Chapter 181 Who Told You to Bargain Like This?
It is exciting to find a bargain, but it is more related to luck, and most people don't get it.
It's different when watching a play. In Panjia Garden, there are dozens or even hundreds of "good plays" basically every day.
So there are many people who just want to watch the excitement and don't plan to spend a penny.
"I want to buy a Guanyin statue, preferably an old one."
The old man in the tour group explained his needs very directly.
When the shopkeeper heard it, he didn't hesitate and took out a wooden Guanyin from the brocade box beside him.
At first glance, it looks like an old thing, Zhang Yang became interested and quietly moved closer.
Well, it's not bad, it's made of jujube wood.
The aging method is also good. At least it has been buried in the ash for several months, and it can't be easily washed clean.
Let's listen to what the seller says.
"This is a Shuiyue Guanyin statue from the middle of the Qing Dynasty. You can see the patina. It's definitely an old product."
"If you don't believe it, you can weigh it. After hundreds of years of history, the wood is very weathered. This can't be imitated."
The seller's hawking words are quite good.
The old man took the Guanyin statue in his hand, weighed it, and nodded, as if to indicate that the weight was no problem.
The buyer and seller haggled for a while and finally talked about the price.
The seller quoted a sky-high price of 100,000.
Zhang Yang was amused after hearing this.
The Shuiyue Guanyin statue from the mid-Qing Dynasty, which was specially imitated with traces of painted paintings, only dared to sell it for 100,000?
What about the pattern?
If it were a genuine product, the starting price of such a wood carving would be 200,000 at an auction.
The final hammer price was estimated to be at least 40W.
"I think it's worth 5,000 at most." Chu Ziqiang guessed in a low voice.
"You said an extra zero." Zhang Yang also responded in a low voice: "If it were me, I could only give 300, and it doesn't include shipping."
Now it depends on how the old man bargains.
"I sincerely want to take it back, how about 2,000?"
As soon as this bargaining was made, the atmosphere changed instantly.
Zhang Yang noticed that several stall owners nearby all turned their heads to look at the old man.
Did he bargain too hard?
Zhang Yang looked at the stall owner who was selling the Guanyin statue.
His expression was a little grim, and it seemed that he was having a hard time holding back his laughter.
He said:
"Oh, you are too good at bargaining, you have cut down my cost price in one go."
"Since you are sincere, I'll make the deal!"
"Ah? It's done?" Chu Ziqiang looked incredulous.
He felt that there was no more fun to watch, so he turned around and wanted to leave, but Zhang Yang stopped him.
Zhang Yang saw that several stall owners nearby were taking things from their stalls.
The real show has just begun!
Soon someone greeted the old man:
"Old man, take a look at my Acala statue, from the Ming Dynasty..."
At first glance, the seller asked for 50,000 yuan for a fake Ming Dynasty Acala statue, and the old man bargained for 1,500 yuan.
The deal was made in one second.
"This is a statue of an arhat from the Yuan Dynasty. It has been appraised by an expert and has a certificate..."
The seller asked for 23,000 yuan for a newly imitated painted seated arhat from the Yuan Dynasty, and the old man bargained for 500 yuan.
The deal was still completed in one second.
At this time, even a fool would know that the item was too expensive.
But the vendors who heard the news had surrounded the old man and continued to sell him the goods in their hands.
"Let's go."
Zhang Yang pulled Chu Ziqiang, who was standing on tiptoe to watch the excitement. He estimated that the market manager would be here soon.
The old man's price was too high, which seriously disrupted the market order.
...
After walking for half an hour, Zhang Yang didn't even ask the price.
Chu Ziqiang knew what this meant, and he looked at the vendors around him with awe.
All the things on the street stalls were not older than the stall owners, and this was not an empty talk.
"Is there really no leak?" Xiao Chu asked Zhang Yang unwillingly: "Even if there is no leak, there must be real things, right?"
"Want to buy real things? That's easy."
Zhang Yang pointed to a large ancient coin stall.
Many of the coins on the stall were packaged in special plastic boxes.
Some of them were accompanied by paper introductions, which may have been rated.
"Let's go and take a look."
Chu Ziqiang was instantly interested when he heard that there were real things.
He actually wanted to cheat and deceive his uncle.
Buy a Yuan Datou worth tens of thousands of yuan, unpack it, and say that it was bought for two hundred yuan, wouldn't it be a bargain?
"What's so good about this..."
Zhang Yang was disgusted with his mouth, but his body was one step ahead of Xiao Chu in front of the stall.
When he bent down to look at the coins on the stall, an old man in a red hat rushed over and squatted down before him.
According to Pan Jiayuan's rules, this is considered that the old man came first.
When looking at things and asking prices later, the other party will have priority.
In fact, even if the old man didn't try to grab it, Zhang Yang had to give him face and let him pay first when he saw his red hat.
"You only have a few silver dollars?"
The old man asked the stall owner, as if he was not very satisfied with the number of silver dollars on the stall.
Could it be a big buyer?
Zhang Yang looked at the other party sideways, and suddenly found that the old man seemed to be holding something in his hand.
Soon, he saw the complete appearance of the thing:
A silver-white shiny metal cube, very much like a magnet for strong magnetic salvage.
The method of use is to take this metal cube, "smash" it on the silver dollar, and then quickly lift it up to observe the changes in the silver dollar.
The action is a bit like playing with foreign paintings when I was a child.
"Hey, what are you doing!" The stall owner noticed the old man's little move and immediately couldn't sit still: "Your broken silver dollar appraiser, break the patina again."
The old man pretended not to hear and continued to "smash" there.
The stall owner quickly stood up, picked up the handicraft Guan Gong knife standing next to him, and shouted:
"I'm talking to you, try to hit my silver dollar again?"
"Okay, okay, I won't appraise it, okay?"
The old man stopped his action and said, "Tsk".
He turned his head to look at Zhang Yang, then secretly pointed at the silver dollars on the stall, and whispered to Zhang Yang:
"This one, and this one, both are real, you will pick up a bargain for him later, and make him angry to death."
After that, the old man took his silver dollar appraiser and walked away heroically and proudly.
Zhang Yang couldn't hold it back and laughed out loud.
"What silver dollar appraiser did that old man hold just now, is it real?" Chu Ziqiang came over and asked.
"It's almost the same. It's actually a strong magnet." Zhang Yang explained with a smile.
Magnets can't attract silver and copper, but they have a certain induction to silver and copper.
So a strong magnet can turn a real silver coin over, but a fake silver coin made of alloy will not have a similar reaction.
The old man is so helpful, Zhang Yang certainly has no reason not to buy.
And he has already identified it himself, and there are indeed two genuine ones.
After a while, when the old man's residual power disappeared and the stall owner regained his calm, Zhang Yang signaled that it was Chu Ziqiang's turn to come out:
"Come on, bargain!"
Xiao Chu understood, his eyes lit up.
"Don't worry, I have learned a lesson from that old man."
He cleared his throat and asked:
"Boss, how much is this Yuan Datou?"
"One thousand and three."
"Thirty, I will scan the code and pay immediately!"
"Hmm?" The stall owner's hand quietly reached out to the Qinglong Yanyue Sword just now.
Thanks to the top brother FluffyFluffy for the 3,000 coin reward! Thanks to Gu Ji You Ren for the 200-coin reward!