Chapter 14: Hints of the Antique Deal

When Ren Jingtian heard Yu Lifei ask for the price, he was so anxious that he stomped his feet. However, he still knows a little about these rules of the antique business. Since Yu Lifei was negotiating with the stall owner, it was inconvenient for him to interject. He secretly decided that he would have to talk to Yu Lifei about some rules of the antique industry.

"Someone saw this thing yesterday, and they sold it for 1,002, and I didn't sell it." Although stall owner Zhu Tuo's eyes looked at Yu Lifei, he saw Ren Jingtian's expression clearly. He was secretly proud in his heart, as long as the other party knew the rules.

Juto is talking about the hints of the antique shop, and there are many hints of the antique shop, for example: when you go to the market to see something, suppose you enter an antique shop, and several people in the store are talking, and when you come in to see something, people don't talk about it, then you have to pay attention. People may be negotiating a deal, and they generally don't want people to know about it.

If a few people are staring at you, you have to go out with interest, and if you don't realize it, people will hint at you closely. For example, if you look at something and ask for a price, people will directly tell you that this thing is not for sale, and ask another thing, and still answer that it is not for sale, that is obviously to ask you to come out.

If the seller says, "I didn't sell this thing for 150 when the man gave me 150," then he is actually implying that he wants to sell you 150. In the same way, if a seller takes the initiative to show you something, and after reading it, he takes the initiative to tell you: "I bought this thing for 150 yuan", in fact, he will also sell you 150 yuan.

Another example is when you have just bought a piece of porcelain and come to a friend's shop to rest, and your friend asks you, "What did you buy?" You replied, "I bought a piece of porcelain," and handed it to your friend. My friend asked again, "Who bought it?" You replied, "Lao Wang's shop." My friend asked again: "How much"? You replied excitedly, "3000!" Then I found that my friend was looking at the door or started picking up things, which already means that things are expensive, so there is no need to ask if the price is appropriate.

Also, if someone has just bought something and is anxious to know whether it is true or false, he finds a friend in the industry, takes the initiative to show it to others, and asks people to judge the authenticity. The following situations are all bad news: the other party will return it to you after reading it, and leave without saying a word; After the other party sees it, return it to you and start chatting with friends on the side; After the other party looks at it, it will be returned to you, and then they will start asking you about your experience of buying this thing, such as, who bought it from, how much money you bought it, when you bought it, etc.; After the other party saw it, he returned it to you, and then began to talk about how old he was, his eyes were not as good as before, and his memory was not ......; The other person will give it back to you after reading it, and then smile at you......

"Twenty is not for sale?" Yu Lifei asked, he didn't care how much this thing was worth, he only bought it according to the actual situation in his pocket. After buying Nanyue's old manuscript in the morning, he now only has a hundred yuan on him. He didn't buy this thing for himself, but wanted to give it to Ren Jingtian. His principle of being a man is that he would rather suffer losses himself than take advantage of others. If others take advantage of him, it doesn't matter.

"How can you bargain like this, aren't you trying to make trouble." Zhu Tuo was almost choked by Yu Lifei's words, originally he wanted to pick up a bargain, but he didn't expect Yu Lifei to look at his duty, but this bid really made him unacceptable.

"Boss, ask for a price all over the place, pay back the money on the spot. For a jar like yours, in my hometown, twenty yuan can buy a pair. Yu Lifei said eloquently.

"You're porcelain, I'm porcelain, antique! Can it be the same thing? Juto said.

"Which generation are you from in the Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties? I think it's the 21st century. Yu Lifei said, he just saw someone next to him negotiating with the stall owner, there is no bottom line at all, a thousand yuan of things, a few yuan can be bought.

"How can this be, I put this thing in and put it here every day, I have to make some money, right?" Zhu Tuo said with a smile that although he was also an antique dealer, he was a monk halfway. In the beginning, his profession was pig slaughter. Moreover, at that time, his meat stall was not far from the antique market.

Pig killing is an ancient industry, Zheng Tu in the Water Margin in the Song Dynasty, is already a very professional butcher, this ordinary business, pure manual operation, thousands of years, does not seem to have made much progress.

Zhu Tuo is short, although he has a bit of fat on his body, and he still has some congenital deficiencies to make a living by killing pigs. How so? Because killing pigs is mostly hard work, a random pig will cost more than 200 catties to catch, which is much heavier than himself; If the pig killer has a big waist and has the strength to do the work, it must be much easier to do the work. And Juto killed the pig, the short arms and legs were too hard, and every time he had to use the strength of milk, he barely turned the pig into pork.

Of course, with his cunning and cunning character, it is not necessary to be a profiteer who kills pigs, but unfortunately the competition in the business of killing pigs and selling meat is particularly fierce, and both of them are cunning enough, so it is not easy to stand on his feet just by playing a little cautious. Juto was not doing well and had to give up the bloody industry. Subsequently, he scraped together all the capital and opened a coal shop under the bridge to roll briquettes.

If you want to say that you rely on hard work and roll briquettes to sell, there is nothing wrong with it, and the working people have to sweat and sweat. Although rolling briquettes also requires strength, it is generally much easier than killing pigs, so Juto is not struggling. Just when he wanted to collapse and work hard and accumulate some family business, he encountered difficulties that he never understood. What's so difficult? It has to start with the industry he does.

Presumably everyone knows that briquettes are used to make fires for cooking or heating, and have played a vital role in people's lives in a certain period, of course, the briquette business has also had a very glorious period, when there were many vendors who pulled briquettes to sell, and the state-owned coal yard also specialized in the production of briquettes for sale. But at that good time, Juto didn't catch up and lost a great opportunity to make a fortune.

When Juto remembered that when he rolled briquettes, it was the period of social development when filling gas had long been popularized and gradually moving towards natural gas and heating into the home, because briquettes ran counter to people's living needs, so they became a sunset industry.

Seeing that business was getting weaker and weaker, Juto was depressed, worrying about his livelihood all day long. It was the darkest period of Juto's life, listless and could only look at the sun and sigh. His wife, who was as short as him, couldn't come up with an idea and worried with him.

As the saying goes, God doesn't starve to death for a little bird, and the Juto family saw a turning point on the verge of almost despair. He suddenly remembered that when he was selling pork, there were many people buying and selling antiques in the market not far away, and he heard that it was a very profitable business, and there were living examples of people who made a lot of money for a few dollars. In this way, Juto finally made up his mind to start an antique business.

In the beginning, he often went to the countryside to collect goods, and after receiving them, he went to the antique market to set up a stall. When I first arrived, I didn't understand the bullshit, so I shouted loudly in the village, and I saw what to buy, but after a few days, I was surprisingly lucky, and I always ran into good things. He has done business, and he is naturally treacherous, and he is even more shrewd when he sells things.

In the first few years, there were many things in the countryside, and there were almost no fakes on the market. Juto couldn't tell what he was calling when he bought goods, so he mixed them up, but fortunately, most of the things he bought were antiques, and no one bothered with him. The price is not expensive, so he goes to the stall to take a turn before setting up the stall to see if there are similar goods on other people's stalls, and then shout the price as if they are others. Juto won the first battle and made a lot of money. The family's expenses are enough, and there is still a balance. The pig's head is happy, full of confidence, and the antique shop in his eyes is paved with gold.

Because he was too confident, he rented a shop in the antique market, and when the stall was too big, he naturally couldn't often go to the countryside to shovel goods. Moreover, in recent years, people in the countryside have also begun to become savvy, and it is already difficult to receive goods at low prices. Even if you receive it, it's likely to be a new visit. With his knowledge and vision, being able to buy an old visit is already burning high incense. After a few glances and a few more walks, his shop naturally struggled.

Now he has everything on it, and when it comes to the day of the market, he comes out to set up a stall, and in normal times, he also goes down to shovel goods. It's just that his good luck seems to have run out, and it has been a little difficult to make money in the past few years. This halberd lid jar was collected by him from a dealer who specialized in porcelain, and there were more than 20 items at that time, large and small, new and old, but only a few hundred yuan. He has already sold a few pieces, and the capital has long been returned, and now he sells one and earns one.

"Twenty-five?" Yu Lifei still didn't let go, every time he spoke, he had to calculate the RMB in his pocket, although Wu Wengu promised to arrange for him to enter the museum, but he didn't know when he would be paid, and he had to eat during this time.

Ren Jingtian saw Yu Lifei's bid on the side, holding it with both hands, and the corners of his mouth gently curved towards the shang. Now he was finally relieved, even if Yu Lifei suffered a loss, he would not lose much. Now Yu Lifei and Zhu Tuo are talking about the price, if Yu Lifei doesn't take the initiative to ask him, he can't ask.

"If you really want it, I'll give you a discount, six hundred yuan. You look at the process, and then look at the pulp and Sanskrit, it's definitely worth the price. Juto looked like he was in pain, gritted his teeth, and said.

"Boss, you don't want to sell it, thirty yuan, I don't want more." Yu Lifei stood up, he only had so much money, it was impossible to spend it all on this thing. If something is too expensive, you have to give it up.

"One hundred! Take it if you want. "Juto couldn't hold back, he set up a stall, not to collect, just to make money. As long as there is money to be made, no matter how much, it is a business.

"Thirty-five, if you're willing to sell, I'll take it." Yu Lifei is not tense, if he has money, he will definitely take out the money and buy it.

"I said friend, I've dropped from 1,002 to 100, why are you only going up so much? Otherwise, it's not good, eighty, let's make a deal. Juto said almost pleadingly.

"Boss, let's do it, it's not easy for everyone, fifty, I want it." Yu Lifei also made up his mind, fifty yuan doesn't seem like much, but for him now, it is half a net worth.

"Friend, you're too good at bargaining, forget it, even if it's a leak, I'll give it to you." Zhu Tuo said that the so-called selling leaks is relative to picking up leaks, which means that the seller does not understand, the good things are not valued, and the market is not clear, so they are picked cheaply.