Chapter 118: Formalities
In these years, because there was no legal trading market, the channels for the sale of folk cultural relics were particularly single.
Ordinary people have almost nowhere else to do it except to send things to the cultural relics store, which is the only legal channel.
If you have to sell to other places, it will not only be regarded as speculation, but also a violation of national laws.
The point is that there are really not many units and people who dare to ask for it, and everyone is afraid of getting into trouble.
Therefore, it is precisely because of this state-led purchase and sales policy that the price of all cultural and antique objects is strictly restricted.
No matter how good something is, it is up to the state to determine its value.
The state says how much this thing is worth, how much it is worth.
This is why Ning Weimin was in a hurry to use money last time, and after sending a pair of gourd bottles to Yun Guzhai, he heard that the price was not suitable and turned around and left, and then he didn't go to other places to ask for the price.
It's okay, but there are too few options for where to shoot.
Ning Weimin doesn't have the ability to hook people with Kangshude's layout, so that the store has the ability to take the initiative to buy.
According to his reckoning, I am afraid that anyone who looks at his young face will despise him.
Then if everyone made an uncle gesture in front of him and took out a mimeographed book.
Then he pointed to it and said that his things were worth two hundred and five, and he must be half angry to death.
I was reluctant to do it, but since I couldn't sell it for a few dollars.
Why should he be like Bai Jingqi in a leather robe in "The Gate of the Mansion", turning around to find anger?
Simply pull it down.
But then again, he's him, and someone else is someone else.
Although he doesn't have the ability of Old Man Kang, he Ning Weimin can raise money from elsewhere, and what should he do if he is replaced by someone else?
Speaking of the roots, isn't it because of lack of money that whoever comes out to sell things?
If you can't find anyone who can't even scratch it, you'll have to sell it to an artifact store.
But this again involves a difficult point.
Even if you don't care about the price, it's not so easy to sell something smoothly.
It depends on whether the seller can find the right place.
You must know that the state has very strict regulations on the operation of cultural antiquities.
The business scope of each store is very different, and the division is clear, and it must not be mixed.
From the capital as a whole, Dongsi and Bamian Groove have exclusive acquisition departments for the foreign trade department to purchase jewelry and diamonds.
In Xinjiekou, Xidan and Liulichang, there are acquisition departments that belong to cultural relics stores to acquire calligraphy, painting and porcelain.
Gold and silver ornaments must be purchased by the People's Bank of China.
And almost every downtown has a distribution of trust stores, in fact, they are dedicated to collecting old things for life.
For example, fur coats, photographic equipment, bicycles and other items, or wooden furniture.
Almost all the things you don't need in your daily life can be sent to the trust store.
If you focus on the "professional" antique street in Beijing of Liulichang, it will be more detailed.
The cultural relics store is subordinate to the Yungu Zhai, which is the Jinshi ceramic store department.
Cui Zhen Zhai is a modern ceramic store.
Qingyuntang is the stele store department of the past dynasties.
Bao Gu Zhai is the calligraphy and painting department of the past dynasties.
There is also the Cuibunkaku Lettering Society, which specializes in stamp materials.
As for the shops outside the cultural relics store system, only Rong Baozhai and Jingcheng Painting Shops, which are subordinate to the Art Publishing House, have the right to acquire and sell calligraphy and paintings on their own.
How? Complicated or not?
Then think about it, where do ordinary people know this?
Especially the owner who wants to sell something for the first time, he must be dizzy and can't tell the difference.
Once you come to Liulichang with something, nine out of ten will definitely find that you are in the wrong place.
And in this case, it will not be sold, and it will definitely be turned away by the clerk.
If you have a better attitude, maybe people will tell you where to sell and which store to find.
If you encounter a bad mood and twist the mourning seeds, a sentence of "don't accept it" can send you away.
Are you in a hurry?
Anyway, it's none of his business.
Therefore, in this case, the seller will often have to dump the goods to the trust store at a low price because they don't know what to do next.
Or the negative gas directly sold the scrap.
Of course, after a few years, they will definitely regret and regret their original rash behavior.
So what if someone who understands the difference between stores, or is lucky, just find the right place?
It doesn't always work out.
Because the next key depends on whether you bring your household registration book.
Of course, you can't see a thing in a cultural relics store, think it's good, and spend money to accept it casually.
What if it is a grave digging or theft?
Therefore, the store has a rule that only those with the household registration book will be accepted, so that the source of the goods can be traced.
To put it bluntly, coming to a cultural relics store to sell things is similar to going to the hospital.
Sellers have to get the number with their household registration book, and then line up for the clerk to see things.
This number is still limited, and there is a fixed number every day.
If you don't have a number, no matter how good the things are, and people don't accept them, you have to come back another day.
So this leads to a very troublesome problem.
Those who don't know what to do may have to run several times and toss enough to sell what they want to sell.
For example, the people Ning Weimin met at the gate of Cuizhen Zhai today ran away in vain because of such and such formalities.
Specifically, in fact, this middle-aged man was wronged.
Because he's been here several times, he knows what it's like to sell things, and he's not a person who doesn't know what to do.
This time he brought a jade pot spring bottle, and it was very suitable to send Cui Zhen Zhai.
And I also brought the household registration book.
It's just that he was unlucky to have a temporary meeting in the unit today, and it was really difficult for him to get out.
Just because I came a little late, I didn't get the number, and it was all over.
As for the rural mother and son, they are different from him.
It's entirely because he doesn't understand anything, and he comes recklessly, and he will suffer the master.
This lady and son are from Miyun, and they inquired about the place of Liulichang in advance, thinking that they would sell things as soon as they arrived.
I didn't expect to come all the way to it, but it was because I had a gold and bronze Buddha statue, and I touched nails everywhere, and I didn't accept it anywhere.
Some shops, when they heard that they were going to sell Buddha statues, bombarded them with a look at them without even looking at them.
Those who are interested in asking, hearing that they did not bring any documents to prove their identity, can only shake their heads.
Needless to say, for this mother and son, the current situation is quite sad.
The things were not sold, so let's go back like this, pay for the fare, and take a day's work in.
You can stay, and continue to look for it tomorrow, and you will have to spend extra money on the hotel.
The key is that if you look for it tomorrow, you may not be able to sell it, what if the price is not satisfactory.
Wouldn't it be a loss to delay one more day and then go back?
It's called a dilemma, and it's not appropriate.
So whether it's for middle-aged people, or for this mother and son.
Ning Weimin's intention to buy is really like sending charcoal in the snow, accumulating great virtue.
It is impossible for them not to be tempted, and they all look forward to letting Ning Weimin see things quickly.