#324 - Razor's Law (asking for monthly recommendation tickets)

When Vivian was working on her designs, it could be described as wildly imaginative. She would come up with all sorts of ideas, regardless of whether they were feasible or not.

For example, she designed a special magic lamp where the entire lampshade was like a large glass ball, and the light source inside would transform into various cute little animals.

Or a colorful gramophone where the vinyl record was designed like a stage. As soon as the music started, magical figures would appear and perform songs and dances. She even created seasonal versions, where the magical scenes and characters on the gramophone would change with the seasons, making it incredibly beautiful.

But even more outrageous was the mahjong table Vivian designed. Not only did the tabletop have various dynamic effects like water surfaces and grasslands, but she also wanted to have intense light and shadow displays when a winning hand was drawn, almost making the tiles fly into the air.

Anduin even suspected that she was wasting more of her design efforts on this device.

Vivian's designs were like daydreaming, but Anduin on the other hand was having a harder time.

He had to figure out whether Vivian's creations were feasible and then create sample tests.

Sometimes he thought he was just an employee, and Vivian was the boss.

Later, he saw that Vivian was being too unrestrained, and many of her ideas were difficult to implement, or couldn't be done in the short term.

Considering that the store couldn't stay closed forever, he had to extract some simple and easy-to-operate designs to produce and sell first.

The other designs could be saved for later. Anduin thought it was a good idea to start with some simple products, and then use the more elaborate products as future new products, so that they could have sustainable development.

Regarding the production aspect, he also came up with a better idea after Vivian's guidance.

Anduin planned to outsource all the non-magical physical components, such as pendants, belts, bracelets, and pocket watch cases, to the Muggle world.

He happened to have a Muggle shop, so he could directly determine the specifications and have the craft factories outside do the OEM, and then stuff those amulets inside, and wouldn't that become a magical item?

As for the other items, such as gramophones, lamps, music boxes, and clocks, he would directly buy ready-made ones from the Muggle world and then modify them into magical items.

Anyway, Arthur was in charge of this area at the Ministry of Magic. Anduin could modify Muggle items without any scruples. If someone else had cast spells on so many Muggle items, they would have been arrested by the Misuse of Muggle Artifacts Office long ago.

During the process of disassembling and modifying these magical props, Anduin also gained more business ideas and prepared to determine the future main civilian alchemy props as magic lamps and magic gramophones.

Because Anduin understood a very cheap razor law.

He found that he could completely split many props such as lamps and gramophones into two parts.

For example, for lamps, the lamps in his hand did not have things like light bulbs. The light was completely emitted by the internal magic storage components instead of light bulbs, and as long as an energy-absorbing rune was engraved, it could continuously draw magic power and then continue to shine for a long time.

But Anduin didn't do that, because he found a better way to make money. He deliberately made the magic storage components detachable, just like light bulbs.

And he also deliberately reduced the efficiency of the alchemy storage components, so that they would work for a maximum of two or three months before the magic power would be exhausted, which was about the same efficiency as the magic candles and magic oil lamps on the market.

Then he sold the main body of the lamp very cheaply. For example, an original standing magic table lamp that could automatically draw magic power and continuously light up could sell for 4-5 Galleons, but after making it into a table lamp with a magic component, he only sold it for 2 Galleons, and the magic component sold for 5 Sickles.

In this way, as long as customers were still using this lamp, they would have to constantly purchase energy storage components, so the actual income of a lamp was far higher than the original selling price.

And they could also do a promotional event. If they brought in a scrapped magic component to replace it, they could reduce the cost by one Sickle.

This would reduce costs on the one hand, because the magic part of the magic lamps Anduin modified was actually only the magic component. The other parts were all modified from existing Muggle lamps. The replaced magic components could be recharged and refurbished for reuse, which was very convenient.

On the other hand, it could increase customer loyalty, so that they would have to come to the store every once in a while. After they entered the store and saw more other products, could they really resist the temptation and not make impulse purchases?

This was like selling razors, but actually selling blades, selling cameras, but essentially selling film.

The same was true for products like magic gramophones. A gramophone might be priced at only 3-5 Galleons per model, but records that stored music and had different light and shadow effects could sell for 10 Sickles or even higher.

In this way, after those customers got tired of the previous music, they would have to buy other records.

And in the wizarding world, there were actually pop stars. Anduin was even considering cooperating with these pop stars to produce special music records for them.

Perhaps infected by Vivian, Anduin's business acumen had also developed a lot during this period. It was estimated that it would not be long before he became a qualified capitalist.

After more than ten days, Anduin readjusted his product ideas and had already produced a batch of ready-made products.

Then he took these new products, as well as the improved multi-version humanoid target, to the Ministry of Magic.

At the same time, he also brought the Ministry of Magic equipment produced during this period, delivering the equipment while doing the product risk assessment.

This trip was quite smooth. Anduin delivered all the equipment without missing a single item, and also received the subsequent final payment, which made him once again sigh at the wealth and generosity of the Ministry of Magic. They were really rich.

The risk assessment was also quite simple. After all, he had greeted Minister Bagnold before, so the relevant departments knew that Anduin was coming to do the assessment, and the products he brought this time were not dangerous anyway.

However, Anduin also discovered an interesting thing during this period.

The assessment of dangerousness was the responsibility of officials from the Department of Magical Accidents and Catastrophes and the Department of Magical Law Enforcement to assess and rate.

The Department of Magical Accidents and Catastrophes assessed the dangerousness, and the Department of Magical Law Enforcement assessed whether it violated the law, and then Anduin discovered that the assessor from the Department of Magical Law Enforcement was actually Arthur.