Why are people skeptical about auction companies? Why? Tell me about people who have had similar experiences.

Collecting antiques is full of traps, and auctions are full of traps. The following are auction traps to warn Tibetan friends:

Common sense of auction: common auction traps

Trap 1: In the early free auction, the auction price was 100-500 yuan, and almost all the buyers in the auction were collectors, who knew each other and gave each other courtesy. You buy this, I buy that, and hundreds of thousands of things are sold in an instant.

Auction trap 2: no charge in the early stage. Set a higher reserve price for your things. Once the collection is auctioned, you will be charged 5% of the reserve price.

Auction trap 3: the high price of the appraised collection, millions, tens of millions, is charged 1-3% auction fee. (There are often tens of millions of transactions in the industry, and there are very few, just like spending two yuan to win tens of millions of prizes, and the winning rate is almost negligible. You can't always think about getting rich overnight.

Auction trap 4: let your collection be identified first. If it is genuine, it will be appraised at a designated institution for a fee, and several appraisal doors will be designed. The first few appraisal doors went well. At the last door, you said that your collection was in doubt, but it was not genuine. Finally, an appraisal fee of five or six thousand yuan was paid to an expert institution. Therefore, the series was questioned and could not be purchased. Finally, the auctioneer and the appraisal institution share the appraisal fee in partnership.

Auction trap 5: Say that the overseas auction is good and arrange to go to Hong Kong. Tibetan friends should not have any illusions, because only Christie's and Sotheby's are the only official auctions in Hong Kong. If there is no charge before the auction, the auction transaction will be charged a commission of 20%. Once the collection is auctioned, a handling fee of 0.3%-0.8% of the valuation will be charged. If the collection is not good, you will not be given the opportunity to bid directly, except Sotheby's and Christie's.