Chapter 53: Cornered
"Miss Mai, don't you really want to go to another house. Going to other places is definitely not as high as the price we have. Our boss just has no desires and no desires, so he will give you whatever price he thinks is worth. Let me tell you, we have never received Vacheron Constantin at such a high price. At most, it will charge up to 30% of the original price, and it is still almost brand new, with a full set of bills and packaging. Believe me, you're definitely a special case. Just publish a newspaper, make an announcement, and go through the process, and only a month has passed quickly. "Sales really want to do this business of buying, buying, buying.
The owner + inheritor of the studio is willing to buy it at an auction price of 14 years, which shows that these watches have been appreciating in value.
If she collects these watches and finds an opportunity to sell them again, the commission alone will be enough for her half a year's salary.
Maimaimai said thank you, and without too much hesitation, he left with the Vacheron Constantin Mask Master series.
Maimaimai knew that the sales did not deceive her, and also knew that the young man who pointed to the green onion root gave a very high price.
But she only had two weeks, and she couldn't go through the consignment process of J&D Studios for a whole month.
Pushing himself and others, the boy didn't mean to embarrass him, and Maimaimai could understand the boy's persistence, because she was originally a very principled person.
Maimaimai followed the advice of the teenager who amazed his eardrums and went to several watch stores.
Those people don't know if they have a limited understanding of clocks and watches, or if they know that they are buying and selling in a hurry, they deliberately give random prices.
It's pretty much the same thing, saying that only Patek Philippe, Rolex and Richard Miller are watches that hold their value.
If it is these three brands, if they are in good condition, they can basically be sold for more than half of the original price, and they may even appreciate in value, which is more expensive than the original price.
If you buy Vacheron Constantin in a hurry, you will be given a tenth of the price at most.
Maimaimai was full of confusion and asked if it was one-tenth of the auction price, and the answer was that it could only be calculated as one-tenth of the ex-factory price.
According to this method of selling, even if the four mask masters are sold, it is very likely that the money they can buy and buy will not be able to raise even a fraction of 2.3 million.
The market for second-hand watches is the same as the antique market, and there is a lot of room for price.
After going back and forth to three watch stores that could be consigned before and after, I finally realized that if she didn't find a strong studio, the only series of watches she kept in value would not be able to sell enough to pay the price of the last 2.3 million compensation.
Maimaimaimai suddenly experienced what kind of mood those big businessmen felt when they went bankrupt because the last small amount of money could not be turned over.
The Qanda Skill Master Studio was just an old man's clock repair point at the beginning.
Later, his son Jinda helped him set up a studio and applied for an intangible cultural heritage inheritor.
After Jin Qiang's grandfather retired, he followed Uncle Jin Da to Switzerland for the elderly, and before leaving, he didn't hear that he had found a successor.
Why did a self-proclaimed inheritor suddenly pop up, not to mention, but also changed the boss.
Maimaimaimai doesn't know what the relationship between this new boss who claims to be an intangible inheritor and the old man is, but it certainly can't be for no reason.
The compensation promised to the workers is the first thing that Maimaimai wants to accomplish with her own efforts after leaving the utopia created for her by her parents, and she doesn't want to give up just like that.
If she wants to sell this set of watches to Qiangda Studio within two weeks, the only way in front of her is to find Grandpa Jinqiang.
The old man didn't have a mobile phone, and the person was not in the studio, so he wanted to try his luck and called the fixed phone number that the old man had given her home before, but no one answered after calling several times.
After the old man went to Switzerland, the two did not talk on the phone again, so how did she know that the old man was doing a Chinese-themed watch tour exhibition in Europe?
That's right, before the old man went out, Maimaimai helped him apply for a Weibo account, and said that he could use Weibo to circle fans to expand the publicity effect of the old man's exhibition.
It's just that the old man has only posted one Weibo throughout the year, and the people who follow each other have always been the only one who buys, buys, buys.
After the old man posted the Weibo of the touring exhibition, he also interacted with Maimaimaimai for several days.
Although there are not a few sentences in total, considering that the old man didn't know how to type on a computer before, the frequency of two sentences a day can be regarded as a qualitative leap.
Maimaimai's Weibo, at the earliest, was opened to let Mai Haiyang and An Shuyi understand her daily life, and later there were cracks in the relationship with her parents, so she simply abandoned Weibo.
When I abandoned it, I went to see the old man, and the number of Weibo was still the first one, and it hadn't changed at all.
If you want to come, the old man doesn't need to be on Weibo.
The day you sent it was because you agreed to buy and buy, and you went out to send her pictures of the exhibition.
Maimaimaimai opened her Weibo account and saw that there were two messages sent to her by the old man in the private message.
The first is: [Little girl, are you there?]
The second is: [Isn't it?]
Buy, buy, buy, hurry back to the message: [Yes, yes, Grandpa Jin. 】
Immediately afterwards, he sent a long message: [Grandpa Jin, it's great to find you here, most of the watches I bought before were damaged by blisters, and only the Vacheron Constantin Mask Master series that you said I had in my hand was left. I used to swear that I would never sell a watch, and if I did, if you were there, you would laugh at me for not counting. Something happened to my family, and I had to sell the series to raise money to pay the workers. I don't have any bills or auction documents, and the current person in charge of your studio said that it will take a month to complete the consignment process, so I wonder if you can help me talk to him about it and get my watch in two weeks. 】
After Maimaimai successfully sent two private messages, I still want to continue to gossip and ask the old man what the relationship is with the inheritor who is now in charge of the studio, why I haven't heard of the old man's watch repair skills before There is an inheritor.
As soon as she typed two words, she found that the two private messages sent to her by the old man before were one day a year and eight months ago, and one was a year and a half ago.
Buy, buy, buy, buy and send private messages in the past, without accident, sink into the sea.
The "desperate" Maimaimai began to want to find Jiang Shiyu for help.
Thinking of Jiang's mother who was undergoing surgery, I felt that I had no face to go to someone.
When Jiang Shiyu left, he said that he would call him if he had something to do.
She didn't dare to fight, she was afraid that she would hear some bad news about Jiang's mother's Shi Xinyue's condition.
Jiang Shiyu didn't call after he went out, and the situation was definitely not as optimistic as Jiang Shiyu said before he got on the plane.
There is really no way to take out the card given to her by Jiang Shiyu at this time to solve the mess left by her parents.
Is there any other way to do it?
Is there a place where you understand the value of this master series and have the ability to collect this set of watches?