices, let’s price ours even higher. That way, if they try to undercut us or charge more than our set price, their regular custors will notice the sudden change, and it could disrupt their operations."
"Eventually, it would either push the rchants to co to us to discuss wholesale pricing so they could profit from our products, or the custors would do their howork, find the real source, which is us, and buy directly from our store."
"That way, we earn more system points. After all, we just spent 500,000,000 system points earlier, and we need to recoup that by selling more items," Kisha explained, rubbing her chin thoughtfully.
"So far, this is the only solution I can think of. Besides, I’ve already been planning to increase our product prices anyway, so this is the perfect timing. We can treat the previous prices as promotional rates for opening the store on the Sales Channel."
"Even if the prices go up, the quality has already been tested by our custors, and we’ve built a small but loyal custor base. Plus, what we’re selling isn’t ordinary grade, so they’ll have options they can’t easily find anywhere else."
Besides, because her newly opened store had strong sales data, the system had been giving her excellent visibility over the past few days. That’s why her items were even appearing on the front pages of the System Mall.
Although the System Mall takes a 20% cut from every sale made there, she could treat that 20% as part of the price increase instead of letting other rchants profit from her produce.
In this way, the system earned from the cut, and her products received additional promotion. While system promotions are automatically determined by the algorithm based on store performance, it was still helpful, and she could expect a good return.
Even though she wasn’t yet offering wholesale options to other rchants, she could selectively work with bigger or trusted stores, treating it as another form of promotion.
It’s like how a farr sells their crops to a supplier for quick cash, and then the supplier sells them to a supermarket for better sales, greater visibility, and more custors. But in her case, she planned to take advantage of the System Mall’s promotions over the next few days, attracting custors from the higher and middle realms directly to her little store.
If that didn’t suffice, she could offer her products at wholesale prices to higher-level rchants a few tis, letting them distribute the products so more people would beco aware of them. Once she decided to stop wholesale selling, custors would naturally co back to her original store to purchase the products themselves.
It wasn’t that she didn’t want other rchants to profit from her, but if she wanted to earn more than before, she had to raise her prices; otherwise, the other rchants would simply take the gains.
In business, such practices were normal. Smaller rchants lacked the networks and capital to handle large-scale sales, so they relied on bigger rchants to buy their products, recoup their initial investnts, and let the bigger rchants to shoulder so of the risk.
After all, not every wholesale item can be sold, and success depends on marketing, connections, and promotions. That’s why many preferred wholesaling their goods; they simply didn’t have the capacity to take bigger risks.
Kisha, however, was different. Even though her store was low-level, she could bear the risk herself, since she provided her own products with nearly zero investnt. Even if so items lingered unsold for a while, they wouldn’t spoil.
So, she could simply wait for custors to co to her, or let interested rchants offer higher wholesale prices if they wanted to collaborate. That way, she wouldn’t lose out while still putting in the work herself.
After all, she needed to ensure her people grew stronger, which required more resources, aning more system points she could use to buy anything she couldn’t produce herself in the future.
"Host, that’s a brilliant idea! Should we price our products, especially the spiritual crops, the sa way as the higher-level rchants in the higher realm?" 008 asked excitedly, practically buzzing with enthusiasm. After all, the more it earned, the more system points it gained, boosting its ranking. It would never say no to selling higher-priced products like those top-tier stores.
"Yes," Kisha replied calmly, already starting to list the spiritual fruits and vegetables in her store.
[Would you like to list Spiritual Cabbage on the Sales Channel?]
[Yes] or [No]
Kisha unhesitatingly clicked ’Yes’, but when the prompt [Please set the Price of the item] appeared, she suddenly paused. She rembered a conversation she had with 008 after seeing the Scarlet Honey sell like hotcakes. She had considered setting so items up as a tid bidding instead of a fixed price.
What if she tried it now?
After all, almost everything she sold was rare, especially the Scarlet Honey. She had acquired the last Scarlet Queen Bee alive in the entire realm, from lower to upper levels, so it was impossible to find it elsewhere.
If she set it up for bidding, even starting with a few units, the limited supply could drive demand sky-high. Previously, she had sold Scarlet Honey for 1,500 system points and raised the price a few tis. Now, with a bidding system, the competition could not only double the price but possibly push it even higher than she expected, classic hunger marketing in action.
"Host, you’re turning into quite the money grubber..." 008 snickered, though it didn’t argue with Kisha’s plan, after all, it rembered her ntioning this idea before.
"Look who’s talking, you’re the real money grubber," Kisha shot back with a grin.
Instead of setting a fixed price, she waved the price-setting prompt aside and clicked the three dots labeled [More].
Then, a dropdown nu appeared with several options:
[Set Price]
[Set To Bidding]
[Enter Promotion]
[Set For Free]
After seeing the dropdown nu, Kisha raised an eyebrow at the "Enter Promotion" and "Set For Free" options. She realized it was probably the first ti she had clicked the three dots beside the pricing, as she usually set prices directly without hesitation. But she didn’t dwell on it for long. Instead, she clicked "Set To Bidding", and a new input box appeared:
[Bidding Starting Price]
Thinking back to the prices 008 had ntioned for how much higher-level rchants were selling her produce, Kisha carefully decided on the starting bid:
[Initial Bidding Price: 8000 system points]
A prompt followed:
[Would you like to set a Bidding Price Ceiling?]
[Yes] or [No]
Kisha clicked "No", allowing the custors to raise the price however they wanted. If an item sold for a high amount, the rchants who had been buying her products would surely notice that she was aware of their premium pricing. Sensible rchants might even contact her directly for collaboration and adjust their own prices accordingly.
This approach also ant she wouldn’t need to restock constantly. By setting the bidding end ti, she could create scarcity, increasing custors’ drive to win the items, especially if they desperately wanted them.
[Set the End of The Bidding]
[3 days]
[Do you wish to set automatic restocking when the sa items are available in the inventory?]
[Yes] or [No]
Seeing this option, Kisha raised an eyebrow. It ant she wouldn’t need to restock her store manually all the ti, and since she was setting a daily restocking, it would make her items feel like rare treasures or high-grade commodities. Her original idea had shifted slightly because of this feature, but the core concept remained the sa, so the change didn’t really matter all that much.
Kisha happily clicked Yes and soon repeated the process, setting almost everything in her store to bidding, including the scrolls. This way, she wouldn’t feel pressured to constantly restock or spend most of her ti inscribing new scrolls just because the previous ones sold so fast.
Instead of ending the scrolls’ bidding at the end of the day, she set them to last for seven days. This gave her more ti to rest and focus on other things instead of hiding away in her territory just inscribing magic scrolls.
For teleportation scrolls, which would be restocked biweekly, she kept the sa schedule. For Scarlet Honey, spiritual fruits, crops, and other high-demand items, she set the bidding to end every three days.
She had considered daily bidding, but realized that would only slightly raise the prices each ti, giving rchants little incentive to compete aggressively. A three-day cycle would generate more excitent and demand, making the strategy far more effective.
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