This time, she unprecedentedly revealed the true starting price to Lin Yifan; had it been someone else, she wouldn't have divulged the real starting bid at all. She would certainly have understated the value of the item and then inflated the starting price at the auction to seek greater profits.
The antidote with a starting bid of one billion sold for thirty-five billion, so a purchase price of two hundred million was indeed a bit low, and Yifan couldn't accept it. He then inquired, "If I only use your Ye Gui Xiang platform to sell the elixir, how much commission will you charge?"
"Twenty percent of the final transaction price," Zhong Hongyan answered.
"Damn! Twenty percent, that's really bloodsucking," Lin Yifan felt that the Ye Gui Xiang auction house was really ripping people off by charging such a high commission.
However, were he aware that the typical commission at the Ye Gui Xiang auction house was over thirty percent, he would realize how much he had actually gained.
