Chapter 483: This is much more expensive than gold
Chen Wenzhe and Mo Chengfang came to an office and opened the door, only to find that there was an elevator inside.
The underground floor is the so-called miscellaneous warehouse.
"The things here will be piled here after several rounds of appraisal."
"After a few more inspections, if there are no problems, we will deal with it."
Coming downstairs, there are several portals in the corridor.
Mo Chengfang entered the password through the electronic password lock, performed face recognition, and then opened the portals.
After passing through three portals, they came to a relatively spacious room.
There are three staff here, one is in charge of records, one is in charge of organizing things, and one is an appraiser.
"There happens to be a batch of things coming out of the warehouse today. If you like them, you can buy some."
With that said, Mo Chengfang walked up to the appraiser.
"This one is an external expert who came here specifically to check for deficiencies. He usually doesn't talk to us much."
Chen Wenzhe looked at the appraiser. Of course he didn't recognize him, but it was obviously not easy for this person to be invited here.
At this time, there were some broken cups and other things beside him, among which a few dark cups were the most conspicuous.
"This is the rhinoceros horn cup. Unfortunately, the damage is a bit serious. It was originally piled in the warehouse and was being prepared for repair or secondary processing. However, the sale of rhino horn products is now prohibited, and the company does not intend to waste this time and money.
money."
"How to deal with this kind of thing?"
"If something is eaten by rats, it's naturally not expensive. As long as it's not shipped out of the warehouse, it belongs to whoever likes it here."
"So, if someone deliberately takes a batch of things out of the warehouse, he may not be able to get it?"
"Yes, it depends on whether anyone comes to grab it. Today we are lucky, we are the first batch to come over."
With that said, Mo Chengfang unceremoniously took the three dark cups inside into his hands.
Of the three rhino horn cups, two were crushed and torn, beyond repair.
The other one was even more damaged and the shape of the cup could no longer be seen.
"How to calculate the price?" Mo Chengfang began to ask the appraiser.
"The worms eat the rat-gnawed tatters, and you watch over them!"
This appraiser is not stupid. He is here to make extra money, not to offend anyone.
Mo Chengfang smiled and said: "In 2013, an Australian buyer bought a cup for US$4. Because it was a Chinese sacrificial cup from the 17th century and made of rhinoceros horn, it is now sold for US$1.
high price.”
The appraiser glanced at Mo Chengfang and said nothing.
Even if it costs 80,000 US dollars, it is only 4 to 50,000 yuan. Is this money expensive?
Rhino horns are rare in the world and have extremely high medicinal value, so they have extremely high economic value.
Rhino horns currently sold simply cost around 2,000 yuan per gram, which is several times the value of gold of the same weight.
However, since 1993, my country has banned the trade of rhino horns, including any identifiable parts of them and medicines and handicrafts containing their ingredients, and has canceled the medicinal standards for rhino horns.
The sale, purchase, transportation, carrying and mailing of rhino horns must be investigated and dealt with in accordance with the law, so rhino horns are now expensive but not marketable.
The above is about rhino horn, and rhino horn products such as rhino horn cups, especially antiques, can be traded as long as they are not modern goods. However, the prices of these rhino horn products are also sky-high.
The most expensive ones are cups made of Asian materials, which can cost from a thousand yuan to tens of thousands yuan per gram.
Those that are particularly old and have good carvings can even be sold for tens of thousands of yuan per gram.
A plain cup like the one Chen Wenzhe is holding in his hand has no carvings and is badly damaged. It can easily be sold for more than 2,000 yuan per gram, which is much more expensive than gold.
You must know that the cup in Chen Wenzhe's hand must weigh more than 300 grams, which is 600,000.
Obviously, the price Mo Chengfang mentioned just now is a joke.
However, you definitely can't buy it here at a price of 2,000 per gram. This is a mistake. You can only buy it in the name of buying antiques. This is the formal channel.
If it is an antique in good condition, the price is naturally not cheap.
Up to now, some older rhino horn products have far surpassed the price of gold.
It is said that a good piece of rhino horn can be worth tens of millions of dollars.
Of course, it must be a great and exquisite work, but it can also be seen from this that the more countries around the world ban something, the price of it will skyrocket.
What's more, rhino horns can actually be used as medicine in China, and the medicines produced are usually life-saving medicines.
In this way, it is really difficult to bring the price down.
This is because Chen Wenzhe has a way to buy legal rhino horn products, but even so, he cannot publicize or show off, otherwise, he may still get into trouble.
Rhino horn is a rare commodity whose regular market price is higher than the black market price.
Since he wanted to buy rhino horns, Chen Wenzhe naturally inquired about the price of rhino horns through various channels.
He got some news from both Zhang Yijie and Xue Jianming.
Today, the price of rhino horn is comparable to gold on the black market.
In the black market, although the price of rhino horn fluctuates greatly, for example, in Vietnam's black market last fall, the unit price of a gram of rhino horn ranged from US$33 to US$133.
But the price of US$133 per gram was twice the price of gold at the time, and even higher than the price of caffeine of the same quality.
One hundred and thirty-three U.S. dollars, which is almost a thousand yuan, but bought from the black market, there will be endless troubles.
Instead of doing this, it is better to buy some high-priced goods through formal channels.
Chen Wenzhe didn't want to take advantage, but Mo Chengfang could only follow the routine of scrapping antiques and sold him three rhinoceros horn products weighing one kilogram at a 10% discount on the finished product.
The price of the finished product is 1.8 million, which is only 180,000 at a discount.
If purchased at a price of two thousand one gram, these rhino horns can actually be sold for two million?
Unfortunately, the formal channel that Chen Wenzhe knows is the channel for buying antiques.
No matter how you buy rhino horns, there are no formal channels.
Therefore, he must not buy it at a price of 2,000 yuan per gram. If he does, he will break the law.
The world is so wonderful, even if he wants to spend more money, he can't.
So, this time, he didn't want to take advantage of the country, but he was forced to take advantage of it.
"Don't worry, this is the benefit of our official appraisers. If there is no benefit, where can we go to make money? Why bother to be bound to the company and go to and from work every day?"
"This is the price set by the above. I can't find it on your head." At this time, the appraiser spoke.
Chen Wenzhe smiled bitterly, this is an unspoken rule and a rule, and he needs to abide by it.