Chapter 80: Smashing the Field

Ask for collections, ask for recommendations!

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Because of the excessive excitement of this day, when he got up the next day, it was already past ten o'clock in the morning, and Candace was already a little impatient to wait.

Jin Muchen hurriedly went out to have a brunch with her, and then hurriedly left the hotel and went straight to the Paske Market.

The Paske Market, similar to the New York Antique Market, is usually held on weekends, and generally starts in November and ends in March of the following year.

After this time, the whole market will enter a period of recuperation.

Yesterday, he unexpectedly received a set of baby snuff bottles, which made Jin Muchen very interested in this bazaar, and planned to go again today to take a good look at whether he could meet any treasures.

And after walking around yesterday, Jin Muchen already had a general understanding of this bazaar, so when they came today, they didn't waste time, but went straight to the greenhouse in Victory Square.

According to their understanding, this greenhouse is set up almost every holiday, and almost all of the silent auctions held are similar to yesterday's.

And because of yesterday's experience, coupled with Tong Guò's comparison of the antiques in the greenhouse and the vendors outside the greenhouse, and the antiques in the store, Jin Muchen felt that it was still the most cost-effective to buy things in the greenhouse.

Although there are a lot of good things in the shops on both sides of Pasque, because the antique shops are relatively regular, most of them are clearly priced, and if you want to buy something good in those shops, the cost is relatively expensive and not very cost-effective.

And these stall owners who set up stalls in the greenhouse, most of them belong to the lack of strength to open a shop, but their own things are better than those stalls outside the stalls, let them go to the auction through the formal way, and they are not willing to take advantage of the auction company and charge too high a handling fee, so they choose to set up a stall in this greenhouse, although they also have to pay a certain fee, but it is always much lower than the auction company's fees.

When they arrived in the greenhouse, it was already a crowded situation, and the situation was similar to yesterday, many collectors who were confident in their collections had set up their booths here early, and then wrote the price on the small blackboard next to it, waiting for customers to come to the door.

Old Phil, who sold the snuffbox yesterday, is still there this time, but this time he is buying something else, some cloisonné and porcelain and other gadgets brought from China, and this time there are not as many customers around his stall as yesterday.

When Old Phil saw Jin Muchen, he greeted him with a smile, after all, Jin Muchen can be regarded as a bold patron, and Jin Muchen also smiled and nodded at him.

Jin Muchen was not very interested in the things on Phil's stall today, he glanced at them, except for a few things that can be regarded as antiques, most of them can only be regarded as modern crafts.

So he took a turn in the greenhouse, and soon the lot in a stall aroused his interest.

The stall owner is a big fat man with curly hair and a scruffy beard, and this guy looks like a typical American otaku, with a sloppy energy all over his body, and he doesn't greet customers when he sits there.

But the lot on his stall is very interesting, it is a set of dozens of Coca-Cola bottles and cans of various kinds and different shapes, all of which are unopened, Jin Muchen picked up a few older ones, and they all looked decades old, and the Coke in the bottle had expired a long time ago.

"Hey, man, be careful, this is the most expensive one, this is the Coke bottle to commemorate the marriage of Prince Charles of England to Princess Diana."

The curly-haired fat man looked at Jin Muchen holding the Coke bottle as if he was very casual, and hurriedly shouted at Jin Muchen with a nervous face.

Jin Muchen smiled, and then carefully put the Coke bottle back.

During this time, he was also involved in the antique market in the United States, and he saw a lot of strange collections, and also met all kinds of collectors.

Because of the status of the United States as the world's number one immigration country, the tastes of collectors here can be said to be strange, and so are the collections.

Some people like to collect all kinds of old magazines, some people like to collect all kinds of baseball star cards, and some people like to collect all kinds of bottle caps, even license plates, and shoes.

Anyway, those who don't know how to do it will think their tastes are too heavy and weird, just like traveling at home and abroad to figure out why someone likes to collect disgusting things like cricket jars.

And these cola cans in front of this guy, although Jin Muchen can't see any jewelry, he can also see that these collections are a little interesting.

Some of the Coke cans are strange, and some are all kinds of commemorative editions, such as the commemorative version of Elvis Presley's death, and even a set of commemorative editions of the Chinese zodiac, and even the commemorative version of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.

Anyway, it does look precious, and the price of these Coke cans is not cheap, such as the Coke bottle that commemorates the marriage of Prince Charles and Princess Diana just now, this one is actually quoted for 5,000 US dollars, and this whole set of Coke cans is calculated, and the appraisal company gives an estimate of as high as 180,000 US dollars, and the lowest price that this curvish fat stall owner can accept is 240,000.

Seeing such a price, Jin Muchen could only stick to his teeth, you must know that the price of the snuff bottle he collected yesterday was 100,000 yuan, and this cola can was actually more valuable than that set of snuff bottles.

Of course, this mainly has a lot to do with the fact that Coca-Cola is of American origin, after all, once it comes to national complexes, many collections will double in value.

And don't look at the price of this Coke can, but there are really a lot of people who are interested in it, and after such a while, there are many people around this stall.

"I don't know anything else, but this cola can is a collection, but it started in the United States, and it also flourished in the United States, this thing has a high status in the collection industry in the United States, and the acceptance is very high, my brother has collected a set before, but he doesn't have a complete set, but unfortunately now it has been deducted by the bank."

Candace doesn't know much about other antiques, but he does know a little about Coke cans, which emerged in the United States.

Hearing her say this, Jin Muchen is also interested in this set of Coke cans, his future plan is to open an antique store in Manhattan, he doesn't plan to open that kind of special Chinese style, his plan is the kind of all-encompassing, covering all styles of antiques in Europe, Asia, America and Africa.

In his opinion, this set of cola cans is a good choice, buy it and take it back and put it in the store, and it will definitely not worry about selling.

So after the auction began, he also chose to participate in the bidding, and everyone else increased the price by 1200, but he took the same bidding method as yesterday, and directly increased the price by 5,000, which scared off many bidders, and the price was directly raised by him to 250,000 US dollars.

The curly-haired fat man greeted a high roller like Jin Muchen, of course, with his hands raised, and his eyes were much friendlier, an offer of 250,000 did scare off many bidders, and after about fifty seconds, no one dared to come up to bid.

The curly-haired fat man looked at his watch, waited for the last ten seconds to pass, and then announced that the auction was successful, but at this time, suddenly a black shadow squeezed in front of the blackboard and directly added another five thousand to Jin Muchen's offer.

There was a gasp from the people around him, Jin Muchen turned his head to look, and his heart couldn't help but sink, it turned out to be the four-eyed little white face who bid for a snuffbox with him yesterday.

After filling in the price, this guy stood in front of the blackboard of the bidding, crossed his arms and looked at Jin Muchen with a sneer, while at this time, his Japanese employers were standing in the crowd, constantly whispering in Japanese and pointing to the Coke cans on the table and discussing.

Jin Muchen understood as soon as he saw this posture, it seems that this guy is bidding for his Japanese bosses this time.

Looking at that guy's chin is about to kill the virtue of the heavens, I am angry in my heart, Nima's, dog traitor, see that you are still very energetic as a dog, right?

He stepped forward and directly added another 5,000 to the offer of the four-eyed little white face, and directly raised the price to 260,000.

The four-eyed little white face sneered at him, and then turned his head to look at the several Japanese behind him, one of them was a tough-looking guy with a style that looked a bit like Ken Takakura's uncle, and nodded at him.

This guy snorted softly in his nose, and then added another five thousand to Jin Muchen's offer, it seems that he is not only here to smash the field, but to fight Jin Muchen to the end!

Jin Muchen, who didn't like the Japanese and didn't like the dog traitor, felt so angry that his temples jumped, and he didn't think much about it, so he directly raised the price to 270,000.

These two people are on the bar, and there are more people watching the excitement around, such a scene is rare here, and the curly-haired fat man of the stall owner has a happy face at this time.

The four-eyed little white face got the approval of the Japanese master, but he didn't give an inch, Jin Muchen raised the price, he added 5,000 to Jin Muchen's offer, and finally the price was raised all the way to 300,000.

"Enough, Mu Chen, if the price increases, it will be a little cost-effective, although this set of Coke cans is good, but if you slowly collect it from the Internet, you can collect it all, but it may take a little more time, if you are entangled with him like this, it will be too cost-effective."

Just when Jin Muchen wanted to step forward again to increase the price, Candace grabbed him and persuaded him.

Jin Muchen felt that his stomach was about to be blown up by the four-eyed little white face on the other side, who only looked at people with his nostrils, but finally returned to his senses.

This set of cola cans collection, although the variety is complete, the condition is intact, and it is very rare, but if you compete with this guy like this to raise the price, it is indeed a bit worth the loss, forget it, this time I will make you proud for a while.

Jin Muchen chose to withdraw from the bidding, but at the moment when he wanted to turn around and leave, the four-eyed little white face whispered: "Hmph! Dead Beiyan, do you think you are rich, but that's it? Playing collection is not for you, or go back to farming is the best for you! ”