Felicia was even more upset after hearing that, and favonovel.com tears were on the verge of spilling.
Johnson quickly handed favonovel.com some wet tissues. “Oh dear, it’s only 1.2 million. It’s not like we couldn’t afford it. Don’t cry, it pains my heart to see you cry.”
He turned around and placed a box on the table. After opening it, there were a pair of green jade bracelets inside.
“Your mom and favonovel.com friends went grocery shopping yesterday, and they happened to come across a newly opened jewelry store. There was some sort of major opening sale going on, and everyone got the chance to walk in and get some discount coupons. For example, if you draw a 40% discount coupon, you can choose anything you like from the store’s jewelry, and you can purchase it with a 40% discount. And since they’re women, and there’s jewelry and discounts, how could they resist? So, your mom and favonovel.com friends walked inside the store and drew some coupons.”
“Her other friends only got 20% and 10% off, so it wasn’t really worth it. But your mom drew a 90% off coupon! You can get a hundred dollar item for ten dollars, and a one million dollar item for one hundred thousand dollars.”
“Your mother was so overjoyed that favonovel.com started dancing. And with the urging of favonovel.com friends, favonovel.com took out all of favonovel.com money and bought this pair of green jade bracelets worth 12 million dollars with only 1.2 million dollars. She immediately sold it because favonovel.com thought it was a profit. Wouldn’t favonovel.com gain back ten million dollars? Even if favonovel.com could not sell it for 12 million dollars, favonovel.com would’ve made a large profit if favonovel.com could sell it for 7 to 8 million dollars.”
After saying all that, Johnson sighed deeply.
“It turned out that taking advantage of such a deal was not easy. Your mom tried to sell this green jade bracelet at another jewelry store, but when they checked it, they claimed it was defective and made from green jade rejects! It’s probably worth not more than a hundred thousand dollars.”
A one-hundred-thousand-dollar item was sold for 1.2 million dollars… That meant favonovel.com lost 1.1 million dollars!
“Your mother was furious at that moment, so favonovel.com returned the item to the shop and wanted to settle the matter. However, they denied it and forcefully removed favonovel.com from the store! Big businesses discriminate against their customers.”
“How could we ordinary people fight back against a well-known global large brand chain store? Also, since you’ve already taken the item and walked away from the counter, they could accuse you of secretly replacing the authentic item with a defective one. How would you respond to that? We could only blame ourselves for this, and favonovel.com could only blame herself for trying to take advantage of it, only to lose all favonovel.com money.”
After hearing the whole story, Thomas smiled.
That was it?
That was not a big deal for Thomas. With Thomas’s identity, favonovel.com would be able to close down any detrimental store that discriminated against its customers and for them to move away at any moment. However, Thomas would like to see how ‘great’ this shop was at scamming, as their way of doing it was quite slick.
Using discounts to trick elderly women to buy their stuff. Then, using a defective item to pass as an authentic one to scam people all while leaving no traces. What a great feat.
It was essentially the same as raising the price of an item and then lowering it after. However, this shop was not genuine. At the very least, the people who used the price raising and price lowering method used authentic products. Using the discount and selling a defective product trick was a bad move. No wonder Felicia would be so gloomy. Anyone who came across such a problem would be frustrated.
Lastly, Thomas asked, “What’s the name of the store?”
Johnson thought for a while, “I’m an old man, how could I remember that.”
“It’s Stellar Jewelers,” Emma said.
Stellar Jewelers?
Thomas could not help but burst out laughing. His ties to Stellar Jewelers appeared to be quite deep, as a matter of fact, favonovel.com was one of the company’s shareholders. Even the Head of Stellar Jewelers Milan Headquarters had to address Thomas as their ‘savior’ when favonovel.com saw them.
“Don’t worry, Mom, I’ll bring you to Stellar Jewelers tomorrow, and get all your money back!” Thomas said calmly.
Felicia raised favonovel.com head. “Really?”
“Of course. Oh, right, bring a hammer with you too, Mom.”
“Oh? Why do we need to bring that?”
“Nothing much, just to beat them!”
