Chapter 9 Chapter 009 Last Lesson

"Two hundred yuan, I'll take it." The young man held the bottle, looked at it carefully for a while, and then paid back the price to the pony. "Well, you'd better put it down." Xiao Ma couldn't help frowning when he heard that, "I said brother, I can't even get 200 yuan. If you want it, I want as much as you want. This bottle, but Old stuff." After the young man heard the words, he remained silent for a while. He played with the bottle in his hands for a while, then frowned, as if making a decision, and said to the pony, "Three hundred, three hundred at most. , if you want to sell it, I will buy it. If you don’t sell it, forget it.”

Xiao Ma looked at the young man, shook his head, and said, "I think you also really like this plum vase. To tell you the truth, three hundred yuan is almost enough for me to buy the goods, but look at my style. You have to give some hard-earned money for meals and rain, right? I don’t want to ask for the price of two thousand yuan, one thousand yuan, or you take it away.” As he said that, Xiao Ma still showed a look that he didn't want to talk further, as if the price of 1,000 yuan was already his bottom line. "Let me take a closer look." Hearing this, the young man had to carefully observe the bottle in his hand again.

"Just take a look. This thing is definitely old!" Pony patted his chest and assured, "I tell you, in this area, you go and inquire, the price my pony asks is definitely not bad. This plum The bottle, I just received it from an old lady last week, it’s quite old. Look at the paste, the color of the glaze, and the feet, you know it by yourself..." "I'll add another hundred or four hundred yuan. I can't add more." The young man looked like he really couldn't put it down for this bottle. Otherwise, why did he fall in love with this one when there were so many things on the ground?Moreover, after listening to Xiao Ma's words for a while, I was still a little hesitant, but I couldn't help but become more active, "Look here, there is still a small gap."

As he spoke, the young man handed the bottle in front of the pony, and pointed to a place on the mouth of the bottle.Needless to say, there is indeed a small opening. "Yeah, you looked carefully enough." Pony didn't care, but said with a smile, "However, with this old thing, there are inevitably some bumps and blemishes. How about this, if you really want, we will give some, six hundred yuan, how about it? This price is not expensive at all. This bottle is going to be placed in Ciyunzhai over there, and it doesn’t cost more than a thousand yuan. , you definitely won’t be able to take it off.”

Following the direction of the pony's finger, Jia Sidao saw a plaque of "Ciyun Zhai", which was vaguely seen as a shop specializing in porcelain business.At this moment, several people were walking in at the door of the store. It seems that since Xiao Ma uses Ciyunzhai as an example, the reputation of that shop must be pretty good. And the young man seems to have known about 'Ci Yun Zhai' for a long time, and he didn't look up at the moment. After hesitating for a while, he took out a stack of money from his pocket, counted them, and felt a little embarrassed Looking at the pony carefully, he said: "Boss, look, I only have five hundred and forty yuan in total, and I have to keep the fare for the return trip, right? Five hundred yuan, if you are willing to sell it, I will take it. "

"This," Xiao Ma seemed to be still hesitating, looking at the bottle for a while, and then at the young man for a while. "Xiao Ma, you can't let people keep all the travel expenses for going back, can you?" At this time, Ah San, who was sitting on the side watching this scene, said in a serious manner, "If you can make a move, let's let it go." .” "Okay, all morning, I haven't opened yet, so I'm looking at you like this, five hundred is five hundred." As he said, Xiao Ma took the young man's money, counted it, and quickly put it away He put it in his own pocket, then took out a few old newspapers from under the cushion, wrapped them in Mei Ping, and put them in the backpack behind the young man, the business was considered successful.

Jia Sidao was a little amused in his heart, it turned out that the business of selling antiques was similar to the business of small commodities. Just like Jia Sidao's uncle, he was in the leather shoes business in a small commodity market over there in the provincial capital.Whenever a customer comes to ask the price, the asking price is always higher. In fact, after some bargaining, the final price of the transaction is often about 20 to 30 percent of the asking price. Even so, sellers still have high profits. Jia Sidao heard from his uncle during the Chinese New Year that the asking price for shoes with a purchase price of 30 to 50 is basically three to five hundred.If you meet someone who doesn't know how to bargain, you will naturally make a lot of money.Therefore, what my uncle likes to meet the most are those who pretend to be rich, or some young people who can't save face and bargain.And the most annoying thing is to meet that kind of aunt who cares about every detail, who can spend most of the day with you for three or five yuan, as if they don't need money for their time.

The young man just now is obviously not very good at negotiating prices. As for whether he really understands the plum vase he bought, or whether it is worth the price, from Jia Sidao's point of view, it is not known.However, what Jia Sidao can be sure of is that when Xiao Ma received the plum vase, it must have been less than five hundred yuan, and it is estimated that two hundred yuan would be good. Sure enough, seeing the smile on Xiao Ma's face, Ah San said to him very angrily: "You boy, you have harmed a novice in the antique world again." "No, Ah San, you can't say that. He saw the things himself, and the price was voluntary. I'm not bad at all. If I meet an old broker, I guess the price will be more than five hundred if I go on telling a story." It's over." Xiao Ma was talking, and he became amused.

"Is that thing fake?" Jia Sidao asked curiously from the side.If it is a modern imitation, it is estimated to be worth dozens of dollars.However, if this is the case, then Xiao Ma made a price of two thousand yuan, isn't it too cruel? As if seeing through Jia Sidao's thoughts, Ah San smiled and said, "Let's not talk about whether something is right or not. In this line of business, knowledge is what you rely on, and eyesight is what you rely on. No matter who you are, an expert or something Those at home have grown up by taking medicine constantly, let alone novices. However, you also saw that person, from the time he was about to buy the plum vase, at least until now, his mood must be Very good. Maybe I still feel that I have picked up a big leak.”

"That's right, in fact, this antique is just for fun." Xiao Ma continued beside him, "It's a cliché for someone like me who makes a living out of it. But the advantage is that I can make a living. If you want to make a fortune with antiques all day long, with that kind of mentality, you will probably suffer a lot." In the following time, perhaps because he had just made a deal and made a lot of money, Xiao Ma also opened up a conversation with Jia Sidao and Ah San, talking about a lot of things that happened around him. Let's just talk about the young man just now. From Jia Sidao's point of view, that deal clearly meant he would suffer a loss.But speaking of pony, such things happen every day.

The young man just now would at least check to see if the item he wanted to buy was not damaged. When he was holding the plum vase in his hand, his style was still a bit basic, but when he was bargaining, it was a bit raw. But some people dare to spend a lot of money to buy things when they don't understand anything at all. for what?Because of the word 'greedy'. One of Xiao Ma's most proud transactions is to weave an old-fashioned tear-jerking story on an old ink-ground three-color plum vase, and then sell it to a novice who has just entered the industry at a high price.Ordinarily, such a trick would not work at all in this era of highly developed information dissemination. But Xiao Ma made no less than 20,000 yuan from it.Hearing Jia Sidao was dumbfounded. Jia Sidao even wondered if Xiao Ma was talking about cross talk, even if he wasn't, it would be too inferior for him to set up a street stall in the antique street with his eloquence.