Reincarnation of Audemars - Who Am I...?

Expansion And Growth

Over the next 15 days in order to complete the whole collection of X4Li8 Face Scrubs, I had managed to duplicate out 50,000 for the first 3 days of porcelain bottles and jewel cases for the 'Head To Toe' Shampoo, 'Sparklie' Toothpaste and 'X4Li8' Face Scrubs and day by day the children helped to push the crates of "X4Li8' to the store and helped to do a good product display from the outside looking in.

During that 15 days, I had purchased yet another 3 more production plants at a cost of 1.2 million credits paid in full to the Council Chambers and had employed yet another 60 employees from Ingmery and other smaller settlements around, making the whole workforce to 160 including the ones from Beauty World HQ and they were introduced to produce a basic foundation powder makeup, lip balm applicator which I called lipstick for short and eyeliner.

Since the basic foundation powder, lipstick and eyeliner use the same type of compact porcelain jewel case, it was marked with a picture of an eye, lips and the silhouette design of a lady's face. These compact porcelain jewel cases were duplicated 36,000 times.

As for the 4th day onwards, I had duplicated the iron amulets at 20,000 pieces for the next 11 days and I had sold the 220,000 pieces of iron amulets for a whopping total of 2.2 million credits...!!! Like I've said, NoOne is sitting on a gold mine and is a walking ATM to me.

The duplication of the 50,000 porcelain pieces, 36,000 compact porcelain jewel cases and the 220,000 pieces of iron amulet had raised my levels considerably, rewarding me extra allocation points that I might find it useful in the future.

I had levelled up to Level: 5183/100,000. Professional Crafter 4338/10000. I had a total of Unallocated points: 31,317 and my Wealth leapt to 2,091,150 credits after deducting 1.2 million credits for the 3 production plants.

By this time, the three of them, Patricia, Prius and Rebecca had created such a fantastic PR that the citizens of Ingmery from Central, Northern and Southern were all excited and had jiggled their credits in front of them and were asking when would the store be opened.

When the store finally did open after the 15th batch of X4Li8 had been delivered into the store, throngs of women flocked outside it and the patrolmen had to be engaged to control the crowd. The soft launch was at 5 pm that day and the children helped to answer the queries and what they should buy and its uses.

Without the children's assistance, the customers would not have the faintest idea on what to buy. This crowd overseeds the group of men buying MR P when it was released to the public.

The sales for the 'Head To Toe' Shampoo was at 60 credits, the 'Sparklie' Toothpaste at 35 credits and 'X4Li8' was sold at 40 credits. As the store was considered filled with fragile items, only 5 ladies were allowed to enter at one time. I was busy entertaining their questions.

The patrol guards were helpful to form 5 rows each and allow the ladies into the store, from the 5 in the row. I told the ladies there's no need to rush and we will put up a sign on what time we would be open on the next day. Furthermore, the ladies that had just come out from the store also did a little PR for the store without realising it.

"Hey, Nancy... What did you buy?" a lady in the queue called out to her acquaintance that had emerged from the store carrying a large basket. "Oh... I bought these wonderful 'Head To Toe' Shampoo with these wonderful scents... It smells like perfume from Sephora you know and the DFS store at the port. A small vial of that perfume can buy a few of these." she answered and allowed some of the ladies who were queueing to smell the sweet fragrances of the shampoo she bought.

Upon hearing the cost of a perfume could buy a few of these perfume Scented shampoos, those ladies even tried to borrow money from each other so that they could buy the whole 10 collections.

"I bought these 'Sparklie' Toothpaste as well... My God... It smells so refreshing. You need to use this end of the hibiscus twig to brush with it. The children with the black work vest showed how to do it and the peppermint taste could still be felt right now... " Nancy said as the women ohhhs and ahhhs over the products she had bought.

"Lastly, this is a facial scrub, that is said to rejuvenate the skin, leaving it free from oil and also makes one face youthful. I don't have enough credits so I settle for 2 Scented ones. There have 15 types of wonderful smell and I'm going to try that tonight...! Toodle doo... Be seeing you girls... "she said as she waved and heads back home with the large wicker basket and two large bows tied around and at the handle.

Just the sight of the porcelain ware that the customer held and the sweet scent that wafted through the air when the stopper of the shampoo bottle was opened made the women that lined up to be more enthusiastic on getting their hands on the products.

"Luckily, we had kept more than enough stocks for them to buy these..." I said happily to Patricia as she beamed her widest grin to me as she made quite a good sales over the counter and every single purchase entitles them to a free wicker basket, from small, medium and large depending on the prices.

The sales were brisk and steady but when the ladies enter and realised that there are 3 types of products but with 30 types of scents and flavours they wished they could buy the whole store. Since it was 'cash only' basis, some even wanted to buy every single scent and flavour on IOU but was turned down by Patricia.

Prius and Rebecca joined us around 630pm since we did not return back for dinner and helped to serve and take orders from the ladies waiting in line. In this case, they were like those Jolibee order takers and rooks orders of 3 'Head To Toe' Shampoo,

"Sorry, my dear sisters... Sorry to be bummed if you don't have enough credits. Don't you worry, this store is not going anywhere and you could always come back anytime. Once the light is turned on means business is open. Buy only according to your affordability, come back here and get other types of scents and flavours too."

"Furthermore, stocks of new products would be brought in to our store very soon..." Patricia added and asked what types of products would be brought in. "Just bring a minimum 1000 credits with you, sisters, I am sure you won't find these products anywhere else."

Just these products on hand look good enough and could be used as decorative pieces and yet another few more products would be introduced. Wow... This is sure a happening place for the ladies to mill around and flaunt their beauty.

The working ladies were also there and when they saw me they waved their lace fans in their hands. They had gathered quite a ransom from their handsome princes as they had brought more than 2000 credits with them and literally wanted to buy every single scent of 'Head To Toe' Shampoo, 'Sparklie' Toothpaste and 'X4Li8' Face Scrubs that's available. This is the frenzy of the ladies during that time and era.

After we had served the last customers, little did we realised that we had worked ourselves to overtime and it was close to midnight when we finally settled the payment. Patricia counted the total takings from 5 pm just now to be 41k credits. If this continues for the rest of the 15 days until the end of the month, we would be able to achieve an approximate taking of 615k credits.

The children were sleepy but were excited that they had helped to boost the marketing and the sales. With the assistance of Prius and Rebecca from the outside taking the orders and making the sales, it helped speed up things as the ladies just asked Prius and Rebecca to randomly pick for them the products.

When Prius and Rebecca learned about the takings for today, they were surprised. Well... It would be time for the basic foundation makeup, lipstick and eyeliner to be rolled out in batches real soon.

As we were sitting on the wooden benches outside the store as I had closed up for the night, we were discussing how to further market these products when 2 travelling merchants came over.

"Good evening ladies and gents. My name is Nolan and Otis here is my friend. We are a travelling merchants and we saw how your business had boomed on the first day today, could we make a proposal so that its going to be both a win-win situation for us all?" said a travelling merchant who was taller than the other and from their looks and demeanour, these 2 men in front of us are of good nature and behaviour.