The beginning of jewelry sales

There was a time when we bought products from India, but we didn't have a store and there was no online sales. I tried to sell it on the street, but it didn't sell well. At that time, a friend of mine who worked at the Kawasaki Ward Office suggested that I try selling during the ward office's lunch break, saying, ``Why don't you come and sell it during the ward office's lunch break?The ward office staff will take a look at it.''

I thought I would go anywhere if there was someone willing to take a look, so I took up the offer and went to Kawasaki Ward Office to take a look. At last, I went to the Kawasaki Ward Office and found a large number of employees there. Everyone picked up jewelry, wore it, and listened to my stories about India with great interest. Each person said, "It's cheap, it's cheap," and bought at least one item, and that day's sales exceeded 100,000 yen for the first time.
At that time, it was more fun to make everyone happy and make a fuss than the sales, so I went there several times.

From the ward office to Sanrio and then to Koenji

Due to my success at Kawasaki Ward Office, I was introduced to other ward offices, and I continued to visit them for a while. Then, someone really liked it and introduced me to Sanrio. We rented one floor of the Sanrio building, displayed our products like an exhibition for one week, and sold them to Sanrio employees. I thought this sales format was a good one, as some of the more expensive items sold.

After that, I continued to sell through referrals, and when I had some money, I turned a small apartment in Koenji into an office. We started selling our products to customers by handing out flyers in front of the station. At the time, there was no one selling in that way, so sales gradually increased.

Adventures and trials in Sri Lanka

Around that time, I had a Sri Lankan part-time worker help me hand out flyers, and I ended up going to Sri Lanka to dig for rough stones. Mines in Sri Lanka are called open-pit mines, meaning they are dug deep like wells, climbed down using ladders, and mined through tunnels in the mud. I'm 31 years old, and I'm on a great midsummer adventure! It was supposed to be.

But this was the biggest scam of my life.

Continued on episode 5