When Tony heard what Fang Yi said about how to identify the real author of Li Lin's works, he felt a little itchy in his heart... This man started to persuade Fang Yi and others to use Softbi
The appraisal room began to characterize the painting. In fact, I just wanted to take a look and understand what Fang Yi said at a glance.
"Yi! I think it's better to have it appraised at Softby, so that Softby will be the first to get the news and have a way to deal with it! This way you won't make them look bad. Besides, there are no Japanese appraisers for this painting.
Judging from what I saw, I can't blame Sophoby! Let's just look at the paintings here!" After Tony said to Fang Yi, he looked at Zhang Xu and Li Lin, with pleading expressions on their faces.
His expression seemed like it would be torture to endure it for a second longer.
Old York didn't realize that he didn't seem to be disliked by most of the people in this group. He nodded to himself and said: "Yes, that's why it should be like this. It would be better to see it sooner!". It seemed that he was making his own suggestions.
It seems to be respected by most people.
Fang Yi glanced at Li Lin and Zhang Xu's faces and asked, "Now that this thing is in your hands, it's up to you to decide what to do with it."
Zhang Xu thought for a second or two and then said: "Then let's do the appraisal directly at Sofoby, and then put the things here for photography?" After saying that, he looked at Li Lin, and then the two of them focused their attention on Fang Yi.
He is just waiting for Fang Yi to make the final decision. In a certain sense, Fang Yi is the major shareholder of this painting.
Fang Yi looked at the two people looking at him and couldn't help but smile bitterly and said: "You can do whatever you want! Look what I do!".
"Then let's do it!" Tony nodded directly and was about to take Zhang Xu back to Softby's back room.
Li Lin was a little worried and asked Fang Yi in Chinese: "Will there be any twists and turns?".
"What kind of twists and turns will this have?" Fang Yi looked at Li Lin and asked a little confused.
Li Lin said to Fang Yi: "I remember a case..." After saying that, he told Fang Yi about the matter. Now that this matter made Li Lin a little worried, it was worth millions of dollars.
After getting the thing, Li Lin didn't dare to let go of it for a moment. He usually held it with one hand and subconsciously blocked it with the other.
After hearing this, Fang Yi couldn't help but smile bitterly: "That's because the legal system is not complete. The legal system here is relatively complete, and there is no such thing as you said! There is no need to go to court for this matter, whether it is Japanese or
There is no way for Softby to take this painting back from you. Even if there is a conflict, it is a matter between Softby and the Japanese who sent the painting. Isn't this just like the "Plenty" I photographed."
Fang Yi gave Li Lin a reassurance.
What Li Lin was talking about was a case that occurred in China during this period. A rich man speculated on the so-called paper gold. He didn't know how long it took him to earn tens of millions. However, the bank refused to give him these tens of millions.
The two families went to court because the bank was not qualified to sell paper gold. So the court sentenced this person to confiscate tens of millions.
This is simply unreasonable. The court claims to be fair, but is it really true? The bank's violations and violations are the bank's own business, and the third party, the gold speculator, cannot bear the responsibility. The bank cannot do anything wrong.
It doesn't make any sense to let the customer pay for the loss.
Even if it makes sense, can those who lost money in the gold speculation sue the bank to make up for their losses? Has it been made up for others? According to the court's judgment, if the profit is confiscated, then shouldn't the loss be made up for after the loss? Is there any?
Judge the bank to compensate?
Anyway, when there is some friction between a public institution and a private person, I feel that even if the private person is justified, he will not be able to take advantage of it. That's the reason.
However, this matter is nothing new to Chinese people. We can talk about these messy things in domestic banks for days. They only do things that harm customers and benefit themselves. For example, if the ATM machine spits out more money, you have to pay it back.
Bank, the bank will not accept the money you received after leaving the counter. If you really let foreign banks in with this so-called bad service, no amount of money would be enough to support you.
After saying this, Fang Yi said to Tony and the others: "If you want to go for a test, go ahead. I don't have much interest. I'm going back to the hotel first, and I'll go back to Los Angeles early tomorrow morning.
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"Then let's go!" Tony looked at Zhang Xu and Li Lin and then said to Fang Yi: "I'll just follow their car back to the hotel later, and then go directly back to Italy."
Fang Yi waved to a few people and turned around and walked towards the door.
Fang Yi hadn't walked a few steps before Tony pulled Zhang Xu and they quickly walked towards Softby's reception room.
As soon as Tony and his party entered the door, the receptionist looked at the five people and asked: "Hello, is there anything I can help you with?".
"Let's send a piece of work to be photographed!" Zhang Xu gestured to Li Lin, and then said in broken English.
The beautiful girl at the reception was so confused that she didn't understand what Zhang Xu said, but after she understood it, she stretched out her hand with a smile and motioned for several people to sit down on the sofa in the reception area.
"Excuse me, what are you sending for photography?" the receptionist asked as she looked at the group of people. Li Lin and Zhang Xu both knew that these were two wealthy Chinese people! They bought an unknown imitation painting for 400,000 US dollars.
, including commissions and so on, it was almost half a million US dollars. Although the receptionist girl looked similar to Asians, the receptionist still recognized these two bold country bumpkins who had just left home without even changing their clothes.
"That's this work!" Tony pointed at the painting bag Li Lin was holding.
The receptionist girl was stunned when she saw the bag, because this thing was the fake painting she had just taken from the auction house. Not to mention anything else, even the genuine leather painting sleeve outside had the Sotheby's logo printed on it. It would have cost tens of thousands.
The painting cover was not included in the transaction, so just put it on a cloth. However, the item sold for 400,000 US dollars, whether it is genuine or fake, is worthy of a genuine leather painting cover.
"This one?" The receptionist girl thought she heard wrongly. If this thing were sold again, let alone the possibility of keeping the principal of 500,000 yuan, if it could be sold for more than 50,000 yuan, she would be laughing. Moreover.
Buy it as soon as you buy it? Is this the rhythm of having too much money and giving auction commissions to the auction house?
"Yes!" Zhang Xu understood what the receptionist asked without needing to be translated. He nodded immediately and said.
After speaking, he helped Li Lin take out the work again.
Tony said happily: "What we are sending for auction is Mr. Mayville's imitation of Rubens' work "Plenty"!".
Now the reception girl's eyes widened even more, and she couldn't help but open her mouth and said: "How is this possible!". She saw that the painting that had just been sold to her studio turned into a copycat of Mayville's when it was sent back.
The reception girl didn't believe her ears, so she couldn't help but said something.
"I'm sorry! I'm sorry!" The reception girl apologized profusely after she said it. This is not what a qualified receptionist should say.
Tony looked at the little girl and said cheerfully: "Yifang has appraised it. This is an imitation of Rubens' work by Mayville! Now help us find an appraiser. To be honest, we just want to use yours."
Polarizing instrument, you need to check what Yi said is the point that is obvious at a glance!".
Of course the reception girl knows the name Yifang. Not to mention herself, even the people who clean the toilets in Softby now know who Yifang is. It was the one who took over and became the general manager. And then he took this post.
What a miserable person!
Now this name can be said to be Sotheby's nightmare! He turned a forgery that was sent for auction into an authentic one. The lawsuit is still being fought. Moreover, he also snatched the work that the company had just acquired and prepared for a big auction. Another troublemaker, Bobby
Le's works are said to be worthless. Now the company he is building is in a difficult position.
Really shoot it. It’s really hard to say what the outcome will be. If not, I signed the contract again, and in order to grab this thing, I also had a deposit and privately sent it to the person who sent it.
Of course, the following things are not something that a receptionist girl can know. The current manager, Walder Crowe, is the one who has a headache!
Anyway, as soon as Softby's staff heard the name Yifang, they thought there was nothing good going on!
After chatting with a few people, the little girl turned around and talked to her manager about the matter.
Just as the little girl expected when she walked in, the manager heard about this and immediately spat out: "It's Yifang again?!".
The manager also felt that Fang Yi seemed to be a ghost. During this period, the name Fang Yi was like a black rain cloud hanging over Softby and unwilling to disperse.
He said that as a manager of Sofoby, he must be worthy of his salary. He acted very cautiously and followed the receptionist girl out to the reception area.
However, when the manager saw Tony and York in the reception area, the premonition became even worse. It was not good to go home, but he still gave himself a little encouragement in his heart: It may not be true, it may not be true.
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It's like a man who is being hunted sticks his head out of a barrel, points his butt towards the man holding a machete, and says "Look, I can't see you!" It's almost the same truth.
With a smile on his face, the manager chatted with a few people for two or three minutes and then personally took the five people to the company's appraisal room. Of course, Tony himself was a veteran in appraisal, so he didn't need anyone else to use the polarizing instrument.
As soon as he arrived in the laboratory, Tony set up the light according to Fang Yi's instructions, and then put the painting under the mirror to illuminate it.
"Yes!" Tony couldn't help but exclaimed happily as he looked at what was displayed on the screen in front of him.
York stretched out his head and immediately asked Tony: "Let me see!". The old man was old and not very tall. In addition, he was not lovable, so naturally he could not get in front of the polarimeter display screen.
There were already five or six heads in front of the small screen, and it was not the old man's turn to reach over.
The manager of Softby's couldn't help but tremble when he saw Mayville's name displayed on the screen, and said in his heart: It's over again!
After thinking about it, I felt that Fang Yi was a big scourge, no! The scourge could no longer explain the harm this man had done to Sophoby! He was like a demon jumping out of the black smoke with a weird laugh.
, pounced on Suo Fuli, a trembling little girl who had no resistance! Then he did whatever he wanted to do...
The manager couldn't help but feel a little sad: I have never heard of such an unlucky time in the century. If the manager watched a Chinese low-budget movie, he would definitely yell at Fang Yi: There are no public toilets! Come if you want.
Come and leave whenever you want! And you can say this in standard Sichuan dialect. (To be continued...)