This brilliant maneuver effectively acted as a secondary marketing campaign for the Vance Apothecary Face Cream.
Right on cue, Orca Group released an official statement. They declared that the massive fallout from the smear campaign had severely impacted their stock prices.
In order to balance operational funds, the face cream, originally priced at $999, would officially be raised to $4,999.
The price had just quintupled overnight.
While the internet was still reeling in shock, Orca Group dropped a second bombshell statement.
To be fair to their loyal customers, their tech team had pulled several all-nighters to track down the accounts of every single person who had defended the cream during the crisis.
Anyone who had left an objective comment supporting the actual effectiveness of the product would secure a lifetime discount, locked in at the original $999 price tag.
The move was nothing short of a massive flex.
Even Andres White's closest friends couldn't help but brand him a ruthless businessman.
It was brutal! Absolutely brutal!
But it also proved Andres's point. With the miraculous, age-defying results of the cream, it was easily worth $4,999. Even if they multiplied the price a few more times, it would still be a bargain for its true value.
Since some consumers wanted to blindly follow the herd and maliciously drag the product through the mud, the company was essentially saying: Sorry, we don't need your business.
Were the consumers furious?
Of course they were!
A magical product they could have bought for just under a thousand dollars was now going to cost them five times as much?
They were free to boycott it, and they were free to keep cursing the company. At the end of the day, Orca Group wasn't relying on this specific revenue stream to keep the lights on.
If anyone dared to keep throwing tantrums behind a keyboard, the capital backing the company would swiftly teach them a harsh lesson in reality.
People seemed to forget that the Vance Apothecary Face Cream was just a fun little side project Maeve had casually whipped up.
Her true arena was the medical field.

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