If you ask Yang Yu whether he wants to attend the auction, to be honest, Yang Yu doesn't want to come at all. He has long despaired of his luck.
He is not the kind of person who can easily find rare treasures by attending auctions. Most of the time, it is just like he has not been there.
He has always been the one who takes things to auction houses, and he seldom buys things from auction houses.
This time, the reason why Yang Yu agreed to let the person in charge attend the auction was purely to continue pretending to be an idle rich kid, so as not to arouse any suspicion from the person in charge and allow him to concentrate on investigating the matter.
He dressed like this in compliance with the advice of the person in charge: "Even if you want to dress less conspicuously to hide your identity, please dress neatly when the auction is officially held. Otherwise, you will appear out of place in the venue and become more conspicuous."
As a sunny otaku who often stays at home playing games, Yang Yu has never cared much about dressing up. In the game, he wears whatever is practical.
This time, he was extra attentive.
On the one hand, he must show his subtle aura of superiority, and on the other hand, he must highlight his slightly unique aesthetic. It would be best if he wore a style of clothing that no one else had ever seen before, so that the person in charge would be more firmly convinced of his identity.
After choosing for a long time, Yang Yu finally chose the suit he had pulled out of the system not long ago, and then tied a fancy bow tie on it.
Although doing so would also make him conspicuous, this level of conspicuousness was well within Yang Yu's acceptable range.
Yang Yu attended the auction just to take a look. When others saw him, the most they would think was "Who did this guy come from? His aesthetic taste is so weird."
Bringing Iyas here will make others think, "That beauty is so pretty, go make some friends with her, but the man next to her is nobody, we need to investigate his background."
Both are selling onions, but in different scenes and with different focuses.
For example, when you go to buy a car, when there is no car model, you are really looking at the car, but when there is a car model, you don’t know what you are looking at.
As Yang Yu expected, the person in charge's expression froze when he saw Yang Yu's outfit, then he approached Yang Yu with a smile. After seeing the fine workmanship of Yang Yu's suit, he praised him again and again and told Yang Yu that they had a lot of good things here today, and if he liked anything, he could just buy it.
After saying this, the person in charge secretly handed Yang Yu a booklet.
The booklet contained exactly what Yang Yu wanted. It contained all the information of slave auction houses that had auctioned elves or had elves in stock within the past year. Each auction record was quite detailed, with the auction session, time, starting price and final price all clearly written.
This booklet was originally planned to be given to Yang Yu after the auction was over, but because Yang Yu might want to know the price in advance, and after knowing the price, Yang Yu would have an expectation in his mind and might actively participate in the auction, the person in charge gave the booklet to Yang Yu in advance.
However, the distinguished VIP card can only be given to Yang Yu after the auction is over.
In order to allow Yang Yu to join this auction, the person in charge also revealed to Yang Yu in advance that the starting price of the resurrection potion was 20 million.
If it were an ordinary person, hearing this number would make him dizzy and his mouth wide open in surprise, but Yang Yu just smiled indifferently, looking very satisfied, and followed the person in charge into the auction house, quietly waiting for the auction to begin.
Taking advantage of this time, Yang Yu also opened the booklet handed over by the person in charge and began to screen the targets to further narrow the search scope.
It doesn’t matter if you don’t look at it, but you’ll be shocked when you do.
The market price of elves is much higher than Yang Yu imagined. In fact, an elf was once auctioned for a high price of 12 million.
Assuming that Iyas's brother had not been auctioned off yet, it would certainly be impossible for him to be auctioned off at a sky-high price of 12 million. However, the price of a male elf is generally over 1 million, which is not affordable for ordinary people.
In order to be fully prepared, you need to have more funds.
Fortunately, if the resurrection medicine can be successfully auctioned, there will be no shortage of funds for a long time.
As time went by, more and more people gathered at the auction house, and the front row of VIP seats was filled with all kinds of big shots.
Yang Yu did not accept the kindness of the person in charge and sit in the VIP seats in the front row, but chose a seat at the back to fully enjoy the "fight" between the big shots.
The only thing that concerned Yang Yu was that not far from his seat, a large area of space was cleared, leaving only two chairs, one large and one small, creating an effect that was even more VIP than the VIP seats.
But until the auction officially started, no one sat on it.
"Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. I am honored to welcome you all on behalf of the auction house and to host this auction. I believe that today's auction items will not disappoint you. I sincerely hope that you can find what you like at this auction."
An extremely handsome man came out. He was the host of this auction. Not far from him stood a beautiful woman in a shoulder-baring long dress. She was the host's assistant and was responsible for displaying the various auction items.
After some polite words, the host asked his assistant to bring out the first item of the day, and the auction began.
At the auction, Yang Yu took a fancy to several good pieces of equipment, but did not bid for any of them. The attributes of the equipment displayed on the stage were not much higher than those of the equipment he bought at the Library of All Things, but the price was very different, as much as three times higher.
The host was wildly promoting how awesome the piece of equipment next to him was, and used the fact that it "dropped out of an underground maze" as a gimmick for the auction.
An excellent host should be able to fully mobilize the atmosphere on site, arouse the curiosity of the spectators, take advantage of their comparison or hatred of each other, make the price of the auction items rise steadily, and finally auction them off at an outrageous price. From beginning to end, the host should also make the people who bid for the items feel that the items are worth the money.
This will benefit the auction house's reputation and make it easier to reap the profits next time.
Yang Yu was already very familiar with the marketing methods used by the host. He even felt that if he kicked the host down and took over as the host, he could get more people to bid and push the price even higher.
Yang Yu is familiar with marketing methods not because he majored in economics or sales, but because he learned it from games.
Most of the high-difficulty games are stand-alone games, so Yang Yu spends most of his time hunting for stand-alone games. But that doesn’t mean he has never played online games. On the contrary, he has played quite a few online games.
When he was young, he also used technology to pick up girls in games.
As for the fact that one of the girls was a big man who picked his toes and used a voice changer, and the other girl with a loli voice was a 58-year-old aunt, that's a story for later.
(End of this chapter)