What are the rules of antique shops?

People from all walks of life in China pay attention to rules and regulations, which are handed down from generation to generation. The rules in antique shops are basically established rules, and many of them are a habit handed down from decades to hundreds of years. Although it is a habit, no one will force it, but it must be observed, otherwise it will not be able to gain a foothold in this industry. Next, specifically, what rules need to be followed? There are many rules in antique shops, some of which are strange. Mainly divided into two categories, one is that antique dealers need to abide by, and the other is that buyers need to abide by. Let's talk separately. When a person who is interested in antiques enters the antique market for the first time and enters the market gate, the rules will come! First of all, the antique market has inherited the tradition since ancient times, which is mainly based on stalls, supplemented by beds. Many people feel dirty and messy when they go to the antique market for the first time. There are people everywhere and everything is sold! There is a rule to pay attention to when visiting the stalls at ordinary times, that is, when walking. If you walk into a booth and suddenly want to leave, please continue to walk forward or backward from this booth, and don't step out because other people's booths are too small. There are two main problems in doing so. The first behavior is disrespect for others. Secondly, and most importantly, antique shops sell special goods, all of which are "priceless" (priceless here means that the price is difficult to measure, not priceless). But it's hard to say if you shave it. You can often see quarrels and even fights in antique shops, mostly because you broke something. Well, I learned to walk and continued to stroll around the stall. When I arrived at a booth, I began to look at things. Pay attention to a rule. I summed it up as "don't look at what I have, don't ask". What I'm saying here is that the antique dealer doesn't have the hand, but other buyers and readers of this booth don't look at what they have and don't ask. Many newcomers don't understand this rule. When they arrived at a coin booth and saw other people reading a book on coins, they gathered together to read. When they see someone they like, they will go up and get their books and say, "Dude, let me see this." At this time, if people are polite, they will say to you, wait for me to finish reading. Being impolite can directly scold you for not knowing the rules. If others have finished reading it, it is better to wait for the seller to get it back, and then ask the seller for it. It is best not to take it directly from the previous reader. This is mainly because some readers are dirty and easy to steal. If he takes something and gives you the rest, you can't tell if the seller finds something missing. When your last reader has selected several things and is bargaining with the boss, please keep quiet if you are on the scene. If there are some good things, go over and ask, "What did you buy? Let me see "or just ask the boss" How much is this thing? " This is not desirable, because when the two sides talk about the price, it is actually a psychological contest. When you step in, both of them are very nervous, and the buyer will think, what is this kid doing? Don't try to pry. The seller will think, what does this person mean? He wants to make trouble. If the buyer runs away, who will I sell? ..... Finally, there is a big taboo in this rule, that is, when a buyer has chosen something, he has to bargain with the boss. Suppose the boss asks 1000 for a thing and the buyer has reached 800. If you play when people are deadlocked and say to the boss, "Boss, I want it at 1000", then you If the seller boss you met at that time knew the rules, he would flatly refuse you and even sell it to the buyer at the price of 800. Many newcomers usually like to go shopping with experienced friends because of their ability and self-confidence. First, they can tell the truth themselves, and second, they can help negotiate the price! Rules to follow when shopping with experienced friends: First of all, when shopping with friends, don't always ask your friends if this thing is right in front of the seller, whether the price is right or not, and whether I will buy it or not! Because in antique shops, it is very taboo to comment on people's things in front of them, or that things are fakes. If you ask questions without asking, it will embarrass your friends, especially when your friends are familiar with many antique shop sellers. Secondly, don't reduce the price through friendship. This situation generally refers to those who are not very familiar with friends who go shopping together, but often know each other because they have the same hobby of collecting. It is very rare to accompany you to visit and examine for you. Many newcomers don't know the rules, except that their friends are very famous in this industry. When selling something, the seller will give you a discount for the sake of friends. This practice is very wrong. In fact, in the antique business, the interests of friendship are generally calculated separately, which will be discussed in detail later, so I won't elaborate here. This practice of ordinary newcomers will embarrass your friends and sellers. You may get what you want once or twice, but no one will want to go shopping with you in the future, or you will open higher when you know that the seller has quoted you, and finally you will lose yourself. Do you know that things cost 3 thousand as soon as they are quoted? If you bid 2000, you bid 4000, which is the kind of half-empty bottle. That's basically incomprehensible. Experts have a score in mind. When you get to that point, the two sides will talk slowly. ) after talking about the rules of seeing things, let's talk about the rules of buying things. Traps and scams in antique shops can be said to be everywhere, but in such an environment, both buyers and sellers should pay attention to integrity everywhere. (The questions about fraud and honesty will be discussed in detail later) Let's talk about the buyer's honesty first. For a novice buyer, it is usually not confident when buying. First, he has a bad opinion of old and new things, but he is not sure how much money is appropriate. Anyway, as long as you decide to buy something and start bargaining, you must abide by one rule! That is, when you bargain, you must buy a price with the consent of the other party. This sentence seems meaningless. Many friends want to ask, the price I offer is of course the price I admit. Of course I will buy it. Needless to say! But it is such a simple thing that many newcomers just can't do it in antique shops. The reason is the problem of eyesight and experience. Some people play drums when they see something they like, and they don't know whether to buy it or not, and they don't know how much it can cost. The seller quoted 1000, and you paid back 500. Not in the mood at all. If the seller says 500 yuan, you will feel cheated instantly and say I don't want it right away. This is terrible. (Individuals have indeed done this. That's disgusting. ) Others simply don't want to buy anything at all. When they see something strange, they will ask people, "How much is it?" They quote 1000, and you habitually answer, "This thing is worth 500." If people agree to sell at your price and you say you don't want to buy it, you will be offended. There is also a situation that is also a taboo in the rivers and lakes. Many newcomers are not sure about this. Let me talk about it here. That is, when you make a big mistake and bid not to buy, you either run away or tell others that you are a novice, which is not sure. Don't buy it until you think it over. But don't say "actually, I don't want to buy it, I just want to know how much this thing can cost" when you quote the price and the other party agrees. In this case, if you have a hot temper, you will usually die miserably! ! (Note: Antique shops have a special name for this kind of people, which is similar in nature to commercial spies! In a word, "not buying a bid is a taboo in the industry." Return rules, there are no people who don't buy fakes when playing antiques, and there are no people who don't return fakes. Buying fake goods and returning them is always accompanied by a novice moving from naive to mature. Antiques are special commodities, and everything is accompanied by true and false problems, price problems and so on when it is transferred. In the antique shops of the older generation, the general rule is that buying and selling depends entirely on eyesight, and the truth is in one's own destiny, and the truth of things is no longer responsible. In today's antique shops, it is not absolute whether to give a refund or not. Generally speaking, it depends on the means of buyers and sellers. Generally speaking, if you buy a fake and it is confirmed by many people in the industry to be a fake, you must find the original owner and return it. However, the refund amount is generally only 90%-70% of the total price (according to the negotiation between the two parties, the family suffered a loss, and the two coppers looked fine, but when they went out, they would find something wrong, and then knocked on the door to return it. If something is true, the buyer regrets it after buying it, and the seller has the right not to return it. Whether it is true or not, after the buyer buys it back, anything that has been cleaned, repaired or damaged (that is, it can no longer remain the same) will not be returned. Rules of evaluation. It is common to buy things for friends with good eyesight, but there are rules. The person who took your eyes has a good relationship with you, and it doesn't matter if you are a close friend. If you don't know whether something is good or bad, show it to an expert who is not very familiar with it, and pay attention to several points! First of all, don't show unfamiliar friends anything that you can't break off easily. If you read them, don't insist on making a decision on what the other party will give you, because it is not difficult for a good collector to identify a thing. The difficult thing is whether to tell the owner the result, because if this thing is fake, the buyer may return it with your conclusion. If the seller knows that you have identified it, you are a sinner. The teacher's jade never told him that it was pressed by powder ... why? Because every time you guys invite him to a happy place to drink and show him something to stew. If there is something wrong with the stew, don't eat this meal. Thousands of things make people feel that they can't eat. Maybe you should bring stew to make trouble. Secondly, when you return the fake, don't give it to the person who identified it for you, such as "So-and-so says this thing is fake, so please return it to me quickly". This unwise behavior usually offends many people. First of all, you let the seller know who gave you the advice, and at the same time, you let him feel that everyone in the business knows that he sold you fake goods, so that things that could have been returned to you will not be returned. Secondly, let the people who help you feel that you have betrayed others and will not take care of things for you in the future. Finally, if things are serious, other antique dealers will think that you are a capricious person, who is used to buying things and returning them, and no one will want to sell you good things in the future! The above are some basic rules that novice buyers should abide by when entering the business. As long as they pay attention, it is not difficult to do so.