The "Thug Party" office building is also today's black market auction house. People are constantly coming and going in front of the building. People wearing robes of various colors and wearing masks of different styles are walking towards the auction. People almost don't speak to each other.
Even if someone spoke, it was in a low voice after the two parties were close to each other. They could only hear the friction of shoes hitting the ground.
Needless to say, if you can eliminate the sound of friction between shoes and the ground, people will be like a group of ghosts shaking in the night. Wearing cloaks will add to the mystery. If paired with scary sound effects, it will be lifelike.
thriller.
Chu Long walked out of the intelligence dealer's door and kept wandering around, thinking about how to combine the information to obtain the ruby necklace.
Unknowingly, I walked into the crowd, and as people walked towards the black market auction, at this time, it was already the beginning of the black market auction house, and many people who came specially for a certain item had already walked in in advance.
At the auction house, as for others, they are purely trying their luck. Maybe something useful to them will be auctioned.
Black market auction houses are different from outside auction houses. Those well-known auction houses in the world can store customers' items, conduct valuations, authenticate authenticity and other related matters about the items. Auction houses in the black market only care about consignment and the source of the items.
No one will care about such problems, and the auction house will only charge one-tenth of the handling fee based on the final price of the consigned item.
The handling fee is not cheap, but few people who can come to the black market for consumption will care about the mere one-tenth of the handling fee, but that does not mean that everyone must pay one-tenth. In large-scale companies that cooperate with the black market
The Chamber of Commerce will issue some items similar to discount cards according to different situations. These discount cards have the function of reducing or reducing handling fees in black market auction houses. The only difference is the amount of reduction.
The secondary card from Shadow in Chu Long's hand can be exempted from the handling fee, but it can only be reduced once, only in this black market auction. If it is not used in this auction, then the Shadow secondary card will be used in the next auction.
The card becomes useless.
Old information dealers like Shadow have long-term cooperation in the black market. Even if the other party comes very rarely, their reputation is great! They attract a lot of customers, so they have to let the black market win over them.
For this reason, the black market and the well-known chamber of commerce jointly issued reduction cards. All secondary cards like Chulong are collectively called reduction cards.
In front of the black market auction house, everyone is queuing up and entering the building one after another. The auction house does not have a so-called member channel. Almost everyone here has hidden their identity. No one is stupid enough to announce their home in a big way.
, attracting everyone's attention. They lined up quietly and slowly, and after paying the fees one by one, walked into the auction house building.
From the moment Chu Long queued up, he looked at the people queuing up and entering the auction house. Chu Long found that not everyone paid the fee. Some people took out a card from their body. The man in a short jacket who was in charge of registration at the door
The card will be registered in detail. After registration, two men in plaid shirts who are as strong as cattle will check whether they are carrying any prohibited items. After checking, if there are no problems, they will let the other party enter the auction house.
In the advancing crowd, Chu Long carefully observed the people in front of him who had cards. He found that these cards looked very similar to the secondary card given to him by the Shadow Auction House. After these cards passed into the hands of people from the auction house,
would use something like this on the card
A plier-shaped punch punches a hole in the lower right corner, seemingly to prove that the card has been used.
In the slow queue, it was Chu Long's turn. Chu Long followed the example of the person in front and handed the secondary card from Shadow to the man in the jacket in front of him.
After taking Chu Long's Shadow Secondary Card and registering it, he punched a hole in the lower right corner, looked at Chu Long and said expressionlessly: "Sir, your secondary card is only for this black market auction, but this does not affect your use in the black market auction.
The Consumption of Shadows.”
"Sir, this is your access card, please keep it!" the man in the jacket said with a smile.
"Thanks!"
Chu Long walked to the door of the building, and the two burly men stood in front of Chu Long. One of the big men motioned to Chu Long to open his arms and check whether there were weapons attached to his arms and robes. The other big man walked up to Chu Long.
Chu Long patted the back of his robe and checked whether there were any weapons hidden behind him that had not been checked properly. Soon the two big men completed the inspection and moved out of the way to let Chu Long enter the building.
The office building of the "Thug Party" is five stories high. The black market auction house occupies the entire building. The first floor is responsible for sending auctions. Both merchants who come to black market stalls and customers who come to black market shopping can send auctions on the first floor.
Generally, auction houses have treasure appraisers to identify the authenticity of items sent for auction. Porcelain items need to be inspected for minor defects. Those well-known large-scale auctions will invite different types of treasure appraisers to conduct targeted inspections.
They are responsible for their customers and they are also responsible for themselves. However, the black market is different from the outside world. The black market has black market rules. Auction house treasure appraisers are generally miscellaneous people who can appraise anything, but they cannot be as meticulous as this.
It takes a lot of money to train a professional treasure appraiser, and it cannot be achieved overnight.
The top executives of the black market have also thought about recruiting treasure appraisers from outside, but the vast majority of treasure appraisers look down on the dark forces like the black market, saying that they cannot see the light and can only survive underground like mice. As treasure appraisers,
They are usually invited by nobles and valued by wealthy families, and they simply look down on the power of the black market. Generally speaking, a small number of treasure appraisers either have no guarantee in terms of their ability, or they are unwilling to stay in their own country and go to a foreign country to develop.
This makes it extremely difficult to recruit treasure appraisers from outside the black market, so they have to train their own treasure appraisers. However, most of the trained treasure appraisers are miscellaneous. It can be said that they are good at everything but not good at anything. But in general,
Black market auction house treasure appraisers are infallible.
There is a low-end auction on the second floor. The highest transaction price will not be higher than 50,000 pounds. Most of them are not treasures and can be sold on street stalls. There are not many buyers who know the goods, so they have to take it to the auction house for auction, hoping to sell it.
Good price.
The third floor is different from the second floor. There is no auction item with the lowest transaction price lower than 50,000 pounds. If you want to participate in the auction on the third floor, there are only two ways: the first is to auction the total amount in the black market auction house for more than 100,000 pounds.
Qualifications to participate in the high-level auction; the second type, owners of treasures valued at more than 50,000 pounds by the treasure appraiser on the first floor can participate in the high-level auction on the third floor.
The fourth and fifth floors are off limits, and no one knows what’s on them?
The stairs leading to the fourth floor were blocked by a group of men in black robes, and no one was allowed to go up to the fourth floor. Chu Long did not find out any relevant information. Bird knew something about the entire black market, but he didn't know much about the black market auction.
Because of his position in the black market, he has far less access to high-level inside information.
On the right side of the lobby on the first floor is the elevator. When the elevator was first manufactured, it shocked the world. However, with the rapid development of science and technology, the elevator has been gradually improved and its safety performance has been guaranteed. The office building of the "Thug Party" uses
Of course, it cannot be an elevator built with the latest technology, but it is not outdated. After all, there are still many buildings that do not have elevators installed.
The office building uses a DC motor as power, which drives the rope wrapped around the drum through a worm gear reducer to suspend and lift the car. In order to ensure safety, professional maintenance personnel will inspect the elevator every other week.
To the left are the stairs that are convenient for walking. After all, it costs a lot to open the elevator all the time. A safety ladder is also set up outside the building to prevent accidents, such as fires, and facilitate escape.
Office buildings often transport dangerous goods, and they pay special attention to safety. In addition to external safety ladders, fire extinguishers are installed on each floor of the building. The warehouse closest to the office building is equipped with enough fire extinguishers. At the same time, for safety reasons, fire extinguishers are placed on every floor.
Someone will check these safety facilities every week.
In the center of the hall on the first floor is a corridor with six rooms. Normally, less valuable items are stored. The doorman has his own room on the right side of the first floor. After the auction house occupied the office building,
Several rooms on the first floor are used as the offices of treasure appraisers. Normally, the black market auction house only has two treasure appraisers, but this time it is the anniversary of the black market, and six treasure appraisers have been specially recruited to alleviate the problem.
Pressure and coping with the uncontrollability caused by the large number of participants.
The person who received Chu Long was an elderly man in his fifties. White hair could be seen faintly hidden in his black hair, and the wavy wrinkles above his gold-rimmed glasses were clearly visible.
Sitting on a wooden chair, holding a tea cup in one hand and looking at it, holding a magnifying glass in the other hand, he carefully observed the pictures and texts on it.
There is a complete set of porcelain on the table in front of you.
Across the table sat a man in a cloak, his large boots revealing his gender.
Apparently Chu Long was behind him in the queue, and the old appraiser was concentrating on appraising the man's items and estimating the price.
"The texture of this piece is bone china, produced in Stewartwood. It seems to be from the early 18th century. The distinctive feature is that there is one diamond missing from the crown at the bottom of the cup. It should have been two diamonds. It can be reduced at the request of the royal family in the later stages of production.
One arrived.
At that time, only Stewart was responsible for the bone china used by the royal family. The logo was the three M's, which respectively represented the surname of the founder, the earliest place where the ancient cellar was established, and the earliest name of the company." The old appraiser was doing double-duty appraisals while introducing the bones.
The situation of porcelain.
"The gold reliefs on two cups and saucers are partially damaged, and the gold crown on the bottom of one cup has cracks."
"This set of Stewart bone china has a base price of 12,000 pounds if it is intact. If you meet a bone china collector, the value will double."
"But your set of bone china has defects and cracks, which ruins the overall beauty. The base price is 3,500 pounds."
"If you're lucky, someone might buy it at a high price."
The old appraiser put down the cup in his hand, looked at the man in front of him and said calmly.