The origin of the star lotus world

Chapter 2591 Main Text
Chapter 2405 of the main text
I overheard a young female shop assistant in the store say that some high-quality hard gold pieces have higher craftsmanship fees, some fixed-price items are even more expensive, and some jewelry pieces have more complex craftsmanship and are more beautiful.

Another salesperson said that the store's brand has a long history and uses traditional craftsmanship. It has more than 4,000 stores across the country and is a well-known gold shop chain.

When checking gold price updates online, the brand whose gold jewelry is listed first is not as popular as some other brands whose prices are lower.

I looked at several small gold Ruyi ornaments, took photos, and sent them to my family via chat. They thought the prices were too high and didn't buy any. Later, when I was shopping, I bought a lighter one, and the craftsmanship fee wasn't as high.

In the same shopping mall, there was a shop selling colorful gold Ruyi ornaments. The saleswoman said she could offer a discount and give away a small gold horse pendant weighing 20 milligrams. She even showed the free gift to customers. However, the item was a fixed price. Even with the discount of 200 or 300 yuan, it would still cost 1,300 yuan to get just over 0.7 grams of the ornament, which was much higher than the market price per gram plus the ordinary craftsmanship fee at the time.

I told my family, but they weren't interested at all. When I went to buy the goods later, I went to the familiar store and bought big brands, even if they were more expensive.

I remember buying a small gold Pixiu accessory at a shopping mall during the Year of the Snake. It wasn't for stringing together a bracelet, so it didn't have a hole. Instead, it had a tiny gold ring in front of the Pixiu's ingot shape to hang on the bracelet. It was a fixed-price item, costing just over 700 yuan at the time. However, similar items of the same weight might have doubled or even more in price during the Year of the Horse. And that's only if the price of gold jewelry is calculated per gram. The craftsmanship fee is either indicated on the price tag or can be calculated based on the price per gram.

That gold Pixiu ornament was the first pure gold piece that the author bought with his own money. The gold Buddha amulets and gold commemorative cards he had before were all bought by his family many years ago, and some of them are still kept.

Some commemorative cards are just copper-zinc alloy. I took them to a professional gold recycling shop, and they were tested with a spectrometer. Some had gold on the surface, while others showed no gold at all. I've heard that some items have no recycling value but have collectible value; perhaps, many years later, they might be worth something.