Even though he helped these people make appraisals, they might not be willing to sell him the real things in their hands, but he believed that there would always be people willing to sell them.
He will spend about five minutes reading each message, and then give a judgment and reply based on the uploaded pictures.
Because it is all based on pictures and has not seen the real thing at all, no one can guarantee that his judgment is correct, so at the end, he will add a sentence: personal opinion, for reference only.
What also remains unchanged is that for anything he thinks is genuine, he will give a purchase price when replying.
It took him less than an hour to get through more than a dozen pieces of information. Several of them were so fake that you could basically tell the problem at a glance.
Wang Dong also advertised Zhuoyue Antiques Network on several forums, and the nickname Pickup King was very popular right now. For a time, it attracted a large number of curious people to click in.
There is nothing outstanding about the forum part of the website, and it is not attractive at all. The most eye-catching part is naturally the free appraisal section, which many people find interesting after seeing it.
The first dozen or so people who applied for the appraisal all expressed their affirmation of the appraisal result after receiving feedback from the appraisal. Whether it was a genuine product or a fake, they all made it very clear in their replies, and it was clear at a glance.
It's heartwarming.
So several of these dozen people also expressed their gratitude on the forum, which made those who were observing also feel moved.
On the third day, the background showed that there were three or four more applications for identification than yesterday, and Xue Chen patiently answered them one by one.
In this way, after the website officially started operating, the number of applications in the backend gradually increased every day. From one on the first day, it reached more than 40 after the seventh day. On average, the number every day is stabilizing.
growth of.
At the same time, the number of registered members of the website has also begun to grow rapidly. It is not just Wang Dong's advertisement that has had an effect. Everyone who has applied for an appraisal is a living advertisement!
Soon, people posted on many antique-related forums and talked about Joyo Antiques.com, praising it for being professional, fast, completely free and convenient.
These are not available in ordinary expert appraisal meetings. Normal appraisal meetings require receiving numbers and queuing up. It is not necessarily certain whether the experts are really capable experts. More importantly, there are basically no free ones and they are always full of various questions.
Various consumption traps.
For a time, Joyo Antiques Network was spread by word of mouth, and many ordinary grassroots people logged in to Wanzhan, registered as members, and applied for appraisals.
Xue Chen spends a lot more time every day, taking nearly two hours, but this is not a hassle for him at all. He can process an application in a few minutes anytime and anywhere.
In this way, the website has been operating smoothly for more than half a month, and to Xue Chen's joy, someone finally started to intend to trade the antiques that participated in the appraisal, and there were three people.
Xue Chen had a simple communication with these three people, inviting them to come to the capital to make a deal, and promised that even if the deal failed, he would be reimbursed for the round trip expenses.
This was a decision he made after careful consideration. Since these people are willing to bring their things to the capital, then nine times out of ten they really intend to trade in good faith. In order to show their sincerity, agreeing to reimburse travel expenses is nothing.
How much money, one transaction can make up for dozens of toll losses.
On the next day, one of them arrived in the capital. He was a man in his forties wearing glasses. He looked like a man of culture. He walked into the Zhuoyue antique store with some restraint.
Xue Chen welcomed him warmly, and after a brief introduction, he found out that this person was a middle school chemistry teacher named Zhang Xuebin.
"Teacher Zhang, you've had a hard time on the road." Xue Chen invited people to the second floor and poured him a cup of tea.
Zhang Xuebin glanced at Xue Chen several times and asked uncertainly: "Excuse me, are you the king of leak pickers?"
Xue Chen laughed and touched his nose: "Teacher Zhang, you are right, but you still don't call me that, it sounds awkward."
Zhang Xuebin nodded, secretly surprised. Although he had known for a long time that the rumored leak-picking king was not very old, he did not expect that he was actually so young. Moreover, his responses when he was appraised on the Internet were also very mature, showing that he was very young.
He is extremely thoughtful and doesn't look like a young man at all.
"Teacher Zhang, did you call me?" Xue Chen asked, sitting opposite.
"Bring it, bring it." Zhang Xuebin hurriedly took out a small, palm-sized box from the black briefcase in his hand, glanced at Xue Chen, and placed it on the coffee table.
After Xue Chen nodded, he took it in his hand and opened the small box. Lying inside was a large silver coin with four words printed on it, "The King of the West will reward you!"
When he held this big coin in his hand, Xue Chen breathed a sigh of relief. After all, he could only see pictures on the Internet. Although it felt quite real, it was not the real thing after all. He was worried that there would be some errors. Now that he was holding it in his hand, he could finally be sure.
Yes, the thing is indeed real.
"The King of the West rewards merit..."
Seeing the four words above, his eyes flashed with love. This big money is really rare and it is a rare type of ancient silver coins.
The Chinese collecting community has classified and analyzed all ancient coins from ancient times to the present, and selected the fifty most precious and treasured varieties, collectively known as the Fifty Treasures, which basically include all those with investment and collection capabilities.
valuable ancient coins.
The King of the West's Award for Merit is one of them, and it is a relatively rare type, and it is difficult to see it usually.
King of the West Reward Zhang Xianzhong, the leader of the rebel army in the late Ming Dynasty, cast it in the land of Sichuan and Sichuan. It was made of gold, silver and copper. It was a coin used by the king of the Daxi Kingdom to reward others.
The three materials of gold, silver and copper naturally have different prices and decrease in order, but no matter which material they are, they are very precious.
Therefore, when he saw such a silver "Western King's Reward" appearing in front of him, he was naturally surprised and wanted to trade it.
"Mr. Xue, is it okay for me, the King of the West, to reward me with merit?" Zhang Xuebin asked with a little worry.
"Congratulations to Mr. Zhang, there is nothing wrong with this Western King's Award for Merit. There is no doubt that it is authentic." Xue Chen said with certainty without hiding anything.
Zhang Xuebin breathed a sigh of relief and nodded repeatedly: "That's good, that's good."
"Mr. Zhang, do you really plan to sell this Xiwang reward? If it is true, then let's talk about the price now."
Hearing Xue Chen ask himself, Zhang Xuebin nodded affirmatively without much thought, saying that his son was getting married and needed a wedding house, but he didn't want a mortgage and wanted to buy a house in full, so he planned to put this money in the first few dollars.
The Xiwang reward reward, which I acquired by chance in 2001, is for sale.
After hearing what Zhang Xuebin said, Xue Chen knew that the person in front of him really didn't look like an old man in the antique circle. Anyone who had been in the circle for a few more years had already developed some skills.
You will never tell the truth when discussing business with others.
If you say that you want to sell your things to raise medical expenses for your family, then the buyer will naturally keep the price down, and the seller will be at a disadvantage and will not be able to negotiate on the price.
initiative.
Zhang Xuebin is in this situation. He acts too eager to take action. If others see him, he will definitely be labeled a rookie.
"Mr. Zhang, I have given you a quotation online, 800,000, what do you think?" Xue Chen's tone was brisk and natural, completely different from Zhang Xuebin's restraint and caution.
"Eight hundred thousand..." Zhang Xuebin thought about it and didn't answer for a while. After two or three minutes, he opened his mouth and said, "Mr. Xue, can the price be higher? I have negotiated a deal with someone before, and he also gave
The price was 800,000, but I didn't sell it. Now I personally drove hundreds of miles to see you, and the price is..."
Looking at Zhang Xuebin, Xue Chen smiled inwardly and thought to himself, this teacher Zhang is not completely stupid. He also knows how to set up a false competitor for buyers, but this approach is a bit too low-level.
"Teacher Zhang, the eight hundred thousand I gave you is already a very reasonable price. Let's put it this way, you are the first customer who came to me from the Internet, so I am very grateful and sincerely complete this transaction with you.
I’ll just tell the truth.”
Zhang Xuebin nodded.
"This piece of Xiwang's reward is really good. The market price is about one million. If you sell it in an antique shop, it might even be sold for 1.2 million. However, this is just an ideal situation. With your social circle,
It is difficult to find someone who wants to acquire Xiwang Shanggong. As for me, as an antique store operator, I also want to pursue profits, so the price of 800,000 I gave is already a reasonable price.
"
Xue Chen looked at Zhang Xuebin sincerely and said something.
"However, since Mr. Zhang is my first online customer, let me increase the price by 50,000 yuan. This is my thanks to you and my congratulations in advance to Mr. Zhang's son's wedding."
Zhang Xuebin listened to what Xue Chen said and thought about it in his heart. It felt very real and pertinent. There was indeed no suitable buyer around him, and he didn't want to trade with people he didn't know at all. He was afraid.
There's something fishy about it.
Xue Chen's words also made him feel comfortable.
After thinking twice, Zhang Xuebin breathed out and nodded vigorously: "Okay, then I'll sell it for 850,000 yuan!" He could feel that what the other party said was true and made sense.
Immediately, Xue Chen made the transfer.
After checking on his mobile phone that 850,000 yuan had arrived, Zhang Xuebin breathed a sigh of relief. He felt that he had come to the right place this time. Not to mention other things, at least the whole transaction process made him very comfortable and there was nothing unpleasant at all.