Chapter 121 High-end
In the capital city in January, you can sprinkle water to turn into ice. It is the time of the twelfth lunar month in the cold winter.
And the closer this day is to the New Year, the more the wind is whizzing, like a knife, drilling into people's clothes.
In addition, the winter in Beijing is almost always gray, as if it cannot be dispersed, and the sun is never visible.
The trees in front of the stamp company are all bare, shaking their heads in the wind, almost non-stop.
This made the freezing Beijing even colder.
But it happened to be in this situation.
Even the stamp sellers in the "small market" were so cold that they had to jump a few times after standing for a while.
Ning Weimin seemed not to know the cold at all.
Wandering around various stalls with stamp albums, he walked around slowly, leaving behind his figure to find out what was going on.
"Brother, do you have any tickets you want to take? I'll charge you a high price!"
"Brother, do you want to buy or sell, let's talk about it?"
"Qi Baishi small sheet, Qi Baishi small sheet Zhang, two yuan and six transfers, this is the only one!"
"Kite, sika deer and lotus, who doesn't have it, please ask me to make up for it!"
"Brother, Is there a running horse from last year? Hey...hey...don't leave. Let's talk about it. I want to buy it at a high price."
In fact, why is Ning Weimin so interested? Does he really not know how cold it is?
Hey, for no other reason than hearing such shouts, he was really enjoying it.
He also experienced the feeling that Kang Shude said in the "Ghost Market", "You don't want to leave when you smell the business here."
On the other hand, he is actually scanning the goods and observing the market with a professional eye.
And soon, he discovered an obvious good thing.
Due to the current market situation, new commemorative stamps and special stamps are the most popular.
Only a few people will pay attention to the "older" commemorative stamps and stamps from the "movement" period.
Most people are not very interested in the stamps of the Qing Dynasty, the stamps of the Republic of China and the stamps of the Liberated Areas.
So as soon as he started, Ning Weimin went for the high-end.
He carefully looked through the stamp albums of the stamp dealers, and if he saw the old stamps, he would take them down decisively and never let them go.
To be honest, buying goods at this time is a rare pleasure, just like picking up money everywhere.
Because good stamps can be found almost everywhere, and many varieties have not received due attention, they are called "Lu Da" in the parlance of Beijing.
No, I just flipped through a dozen stamp albums in a row.
Ning Weimin discovered a large dragon with a wide edge and three small dragons with smooth teeth.
Six Japanese Panlong tickets and four London watermarked Panlong tickets.
There is also a set of "Chairman Moon 10's Latest Instructions" and two sets of stamps "Long Live Moon 1's Invincible Red Thought".
In addition, there are more than 30 loose votes from these two "文" series, and more than 20 loose votes from the liberated areas.
This trip is really not in vain.
Especially because stamp dealers these days are not professional and the prices are quite cheap.
You know, there were two types of stamp dealers in the early days.
One type is the real idlers who are unemployed and spend all day here.
The other type is those who have a formal job in a factory or government agency and take a chance to find a second job.
But whether you are unemployed or employed, the idea of making a fortune simply by reselling stamps is absolutely out of the question.
The greedy master just wants to earn money for cigarettes and alcohol by doing this. At most, he can go to a restaurant and have a toothpaste.
More people actually just want to sell the extra stamps they have.
Then use the proceeds to buy stamps that you like or lack.
This is called "supporting the post with the post". Speaking of which, it is actually similar to Gu Si'er, who likes fish farming, and wants to make some feed money by selling fish.
At this time, the level of wage income is still very low. When Chinese people pay wages, they must first consider the social environment of food, drink, clothing and clothing.
These people poke here every day, and if they can really make a buck of eighty cents, they will be very satisfied.
This can be called not seeing the world, or it can be said that poverty limits imagination.
In addition, after all, this informal small market has just formed, and it is now an era of limited information.
Even the stamp dealers do not have rich knowledge about stamps and have little experience in doing business.
How can this be compared with Ning Weimin?
Who is he?
That's a professional postal dealer!
An expert who has been tinkering with stamps for thirteen years in the information age!
Not only have I seen a lot of stamps, but I also have a complete understanding of the development history of the stamp industry.
He is also very familiar with the schemes and intrigues of people in this industry.
No matter the knowledge or experience, or even the means and financial level, they are enough to crush these amateurs.
I'm not bragging, Ning Weimin's easy move was enough for these stamp dealers.
What's the trick?
Casting stones to ask for directions.
To put it bluntly, Ning Weimin didn’t directly tell him to buy any stamps he wanted to buy.
Instead, he pointed at the ticket he was interested in and asked the selling price first.
The reason is very simple. The stamp dealer thinks that he has goods to sell, so the purchase price offered to him cannot be high.
After hearing the price, Ning Weimin retorted and wanted to buy the ticket from the other party.
Isn’t that just like being trapped by the price he just mentioned?
At this time, it is no longer possible to ask for a higher price. There is no reason why it cannot be justified.
Hey, here’s what I do. Although it’s simple, it works extremely well.
Who was Ning Weimin asking, who was dumbfounded.
Because for a moment, the brain of an inexperienced person cannot react at all, and the smooth answer is out of instinct.
By the time you are silent, it will be too late to regret. You must make a choice between losing face and making less money.
So in the end, even if it is a famous ticket type like Dalong Ticket, anyone who collects stamps knows that it is very precious.
But Ning Weimin still only spent one hundred and two dollars to get it.
The two Xiaolong tickets and Panlong tickets are even cheaper.
The stamp dealer himself mistook the Xiaolong stamp for the Panlong stamp, and he did not know that the Japanese Panlong stamp was the wrong stamp.
Ning Weimin ate them all at the average price of two yuan a piece.
As for other "Wen 1", "Wen 10" series and liberated area tickets.
Loose tickets cost an average of 30 cents each, and sets of tickets cost almost 5 yuan a set.
In short, Ning Weimin bought it without blinking an eye, and his heart blossomed with joy.
Although on the surface, Dragon Ticket is a rare breed that really commands a high price. It has been recognized by China and foreign countries and can maintain its long-lasting prosperity.
The remaining types of tickets he bought will only be worth tens of thousands after full value mining in 2020.
Looking at it this way, it seems that the appreciation potential of the stamps he invested in is only tens of thousands of times, and the advantage he took is not very big.
If you compare it with the increase in the hundreds of thousands or millions he spent on calligraphy and painting, it seems more like he suffered a big loss and took a foolish risk.
But the accounts really can’t be calculated like this.
(End of this chapter)