More than 20 years ago, when the rise of treasure hunting programs brought the first wave of "national collection", the antique industry, which had been silent for many years, ushered in an outbreak, which was said to have hundreds of millions of collectors at that time.
However, there is an undeniable fact: most of them are followers, have no eyesight, no financial resources and no endurance, and they generally regard collecting as a springboard for "overnight wealth". The consequence is that the industry is made into a miasma and becomes a stage for pseudo-experts, counterfeiters, and scammers, and ordinary collectors face a priceless market and the fate of being deceived at any time.
There are more pits to step on, and many people have found that the so-called "opening and eating for three years" is virtual, and collecting cannot "make quick money", so what does it mean, hurry up and leave the pit! As a result, after a large number of followers of the antique industry withdrew, they ushered in a "cold winter period" of nearly 10 years.
A large number of antique markets have closed, antique merchants have changed their professions, counterfeits cannot be sold, and no one wants genuine products, as if they have become a "sunset industry".
Those Tibetan friends who have withdrawn, they must find an investment substitute, and they must quickly spend the money in their hands and use the "money to make money". Therefore, speculating in stocks, speculating in futures, speculating in houses, speculating in luxury goods, speculating in gold, speculating in oil, which is hot follows the wind and chases the heat, vowing to seize every outlet.
Blind investors have a thinking inertia: no matter how long-term it develops, first hurry to make hot money and then say, wait for the frying of an industry, it is a big deal to continue in another place.
Are these people making money? It can only be said that a very small number of people can have good returns, and most of the other people, more than ten years of going around, crazy in various investment products, and finally ended in a loss of money, the extreme is "rooftop see".
There is only one reason: they do not have a solid investment mentality, but a general speculative mentality.
Just like an old investor I know, he said that more than 90% of retail investors in the stock market are losing money, because they can't hold good stocks, can't put down junk stocks, chase up and kill falls, have an impetuous mentality, think they are engaged in investment, in fact, they are "gamblers", and few people can hold a high-quality stock for more than 10 years.
After a gust of wind and a blast of speculation for twenty years, these people have stepped on the pits of various investment products, and only after looking back have found that the collection industry, which originally thought it had "died", has begun to come to life, and the "rags" that were previously unwatched have now become valuable.
In the past, the Ming and Qing dynasty kilns that were randomly selected for hundreds of yuan are now all products of thousands to tens of thousands, don't think about it; in the past, the Mint General Factory and the Xuansan Silver Coins, which were casually bought in major markets with 1,000 yuan, are now sold in broken plastic boxes to sell tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands; bronze mirrors, copper incense burners, old furniture and other collections that people could not see in the past have now all entered the phase era, as long as the products are good, the price is not capped!
Not to mention the high-end auctions that people did not dare to think of before, there are now many private collectors involved, and the money is getting bigger and bigger, and the income is getting higher and higher. With the development of the economy, the national income has increased, and the folk masters with eyesight and knowledge have begun to stand out one by one.
At this time, everyone suddenly found out: the original collection of this line, always so stable, as long as the quality of the collection itself is passed, the price increase is only a matter of time, as long as you can hold the mentality of stability, are you afraid of no income?
Of course, those half-hearted investors who have not really worked hard are still looking for excuses: there are many fakes in the collection industry, there are many scammers, there are many unspoken rules, my "ancestral treasures" cannot be sold, and what else is there to do.
What industry doesn't have these conditions? Is it useful to rely on complaining? Only when you make yourself strong, can you really stand in the industry and get the results you want. But most people, neither want to make an effort, nor do they want to examine their own shortcomings, the only idea is to buy a few hundred yuan to buy an "official kiln" to pick up a big leak, or to sell the "ancestral treasure" they do not know and make a fortune.
If such a person can also make money by collecting, then lottery stores across the country will have to go out of business.
Nowadays, the collection industry is once again hot, not only the traditional antique industry, all kinds of modern arts and crafts have also embarked on the stage of the times, and are deeply loved by young people. On the one hand, everyone's cultural level has improved a lot, and the spiritual pursuit has become more and more abundant. On the other hand, it is not hypocritical because investing in the collection can get a good return.
But it's not as simple as spending money with your eyes closed and making money right away. Eyesight has to be practiced first, right? The names of experts stink on the street, and some people also scold experts while spending money to ask experts for identification, which is not self-contradiction.
The channel has to be clear, right? Now unlike the previous narrow channels, all kinds of shops on the Internet micro-auction, offline various exhibition exchange meetings, some places have begun to pilot cultural relics trading, practical combat capabilities are not, and what collection to talk about?
The most important thing is not to just focus on the word "money", because how much money a person can make is equal to their own ability.
The return of this collection fever is more "rational" than before, and the same fakes are rampant with scammers, but after so many years of tempering, real folk masters have begun to exert their strength.
It is foreseeable that the platform for the formalization of antique art and the diversification of channels will still be carried out in an orderly manner in the next few years, and the outlet has already come, and whether it can seize the opportunity depends on self-cultivation.
Smart people with the ability to act have long been laying out, and a considerable number of "Tibetan friends" are still living in their illusory delusions, holding a mobile phone every day and wanting to get rich.
As everyone knows, a benign purchase and sale market must be a market that can be afforded and sold, and the real "collection of the whole people" must be popular. The era of "picking up big leaks" in the antique industry has passed, and getting rich overnight has long been yesterday's yellow flowers, and if you don't understand this truth, you can only continue to live in your own fantasy world.