Chapter 1619 The tyrannical tax bureau
In Zhou Zhi’s impression, the auctions were all held by Hanhai and Guardian. No matter how bad they were, even the ones in Shudu People’s Park were at least decent. .
When he arrived at the customs auction place at the airport, the scene almost made Zhou Zhi fall over.
There is a conveyor belt that everyone is very familiar with at the airport, and then there are big blue plastic baskets one after another, with some suitcases or wooden boxes placed in them, and they are sent out from the end of the conveyor belt. Circle around the conveyor belt and finally return to the end of the conveyor belt.
There were some buyers participating in the auction standing around the conveyor belt. Each one held a sign in his hand. Everyone kept writing numbers on the sign, raising the sign, and erasing the numbers.
There is also a display screen above the conveyor belt, similar to the one that notifies flight entry and exit information, but now what was supposed to be the location of the flight has become the number of the blue plastic basket where the luggage to be photographed is placed. Behind the number, the number is constantly beating and changing. But it was the buyer's number and his latest bid.
A fat white man holding a microphone, dressed like a McDonald's foreman and wearing a red baseball cap, was passionately delivering timely sign-raising information.
"This...is this too exaggerated?" Zhou Zhi couldn't help but be stunned when he saw that although there were not many people here, the atmosphere was extremely lively due to the big fat man.
You can think about it. In ordinary auctions, every time one item is auctioned, it is already very lively when the competition is fierce. However, here, almost ten items are auctioned at the same time, focusing on a "flowing seat" , after reading the above, you have to read the following, which made me accustomed to the thoughtfulness of the "serial processing mechanism", and I felt like my brain was shut down for a while.
"Is it fun?" Old John was very satisfied with Zhou Zhi's reaction. He took a number plate from the approaching staff and clipped it to Zhou Zhi's collar.
"OH, John, you old guy, brought another CurlyCoat here." The staff seemed to be very familiar with old John and said to him.
“This is my VIP.” Old John introduced to the staff while greeting the surrounding participants. It was obvious that everyone was acquaintances.
The staff shrugged and said to Zhou Zhi: "Bonnie in the red hat can do magic. Young people, please don't get too ahead of yourself."
"Thank you for the reminder." Old John said to the staff angrily Raised his fist: "Tom, on behalf of my lost commission, thank you for the reminder."
The staff member named Tom laughed and left.
Zhou Zhi is also very happy. It seems that this Tom is very good. He also knows to remind newbies to just have fun and not get too carried away.
But it’s a bit venomous. CurlyCoat refers to a leather jacket with a thin curly collar. In the past, western cowboys used to wear standard winter clothes. This kind of thin curly collar is usually made of sheep’s lambskin. , so the meaning of Old Tom’s words is to compare Zhou Zhi to the tender skin that is peeled off from the little lamb.
This sentence and the lingo "Yanggu" in the Oriental literary circle, I feel that the translation can be perfectly synchronized.
However, Zhou Zhi is not angry, because Tom also means well, and giving people nicknames is his specialty. Unexpectedly, he has received a shot of "American retribution".
“Let me know if you like anyone.” Old Tom held a round white sign in his left hand, a marker in his right hand, and a foam sponge in his palm: “I like ten It’s number five, I’ll raise my sign first.”
"As you wish." Zhou Zhi nodded: "I'll keep an eye on it."
After a while, Zhou Zhi saw something. Although Bonnie in the red hat really shouted as lively as a rabbit, that was Because he was bidding on more than ten pieces of luggage at the same time, it really made him very busy. But for every buyer in the audience, it is actually not too busy, because although there are more than ten pieces of luggage on the carousel at the same time, in the same batch, the bidders are mainly focused on the one or two pieces that they are interested in. No more than three pieces can be bid for at most, so compared with auctions like Hanhai and Guardian, the bidders are actually not much busy.
Another interesting thing is that there may be too much inventory here, so the decision to close the transaction is often very "willful", and sometimes the person behind the sign may even be overlooked. , and then shouted deal, causing the item to be photographed by the previous sign holder.
If Lin Wanqiu were to judge, Red Hat Bunny's performance was quite amateurish, but considering the "wholesale auction" here, such a mistake is not unacceptable compared to the transaction volume and transaction speed.
Sure enough, everyone seems to have a tacit understanding of Red Hat Bonnie's behavior. Only the unseen sign holder will raise his hands and fists to express his anger. After being laughed at by his peers, everyone will continue in the blink of an eye. Bidding, the anger just now was limited to grumbling.
After seeing the routine clearly, Zhou Zhi also began to turn his attention to the auction items.
After several rounds of bidding, Old John has already won the suitcase No. 15 that he is interested in. The post-transaction processing is also very simple, that is, just take the luggage out of the large basket with the number. , just keep it by your side.
And now there is new luggage placed in the big blue plastic basket No. 15.
"No. 15, No. 23, No. 28." Old John said seriously: "These are all my lucky numbers."
"Does each placard holder have his or her own lucky number?" Zhou Zhi asked.
"Yes." Old John asked: "George, what is your lucky number?"
"There is no such thing." Zhou Zhi said helplessly: "It seems that we Orientals are more Pay attention to taboo numbers, not lucky numbers."
"What do you like?" Old John asked Zhou Zhi while chasing luggage No. 28 with great interest.
“Nothing has been found so far.” Zhou Zhi said very politely: “As you know, my expertise in this area is limited.”
"The people at the customs are not fools. If the box was of a famous brand, they would not put it here for auction at all. They would carefully open the box and inspect it."
"Then will they, after careful inspection, Take away the valuable things inside and leave the box here for us to auction?”
“That’s not the case,” Old John affirmed, “You underestimate us. The country’s tax bureau, they will watch the customs like hungry wolves, and their appraisal experts are much better than the customs.”
Zhou Zhi immediately realized, it is said that you can offend the US government. , military, and police, but you must not offend the tax bureau, because their force attack system is said to be afraid of unofficial forces in Colombia that even the U.S. military and police cannot deal with.
Then Zhou Zhi realized that he was living in the home of the chief collection consultant of the US Taxation Bureau these days. Yes, that's right, this is one of the few positions that Ellsworth still retains. This also shows the strength of the US Taxation Bureau, which is indeed arrogant.