Chapter 401 New and Old Stores

Not that Jia Sidao and A San would think that they would definitely be able to find so-called good things in such a store. Even an expert in the antique industry would not dare to say that among a bunch of "groceries" with no potential, they could find more valuable things, right?

Therefore, there are so few "limited" in the antique industry, and once you encounter it, you will be circulated by your peers.

After all, whether it is "picking up bargains" or "picking up the eyes", it is based on the emergence of "things". If there is nothing in a store, how can there be picking up bargains and shooting up the eyes?

An insider who has a little confidence in his eyes usually likes to go to antique street stalls to buy something. As for famous places like "Ciyunzhai", unless you are just for higher-quality porcelain and are ready to spend a lot of money, you can try it. But if you want to detect leaks, you have to go to antique street stalls.

If the same thing appears on a street stall and is ignored by antique vendors, then in a shop like "Ciyunzhai", the probability will undoubtedly be less.

However, even so, people like Jia Sidao and A San also stroll around the shop and would not let go of the street stalls on Antique Street. In comparison, there is another situation that will make the two more happy. That is the "Yunlai Pavilion" in front of you.

First of all, it is a shop, and the things laid out in it are naturally not comparable to those found on ordinary antique street stalls. No matter what, the ability of a shop to open is enough to show that the financial resources of the shop owner is far better than that of antique street stall vendors. In this way, the principal of the things it collects will be slightly higher.

Of course, this is not absolute, and in the antique industry, the so-called transaction costs are also uncountable. After spending a lot of money but buying something worthless, and only paying a small amount of three or five yuan, he found some expensive things. Such deeds are everywhere and countless. But it is undeniable that in most cases, things with higher prices should always be better than those with lower prices, right?

The boss's sufficient funds will undoubtedly provide customers with more valuable things. Otherwise, why are the things in antique shops more valuable and more systematic than some antique stalls in terms of value and quantity?

It’s like “Ciyunzhai”. If you manage porcelain, you are managing porcelain. There will definitely be no things like jade in the store.

After all, this is an invisible brand effect.

Speaking of brand, Jia Sidao once saw a story that someone was interested in a piece of clothing on Nanjing Road in Shanghai. The clothes were very beautiful, and they were not worth mentioning whether they were fabric or brand. However, the price was also expensive to 38,000. This is naturally not a problem for people like big-name people, but for ordinary working-class people, it is undoubtedly a luxury to wear such clothes. They can only mutter "too expensive" and choose to let go. However, just next to Nanjing Road, there is a small commodity shop. It is not a good idea to say that it is OK. After all, it is not a store on the street of Nanjing Road, so you need to turn into a Hu.

It can be seen with the same name, but it is still next to the famous place of Nanjing Road, right? And on this shop, there is such a similar piece of clothing, which is almost exactly the same as in the store. At least, the person who had complained about the price of the things in the store was too expensive could not tell the difference between them. When he looked at the price, he only had two thousand yuan. Immediately, the man bought one. When he wore it on his body, no matter who he met, he would say that he had bought this piece of clothing on Nanjing Road, which was worth 38,000 yuan. What, don’t you believe it? Then you can go to Nanjing Road to see it yourself.

Let’s not talk about this for now, is it because everyone is behaving like this? At least it can be seen that the brand has an influence on most people.

Or things in specialty stores are indeed better than things on small stalls, but are they as big as the difference in prices marked?

Jia Sidao would not think that such a store with a gorgeously decorated store, recruiting such beautiful sales personnel, does not require money, or simply the brand company will pay for it. What everyone buys is probably a kind of psychology.

Whether you are wearing famous brands or the famous brands you wear, they are all the same in the eyes of others. You will never think that you are wearing famous brands you bought from street stalls and look at you with a different look, right? Of course, the premise is that others need to be fake and shoddy products if you can't see your famous brands. But you must know it yourself?

The same is true for the antiques business to acquire things!

When you get something you want to buy at an antique street stall, you always feel that the weight of the things is not heavy enough. Once you arrive at an antique shop, you will feel that the things look more profound and are more willing to believe that the things are real, old, and valuable. This is also a kind of ‘brand’ effect.

Secondly, stores like "Yunlaige" are newly opened and do not look as confident as a century-old store. When bargaining, people with the eyes of A San and Jia Sidao can talk to the owners, and they may still gain a certain advantage and suppress the price. This is completely different from the dealings of boss Gong from "Ciyunzhai".

Finally, the most important thing is that the reason why Jia Sidao and A San like the newly opened antique shop is because of its source of goods!

Although some old shops have a lot of things in it, there are also many good things. However, the prices are often very expensive. Even if there are some of them because the owner has insufficient eyesight, the remaining items placed on the public goods have been experienced by many experts. If you still want to find a bargain after the appraisal of previous generations, it is really difficult.

Furthermore, some of the goods in the old shop are actually very stable. For example, when selling porcelain, the porcelain in a shop is not all real antiques, right? There must be old things such as fake goods at a glance. However, the channels for purchasing these things are also very stable in the old shop. They will not wantonly be like some antique vendors, almost any place or something, as long as they look profitable, they will come in.

In other words, if you go to an old shop today and see how good the things inside are, you can’t say that if you go and see them again after a year or two, it’s really no different!

The newly opened stores are obviously different. No matter where their supply comes from, it is still the first time. In these stores, if there are any bargains to find, there will be not many experts coming to "Taoteng", which will give people a greater chance to "find bargains".

As for your eyesight, whether you can do it or not, whether you are enough to pick up this "leakage", that is your own problem.

Neither Jia Sidao nor A Sanke thought they could definitely "snack" good things here, but they were still full of expectations for a newly opened store, especially when the things inside were complicated.

Immediately, after entering the store, the two of them didn't say much, and didn't even have time to say hello to the owner, so they started to check it out. Even so, the two had a clear division of labor, one looked at the left and the other was looking at the right. In this way, no one would suffer any losses.

I can only say that I am going to take a chance.

After a brief glance, Jia Sidao did not find anything special, which made Jia Sidao feel a little disappointed. On the contrary, A San stopped in front of the few things on the lattice on the left for a long time and carefully observed it. Jia Sidao also looked at it in a little surprised. Judging from the first impression, it should be very good, and the things are actually something A San is good at - porcelain!

Why don’t you have such good luck?

Jia Sidao not only felt a little envious. After carefully observing the things on the pavilion on the right, Jia Sidao started talking to the store.

For example, ask when the store opened, or where is the boss from, how do these things come from, etc.

Generally speaking, people who play antiques are good at talking. However, perhaps in the past few days, there have been many people asking questions. The owner of the antique shop was not very enthusiastic when facing Jia Sidao's inquiry. He just replied to answers such as those that opened a week ago, either collected from the past or came from a friend. On the contrary, while speaking, he was paying attention to A San's actions intentionally or unintentionally.

Compared with personal interests, some casual conversations are obviously inferior in weight.

Jia Sidao didn't care when he saw it, and shrugged his shoulders to express his understanding. Obviously, even if the shop owner, who was about fifty years old, continued to choose to engage in the antique collection industry, he no longer had much enthusiasm. This was like a young collector who was full of energy when he was young. When he was old, he suddenly felt that his interest had not achieved much.

Perhaps some people are willing to be calm in the collection of antiques, while others like to do earth-shaking things, either lose everything, or become part of the team that is used to make old and fake. Their respective situations are very different. However, they are still mingling in the antiques line.

Isn’t it a pleasure to collect the antique collections I have collected bit by bit by bit by bit by bit by bit by bit?

Jia Sidao did not feel disappointed with the store owner, or was confused about his career in antiques. However, when he saw that Ah San was still carefully appraising there, Jia Sidao was not idle here alone, so he couldn't help but ask: "Boss, is there any other good things besides the things he put out?"

The boss then looked at Jia Sidao in surprise, as if he wanted to find something from Jia Sidao's actions just now, and said, "Yes, there are, but it may not be something particularly good. It's just that it is heavy in weight, so it's not directly put out."

While speaking, the boss felt that there was nothing to hide. He opened the door to do business, so he gave Jia Sidao into the warehouse. It seemed that he had noticed the words and deeds of Jia Sidao and A San, and they were all considered as people from the industry. The boss didn't want A San to throw away the goods outside. Such behavior caused Jia Sidao to admire him.

If he put himself in mind, if it were Jia Sidao, he would not dare to lead another customer into the back of the store or the second floor when there were other people in his store.

"That's all, just watch it casually. If you like it, take it out yourself and talk about the price." The boss said this and returned to the shop outside, leaving only Jia Sidao alone in the warehouse. For a moment, he was a little stunned.

After looking at it, Jia Sidao thought about it and said it was a warehouse, but it was actually just a storage room. The place was not big, and the things placed were quite complicated. On the first day of the New Year, there were very large vases and large stone sculptures. Jia Sidao leaned over and looked at the vases specially designed for decoration. It felt that the glaze color and the like were very ordinary. It was almost impossible to tell it was a modern product without any careful caressing. He immediately turned his attention to the stone sculptures, but also found that although this thing was quite large, it was still not worth much money.

If I had transported such a big guy back to Linhai from Lin'an, I might have been ridiculed to death by Asan.

I picked and picked randomly in a disorder, and gradually, I found a few decent things from this storage room. What is particularly rare is that it is still relatively small, just like a few ancient coins. Not to mention that they are very rare, but they are not ordinary goods.

Jia Sidao guessed that the boss of the "Yunlai Pavilion" was a businessman himself and knew very well that things like ancient copper coins would not attract any special customers if they were placed in piles on the counter. In addition, there were already a lot of things outside, so he was too lazy to display these ancient copper coins.

On the side of the huge vase, there are a few small pieces of porcelain, mostly bowls, plates, etc., all of which are stacked together, not too classified or well maintained. From the boss's attitude towards them, he is naturally not optimistic about it. Otherwise, who would choose this way when placing porcelain.

I guess it is the dishes used to serve rice at home that choose this space-saving placement method?

Jia Sidao reached out and gently picked up a few items to look at them. It was basically concluded that they were all "road goods" and there was no big meaning. It was probably the boss collected them from some street stalls when he first started collecting them in the early years. Because in terms of style, there are almost all kinds of things. From this, we can also know how difficult the process that folk collectors have experienced is.

Sometimes such a storage room is used to remember it, not to prepare products for sale.

Jia Sidao suddenly felt that he should put down the few things he had already selected? After all, things like a few ancient coins are not very meaningful for Jia Sidao to collect, and there is no profit at all. Instead, it is better to let it continue to appear here.

Or are you waiting for someone with destiny, or are you waiting for a warm memory from the shop owner!

However, suddenly, just as Jia Sidao was about to leave, he found that in the corner of the storage room, there was a box piled up, made of wooden boxes, probably two desktop computers, with a few scroll-like things pressing on them. Jia Sidao guessed that they should belong to the calligraphy and painting category. Jia Sidao was not very interested in this type of thing. Of course, you can also think that even if you put things from famous masters like Zhang Daqian in front of Jia Sidao, apart from the paper for painting, Jia Sidao may have some ability to make some discernment, and the rest were just dark and didn't know anything.

He moved all the scrolls randomly, opened the lid of the box, and placed them inside with several inkstones and a pen holder. The material of the pen holder belonged to porcelain. Jia Sidao was delighted and immediately picked them up. He frowned carefully, but he frowned slightly. At least, from Jia Sidao's eyes, he felt that this thing was probably an old imitation, that is, it was imitated during the Ming Dynasty.
Chapter completed!