Chapter 0654 – Apologize (III)

Although it is not very accurate to use the amount of money to measure a person’s success or not, but the person who can make the enterprise very big, for the analysis and judgment of a thing, certainly have their own ideas, Zhuang Rui said these truths, whoever is present knows, and also once thought.

But said to say, wait until the time to do, a lot of people can not help but go after their favorite objects, and for them, the price is not the first factor to consider, so often will be in the set of others, buy the object is not the value of the object.

Like China’s Tang San Cai, once in the last century in the late eighties, the early nineties when, popular for a while, by some foreign ulterior motives of the big plus speculation, then there are some patriotic people and speculators out to buy, but now, those Tang San Cai the value of the big reduction, shrinking a lot, there are a lot of people used to invest in, it is a loss of blood money.

So Zhuang Rui this sentence, regardless of the heart really want to let the national treasures return, or want to invest to make money, all began to seriously think about it, their own behavior of this kind of help international speculators to push the envelope, is it correct?

“Xiao Zhuang, you also know, now the antique world, is the seller’s market, the hands of the people who have goods hold the right to speak, we either do not buy, or we can only act in accordance with their rules, if you can not break this shackle, the situation still can not be improved.”

Mr. Liu, who is in the business of non-ferrous metals, after contemplating for a while, said his thoughts to Zhuang Rui, which is also the thoughts of most of the people in the field.

These precious Chinese antiques were in the hands of a few people abroad, when to sell them and at what price was up to others.

“Mr. Liu, this …… matter is actually not without a solution.”

Zhuang Rui pondered for a while and opened his mouth, “Due to its specificity, antiques are certainly a seller’s market, but again, antiques from China, the audience is very limited, and I believe that in addition to all of you here, there are only a few people in Japan and the UK who are collecting Chinese artwork.”

Many people in the arena couldn’t help but have their eyes light up after hearing Zhuang Rui’s words.

“So as long as we unite and use our actions to boycott the national speculators, they won’t be able to take any advantage.”

“Xiao Zhuang, this …… talk is not easy.”

Liu long sighed, this is easy to say, but do it is difficult, no one has a book in his heart, for the way of looking at things and behavior, is also not the same.

These people in their respective fields are extremely successful people, who do not serve anyone, where there are people, there is a jianghu, there is a jianghu, there is strife.

Inside the field of these people, also divided into a number of small circles, some have good relations, some have poor relations, poor relations of those people, sometimes even for the sake of betting on a breath of air, can continue to raise the price of the auction site, so that outsiders go to see the joke.

Therefore, the word “joint” that Zhuang Rui said is basically impossible. It would be an amitabha Buddha if he could get them not to raise the price maliciously with each other.

Zhuang Rui nodded and said, “It’s not easy, but no matter whether it’s for investment or collection, let me ask everyone here, do we all want to use the lowest price to buy our favorite collectibles?”

“Nonsense, who’s money came from the wind! Of course the cheaper the better.”

“Yes! But the auctioneer will lose a lot of money, they will find a trustee to raise the price, sometimes even if we know it, we still have to follow the price increase with a hard head.”

“Right! Last time I shot a Ming dynasty blue and white porcelain, originally more than half a million euros can be taken, the final hard to spend more than 1.5 million, do not know whether it is worth it.”

Zhuang Rui voice just fell, the crowd resounded with murmurs, they are not unaware of the auction house to play those cats and dogs, but when it comes down to it, sometimes it is also a duck on the shelf, hard on the head.

“Gentlemen, then have you ever thought, if we don’t bid maliciously among ourselves, and ignore the auction house’s price hike, what kind of result will occur?”

Zhuang Rui’s words caused the crowd to freeze, and since the situation Zhuang Rui was talking about was basically unlikely to happen, they hadn’t thought about it.

“If everyone can do this, I can guarantee that not only can many people shoot their favorite objects, that is, the auction house, but also do not dare to maliciously raise the price of …… everyone knows that the auction house to raise the price, but also to bear the risk, if no one to follow the price, they have to pay their own money to buy the items auctioned. One or two pieces they may be able to afford. But if the number of times and the number of words, I’m afraid that these auction houses, is not dare to do so again, so that we can also be fair and equitable to buy their favorite things.”

Zhuang Rui said this, not only refers to the international auction house, is the domestic antique store, also often use the method, in the jargon, this is “Nu with the”; this call more than the affordability of the auction house, can also be said to be “hold up”, let them The price is more than the auction house can afford, can also be said to be “hold up”, so that they can not eat.

“In fact, who have no grudge against money, we can ‘together’ beforehand ‘lots’ anyway, even if the auction does not bid, the next time you can make no turn to bid, so that we can use the lowest auction price to buy the In this way, we can all buy the best objects at the lowest price, which is better than fighting every time and sending money to foreigners for nothing, right?”

Zhuang Rui said “together” refers to some groups in the bidding money first negotiation, and “a lot” is to say that you can arrange the order of bidding, with the way of lots, to decide who will bid.

“But we came to participate in the auction of people, basically are their own, and there is no prior communication, with the way the lot is obviously unlikely to …… But we can change a way, that is, who first bid, this object by him to shoot, the rest of the people shall not go to the auction, and to be said first! If the auction house side of the trustee to raise the price, the first person to auction should also decisively give up, we can not spoil them this problem.”

Zhuang Rui’s thoughts were now very transparent, standing in front of the conference room stage, analyzing the pros and cons one by one, listening to the crowd under the stage nodding their heads.

“Xiao Zhuang, then what if someone snatches it fast and he snatches the shot every time? My reaction as an old man is not as good as you youngsters!”

Mr. Liu’s words drew laughter from the crowd, but what he said was also true, if it was true that according to what Zhuang Rui said, after the first person bid, the rest of the people couldn’t snatch the auction, certain people were going to be at a disadvantage.

“Oh, Mr. Liu, this is a good idea, I heard that this special auction, a total of five days to be held, there are hundreds of antiques from China, we can also say goodbye, everyone is only allowed to bid once, in this way, everyone will be able to shoot an object, it is always better than to fight to the death to make people laugh, right?”

“That’s true.” Mr. Liu nodded and stopped talking.

And the people under the stage initially heard Zhuang Rui’s words, they first felt a bit unimaginable, but when they thought about it carefully, this method was indeed good, many people might have their eyes on an object, it would depend on who bids fast, and the one who bids first can’t make another bid later on, which is equal to another chance for someone else.

Ms. Zhang, after contemplating for a while, stood up and said: “How …… about we try what Xiao Zhuang said today? Let’s vote on it! If everyone agrees, let’s try it according to this method, we can’t always let the auction house lead us by the nose, right?”

“Ms. Zhang is right, I agree.”

“I also agree, don’t give all the money to foreigners to hack away, as long as we are united, no one is afraid.”

“Show of hands, I agree.”

After a moment of discussion under the stage, many people have raised their hands, there are some people who were originally in the wait and see, see the wrath of the crowd, is also reluctant to raise their hands.

Of course, within these people, there must be those who don’t think so, but they are all people with great status in various fields, since they expressed their agreement today, they will definitely follow the rules later on, in this circle, the consequence of not abiding by the rules is to be kicked out of the circle.

After reaching this simple agreement, all of a sudden, the people feel that everyone’s relationship is a lot closer, originally meet each other do not talk to each other, can also sit down and chat together.

This thing before and after is just 10 to 10 minutes of time, just when the atmosphere in the conference room is harmonious and incomparable, the door of the conference room was pushed open, Richard and Daniel walked in, behind them, there is still that lawyer George who clamored to sue the auction house.

“Mr. Zhuang, the matter has been understood clearly, it was our auction house’s lawyer, George, who misunderstood the words that Mr. Zhuang said, so in order to safeguard the auction house’s interests, he acted inappropriately towards Mr. Zhuang, and George also recognized his mistake, and is now specially here to apologize to Mr. Zhuang.”

As soon as Richard’s words fell, George walked to Zhuang Rui’s side, bowed deeply and said, “I’m sorry, Mr. Zhuang, I don’t know Chinese very well, I misunderstood the meaning of your words, I retract what I said earlier, and I most sincerely apologize for the harm caused to you!”

“Damn, this kid is the scapegoat!”

Zhuang Rui looked at George speechlessly, wanting to get this over with no lightness, but also depending on whether he promised or not.

Zhuang Rui did not accept George’s apology, but looked at Richard and said, “Mr. Richard, can I ask you a question?”

Richard nodded and said, “Of course.”

“I would like to know, as Mr. George is the lawyer of your firm, can what he said represent the meaning of your firm? If that’s the case, I hope that the person who gives me an apology should be you, not George.”

Richard’s face changed drastically at Zhuang Rui’s words, although the development of this matter was a bit out of control, he had never thought that he would have to bow his head and apologize.