Chapter 401 Chapter 401 New Store and Old Store

It's not that Jia Sidao and Ah San think that they will be able to find so-called good things in such a store. Even if he is an expert in the field of antiques, he dare not say that in a pile of "groceries" with no potential, he can find more valuable things among them, right? That's why there are so few "leakage pickers" in the antique industry, and once they are encountered, they will be passed on by colleagues. In the final analysis, no matter whether it is "leaking" or "punching", it is all based on the appearance of "things". If there is nothing in a store, how can there be leaking and drilling?

And an insider who is a little bit confident in his eyesight usually likes to go to the antique stalls to find something. As for famous places like "Ciyunzhai", unless you are going for relatively high-quality porcelain Yes, and I'm ready to spend a lot of money, so I can give it a try.But if you want to check for leaks, you have to go to the stalls in the antique street. The same thing, if it appears on the street stall, is ignored by the antique vendors.Then, in a shop like "Ciyunzhai", this probability is undoubtedly even less. However, even so, people like Jia Sidao and Ah San would also hang out in the shops, and they would not let go of the street stalls in the antique street.In comparison, there is another situation that will make the two of them even more delighted.That is the "Yunlai Pavilion" in front of you.

First of all, it is a shop, and the things displayed in it are naturally not comparable to the things on the street stalls in the general antique street.A shop, no matter what, it can be opened, it is enough to show that the financial resources of the owner of the shop are far better than the antique street vendors.In this way, the principal of the things it collects will be slightly higher. Of course, this is not absolute.Moreover, in the antique industry, the so-called transaction costs are also uncountable.There are countless such deeds of spending a lot of money but buying worthless things, and only paying a small amount of three or five yuan, but finding some valuable things.But what is undeniable is that in most cases, things with a higher price should always be better than those with a lower price, right?

The owner's sufficient funds will undoubtedly provide customers with more valuable things.If not, why are there more and more systematic items in antique shops than in some antique stalls, both in terms of value and quantity? It's like "Ciyun Zhai", dealing in porcelain is dealing in porcelain, and there will be absolutely no such things as jade in the shop. After all, this can be regarded as an intangible brand effect. When it comes to brands, Jia Sidao once saw such a story, saying that someone was looking at a piece of clothing on Nanjing Road in Shanghai.The clothes are beautiful, whether it is the fabric or the brand, there is nothing to say.However, its price is also expensive to the point of thirty-eight thousand.This is naturally not a problem for wealthy people, but for ordinary working-class people, it is undoubtedly a luxury to wear such clothes.I can only mutter "too expensive" and choose to let go.However, on the edge of Nanjing Road, there is a small commodity store. In terms of location, it’s not good. After all, it’s not on the street of Nanjing Road. You need to turn into an alley to see it. It’s not good. , but it's still next to the famous place Nanjing Road, isn't it?And in this shop, there is also such a similar dress, which is almost exactly the same as the one in the specialty store. At least, the person who complained that the prices in the specialty store are too expensive can't quite see them. the difference between.Looking at the price again, yes, it's only about two thousand yuan.Immediately, the man bought one and went back.When you wear it on your body in the future, no matter who you meet, you will say to everyone, you bought this dress from Nanjing Road, and it is worth 38,000 yuan. What, don't you believe it?Then you can go to Nanjing Road and see for yourself...

Leaving aside, is it true that everyone behaves like this? At least it can be seen that the influence of brands on most people. Or the things in specialty stores are indeed better than those in small stalls, but is it as big a difference as their prices indicate? Jia Sidao would not think that such a beautifully decorated store like a specialty store would not need to spend money to recruit such beautiful salesmen, or that the brand company would pay for it itself.What everyone buys is probably a kind of psychology. It doesn't matter if it's a person wearing famous brand clothing or the famous brand on his body, even if he bought it somewhere.In the eyes of others, they all look the same.You won't think that you are wearing a famous brand bought from a street stall, so you will "look at you differently", right?Of course, the premise is that others cannot see that your famous brand is a counterfeit product.But you must know it yourself?

The same is true for the purchase of antiques! I always feel that the weight of the things I received at the antique stalls is not heavy enough, but once I go to the antique shop, I feel that the things themselves look more sophisticated, and I am more willing to believe that the things are real and old. is valuable.This can be regarded as a "brand" effect. Secondly, because a store like "Yunlaige" is newly opened, it doesn't look as confident as a hundred-year-old store. When bargaining, people with the eyesight of Ah San and Jia Sidao, It's completely possible to have a good chat with the shopkeeper, maybe you can still gain a certain advantage and suppress the price.This is completely different from doing business with Boss Gong of "Ciyunzhai".

Finally, and most importantly, the reason why Jia Sidao and Ah San like the newly opened antique shop is because of its source of goods! Don't look at some old shops, there are quite a lot of things in them, and there are also many good things.However, its price is often very expensive.Even if there are still some of them because of the lack of eyesight of the shopkeeper, and the remaining things placed on the public goods side, they have experienced the "scouring" of many experts.If you still want to pick up the leak after the identification of the predecessors, it is really too difficult.

Furthermore, some of the sources of goods in old stores are actually very stable.It's like selling porcelain. Not all the porcelain in a shop are real antiques, right?There must be old ones, high-end goods and fake ones, and the channels for purchasing these things are very stable in old stores, and they will not wantonly be like some antique peddlers. Places, what kind of things, as long as they look profitable, they will come in all at once. That is to say, if you go to an old store today to see the quality of the items inside, you can’t say, you can go there after a year or so, and it’s really the same!

The newly opened store is obviously different.No matter where its source of supply comes from, it is always the first time.In these shops, if there is something that can be missed, it will also be because there are not many experts who come to "Tao Teng", which will give people a greater chance to "find the leak". As for eyesight, whether you can do it well enough to pick up this "leakage" is your own problem. Jia Sidao and Ah Sanke didn't think that they would be able to "scoot" good things here, but they were still full of excitement when they encountered a newly opened shop, especially when the things inside were complicated. expected.

Immediately, after the two entered the shop, they didn't say much, and didn't even have time to say hello to the shop owner, so they looked around.Even so, the two have a clear division of labor, one looks at the left hand side, and the other looks at the right hand side.In this way, no one suffers. It can only be said to be hit and miss. After Jia Sidao simply glanced around for a while, he found nothing special, which made Jia Sidao slightly disappointed.On the contrary, Ah San stopped for a long time in front of the items on the shelf on the left, carefully observing them.Jia Sidao also took a look in a little surprise. Judging from the first impression, it should be very good, and what's more, it turned out to be something that Ah San is relatively good at—porcelain!

Why didn't I have such luck? Jia Sidao didn't feel envious. After carefully observing the things on the shelf on the right, Jia Sidao started talking to the shop. For example, ask, when did this shop open, or where is the owner from, how did these things come from, etc... Generally speaking, people who play antiques are more talkative.However, perhaps in the past few days, there have been quite a few people asking questions. The owner of the antique shop, when faced with Jia Sidao's inquiries, did not have much enthusiasm, but only answered questions such as a week The ones that opened before, the things were collected before, or the answers were obtained from friends.On the contrary, he was paying attention to Ah San's actions consciously or unconsciously while talking. Compared with the personal interests, some small talk matters are obviously inferior in weight. Jia Sidao didn't care when he saw it, and shrugged to express his understanding.Obviously, the shop owner, who is already in his fifties, doesn't have much enthusiasm even if he continues to choose to engage in the antique collection industry.This is like a Tibetan friend who was full of vigor when he was young, but when he gets old, he suddenly feels his interest and doesn't have much achievement. Maybe some people are content with the tranquility of antique collection, while some people like to do some earth-shattering things, or go bankrupt, or become a member of the old and counterfeit team.Each situation is very different.However, after all, he was still in the antique business. Isn't it a pleasure to collect the antiques that I have collected little by little in the past, and then sell them out little by little? Jia Sidao did not feel disappointed with the shop owner, or just felt confused about his career in the antique business.However, after seeing that Ah San was still appraising carefully over there, Jia Sidao couldn't be idle here alone, so he couldn't help asking: "Boss, apart from the things on display, what else is there?" Don't you have anything else to do?" Only then did the boss look at Jia Sidao carefully in surprise, as if he wanted to find out something from Jia Sidao's actions just now, and said: "Yes, there is, but it doesn't necessarily mean something is particularly good. It’s just something that’s relatively heavy in weight, so it’s not directly displayed..." While talking, the boss also felt that there was nothing to hide, and they were all open for business, so he let Jia Sidao into the warehouse.It seemed that he had noticed that Jia Sidao and Ah San's words and deeds could be regarded as insiders, and the boss didn't worry that Ah San would drop things outside.Such a move aroused Jia Sidao's admiration for a while. In terms of heart-to-heart comparison, if it were Jia Sidao, he would not dare to be treated by other people in his shop, and would choose to lead another customer into the back room of the shop, or the second floor, etc. The place. "That's all, you can look at it as you like. If you like it, you can take it out and talk about the price." The boss left such a sentence before returning to the outside shop, leaving Jia Sidao alone Staying in the warehouse, for a while, I felt a little stunned. I took a look.Jia Sidao thought about it, maybe it is a warehouse, but in fact it is just a storage room, the place is not big, and the things placed there are quite miscellaneous.At first glance, there are very large vases and large stone carvings inside. Jia Sidao went over and looked at the vases specially used for decoration. He felt that the glaze color and the like were very ordinary, and he hardly needed to touch them carefully. It can be concluded that it is a modern product.Immediately, he turned his attention to the stone carving, but he also found that despite its size, it was still not worth a lot of money. If he transported such a big thing back to Linhai from Lin'an, he might have been ridiculed to death by Ah San. Randomly picking through the chaos, gradually, I found a few passable things from this storage room, and, what's more rare, they were relatively small in size.It's like a few ancient coins, not to mention very rare, but they are not considered common goods. Jia Sidao guessed that the owner of the "Yunlai Pavilion" is an insider himself, and he understands that if things like ancient copper coins are placed in piles on the counter, they won't be able to attract anything special. Customers came over, and there were already a lot of things outside, so I didn't bother to show these ancient copper coins. And next to the huge vase, there are also a few small pieces of porcelain, mostly bowls, plates, etc., all of which are stacked together without too much classification or good maintenance. From the perspective of the boss's attitude towards them, it is naturally not optimistic.Otherwise, who would choose this way when placing porcelain. It is estimated that the bowls and chopsticks used to serve meals at home will choose such a more space-saving arrangement, right? Jia Sidao stretched out his hand, picked up a few pieces lightly, and looked at them. Basically, it can be concluded that they are all "high-end goods" and don't have much meaning.It is estimated that the boss collected it from some street stalls when he first started collecting in the early years.Because in terms of style, there are almost all kinds of styles.From this, we can also know how difficult the process experienced by folk collectors is. Sometimes such a storage room is used to make memories for oneself, not to prepare products for sale. Jia Sidao suddenly felt that he should let go of the few things he had already picked out?After all, collections such as a few ancient coins are not of great significance to Jia Sidao, and there is no profit at all. Instead, it is better to let them continue to appear here. Or waiting for a destined person, or waiting for a warm memory from the shop owner! However, suddenly, just as Jia Sidao was about to leave, he discovered that in the corner of the storage room, there was still a wooden box, about the size of two desktop computer cases, with random mess on it. Jia Sidao reckoned that it should belong to the calligraphy and painting category.For this kind of thing, Jia Sidao is not very interested.Of course, you can also think that even if you put the things of a famous artist like Zhang Daqian in front of Jia Sidao, except for the paper for painting, Jia Sidao may still have some ability to make some distinctions, and the rest , It's just that his eyes are darkened, and he doesn't know anything. Moved away all the scrolls that were lying around, opened the lid of the box, and there were several inkstones and a pen holder inside.The material of the pen holder is porcelain. Jia Sidao was overjoyed, and immediately picked it up, opened it carefully, but frowned slightly, at least, as far as Jia Sidao's eyes were concerned, he felt This thing is very likely to be an old imitation, that is, it was imitated during the Ming Dynasty. After playing with it for a while, Jia Sidao is still not quite sure whether it really belongs to the imitation or not.I wanted to go outside and ask Ah San, after all, Ah San's eyesight on porcelain was better than Jia Sidao's.However, at the moment when Jia Sidao was about to leave, an inkstone in the box caught Jia Sidao's attention strangely.