Chapter 225: Profiteering
As the auctioneer's words fell, the audience applauded, and they were all shocked by the ingenuity of Ivan International, which was ingenious to keep all the collections on the deep seabed, and also filmed the process of taking treasures into a program similar to tomb robbery or exploration, which was really eye-opening.
Lu Han also understood, it turned out that he had hidden the collection to the bottom of the sea, no wonder Zhang Min was so confident.
At this time, Zhang Min turned his head and smiled slyly: "I came up with this idea, how about it?"
"Well, that's good. Lu Han admired it from the bottom of his heart, and said that this crazy woman really had two strokes, and such a novel treasure extraction process undoubtedly made a good start for the entire auction.
After admiring, the focus of the audience's attention fell on the stone in the center of the booth.
Emeralds, also known as the king of emeralds, are quite valuable gemstones and are recognized as one of the most valuable gemstones in the international jewelry world. Because of its unique green color and unique charm, as well as magical legends, it is favored by Westerners, and recently, it has become more and more popular among Chinese people.
The stone on the booth is half the size of a fist, which can be regarded as a stone, although the emerald has not yet been developed, but the green faintly revealed by the edge pattern exudes a ghostly light, which is very dazzling, and it is definitely a superior emerald luster.
"Supplied by a Brazilian jeweler, this stone is 8.6 centimeters high and 5.4 centimeters wide, with a known net emerald content of 1.6 grams, and has been determined by a specialist appraiser. ”
The auctioneer slowly introduced, and the high-tech camera photographed this stone in all directions and without dead ends, and the large LED display screen behind it showed a bright light.
It can be said that this emerald attracted the attention of many people as soon as it appeared.
No one at the scene dared to estimate how many grams of emeralds this stone contained, the auctioneer couldn't, the audience couldn't, even the experts couldn't, but just because of such a little exposure, the value of the whole stone was raised by an unknown number of grades.
If you buy it home, smash it open and take a look, it is full of stone powder, and there is only a little bit of emerald, then you are a loss, and you have no return, but on the other hand, if you buy it home and smash it open, it is full of green emeralds, then you will eat and drink for the rest of your life.
Therefore, the auction of this stone depends on eyesight on the one hand, and luck on the other.
"The starting price is $30,000. The auctioneer slowly said the starting price.
After a brief silence, someone behind him held up a sign: "Forty thousand." ”
"Fifty thousand. ”
"Seventy thousand. ”
Many people still believe in their eyesight, they think that this stone must be a treasure, at least it is definitely worth the price they pay, but there are also people who don't even raise their eyelids and are not interested, so the field becomes a competition for a few people.
"One hundred thousand!" Suddenly, a thick voice slowly shouted out the price behind him, everyone's hearts jumped at the same time, and when they turned their heads, they found that it was a middle-aged man over forty years old, who should be European from the looks of it, and the moment he shouted the price, his face was full of pride.
100,000 US dollars to buy this broken stone, Lu Han felt that it was not worth it, but this is the auction, this is where the huge profits of the stone lie, take this stone as an example, the Brazilian jeweler may not be sure how many emeralds there are in it, but he chose not to develop it, but to auction it here, in order to gamble, maybe because he is not confident in himself, it may be a mouse's eye, but if the hammer goes down, there is nothing, then it is really better to come here to auction and make some small money.
To put it bluntly, it's really no different from gambling.
The transaction was successful, the certificate was sent together with the stone, and the middle-aged man took it with joy, and he couldn't wait to take out the small hammer given by the auction house and smash it hard.
When his hand fell, he was immediately dumbfounded.
Except for a little emerald green gem, all of them were brownish-gray granite stones, which made his originally smug expression disappear in an instant, and his old face was stretched and blackened with anger.
Most of the people were gloating, and those who followed the auction just now suddenly felt lucky, fortunately they didn't take the auction, otherwise the 100,000 would have been really wasted.
Looking at the man again, although he was angry, he was also magnificent, and wrapped the broken stones on the ground in a bag, and said no more.
All in all, the first transaction was a complete success.
Lu Han pursed his lips and retracted his gaze, anyway, the people who can get on this cruise ship are not ordinary people, and they are worth millions of dollars, and it is not uncommon to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to buy a stone.
At this time, he whispered into Zhang Min's ear: "How much do you charge fees?"
"Ten percent. ”
Lu Han was taken aback, damn, so much!
Three percent of the auction is too much, and the fact that it can receive one-tenth of the turnover here is inevitably too much.
Imagine that the auction house made a full $100,000 in transactions just now.
Day, it's so dark!
As if seeing the surprise in Lu Han's eyes, Zhang Min smiled: "What do you know? We hold an auction on this ship, and the rent for one day is two million US dollars, how can we make money if we don't charge more fees?"
Although this is true, Lu Han Lao felt that it was still dark, he thought that the Brazilian businessman was enough to make money, but he didn't expect that the most profitable thing was the auction, one made 10,000 yuan, if it came too much, 2 million dollars could be earned in an afternoon.
In the following time, everyone enjoyed the thrilling treasure exploration journey and the magical blue ocean, while enjoying the fun brought by the auction, in addition to the emerald stone at the beginning, jewelers from all over the world also brought a lot of tourmaline, jadeite, ruby, sapphire and other stones, some people are happy, some people are disappointed, it is a mixed blessing. Most of the transaction amounts of these orders are about 100,000 yuan, so in this way, in just an hour, the auction house has made 30 orders of business, earning a full 500,000 US dollars.
While lamenting the huge profits of the Pushi business, Lu Han has been observing Tang Gaoqiang and Shen Ling above, after such a long time, the two of them have not even raised a card, for example, Shen Ling actually only cares about chatting with beautiful women, as if he is not interested in these Pushi at all.
After all the stone auctions are over, the jade link is not over, and the next thing that is about to start is the finished product.
Diamonds, jade, gemstones, and gold from all over the world are readily available, all of which are fished out from the bottom of the sea, and then maintain the cold temperature of the seabed, as if the treasure has just been found, a piece of auction, with the infiltration of the stage, everyone's bidding enthusiasm is ignited, and they have raised their cards, some of the old guys who just disdained it can't bear it, and began to shout loudly, from the price of the stone at the beginning, it has soared to more than 200,000, in short, the price is getting higher and higher, and people are getting more and more excited.
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