At eight o'clock, the boss asked people to move the books out one after another.
Someone shouted, "Didn't you say the sale starts at eight o'clock? Why didn't the moving start until eight o'clock?"
The boss kept smiling and said, "I'm moving and selling at the same time, sir, don't be angry."
"Boss, are there enough books in the warehouse?" someone asked again.
"That's enough." The boss answered decisively at first, but then he lost some confidence and said, "It should be enough."
Seeing the boss' lack of confidence, the customers who came to buy books immediately started to take action. If there were really not enough books, it would be better to take action early.
But after all, we are in a bookstore, and everyone is more or less a cultural person. We can’t save face like the grandparents who rush to the mall to grab goods on Black Friday. The most they can do is stretch out their hands, explore their necks, and shout “please” a few times if they are in a hurry.
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While maintaining order, the bookstore owner shouted, "Don't worry, everyone, the bookstore has bought a lot of books this time, especially collector's edition sets, there are dozens of them."
It was okay that the boss didn't say anything, but when he said that there were only a few dozen sets of the collector's edition, people became even more excited.
"Boss, give me a collector's edition..."
"Here's a set too..."
"I'll do two sets..."
The boss looked at the lively scene in the bookstore with a smile and was in a good mood.
The shaky expressions he made just now, as well as the forcibly appeasing actions, were all to stimulate these consumers.
Of course there are a lot of books.
Norton Bookstore is very large, and the amount of books purchased every time is very large. This time, because it was a heavy volume of books and it happened to be in time for an event, the boss made the decision directly, and the amount of books purchased was three times the usual amount.
What should I do if I can’t sell out?
The boss has not considered this issue. Even if these books cannot be sold out today, they will definitely be sold in the future. At worst, it will only temporarily occupy a little space in the warehouse.
He bought more than 200 sets of the collector's edition alone.
Originally, he wanted to buy more, but the channel dealer told him that there were not so many for him. Although the limited edition of this collector's edition was not mentioned, the quantity released was not large. He could get more than two hundred sets.
Because of his large bookstore and the good relationship he has with distributors.
When he got these two hundred sets of books, the boss was a little worried. After all, such a set of books was really heavy. Most people would never buy such a set of books when they came to the bookstore and take them home.
So just now he played a scheming trick and deliberately told them that there were only fifty sets, just to arouse their tension.
This is called hunger marketing.
The reality was a bit more beautiful than he imagined. More than 200 sets of collector's editions were sold. In just over an hour, more than 70 sets were sold, and one-third of them were sold out.
Stuckart didn't know what her boss was thinking. For her, no matter whether the boss was playing tricks or not, her purpose today was very clear, which was to buy two sets of collector's editions.
She drove a car specially today just to transport books conveniently.
After buying the book, Stuckart did not stay in the bookstore to read. Firstly, it was because the bookstore was crowded with people and it was difficult to calm down and read the book. Secondly, he could not wait to rush back to unpack the book.
Reading the new book is secondary, the main thing is that this time the collector's edition comes with a prize.
Although she has participated in so many events and has never won a prize every time, she still goes to the lottery with great anticipation every time.
This time is no exception.
It took the boss a lot of effort to move the two sets of books to his home.
There are more than forty books in this collector's edition set, divided into six parts. Each part is contained in a small box with a plastic bag on the outside, but the books inside are not individually sealed in plastic bags.
This means that she now needs to open twelve boxes and see if there is any winning prize inside one by one.
One, none of the seven books inside was missing, and the title pages were all blank.
No surprise, taken for granted, accustomed to...
It would be weird if you won the lottery.
The second one, five books, still nothing.
The third, the fourth...
By the time she opened the ninth one, she had opened more than sixty books, but all were blank. Now she had given up hope and was opening the books purely mechanically.
"Well, there is no such thing..."
Stuckart opened a copy of "Alive", glanced at the title page, muttered something, and put the book back.
But then she reacted and quickly took the book in her hand again, ready to open it and take another look.
When she was about to open it, she stopped and took a deep breath. She was a little unsure whether what she just saw was an illusion.
After breathing in the air, she slowly opened a corner of the cover with excitement, and then secretly looked inside.
There was a dark shadow, I couldn't tell what it was.
Open it a little more, and gradually reveal the shadowy lineup.
“Congratulations, lucky one——Zhang Zhong.”
It turned out to be a signature that combines Chinese and English. This must have been specially written for the English-speaking area. I didn’t expect pz to be so good to English-speaking readers this time.
Stuckart touched the paper gently with his hands excitedly. The dented marks of his signature felt so wonderful to the touch, as if he could have a spiritual communication with Zhang Zhong through these few words.
Not long ago, pz also opened the title page like her, and then slowly wrote this line with a pen.
There was no need to look through the remaining books, because there would not be two signatures in a set of books, but she still excitedly opened the books and took a look to make sure there were no other signatures.
She took a photo with emotion and then posted an Instagram message. After being an African chief for such a long time, she finally had such a big deal. She felt proud and proud.
After doing all this, she remembered that today was the day when a new book was released, and she had not read "Speaker for the Dead" yet.
He hurriedly picked up a copy of "Speaker for the Dead" and sat in a comfortable position on the sofa to read the new book.
Dramas like this are happening in many places around the world. Not to mention readers buying books or passers-by customers coming to bookstores, there are also some adults and grandparents passing by the vegetable market in front of the bookstore to buy food. They will look for it when they see such a lively scene.
The person next to me asked, "What kind of activity are you doing?"
When they heard that they were only selling books without any discounts, the adults were disappointed and curious at the same time, "Gee, so many people are buying this book, it must be very good."
As it takes longer and longer for new books to be on the shelves, there are more and more discussions online about lucky prizes for collector's edition books.
There are quite a few people who won the lottery, but the base is not large enough, so it is very rare to get the signature this time.
Moreover, all the signatures this time are special signatures with blessing words, which are different in each language. Not only that, there are not only one special signature in the same language.