Playing Hetian Yu has friends for several years or even more than ten or twenty years, it is estimated that some people have personally visited Hetian in Xinjiang to pursue the "Prince Charming" in their hearts - Hetian seed material.
Unlike the current jade trading with special jade cities and auctions, the most primitive trading method of Hetian jade is not so tall, purely street shouting and selling.
Why Chinese Love Jade? There may be a thousand reasons, from history and culture to economic value, and perhaps some people say that there is only one reason: at a glance, the more you play, the more you like.
The banknotes of the red pawn are counted directly to others on the spot, for a small stone. Love Jade, what other reasons do you want?
Speaking of seed material, it reminds us of the jade bazaar in Xinjiang.
"Bazaar", a Uyghur word meaning bazaar and farmers' market, is spread throughout the urban and rural areas of Xinjiang.
Walking around the bazaar is the most tiring, and if you look carefully and look at them one by one, you can't even finish two rows in a morning. Here you can see millions of pieces of mutton fat that are only two or three hundred grams, and you can also see one or two thousand pieces of large stones weighing several kilograms.
What kind of preferences you have, you focus on what kind of material. In addition to the normal stalls, there are not a few people who hold things in their hands for you to see, and the locals are very willing to let you see their materials, but as long as you show a little interest, they can stay with you for a long time.
There will always be a kettle on the stall that is constantly spraying water, the jade you can pick up and look at will always be watery, because the material sprayed through the water will cover up the ugly, a lot of less obvious jade flowers and very thin waterlines are not easy to see without looking carefully in the case of wetness, so buying jade here In addition to the basic equipment, you also need to prepare a dry towel, and the moment you put the jade back into the stall, the water of the kettle will continue to spray according to the material you just picked up, so the ground around the stall will always be wet.
As long as someone looks at the material, they will feel that there is a possibility of selling. So if you just want to see if you don't plan to buy it, just look at it as much as you want, don't open your mouth to inquire, don't bargain at will, maybe a thing is open for 1 million, you feel that it is only worth 500,000, once you open the counter-offer, if the seller reaches out to shake hands with you to show the deal, you want to regret it is too late. Maybe it is actually only worth 300,000, you think your price is high, and then you want to take back what you just said, it is impossible, and you have to take down 500,000!
The horrific things that have happened on the bazaar a few times before are probably for similar reasons. So one of the basic tips for bargaining on Wada Bazaar: never easily shout out your psychological price, don't casually counter offer things you don't want to buy, and be cautious.
However, if you look at a piece of things, you think from the bottom of your heart that it is worth 500,000, people themselves are indeed worth this price, can not be too low, you can say that you see up to 400,000, 450,000, but you can not come up directly to ask this thing 200,000 can not be sold to me, the most that meets the temperament is to snatch the material back and do not want to take care of you, meet the temper of a little worse... As soon as your stomach rises, you suffer, and the risk is always accompanied by opportunity.
The second basic skill of counteroffer: do not shout out a price that is far lower than the actual value of the baby, one is to respect the fruits of other people's labor, and the other is for the safety of your own life.
Attach a conversational scene that is often seen on the bazaar:
You: How much is this?
Stallholder: 1.2 million.
You: How much is the selling price?
You: Say the good sa, say the real selling price.
Stallholder: How much money can you see?
You: You just say the selling price, how much can you give?
Stallholder: You say.
You: You say.
Stallholder: You say.
You: You say.
Stall owner: 800,000.
You: How much is the cost?
Stallholder: High cost.
You: How much is high, it's okay, say.
...
Next, you will generally receive a so-called capital, some of which will be said to be very high, some of which will be directly said to be relatively low, and whether it is high or low depends on your own judgment.
If you really look at the actual thing and feel that the cost he said is very high, then give up, if it is not a very outrageous price, even if it is indeed relatively high, but others bite to death is the cost, it is absolutely unquestionable.
If you still want it, add a stall to the money he's quoting you. The rest can not be negotiated is the problem of how many stalls are added, on the one hand, others can not feel too low, on the other hand, you can not feel too high, measure up to your own pinch. But if you want to come here with the mentality of picking up leaks, it is basically impossible.
Such a trading method is now difficult to see, and the increasingly standardized market management represents the progress of the Hetian jade market, but it is accompanied by the disappearance of the memory of a generation of jade players...
The above content comes from: Mifu and Tian Yu