Card Apprentice Daily Log

Chapter 2460: Jill’s Brilliant Business Model

Date: Unspecified

Time: Unspecified

Location: Myriad Realms, Card World, Southern Way Beyond, SSS-rank Titan Forest Field Dungeon.

”Here,” I returned Ollie’s Yin Nymph card to him, adding, ”Our Slime Fairy card is way, way better than this one. You are going to get addicted to it considering that you bought a dozen of these shitty cards.”

It wasn’t often I judged a card, out of respect for the card creator. But the Yin Nymph Card deserved all the hate. It was a trash card capitalizing on a hole in the market. I can’t wait to see the outrage when people realize what they were actually buying.

”Boss, I only bought a dozen of these to support the hostess entertaining that night,” Ollie hurriedly explained, a little embarrassed as the Yin Nymph card made it to the top five in the worst place he thrusted his meat stick in.

”What do you mean?” I asked in confusion and also a little curious about how Jill was managing to sell these trash cards in dozens.

Yes, male card apprentices were hornier than the mortal male, but that didn’t mean they would just mindlessly rub against anything with curves and a hole.

”You can’t buy these cards in a regular card shop or malls. One could only get them in the red-light district. The courtesan there sold these cards, modeled after themselves, to their patrons. The dozen I brought were all sold to me by my favorite courtesan.

I only wanted to buy one, but I ended up with a dozen when I heard her brag that one of her guests bought half a dozen of her Yin Nymph cards and how much they liked to spoil her. As a cultured man, I couldn’t just hear that and do nothing. I had to show ‌her that I was her number one patron. So, I bought a dozen of her cards.

Besides, these twelve cards were worth it. Though they are of the same courtesan, each of these is an iteration of her as a soldier, teacher, maid, etc. Also, they plan to help the courtesan setup a dedicated shop on the grimoire network to sell their Yin Nymph cards across the five regions,” Ollie explained how he didn’t plan on buying these Yin Nymph cards, but ended up buying a dozen of them just to show his favorite courtesan that he spoiled her the most.

”Wait,” Lois said, her confusion evident. ”How does you buying those filthy cards help her? Won’t the money just go to the card’s creators?” After all, he reasoned, they were courtesans, not card crafters. At most, all they could get was a mere commission.

”Apparently, they get a 40 percent commission on the profits of each card they sell. Top sellers can also get up to 60 percent commissions of their total sales,” Ollie enthusiastically answered, seeing his new colleague of all people show interest in one of his interests. Was she also a cultured card apprentice like him? That wouldn’t be surprising considering their boss was planning to enter the adult card market.

”40 to 60 percent commission per sale! That’s crazy. Since when have the card creators gotten so generous toward their salespeople? This is just crazy. Back in my day, it was hard to get a 4 to 6 percent commission even on bulk sales. I can’t believe I’m envious of courtesans now,” Cam exclaimed, listening to the very generous revenue-sharing scheme of the Yin Nymph card. ”Wait! Higher sales commissions also meant a higher price tag. How much did you spend on those cards, Ollie?”

”Money is not an object.” Ollie tried to brush off Cam’s question, only to hear Princess Christina demand, ”Is it? Then, I would like all the money I lent to you over the years returned with a generous interest rate.”

”Your Highness, I was just bragging. You know better than to take my words seriously,” Ollie begged for mercy, knowing that he wouldn’t be able to return the principal amount even if he sold himself, let alone giving her a generous interest.

Meanwhile, I could not help but nod my head, impressed by Jill’s genius business model with a generous revenue sharing plan. It reminded me of the Only fans back on Earth. By getting the courtesans to sell her Yin Nymph cards, she not only managed to jump all the social hurdles that stopped me from introducing my Fairy cards into the market but also managed to get numerous proven beautiful models to design her Yin Nymph cards after, for no cost.

What impressed me the most was that her sales strategy allowed her to directly connect and sell to her target customer base. It was not like I hadn’t thought about using the courtesan’s selling my fairy slime cards. I was already using them to help us create an artificial will with various personality types capable of learning its users’ preferences and darkest fantasies to satisfy them, both physically and emotionally, with a collection of specialized techniques without any judgement. Ultimately, giving them the physical pleasure and emotional pleasure they sought in a partner.

It was just that courtesans were the royal families’ and the central government’s, quote unquote, information dealers. They were their eyes and ears in each of their cities’ underworlds. If I wanted to use them, I would have to involve the royal families and the government in my venture.

Even if I were willing to give the royal families and the government a cut, it would make it difficult for me to offer a high revenue-share to the courtesans like Jill did. Because, unlike Jill’s father, who was one of the founding demigods of the five regions, my father was an orphan card grandmaster. I couldn’t just do as I pleased in the Southern region, like Jill did in the central region. Not to mention all five regions.

Now I was beginning to truly understand the hate the general public felt toward the nepobabies. This wouldn’t bother me this much if Jill and her father hadn’t stolen the idea of selling adult cards from me.

Shaking my head, I turned to Ollie and asked, ”Ollie, can you get your courtesan friend to send over a copy of the contract she signed to sell her Yin Nymph Cards along with any other documents she was asked to sign?”

”Yes. If she resists, I will just buy another dozen of her Yin Cards,” Ollie said as he began to contact his favorite courtesan in all of Central Capital. ”Boss, our company will compensate me for this, right?”