Chapter 17 Bidding
Alan first called his secretary Anna and asked Anna to call all their buyers and clients immediately to attend their company's auction tomorrow. Then he called one of his good friends, David, and asked him to come over tomorrow to help him. David was also a connoisseur and worked at the Duo Poly auction house.
Immediately after that, Alan was going to visit several big buyers in person. These buyers are important customers for his exhibition. As a small auction house, he needs to personally pull some wealthy buyers. And large auction houses, such as Sotheby's, directly invite a big buyer to participate. This is because Sotheby's has a good collection worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
Alan first finds Joyce, the owner of a medium-sized farm, who can spend $5o on collectibles.
Joyce is also an old patron of Allen, and has always liked to photograph some ancient Chinese gadgets. This time Alan came to him, and he easily agreed.
Allen also visits the owner of a five-star hotel, Mr. Song, who is Chinese-American, and Mr. Song can put up $2oo to buy collectibles. Mr. Song is a newcomer to Chinese antiques collection.
But Mr. Song was disappointed because he didn't see good treasures at Allen's auction house last few times, and he didn't want to come this time.
'Mr. Allen, your auction house doesn't have anything good. It's also a waste of time for me to go, I'm busy. ’
Alan said seriously, "I think there is something good this time, and it is not one. Not the Qing Dynasty, not the Ming Dynasty, not the Yuan Dynasty, all of them are collections of the Song Dynasty. Among them, there is a replica of Yang Shixian's "Red Mural Scroll", which is exactly the same as the one of the Boston Museum in the United States. ’
In normal times, Alan would take pictures of those collections and show them to them, and they were talking. But this time, because of time constraints, it was too late. All he could say was to the buyers.
Mr. Song listened to Allen's words so seriously, so he reluctantly agreed.
Allen also visited Bruce, the manager of an equity fund company. Bruce can come up with $5oo dollars to buy collectibles.
Bruce's fund company often invests in collectibles, and he is very passionate about investing in antiques, often attending Sotheby's auctions. But for a small company like Allen, he was dismissive and set aside only $5oo dollars to buy.
Bruce didn't want to listen to Allen, "Poly has informed me that I'm going to their auction next week, and I want to reserve the 5oo for him to buy antiques." ’
Alan shouted, 'Mr. Bruce, please listen to me, we have Song Dynasty things this time, all the best things, Song Dynasty painters' paintings, very valuable. ’
Bruce still didn't believe Allen, and even scoffed, 'Allen, you're so good at bragging. I'm afraid you won't have anything good when I'm gone. ’
Alan took Bruce's hand, "Trust me once, Mr. Bruce, you come to our auction once, I promise you won't disappoint." ’
Bruce reluctantly agreed when he saw that Eren was so sincere.
Allen went to visit Bob, the chairman of the board of directors of a public company. Bob was able to come up with $5ooo to invest in collectibles. He has a net worth of $1oo dollars. Buying collectibles is his hobby, as long as he sees something good, no matter how much money he will take.
But Alan waited a long time at the door and finally met Bob. Alan had just finished saying a polite invitation. Bob yelled, 'Get out. A small auction that came to waste my time. ’
Bob's bodyguards immediately chased Alan away.
But Alan still shouted, 'Our auction is in the boutique hotel's clubhouse.'" And threw the business card to Bob's assistant. ’
After this qiē, Alan returned to the company and took Anna with him to transport the collection from the insurance company to the boutique hotel's clubhouse.
During the transportation process, there are security personnel from the insurance company to escort them. Once at the hotel, Alan and Anna set up the collection and pulled up a placard above the venue that read 'Field Summer Supreme Auction'.
The next day, Anna informed those small buyers that they had come to 8 percent. There were about 2o people, and the whole venue was not very lively. Fortunately, the big buyers, Joyce, Mr. Song, and Bruce, all came. These are the people that Allen cares about.
Li Yibai also came. Li Yibai came here to learn from the experience and see how the auction works. After all, everything you ship in the future will be sold at auction.
David also arrived on time, and his appreciation ability was stronger than Allen's, so Allen wanted him to be a gatekeeper. David was also stunned when he saw the two replica paintings.
'It's a rare imitation of the same era. The person who imitated this is also a master of calligraphy and painting. Alan, where did you find such a strong seller. ’
Seeing that everyone had arrived, Alan took the microphone and announced that the auction had begun. The first auction was this imitation of Yang Shixian's Red Mural Scroll from the Song Dynasty, which is exactly the same as the one in the Boston Museum in the United States. The most important thing is that this is an imitation of the same period of the Song Dynasty, which is very precious and collectible. Prices start at $50,000. ’
$50,000, Li Yibai smiled faintly. It was only bought by him for 25 taels of silver. According to the purchasing power, it is only 25oo US dollars. The price starts at $50,000.
Joyce, Mr. Song, and Bruce all looked straight at the sight of this treasure. Alan is a good kid to get such a good thing.
Joyce held up the card, '70,000'.
Although he used to buy gadgets, he couldn't help but want to try it when he saw such good goods.
Mr. Song smiled when he saw that Joyce wanted to grab it. Hold up the card. '1o million. ’
Bruce is even more deserved, holding up his cards. '2o thousand. ’
All of a sudden, it was raised to 2o thousand. The little customers that Anna invited couldn't afford it. They just buy collections up to 10,000 yuan. Usually, Allen's auction starts at a few thousand dollars.
So on the field can only be, Joyce, Mr. Song, Bruce, they are playing.
Although Joyce has limited funds, he is so proud to be able to get this collection, so he is determined to use all the 5o million of the bottom line and buy this collection.
Joyce held up his card, '250,000. ’
Mr. Song was in a hurry, and he couldn't let Joyce take it, and raised his card, '3o thousand.' ’
Bruce thought, it's better to be direct, seeing that these two guys are so positive, it seems that without 5o thousand, they can't take this thing. Just get rid of them.
Bruce held up his card, '5o thousand. ’
5o thousand, a noisy cry in the venue, it is really a big deal. It seems that Bruce is going to be imperative.
'7o thousand. Mr. Song didn't think about it, what a glory it was to hang this imitation at home, and it could be passed down to the family if he bought this treasure.
Relatively speaking, Bruce's enthusiasm for collecting is more of an investment than a collection, so he will consider the future price increase of this thing, so he stopped after seeing Mr. Song's 7o million sign. He has to consider whether he wants to make a collection that is more valuable for investment. Because there is still a lot of Allen in the collection.
'7o million for the first time, 7o million for the second time, 7o million for the third time. Alan struck the hammer, 'Deal.' ’
So, Mr. Song was full of joy and photographed Yang Shixian's imitation of "Red Mural Scroll". After Mr. Song got this treasure, he burst into tears with excitement, and said silently in his heart, "Dad, my son has won glory for you, our family has this treasure, after hanging it, who dares to laugh at our family for being a tyrant." ’
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