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Chapter 444 : VIP Cards Sold Out
Chapter 444: VIP Cards Sold Out
As discussions swirled in public opinion, Medal Club's three-day trial operation came to an end.
At noon that day, the club released an announcement.
It detailed the process for becoming a VIP member.
First, to join, one could only purchase one of the four types of VIP membership cards currently offered by the club.
Purple card, silver card, gold card, and diamond card.
Among them, purple and silver cards were unlimited, available for purchase as long as you paid.
But gold and diamond cards were different.
These two cards needed to be purchased separately, meaning you'd spend 8,899 yuan to buy just one card, with no money inside. To use it, you'd need to add funds.
Moreover, the number of gold cards was limited, with the club issuing only 500 per year.
Once sold out, that was it.
If they were sold out and you still wanted to buy, sorry, you'd have to wait in line for next year.
As for the more expensive diamond card, the conditions were even more stringent.
First, you'd need to spend 18,888 yuan to purchase a diamond card, then add funds to it.
After the club's review, if they deemed you qualified, you could become a diamond card member.
What were the benefits of being a diamond card member?
You'd unconditionally enjoy all the best services provided by the club, with dedicated one-on-one coaching and personal doctors providing one-on-one service.
Diamond cards were also limited, with only 100 issued annually.
In addition, the club launched the supreme card with great fanfare.
The supreme card was not for sale to the public, only selected from among diamond card members.
Any diamond card member approved by the club would receive a free upgrade to the supreme card provided by the club.
After becoming a supreme card member, you'd have access to the club's internal Bamboo Grove Clubhouse.
Here, there was bowling, a billiards hall, cigar room, indoor golf, cafe, indoor swimming pool, spa, and private personal changing rooms.
The first batch of supreme card members was limited to twenty, issued annually until gone.
The first ten supreme card members would be selected and reviewed by the club from among diamond card members.
For all subsequent supreme card members, to join, you must be recommended by at least two existing supreme card members to apply.
Finally, the club announced two more pieces of big news.
First, the club revealed its first supreme card VIP client.
The entertainment world's hot star Wen Wan received Medal Club's first supreme VIP membership card.
Second, in a month, to give back to new and old members, the club's spokespersons, music king Jay Chou and music queens S.H.E, were specially invited to perform in Yunhai.
The performance venue would be on the club's outdoor football field.
Whether you were an ordinary purple card user or the highest-level diamond card user, regardless of your VIP card level, you would be eligible to attend this concert.
As soon as Medal Club released this announcement, it once again completely set public opinion ablaze.
This time, not only were curious netizens paying attention, but even film and entertainment media began actively reporting on the news that the king and queens of music would be coming to perform in Yunhai in a month.
Medal Club once again became a frequently discussed topic among people.
Online public opinion went crazy again.
Some people thought Medal Club's owner must be crazy.
The membership card pricing was already so high, and yet they set such strict conditions.
Especially for the gold and diamond cards, which were even limited in number.
Most importantly, 8,899 and 18,888 yuan were just the prices to buy gold and diamond cards. To enter and use the club's facilities, you still needed to add funds...
This... This was really treating rich people like suckers!
Crazy, this owner must be crazy.
So, posts criticizing Medal Club became more and more numerous online.
Many people shouted that Medal Club definitely wouldn't last long and would go bankrupt before long.
Of course, apart from these pessimistic opinions, another larger wave of public opinion was all discussing the news of the music king and queens coming to hold a concert.
The most excited about this news were, of course, the fans of both acts.
Especially among young student groups.
Yunhai is not a first-tier city, so it's not easy to see big star concerts normally.
Now a club in Yunhai was able to invite two heavyweight music stars at once.
What a pity it would be to miss such an opportunity!
Many fans were already getting ready.
Of course, what people were dissatisfied with was that the concert was only open to the club's internal members.
Many student fans cried unfair, cursing the club for being money-grubbing.
However, soon someone posted an analysis online.
In the post, someone analyzed the ticket prices for Jay Chou's concerts. According to the most recent concert in 2003, the highest ticket price was 980 yuan, the lowest was 180 yuan, with prices ranging from 280 to 780 yuan in between.
In fact, everyone could completely buy an ordinary purple card membership for 599 yuan. Just think of it as spending 599 yuan on a ticket to the music king's concert.
Of course, as soon as the post came out, some people cursed that 599 yuan wasn't cheap. Especially for some student groups, most couldn't afford it at all!
Then someone else analyzed, this wasn't just Jay Chou, there was S.H.E too.
It was equivalent to spending the price of one concert ticket to hear two concerts.
Thinking about it this way, doesn't it feel much better?
Look, without the club even needing to explain, the fans themselves started to adapt.
Once this post came out, it got many fans' minds working.
Spend 599 yuan to get the cheapest purple card membership, not only can you listen to the music king and queens' concert for free, most importantly, the 599 yuan isn't wasted. You can use this card to consume other services at the club later!
This way, it's like earning a billion, isn't it?
What are you waiting for? Just go for it!
Buying it is profiting!
So under this kind of argument, many fans had already started taking action.
Perhaps even Chen Fan hadn't imagined that he just wanted to use two celebrities to promote the club a bit.
But by coincidence, it directly increased the club's membership card sales.
The afternoon of the day the announcement was made, the club was packed with customers coming to apply for cards.
Ding Dian and a group of management stood on one side of the lobby, looking at the crowded card application area at the front desk, all dumbfounded.
This... Have these people gone crazy?
Can... Can it be done like this?
In just half a day, over 300 gold cards worth 8,899 yuan each were sold.
And for the expensive diamond cards, due to their special attributes and limited availability,
It only took three days for all 100 diamond cards to sell out.
Looking at the sold-out notice for diamond cards on the lobby screen, the management team was all stunned.
Online, it caused even bigger waves.
Everyone cried impossible, saying the club must be faking it, trying to create the appearance of hot membership card sales.
But then someone posted photos of the bustling card application scene online, and people had to believe it even if they didn't want to.
Even though some people were still stubbornly cursing that these must be shills hired by the club.
By this point, no one was agreeing anymore.
Everyone's not stupid. If you can't make your own judgment even on this, then you'd really be a clown.
Gradually, the criticism and doubts lessened, and a new trend arose online instead.
People began showing off their membership cards.
Silver card members felt they had more face than purple card members.
When gold card members posted photos online, it caused a wave of exclamations.
Comments asking to be their sugar baby or to be taken care of flooded in endlessly.
Even among holders of the same membership cards, there were comparisons. Everyone compared their card numbers, with 001 of course having more face than 100.
Soon, having a Medal Club membership card became one of the hot topics for comparison among many young people.
The development and changes happened so fast that even people inside the club felt it was somewhat magical.
Everyone admired the boss Chen Fan to no end.
In just three days, the club had pure income of over 5 million yuan just from selling membership cards.
If you add in the money from member top-ups, the income for three days was over 30 million yuan.
Everyone was stunned.
This... This isn't doing business.
This is simply running a money printing machine!