No wonder the shop owner had not deleted the review.

Perhaps they had simply left it there to watch the clown embarrass himself.

At the very least, the comparison made Joo Joowon realize that the negative reviews under the shops he had originally selected were not actually that difficult to accept.

At least they were nowhere near this outrageous.

After thinking carefully, Joo Joowon ultimately clicked into IJustWanttoThemGraduate.

At the very least, one thing about this shop was definitely true.

The designers they hired were all complete beginners.

That made them much easier to negotiate with.

Although he could not browse the shop’s other products, he could still access its homepage.

Sure enough, the homepage of IJustWanttoThemGraduate prominently displayed a recruitment advertisement for designers.

Joo Joowon was extremely familiar with that kind of recruitment language.

It was the standard pitch used to lure university students.

If his guess was correct, this shop was making money from both sides.

Not only did it charge customers, it also took advantage of these desperate designers.

After all, they urgently needed to "graduate."

That was precisely why Joo Joowon had chosen this shop.

Whether it was honest or not did not really matter.

What mattered was that there was room for negotiation.

After all, this was essentially a middleman.

Although it had the authority to set prices, if both the designer and the buyer insisted, the shop could still compromise.

At worst, it would simply earn a little less by creating a custom transaction listing.

That was precisely because it profited from every side involved that the shop had become so successful.

After all, it managed to create a situation where everyone benefited.

Since the designers were never fixed, buyers occasionally stumbled upon unexpected good fortune.

Sometimes, they happened to be matched with a truly talented designer whose abilities had simply gone unnoticed.

In Joo Joowon’s opinion, however, the odds of something like that happening were so low that it was almost impossible.

More likely, it was simply a carrot dangled by the shop owner to make the store appear more attractive.

After deciding on his primary target and selecting several backup options, Joo Joowon finally sent a message to the customer service representative of IJustWantThemtoGraduate, listing all of his requirements and asking them to match him with a designer who met those conditions.

[ @IJustWantThemtoGraduate: Dear customer, don’t you think these requirements are a little too strict? Would you mind adjusting them slightly? ]

Even a well seasoned customer service representative was left speechless this time.

They did not immediately post the request onto the platform.

However, the boss’s policy was that no customer with the intention to place an order could ever be rejected.

Every potential customer had to be cultivated into a long term client.

Anyone who broke that rule would have their pay docked.

Otherwise, the representative would have simply ignored such an impossible customer.

[ @Ashfall: No. These are my requirements. Once you find a suitable designer, we can discuss the details further. At that point, I’ll also finalize the contract terms. ]

Judging from the customer’s response, it seemed these requirements were not even the complete list.

The customer service representative was left completely speechless.

[ @IJustWantThemtoGraduate: Understood. I’ll post your request on the platform first. If any designer is interested, I’ll notify you immediately. If no one accepts the order within seven days, would you consider relaxing some of your requirements? ]

[ @Ashfall: We’ll talk about it then. ]

The customer was always treated as king.

Seeing that the other party refused to compromise, the representative said nothing more.

Still, they were convinced that this customer named Ashfall would return empty handed.

The customer was simply far too demanding.

It was not difficult to understand why the representative thought that.

The requirements Joo Joowon had listed imposed strict conditions on almost every stage of the project.

He specified the workers, the construction schedule, the appearance of the Lord’s Manor, its layout, exactly which materials had to be used, even the specific brands of those materials.

From large construction materials to glass furniture, and even toiletries, everything was included.

The only thing he had not done was openly announce that he wanted to find a completely obedient fool willing to do all the work.

Even if they were inexperienced, designers were still designers.

Very few of them would willingly accept a commission that left them no room for creativity while drowning them in endless demands.

More importantly, the representative even suspected that Ashfall was either a Demon race player or perhaps had chosen the Merchant class.

Otherwise, how could someone be so meticulous over every tiny detail?

He was exactly the type of customer designers hated dealing with the most.

After all, when buyers were too clever, designers had no opportunity to make extra profit.

Did anyone really think they took on this kind of risky work just for the tiny design fee?

Competition on the platform was already so fierce.

If all they earned was that little bit of design income, they would not even be able to pay the platform’s listing fees.

After finishing the conversation with the customer service, Joo Joowon immediately ended the chat.

He paid no attention to the representative’s obvious lack of confidence in him.

After all, he had not asked for anything unreasonable.

Every construction material he requested had been chosen only after comparing the detailed descriptions of the products in the Apocalypse Mall.

He could confirm that, just like the steel bars and cement on Gaia, none of those materials were actually expensive.

Every one of them was perfectly reasonable.

As for everything else, Joo Joowon had based it on the rules he had observed in both the official Apocalypse Mall and the High Risk Zone.

For anything that could not be found in either place, he referred to the contract procedures from his own world.

In short, in order to avoid being cheated, Joo Joowon had exhausted countless brain cells just to put together this rough draft.

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