Volume 1 Chapter 17 (1/2)
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Everyone instantly calmed down, looking at each other in blank dismay.
“Brand? What is that?”
“That’s right, what is this thing? Have you heard of it before?”
“Only a ghost would have heard of it……”
“He wouldn’t be speaking nonsense to fool us, right?”
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Everyone discussed this and after a while, the large man couldn’t take it anymore and shouted at Heinz, “Hey, profiteer, what is this brand you mentioned? Why can you tell it wasn’t sold by you since there was no brand? Let me tell you, if you want to cheat us, there is no good ending for you!”
Heinz laughed and waved his hand, “No, no, no, how could that be? My place is a lawful operation, how could it cheat people. Of course, it isn’t something sold by us, so how can it be associated with us? Come, everyone take a look.”
Heinz took as Magic Fan he had already prepared from Alex and raised it high up, letting everyone see it. He pointed at the badge above the switch at the base of the Magic Fan.
“Does everyone see this? There is a half wing design here, which is the brand of a Magic Fan made by us. It is called the Frestech Brand. Only Magic Fans with this symbol are products sold by us. If it doesn’t have it, it is fake goods sold by someone else!”
[TL Note: Frestech is an actual chinese company that sells refrigerators.]
Hearing him say this, everyone couldn’t help looking at the Magic Fans in their hands.
“Yi? It really doesn’t have it.”
“That’s right, mine doesn’t have it either.”
“Could it be that he is telling the truth? These Magic Fans really aren’t sold by them?”
“It can’t be. I’ve asked around, there is only this place in Banta City that sells Magic Fans.”
“That also isn’t right. My Magic Fan was not bought from this store, it was a fellow who ran to my village to sell this. I’ve heard they specially came to our village from this store to resell this thing.”
“Oh? It’s the same as me. What did the fellow who sold you the Magic Fan look like?”
“Let me think…...That fellow was not old, but his skin was very dark. That’s right, his nose was especially big.”
“Oh, that isn’t the same. The fellow who came to our village to sell the Magic Fan was a middle aged man.”
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Hearing the discussion in the crowd, Heinz gave a slight nod. It seemed like the fellows selling imitation Magic Fans was a group. After they finished making the imitations, they split up to sell them in the villages.
After everyone discussed this, they all had the same worried looks.
“Hey, according to what this fellow said, this Magic Fan was not sold by them. What do we do now? I spent two gold coins on this Magic Fan and now it’s broken, so who should I look for now?”
“That’s right, I can’t just spend these two gold coins in vain, right?”
“Ai, it’s my fault for being lazy and cheap. I asked around earlier, everyone who bought a Magic Fan here bought one for two gold coins. Think about it, since those fellows were trying to resell them, how could it be for only two gold coins? Wouldn’t he have made a trip in vain, what money would he gain?”
“That’s right……”
“This isn’t good. According to what you’ve said, haven’t we been cheated? Didn’t we waste those two gold coins?”
“Otherwise? Can we still find the boss here to cause trouble? Our Magic Fans don’t have that…..brand he mentioned, it means it wasn’t sold by him.”
“But……”
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Seeing everyone’s worried looks, Heinz seized this chance to loudly shout, “Everyone, please calm down. I still have something else to announce.”
Everyone immediately stopped talking, they wanted to hear what he was going to say.
“I know that everyone has been cheated by a swindler and I understand what everyone is thinking, but I must make something clear right now. The Frestech Magic Fans is currently only sold in our store, anything sold anywhere else are all imitations. I ask everyone to please be careful.”
“Che…..What use is there in saying this now? We’ve already been cheated.”
“That’s right, it’s just words. This fellow wouldn’t compensate us our gold coins.”
“Humph, this fellow in the end is just a profiteer, would he have any good intentions?”
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