Of course Yi Anguo couldn't just let all this rosewood get stuck in his hands. Even though his purchase cost hadn't been high, he still had to sell it off when prices were about to peak.
If you don't sell when prices are about to hit the top, and wait until they plunge, wouldn't that be a big loss?
But the high‑end rosewood furniture produced by his own company couldn't just have its price casually lowered either. Sometimes cutting prices isn't a good thing; it makes earlier customers feel bad.
Many people who buy high‑end, top‑grade rosewood furniture are doing it for value preservation or appreciation; it's a form of collecting and investing. Otherwise, who would spend hundreds of thousands, a million, even several million, ten‑plus million, just to buy a set of rosewood furniture?
Personal taste is one aspect, but in fact the mentality of collecting and investing also accounts for a very large part.
