Super Rich from Winning a Lottery-Chapter 248 - 197: Yi Xiaolin Gets Roasted

But not every provincial TV station is called Xiangnan TV, and coupled with the generally mediocre quality of the dramas produced, it’s really hard to say what kind of spot they can sell.

Many TV stations have low ratings, poor performance, and limited funding. Even if your drama is well made, they can’t afford a high price, so making a lot of money is a bit difficult.

Sometimes, it’s good enough to just recover the investment; if things go badly, you might not even recover the investment and end up losing a bit.

However, while others might risk losing money investing in TV dramas, if Yi Anguo invests, he shouldn’t suffer a loss.

Even though Yi Anguo isn’t very familiar with TV dramas, before his rebirth, he sometimes had nothing better to do after work, so he could only binge-watch dramas.

At first, when 3G mobile phones had just become commonplace, he downloaded Penguin Video and went out to mooch off Wi-Fi to download TV shows to watch whenever he was free.

Back then, Penguin Video didn’t have forced charges; as long as you could tolerate embedded ads, you could watch the shows for free and download them anytime.

Yi Anguo actually followed quite a few dramas those years and knew which ones were popular.

Later, he also read some articles exposed online, detailing how much was invested in certain dramas, how much they sold their copyrights for, who starred in them, and what the actors were paid; everything was introduced in detail.

He remembered one TV series with the highest copyright fee, as high as 13 to 14 million yuan per episode, with total fees for a series soaring to more than a billion yuan.

The real estate market across the country has started to recover this year, with property transaction volumes skyrocketing.

As houses sell well, the days of real estate agencies have also improved, and the business volume of An Country Real Estate Company has increased significantly.

After buying a house, renovation is inevitable, and after renovation, you need to buy furniture. Among those with money, a large portion would choose to buy solid wood furniture.

Solid wood furniture is divided into redwood furniture and white wood furniture. Redwood furniture is easy to understand; only furniture made of redwood can be called redwood furniture.

However, redwood furniture is generally expensive, so in the market, some "redwood furniture" is actually made of white wood or miscellaneous wood, just painted and colored to look like redwood, even mimicking the wood grain perfectly.

This type of redwood furniture usually doesn’t sell for such a high price and is called fake redwood furniture.

Some consumers are aware that it’s not genuine redwood furniture, and some sellers also directly inform the consumers that such prices can’t buy authentic redwood furniture.

But some, driven by the allure of cheap prices, and others driven by profit, both knowingly buy and sell fakes.

There’s also another type of fake redwood furniture that looks exactly like genuine redwood furniture; even those familiar with redwood furniture might not be able to discern it.

Because this redwood furniture, you could say it’s real, but it only has a very thin layer of redwood veneer on the surface, for example, both sides of a board are covered with redwood veneer, making it hard for you to tell if it’s real or fake.

But aside from this surface veneer, the inside is made of MDF or finger-jointed board or white wood, leaving you defenseless.

Even genuine redwood furniture needs to be differentiated between high-end redwood furniture and ordinary redwood furniture.

High-end redwood furniture includes items like Indian small-leaf sandalwood furniture, Hainan huanghuali furniture, Vietnamese huanghuali furniture, large-leaf sandalwood furniture, and Laotian rosewood furniture. 𝗳𝚛𝚎𝚎𝘄𝕖𝕓𝕟𝕠𝚟𝚎𝕝.𝗰𝕠𝐦

Ordinary redwood furniture generally includes dalbergia wood furniture, also known as Burmese huanghuali, as well as African huanghuali furniture, and spiny redwood.

You get what you pay for. Although it’s all called redwood furniture, some sell for millions while the cheaper ones go for just a few thousand yuan.

The cheapest redwood furniture might be Indian rosewood, or Vietnamese cambodian rosewood, and something called "bo luo ge."

An Country Redwood Furniture has long established a reputation for quality and reliability, selling like hotcakes in 2007. In 2008, while many redwood furniture items were being discounted or promoted at reduced prices, An Country Redwood Furniture steadfastly refused to cut or discount prices.

An important promise of An Country Redwood Furniture is that if you buy a piece of redwood furniture from them today, and one day you see the same piece being sold for less than what you paid, then congratulations, you will receive double the difference back.

However, this supposed identical redwood furniture must also be An Country Redwood’s product; even if other brands have the same style or wood, their lower prices are unrelated to An Country Redwood.

As the economy recovered in 2009, An Country Redwood Furniture’s brand-exclusive retail stores received a growing number of orders each day, but Yi Anguo did not expand blindly; instead, he sought other redwood furniture factories for OEM production.

After An Country’s solid wood furniture was introduced to the market, its sales continually increased because all the solid wood furniture not only featured new, stylish, and beautiful designs but could also be completely dismantled and reassembled.

Although not redwood, the materials used, including imported American red oak, ebony, and begonia oak, are precious woods, considered the nobility among non-redwood solid woods.

The furniture made from these materials also looks high-end, elegant, and upscale, with prices not cheap at all, even more expensive than ordinary redwood furniture.