Chapter 121: High Precision
In the capital in January, water can be sprinkled into ice, which is the season of the cold winter wax moon.
And the closer this day gets, the more the wind swishs, like a knife drilling into people's clothes.
In addition, the winter in the capital is almost always gray, as if it can't be dispersed, and the sun is never seen.
The trees at the entrance of the stamp headquarters are all bare, shaking their heads with the wind, almost without stopping for a moment.
This makes the freezing capital even colder.
But that's exactly what happened.
Even the stamp sellers in the "small market" are so cold that they have to jump a few times after standing for a while.
He Ning Weimin didn't seem to know the cold at all.
On the stalls with stamp albums, he walked around unhurriedly, leaving his figure to explore.
"Dude, do you want to come up with a ticket?
"Brother, do you want to buy or sell, let's talk?"
"Qi Baishi souvenir sheet, Qi Baishi souvenir sheet, two pieces of six transfers, only this one!"
"Kite sika deer and lotus, ancient Chinese scientists, who didn't have it, you asked me to make up for it!"
"Guys, did you have a galloping horse the year before last?What about Journey to the West last year? Hi...... Hi...... Don't go, let's talk about it, buy it at a high price!"
In fact, why is Ning Weimin so interested? Does he really not know about the cold?
Hey, if nothing else, the main thing is to hear such shouts, he is really really enjoying it.
He also experienced the feeling that Kangshude said in the "ghost market", "I don't want to leave when I smell the smell of business here".
On the other hand, he is actually scanning the goods with a professional eye and observing the market.
And soon, he noticed an obvious good thing.
Dare to love the current market, is the new commemorative stamps and special stamps are the most popular.
Only a few people will pay attention to the commemorative stamps of the "old" period and the stamps of the "movement" period.
Most people are not very interested in Qing Dynasty stamps, Republic of China stamps and liberated area stamps.
So at first glance, Ning Weimin went to the top of his life.
He carefully looked through the stamp dealers' stamp books, and when he saw the old stamps, he took them down decisively and never let them go.
To be honest, buying goods at this time is really a rare enjoyment, as if picking up money everywhere.
Because good stamps can be found almost everywhere, and many varieties have not received due attention, in the words of the capital, they are called "halogen".
No, I flipped through a dozen children's albums in a row.
Ning Weimin found a broad-sided big dragon and three light-toothed small dragon tickets.
Six Japanese Beaulieu tickets, and four London watermarked Beaulieu tickets.
There is also a complete set of "Wen 10 Chairman's Latest Instructions" and two sets of "Wen 1 Invincible Long Live the Red Thought" stamps.
In addition, there are more than 30 loose tickets from these two "Wen" series, as well as more than 20 loose tickets from the liberated areas.
It's really not in vain.
Especially since the stamp dealers in these years are not professional, and the price is quite cheap.
You know, there were two kinds of stamp dealers in the early days.
One is the unemployed, really idle people, who spend their days here.
The other is to have a formal job in a factory or institution, and to run to do a second job.
But whether you don't have a job or have a job, you want to make a fortune just by reselling stamps, that is absolutely nothing.
The greedy master just wants to earn two cigarettes and alcohol money by doing this, and at most he will go down to the restaurant to fight tooth sacrifices.
More people actually just want to sell their excess stamps.
Then use the proceeds to buy stamps that you like or don't have.
This is called "using postal services to support postal services".
Speaking of which, it is actually similar to Gu Si'er, who likes to raise fish, and wants to make some feed money by selling fish.
At this time, the level of wage income is still very low, and the social environment of eating, drinking, and clothing must be considered first when paying wages.
These people poke here every day, and if they can really earn a few cents, they are already very satisfied.
This can be said to be unseen, or it can be said that poverty limits the imagination.
In addition, after all, this informal small market has just been formed, and now it is an era of information blockage.
Even stamp dealers don't have a lot of knowledge about stamps, and they don't have much experience in business.
How can this be compared with Ning Weimin?
Who is he?
That's a professional postal merchant!
A connoisseur of stamps for thirteen years in the information age!
Not only have I seen the stamps but also have a comprehensive understanding of the history of the stamp industry.
He is also very familiar with the calculations and intrigues of the people in this profession.
Whether it is knowledge or insight, or even the means and level of funds, it is enough to crush these amateur small fish and shrimp.
It's by no means a blow, Ning Weimin's easy move is enough for these stamp dealers.
What's the trick?
Throw stones and ask for directions.
To put it bluntly, what stamps Ning Weimin wants to buy, he doesn't directly say to buy them.
Instead, he pointed to the ticket he fancied and asked the price first.
The reason is very simple, the stamp dealer thinks that he has goods and wants to sell, and the purchase price offered to him cannot be high.
Hearing the price, Ning Weimin retorted and wanted to buy the ticket in the other party's hand.
Isn't that person just being trapped by the price he just said?
At this time, it is impossible to open the mouth at a high price, and there is no reason why it is impossible to say.
Hey, so this hand, don't look simple, it works very well.
Who Ning Weimin asked, who was dumbfounded.
Because for a moment, inexperienced people's brains can't react at all, and the answer is instinctive.
When you are dumb, it is too late to regret it, and you have to make a choice between losing face and making less money.
So in the end, even if it is such a famous ticket as the Great Dragon Ticket, anyone who collects philately knows that it is very precious.
Kening Weimin still only spent one hundred and two, and he took it down.
The two Little Dragon tickets and the Panlong tickets are even cheaper.
The stamp dealer himself mistook the small dragon ticket for the Pan Long ticket, and the man did not know that the Japanese version of the Pan Dragon ticket was the wrong version.
Ning Weimin ate it all at an average price of two yuan a piece.
As for the other "Wen 1", "Wen 10" series and liberated area tickets.
The average loose ticket is three cents a piece, and the complete set is almost all won at a set of five yuan.
In short, Ning Weimin bought it without blinking, and his heart blossomed happily.
Although on the surface, except for the dragon ticket, it is a rare variety that can really be called a price, and it has been recognized at home and abroad and can maintain its longevity.
The rest of the tickets he bought, after full value mining in 2020, are only worth tens of thousands.
Looking at it this way, it seems that the appreciation space of the stamps he invested in is only tens of thousands of times, and the advantage is not very large.
If you compare it with the hundreds of thousands of millions of dollars he spent on calligraphy and paintings, it is better to feel like he has suffered a big loss and taken a stupid look.
But the account really can't be calculated like this.