How to bargain for jade trading?

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In business transactions, bargaining is a normal thing, but it is not an easy thing to know the price of a jade through the ages. You may have had a similar experience: brushing your circle of friends, being attracted by several pictures of jade ornaments, having a desire to buy or out of curiosity, planning to glance at the price tag of the merchant, but suddenly losing interest, because the price tag could not be found at all, but instead finding "education", similar to "junior, senior and fifth".

Of course, this is a joke. Most people can understand that the so-called "education" is actually the price information of jade merchants. What makes everyone happy and sad is that since the merchants have publicly sold in the circle of friends, why should they be secretive and generous? ! In fact, this "mystification" behavior of jade merchants has a long history. Today, the author will share with you the "hidden secret" in jade trading and witness its mental journey!

"Unspeakable Secret"-cuff price

There is a description of the ancient jade trading scene in Xu Xiake's Travels. It is said that the author Xu Xiake traveled in Yunnan that year and passed through Tengchong. Although he had long heard about the prosperity of the local jade market, it was the first time that he was able to visit the scene. Xu Xiake managed to squeeze into a booth and saw a brother pick up a bracelet from the booth and look at it. Then he put a hand into the stall owner's cuff. In this way, in broad daylight, two big men unscrupulously "touched their hands" in public. During the period, I only saw the sleeves of two people shaking slightly, and I didn't see any dialogue between them. After a while, their hands were released, and the stall owner said, "Deal!" This series of ambiguous behaviors opened Xu Xiake's eyes and lamented the "code word" of jade trading.

For a long time, in the process of commodity trading such as jade or antique calligraphy and painting, sellers are afraid that the whispers of others will affect buyers' bargaining, and buyers are afraid that business opportunities will leak through walls, so they pay attention to one-on-one bargaining. At that time, people's sleeves were very wide. Using the finger speed algorithm invented by ancient Qin Jin businessmen for reference, they developed a set of sign language for bargaining-"cuff selling price". The buyer put his hand into the seller's sleeve, and the seller offered the buyer's main counter-offer. If both sides are satisfied, shake hands and talk happily. If there is a big price gap between the two sides, they will be polite and come again next time.

At that time, people gave this unique way of bargaining a more legendary name: "Gan Kun in the sleeve", as the saying goes:

Swallowing gold in the sleeve is as wonderful as a fairy, and the fingers are counted.

Priceless treasures are learned and passed down only when they meet bosom friends.

This kind of ambiguous bargaining method makes buyers and sellers not be affected by onlookers, but also saves trading time and avoids disagreement between the two sides, so it has gradually become the rule of the jade market, and the price of jade has naturally become an "unspeakable secret", which has continued to this day.

"Words cannot be expressed, but they can be understood"-"In a word"

In modern times, the way of "drying Kun in the sleeve" is no longer convenient for people, because people's sleeves are not as wide as before, which is not enough to cover the palms of two adults. What's more, there are no rigid men in the current trading market. After all, men and women don't give and receive, and the way of "dry Kun in the sleeve" touching fingers is obviously out of date.

"When a door closes, a window will be opened" is a natural law. With the wide application of calculators in life, the negotiation of jadeite becomes easier. Nowadays, when we travel around the jade wholesale market, it is not difficult to find that the bargaining process between buyers and sellers is still not with their mouths but with their hands, but without complicated sign language or touching their fingers in broad daylight, they just use their fingers on the calculator. If you witness this bargaining method for the first time, your friends will be very surprised: how can jade be so cheap by one or two digits? Most jadeite prices are not in the hundreds. Of course, what you see is not a fake jade transaction, just because the calculator can be described as "in a word" in this transaction process. Both parties really only input one or two digits, and the established rules are based on "10,000".

This way of bargaining, the buyer and the seller are still concise, and the calculator is like this, which has contributed to a transaction. In this process, the price of jadeite jade is "unspeakable, but understandable".

"Open Secret"-"Clearly Price"

With the advent of the e-commerce era, jadeite jade has also been able to enter the jewelry market from the collection market, and the price can no longer cover the West as before. As a result, the price of jadeite instantly became an "open secret". An "open secret" doesn't mean a price tag, just like the scene mentioned at the beginning. In the WeChat business, you can see the commodity price information of jadeite jade, just like describing academic qualifications, "junior, senior, junior five" and so on.

According to common sense, the price of a commodity should be accurate to a certain number, accurate to a certain point on the coordinate map. On the other hand, the price of jadeite jade corresponds to a line on the coordinate map, which means that this is an interval. It's like, when you go for a physical examination, someone asks you how old you are, and you tell him that you are still young, as if you have to be beaten to find a cigarette. In this way, people in the industry can only laugh at themselves as "clearly marked".

Since it is an open secret, why can't it be clearly marked? It's a long story, expert. Every family has a difficult experience. They always say that "gold is valuable, but jade is priceless". Because of its own particularity, jadeite jade has not been able to find a grading standard that everyone agrees with, and naturally there is no way to make the pricing of jadeite jade 100% objective. No matter who sells jade or plays with jade, they will build up their own "price standards" based on past experience, which also means that at this level, no one can "speak at one word". In order to avoid "getting along with big brother's feelings", merchants have to "cut corners" and clearly mark the price, only giving a very inclusive price range.

"Like is the price"

There are many argots and rules in jade trading. The author only briefly describes the development of bargaining methods in the industry, witnessing the mental process of jade price from the initial "unspeakable secret" to the once "unspeakable but understandable" and now "open secret", which also reflects that the "sunset" industry of jade is also advancing with the times.

Finally, playing with jade is a kind of collection, and wearing jade is a fashion, not a necessity. There is no absolute demand for jadeite in both the collection market and the jewelry market. Playing with jade and wearing jade are entirely out of personal hobbies and preferences, and their value recognition is also different. This is the so-called "like is the price".