Traps you will encounter when buying guzheng

Guzheng (Italian: LaCetra), also known as Han Zheng, Qin Zheng, Yao Zheng, and Luan Zheng, is a zither instrument among the traditional musical instruments of the Han nationality and is a plucked instrument. Nowadays, many people are learning guzheng. Here are the pitfalls I have compiled for you when buying guzheng. I hope it can help you. Traps you will encounter when buying guzheng

1. Online shopping

As an online shopping expert who has chopped off his limbs, let me first talk about some of my online shopping standards to inform the majority of hand-picking people. Zhengyou:

1. I won’t buy the one with the lowest price or the highest price——usually to attract traffic and ranking;

2. I won’t buy the one with the highest or lowest sales volume—— --The highest sales volume is usually caused by brush orders, and the sales volume of 0 is mostly because no one really buys it (except for new products launched)

3. I don’t buy the first one——usually it’s caused by brush orders, or Promotion

4. I won’t buy anything with bad reviews and similar content - most of them are fake orders

(1) Counterfeit (feature: low price): especially a certain Brand, because there is a branch factory in a certain place, many workers make it at home. The appearance (in terms of craftsmanship) is almost the same, but the tone is very different. Moreover, local counterfeiting is industrialized, and even trademarks, hangtags, and signatures can be wholesaled. , you can wholesale with a full set of procedures for just a few yuan, so even if your anti-counterfeiting verification is true, it may be fake. According to the data I checked, the sales volume of this brand on Taobao exceeds the annual output of the factory;

(2) Fake and shoddy (features: high sales): This is a very good judgment - low price, never believe in low price and good quality!

2. Teacher

There are many kinds of teachers, and there is nothing wrong with selling guzheng. Some only teach but don’t sell, some only sell brands, some only sell good-sounding products, and some only sell products with high profits. Here you will encounter the second trap: the trap of substituting good products! This phenomenon is Very few cases

Judgment criteria for shoddy products: The brand is unknown, you can’t find any authoritative information, and you haven’t seen any famous people use it, but the teacher will talk about it and the more sophisticated ones will make it. The sample book contains various honors, such as gold medals, famous brands, etc.

Here I will tell you a "standard": mahogany is not necessarily red. Red wood is usually not mahogany. Take your time to understand it. The same is true for other materials--don't judge by color. Materials!

3. Piano stores

Piano stores are a declining industry. In the future, there will only be some brand chain piano stores left, as well as local stores opened by celebrities (called Handu). If the business continues to operate), a considerable number of small piano shops will be eliminated by the market - the reason for emphasizing sales and neglecting training - even if the training is very good, it will be difficult to change the public impression - this is A place that sells various musical instruments - how to compete with Taobao for sales, and how to compete with training centers for teaching (no store cost is naturally lower than that of a music store), in a music store you will encounter the third trap: a confusing audio-visual trap! This This phenomenon is not uncommon

They like to put various guzhengs in the store, including brands, but they put them in the corner without tuning them into tune, and there is even dust on them, and then they sort out the guzhengs they represent. Clean it, tune it well, and then someone comes to buy the guzheng, especially if it is a specified brand, he will sincerely put the guzheng in front of you, tell you how the brand guzheng is unworthy of fame, and how the guzheng he recommends sounds like. Beautiful, and then, even if you don’t understand guzheng, you can tell which one sounds good and which one doesn’t, and you change your mind.

There is a fourth trap in the music store: trading civet cats for princes! It is also the most hidden method. The stores sell all brands, with complete trademarks, tags, anti-counterfeiting and other procedures. As far as you know your teachers or seniors You even bought a guzheng from this piano store, but you fell into the trap. Why? Because they removed the formalities of the real guzheng and used it on the fake ones bought through informal channels. Even if the real guzheng has no formalities (procedures) Not expensive), all sold to reliable customers.

4. Training Center

Usually there are only 1-2 brands in the training center. Students use guzheng in class and teachers use teaching guzheng. Here you will encounter the fifth trap: This kind of thing is rare! After all, the training center is mainly about teaching and supplemented by sales. The appearance of the guzheng is exaggerated, the craftsmanship is strange, and the colors are bright. There is no similar guzheng in the market for reference. They usually sell it to you as a limited edition as a gimmick. You will pay a high price because it is unique. In fact, these external things have little to do with the timbre of the guzheng, but you can't say that you have been deceived because there is no comparison.

5. Factory

People who come to the factory to buy guzheng are definitely not looking for cheap prices. After all, the round trip expenses are there, and they have to transport, eat and live by themselves. Usually enthusiasts are interested in this It is normal for brand recognition to want to personally select a guzheng. However, some beginners mistakenly think that it will be cheaper to come to the factory, or choose the guzheng by themselves. At this time, they encounter the sixth trap: the acquaintance trap! This situation is becoming less and less, because the price of guzheng has become transparent, and it has gradually transferred to guzheng. Wait for non-standard industries

First of all, if you come to the factory to buy guzheng, it will definitely cost more than buying it locally. If you have an acquaintance to guide you, or an acquaintance of an acquaintance to guide you, at this time, you will usually buy back a guzheng that is rare on the market but highly recommended at a high price, because the manufacturer who introduces you to the guzheng will usually pay a certain introduction fee. He, you must pay the bill!

Moreover, regular manufacturers will never give you wholesale prices just because you come to the factory, nor will they destroy their channels just because you have a guzheng. Now that you are here, you just want to take a guzheng back. The manufacturer will not give you a wholesale price, and it will even be higher than the price you buy locally! There is also unfortunate news: Anyone who is willing to put down their dignity to give you a low price It’s not a good guzheng!

6. Famous Teachers

Some teachers in professional colleges have very high requirements for students to use the guzheng. Hongxian recognizes this, because the performance-level guzheng The playing effect of the guzheng cannot be compared with that of ordinary guzheng. The teacher will even go to the factory to help the students select the guzheng in person, and even ask the manufacturer to customize the guzheng for their use, and the price is not outrageous. It is normal for professional students of the conservatory to have more than three guzhengs. ----I personally believe that students are the face of the teacher, and they have followed the teacher for so many years and have deep feelings. What the teacher hopes more is that the students can become famous and benefit the world. But you may also encounter the seventh trap here: the same style but different prices. This situation is very rare. I have only heard of it once in 10 years. Maybe the teacher’s pattern is broken

A guzheng teacher in a university brought an amateur student, and then the student entrusted the teacher to buy the guzheng. For some reason, he saw I bought a 60% new zither that cost more than 3,000 yuan and was used by a teacher for teaching. The transaction price was 8,000 yuan. I was puzzled. Maybe it was Zhou Yu who made a yellow cover~ But I still knew the news because the parents of the students asked me I learned about the price of guzheng from a friend who teaches guzheng.