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Chapter 43: Don't be ungrateful!

In his past life, Chen Yuanzhou had wanted to interview Wu Shihao and talk to him about his experience in project marketing. Unfortunately, although he made contact with him, Wu Shihao did not want to recall anything about Zhong'an Group and refused.

Now that they have the chance to meet, Chen Yuanzhou is actually a little expectant.

"Hello, Mr. Chen!" Wu Shihao greeted him politely as he entered, and led Chen Yuanzhou to sit on the sofa. "I heard you're in the same industry as us? I didn't expect you to be so young."

He spoke sincerely, having initially assumed the manager was older, but the man looked much younger than him.

Chen Yuanzhou nodded. It seemed that Ge Shuai had already explained the basic situation, saving him the trouble of saying anything more.

He readily replied, "That's right, I'm an agent from Zhuowu Company."

Wu Shihao was also straightforward: "I just heard Manager Ge mention your request, and in principle, it's definitely impossible to meet it. Even buying three detached houses at once is not possible. However, I heard you wanted to meet with me to discuss it?"

"Okay." Chen Yuanzhou turned to Ge Shuai and said, "You can go out now."

"Huh?" Ge Shuai was taken aback, then sensibly went out the door and closed it behind him.

Wu Shihao raised an eyebrow, smiled, and said, "Mr. Chen, what advice do you have?"

"Mr. Wu, since we're in the same industry, I won't beat around the bush. Given your current customer base and market conditions, you must be under a lot of sales pressure, right?"

Wu Shih-hao knew he couldn't hide it from anyone; experienced agents could easily tell the result just by taking a stroll around the sales office.

So he admitted it quite frankly: "That's right, but that can't be a reason for us to make an exception. Although the three detached houses are worth tens of millions, given our size, it's not that much..."

Before he could finish speaking, Chen Yuanzhou laughed and said, "What if it were hundreds of millions, or even billions?"

"Hmm?" Wu Shihao frowned. "Sorry, I didn't understand what you meant."

Knowing that Wu Shihao was good at marketing, Chen Yuanzhou stopped arguing and said seriously, "Mr. Wu, I can tell you frankly that my decision to subscribe to your properties is not because I really want to buy them myself, but because I plan to speculate on pre-sale apartments."

Wu Shihao was even more confused after hearing this: "Speculating on pre-sale apartments? In the current market, pre-sale apartments probably won't sell, right?"

"And if you put it that way, there's even less chance I'll agree to your conditions!"

Chen Yuanzhou replied, "We can sign a mutual restriction agreement, or simply a betting agreement."

"As long as I can sell your pre-sale apartments at an extremely high price within the one-month contract period, and then fabricate a story that the developer doesn't allow name changes when changing the name, it will cause a public outcry..."

"For example, inviting a column like '2020 Magnifying Glass' to conduct an interview and report on it, or creating a highly popular scoop post on 'Upstairs and Downstairs,' would undoubtedly generate a lot of exposure and buzz! If we also add coverage from newspapers like 'Jiangcheng Evening News' or 'Metropolis Express,' the impact would be self-evident."

"If I can't sell it, I'll take responsibility for breach of contract and pay you double the penalty..."

"Wait a minute!" Wu Shihao reacted very quickly; he understood the meaning the moment Chen Yuanzhou said that.

"2020 Magnifying Glass" is a famous program on Jiangcheng TV's Lifestyle Channel, broadcast every night at 20:20 pm during prime time. Its main content is to report on various social issues related to people's livelihoods or disputes between businessmen and merchants. It has a wide audience not only in Jiangcheng City, but also throughout the province and even across the country.

As the largest local lifestyle forum in Jiangcheng City, [Lou Shang Lou Xia] receives an astonishing amount of exposure every day.

"Besides TV stations, forums, and newspapers, can we add radio?" Wu Shihao asked Chen Yuanzhou rhetorically. "Such comprehensive media exposure is tantamount to our project being doomed."

Chen Yuanzhou smiled, thinking to himself that this trick was indeed effective!

In fact, he knew he would be rejected when he made those demands. He had dealt with sales offices too many times in his past life. He was simply making demands on the developer from the perspective of a customer.

So unless you're buying a property worth hundreds of millions in one go, it's impossible to negotiate such terms; otherwise, it's just wishful thinking!

With just three villas, they have virtually no say in the matter.

However, from a marketing perspective, given Wu Shih-hao's expertise in marketing, he would definitely be interested!

But the foundation of all this still lies in whether the "gimmick" is big enough.

So Wu Shihao then asked, puzzled, "Leaving aside the penalty for breach of contract, I'm more curious about how you manage to sell pre-sale apartments at such a high price? If I remember correctly, pre-sale apartments usually cost only tens of thousands of yuan, which is nowhere near enough to achieve this effect. How high do you mean by 'extremely high'?"

"Over 30!" Chen Yuanzhou replied confidently, "A full 30 just to buy a pre-sale apartment, that should be enough of a selling point, right?"

"Everyone's focus will only be on why a pre-sale apartment in Qinghu Renjia is worth 30 yuan. As for the rule that name changes are not allowed, who cares?"

"At that time, whether customers are buying a house or not, they will probably all come to Qinghu Renjia to see what kind of houses can sell for sky-high prices just for pre-sale units, right?"

"Hiss~" Wu Shihao was so shocked by the price quoted by Chen Yuanzhou that he secretly gasped.

30? Just for a "home purchase qualification"?

Wu Shihao knew very well that if it could really be done, such a gimmick would be entirely beneficial.

But he quickly thought of another problem...

"You really dare to say that!" Wu Shihao chuckled. "And aren't you afraid that if you tell me all this, I'll reject you and do it myself? It's just two virtual clients; it's a piece of cake for me. Besides, if I do it myself, I can decide how much the pre-sale apartment is worth. It could easily be 40 or even 50."

Upon hearing this, Chen Yuanzhou looked at Wu Shihao seriously, and the other party was not intimidated at all. The two stared at each other.

After a moment, Chen Yuanzhou smiled and said, "Then let's pretend I was never here."

He got up to leave, but Wu Shihao quickly stood up and stopped him...

"Mr. Chen, it was just a joke, don't be angry, don't be angry~" he quickly apologized.

In fact, what he just did was a little test for Chen Yuanzhou.

If Chen Yuanzhou argues with phrases like "It was clearly my proposal" after he raises this question, then he might actually do it.

But Chen Yuanzhou simply walked away, while Wu Shihao had to think it over carefully…

If such a trending news story were to actually be created, besides the people of Qinghu themselves…

Who is the lucky one who sold their pre-sale apartment?

Who is the wealthy person who bought the pre-sale apartment?

This is something that onlookers who are definitely interested in will find more interesting.

If it's a virtual customer, it might be exposed by busybodies, or even by Chen Yuanzhou himself.

If it gets exposed later that Qinghu Renjia is having unsold stock and deliberately creating this gimmick to grab attention, the situation will become very ugly!

Therefore, the fact that "exorbitantly priced pre-sale apartments are being sold" must actually be true to substantiate the project's attractiveness...

Wu Shihao sighed, looked at Chen Yuanzhou, and said with a somewhat awkward smile, "Now that things have come to this, wouldn't it be rude of me not to agree?"

"That's right." Chen Yuanzhou was well aware of the key point, and said sarcastically, "President Wu, I'm giving you this proposal because I think highly of you. I hope you won't be ungrateful!"

Wu Shih-hao: "..."