my iceberg president

Chapter 43 Auction

At first, when he heard the transaction prices of the jewels in front, the fat man felt that they were not too expensive and acceptable.

Even, holding the gold digger in his arms, he thought with disdain in his heart: "I thought the jewelry inside is so high-end, so the price is the same! Some of them are even less expensive than the jewelry outside!"

The fat man made a rough estimate in his heart. If the previous transaction price is used, when he finally buys Han Mengli's work, he will spend at most 20 million yuan!Although painful, it is bearable.

But when the shooting of the third runner-up work started, the fat man was immediately shocked!
After a fierce bidding on the spot, finally, the third runner-up work was sold at a price of 25!

Now, the fat man's head is dizzy, and he can't figure out what's going on!And with the sound of the hammer falling, the auction of the runner-up work has also ended, the final amount: 51 RMB!

This price is not only high, but the transaction price is directly doubled compared to the previous one!
According to this rule, assuming the value of the champion's work, the eyes of the gold-worshiping woman will immediately be full of little golden stars!Now, she is very grateful to Han Mengli.

If it wasn't for Han Mengli's reminder, how would she know that there are such high-end jewelry here?It is estimated that she was still the same as before, she was fooled by the fat man who bought something with a fast price of [-] to [-] yuan!

The gold digger was full of excitement, but the fat man was already sweating on his forehead, and his legs were starting to feel weak.

Following a brief introduction by the host, the auction of the champion works began.

Before Fatty could figure out how much to bid, a handsome guy in a suit and leather shoes over there directly asked for 30!
"Damn!" Fatty's greasy face twitched, and he couldn't help but curse in his heart.But under the urging of the gold digger, he still shivered and shouted: "3... 31!"

As a result, as soon as the words fell, another voice sounded immediately: "40!"

"50 million!"

Counting Fatty, this is only the fourth bid, and it is already the same as the final transaction price of the last jewel!And judging from the intermission of everyone asking for prices, this is still far from the final transaction.

Fatty really doesn't understand, isn't this jewelry ranked 4 times higher than No.3?How come the price is so different?

"55!" The fifth bidding price has been shouted out.

The fat man's clothes were already drenched in sweat, and he cursed those bidders and their 8 generations of ancestors in his heart.

Over there, Sun Hao looked at the fat man over there, couldn't help laughing, and said to Han Mengli in a low voice: "Honey, you are really good. With this fat man's IQ, I think he will be cheated to death!"

Han Mengli smiled, raised her head and said, "Hmph, I didn't cheat at this price! Besides, I was only planning to let him buy the jewelry in the front. Who would have thought that he would be stupid enough to buy the jewelry in the back?"

This, indeed, the fat man's stupidity is that he doesn't know anything about jewelry!In other words, he didn't understand commercial auctions at all.Otherwise, he would never promise to the gold digger that he would buy her the most expensive item here.

In this world, the antique world, painting world, and luxury goods industry are the hardest-hit areas for hot money hype!

Ordinary people only know how to marvel at those news reports, how many sky-high prices have been sold for another painting, and so on.They don't understand at all. In fact, in many cases, those auctions are just left-handed and right-handed by the speculators.

Some so-called high-priced works of art will go through multiple auctions, and each time, the price will increase by several percent, or even double.But these bidders each time are actually the speculators themselves—or their accomplices.

The purpose of doing this is to use a series of high-priced transaction records to create a sensational effect, so that layman local tyrants think that this thing is really valuable, and the price is still increasing rapidly!
In this way, after flipping the left and right hands a few times, it is possible to really sell the price.

If the successor is lucky enough, he will increase the price again and sell it to the next one.From this point of view, it seems that it can be passed on forever, and the people in front will always make money?
In fact, it is not the case. The price of this artificially speculated thing is only maintained by the eyeball effect.In this era of highly developed information, few things can maintain their popularity for more than two or three years.

After going through a series of changing hands, the thing that has been fired will eventually fall into the hands of some unlucky guy, and it will never be sold again, or it can only be sold at a big loss.

And the money earned by each of the previous resellers is equivalent to all being paid by the last unlucky guy!
This set of things can still fool many people in the early stage of reformation.After all, at that time, most people in China had not seen the world, and the credibility of the media was very high.

And after so many years, the people of the country have basically become smarter, and this trick is no longer so easy to deceive.

Take the recent example of golden nanmu, some hot money has hoarded a large amount of golden nanmu, and then spread the hype on the Internet in an attempt to make this thing a high-end product.

Through those shoddy news hype, things that no one wanted in the field were fired to millions.It's a pity that no matter how hot the news is, there are not many buyers who actually buy this thing-everyone has figured out this.

Most of the timber is tossed back and forth in the hands of those big hype groups, maintaining a false sales boom.There are only some people who want to buy wood from hype groups, and the purpose is just to hoard it and take a chance to get a share.

It's a pity that after insisting on two years of false prosperity, few people were really cheated at all, and all the wood was in the hands of small speculators who followed suit.

With the retreat of the big hype group, there is no news to maintain the popularity. There were originally a million pieces of golden nan, but now they cannot be sold for [-] to [-], and they are all in the hands of those followers.

The hype in the luxury industry is actually the same as the hype of these things.It's just that the rules of this industry are relatively sound, and it's not too deceptive.

Moreover, no matter what happens in the world, there is no absolute good or bad.As long as the hype is controlled to a certain degree, it is beneficial to all aspects.

If this rate is too high, it will only quickly overdraw the profits of the entire industry, and eventually the entire industry will collapse.Just think about the hype of orchids and nanmu, and the eventual decline of the entire industry.

Originally a pot of orchids worth a hundred or ten dollars turned into tens of millions in the end!After the last group of people were cheated, the hot money rolled up and left, and the entire orchid collection industry immediately became a pool of stagnant water.

The hype in the jewelry industry has been relatively reasonably controlled. Apart from a few top-level luxury goods that are designed to trap upstarts, there are also reasonable-priced jewelry mainly for normal consumers.

Practitioners on both sides jointly maintain a good business environment, but they are two completely different industries, but on the surface, they are both buying and selling jewelry.

As a jeweler, I naturally understand the tricks of the speculators, knowing that they like to hoard jewelry with gimmicks and topics, and naturally I will not compete with them to buy the first, second and third place works.

And the rational consumers on the scene will not be foolish enough to come and buy such false and amazing things.Those who will bid with speculators are purebred fools and upstarts.

As for Fatty, it is unknown whether he is an upstart or not, but his understanding of jewelry can only be regarded as a purebred idiot.He doesn't understand the value of jewelry, so forget it, but he didn't realize that there are two kinds of people who are asking the price now and just now!

As long as the fat man has a little observation, he can find that the bidders of the previous auctions are all rational jewelers!
For a normal jeweler, the higher the price of the work speculated by those speculators, the more conducive to the sale of Han Mengli's works.And if they want Han Mengli's works, they can just talk to Han Mengli directly.

As for the price, even if Han Mengli's work sold for millions, it doesn't mean that all of her works can be sold at this price.At best, it is to increase the value of her ordinary works by hundreds or thousands of dollars.

Han Mengli would not be so stupid as to ask for a random price. The high price of this work is all due to hype.And in order to ensure the success of the speculator, she must abide by a rule: the design of the champion work, only this one is allowed to be produced!
Otherwise, after this thing is rotten, there will be no way to hype it.

No matter how talented a designer is, it is impossible to design dozens or hundreds of works every day.The so-called ordinary works are the same design, thousands or even tens of thousands of pieces are produced according to the same design, and then evaluated and sold.This is the normal profit of a jewelry company.

At this time, the price had already been called up to 70, the fat man's face had turned pale, his lips were trembling, and he didn't intend to continue asking for the price at all.

The gold digger, her face was flushed, she was so surprised, she was thinking: "Wait a minute, I will have this piece of jewelry! It looks like this piece of jewelry is worth millions!"

She knows less about jewelry than the fat man, and the only criterion for her to measure jewelry is the price.The higher the price, the more prestige it would be to wear it out, so she wished that the price would be as high as possible!
"75!" Over there, a woman in high-end clothes waved an exquisite Kun bag in her hand, and calmly called out the latest price.

The gold digger was so excited, she shook the fat man's arm and said repeatedly: "Husband, call quickly, call quickly!"

"Baby..." The fat man wiped the sweat from his brow and said hesitantly, "This price is too much, otherwise, we'd better..."

Before the fat man finished speaking, the gold-worshiping girl immediately raised her eyebrows and her face turned livid.

"My surname is Li, you actually want to go back on your word again? Are you really thinking that my old lady is an idiot?"

The fat man hurriedly shook his head, and said with an apologetic smile, "No! Seeing what you said, how could I?"

The gold digger curled her lips, and in front of this jewel, she put aside her previous intention of repentance, and said coldly: "Hmph! I don't care if you think that way or not, but now I can tell you, my mother will definitely recognize this jewel !

If you don't buy it for me, I'll send those videos to your wife now!Don't think that I don't know, you are not a rich second generation at all, but just a door-to-door son-in-law. "

When the fat man was told the truth, his face was immediately ashamed and annoyed.

When he was young, he was still very handsome and unrestrained. He was valued by the boss's daughter and became a door-to-door son-in-law, Phoenix Man.But as his figure gradually lost shape, he was more and more humiliated by his wife's white eyes.

What's more, he could only pretend not to see that his wife was directly raising a boy at home.All he did was because he couldn't do without this kind of life of the rich!

Maybe it was because of his knowledge, or maybe his wife felt sorry for cheating on him, so she gave him a lot more money every day, and even made him a nominal vice president in the company.

In this way, the fat man is even more inseparable from his wife, and feels even more humiliated.The reason for outsourcing lovers is precisely because of the rebellious psychology of this situation.

It's a pity that anger is anger, and now that the gold digger is holding him back, he really doesn't dare to explode at will!If those videos were really known by his wife at home, it would not be as simple as an apology for him.

(End of this chapter)