Chapter 178: Failure to Raise the Price

Auctions are sometimes not about the original value of the items, but like gambling, they involve a kind of gaming technique.

Unless you have absolute capital to buy, otherwise, when the prices are similar, it all depends on who guesses whose inner thoughts and whether or not to continue the game.

Jun Yan was well-educated by the Jun family on this matter, and he used tactics to great effect: "Godmother, let me tell you, if you raise the price now, he will definitely think that you really want it, and will raise it by fifty thousand. When it reaches eight hundred thousand, he will only dare to raise the price by ten thousand to test your bottom line!"

Yan Yueqing understood this principle: "Okay, then let's add it slowly."

"Number One bids seven hundred thousand!"

"Number 6 is bidding up to 750,000!"

"Number One bids eight hundred thousand!"

"Number 6 bids 810,000!"

Everything was exactly as Jun Yan had guessed.

Yan Yueqing pressed the give up button without hesitation.

"Eight hundred and ten thousand, once!"

"Eight hundred and ten thousand, twice!"

"Eight hundred and ten thousand, three times!"

"Deal!" the auctioneer said excitedly, "Congratulations to the guest in Box 6 for buying a piece of rice paper with gold-sprinkled water patterns for 810,000 yuan!"

Boss Tao snuffed out the cigarette in his hand, looking a little incredulous: "He doesn't want it anymore?!"

Lao Shi was gloating: "I didn't expect you have a hobby of collecting water-patterned rice paper? Do you want to take a picture of it and give it to your little girl?"

Wang Meitong was dumbfounded. As a dancer, why would she need rice paper?!

However, seeing Boss Tao's increasingly gloomy face, and thinking that he was still live streaming, he wanted to save his face, so he quickly said, "When we were having dinner yesterday, Brother Tao told me that he was practicing calligraphy recently... He must have taken a picture of this thing for future practice."

The sweet words barely made Boss Tao feel relieved for a moment.

He is a smart man and knows how to save face.

But the audience in the live broadcast room didn't buy it.

"It's so funny. This is the first time I see someone who failed to raise the price say so many things."

"If you pay the money, it doesn't count as a failure to raise the price, right? Besides, how do you know that the person in Box 1 is not raising the price for the top guy?"

"Yes, a big brother on the Human Ranking can easily buy 500,000 gifts for Meimei, let alone buying 810,000 rice paper? It's so easy!"

"I think this live broadcast is too much of a show! Hahahaha! The No. 1 guy on the list agreed to the live broadcast, probably because he wanted to record his generosity in spending money, but he ended up recording the scene where he failed to raise the price?! It's so funny that I have to share this live broadcast with my relatives and friends to watch it together."

"Why don't you show it to me? Is it because we don't know each other?!"

Wang Meitong watched the comments flying by, and was thankful that the live camera was facing the 3D projection and could not capture their expressions and movements...

Otherwise, if Tao Ge's annoyance when he just put out his cigarette was recorded, he would definitely be criticized by his fans...

If it were true that once the arrow is shot, there is no turning back, she would even have the urge to turn off the microphone.

In private room No. 1, the waiter was very amused by this scene. He tried to hold back his laughter for several times, but finally laughed out loud when the auctioneer dropped the hammer.

This room is full of smart people!

Calculate others thoroughly!

He stood up and said, "I'll go over and swipe the card for the item I just auctioned."

Yan Yueqing waved her hand: "No, you sit down first, and then go to swipe his bill! If the other party runs away, I will pay."

The reason why auction houses set the rule of swiping credit cards after the auction is that they are worried that some customers will raise the price and then run away with the order.

Although their invitation system has largely avoided the situation of customers running away from their orders, it has happened before!

Hearing Yan Yueqing say this, the waiter immediately breathed a sigh of relief: "Okay."

Next, it was the third item to be auctioned, a crown that both sons thought was beautiful.

The auctioneer was quite enthusiastic: "This diamond crown was worn by the Queen of Country Y when she got engaged in the 18th century. It has a very nice name, Star River, which means a sky full of stars. The main diamond is a 15-carat teardrop-shaped white diamond, with 108 small diamonds complementing each other. The design is exquisite... Starting price, 10 million."

In order to motivate customers, the items will not be sorted by value, but some of the more valuable ones will be interspersed in the middle.

First, it livens up the auction atmosphere, and second, it increases the value of subsequent items.

For example, if I sell an apple for 10 yuan, and then I take out a pear for 50 yuan, many people will think - why is it so expensive?!

But when I first sell an apple for one hundred yuan, and then take out a pear for fifty yuan, people's subconscious mind will make a comparison - hey, it's quite cheap.

Completely forgetting that neither apples nor pears may have such high value in themselves?!

This is the charm of auctions!

As expected, many people came for the diamond crown.

"Number three bids 11 million."

"Number 7 bids twelve million."

"Number 11 bids 13 million..."

Although the auction house's rule is to start at 10,000, the estimated value of this item is around 20 million. No one is willing to do the bidding by increasing the price by 10,000 at a time, so the bids are placed immediately!

In just two minutes, the price had risen to twenty-three million.

Yan Yueqing directly raised the price: "Twenty-three million and five hundred thousand."

The auctioneer originally thought that the guest in Box 1 had no intention of bidding for the item.

I never thought that the boss suddenly added 50,000?

"Bid number one, twenty-three million and five hundred thousand!"

Hearing this price, Brother Tao frowned inexplicably: "Only an additional 50,000, is No. 1 trying to raise the price?"

Lao Shi is a little unsure, the other party's operation is very confusing...

Wang Meitong looked at Brother Tao, then at the unusually exquisite crown, and she wanted it indescribably.

But she understood that it was impossible for the other party to buy such a valuable item and give it to her!

She gritted her teeth and said, "They must have raised the price. Brother Tao just estimated the price of the crown to be around 22 million. The people in Box 1 must have asked someone to estimate it before slowly adding 50,000 to disgust others."

A large number of onlookers had already flocked to the barrage, and when they heard Wang Meitong's words, they laughed uncontrollably.

"Is it considered disgusting to increase by 50,000 by 50,000? Isn't it even more disgusting to increase by 10,0 ... just now by the number one brother on the list?!"

"Does she want to hear what she's saying?!"

"I am so proud of myself. I watched an auction and I didn't even have 200 yuan in my pocket... I actually thought that more than 20 million yuan was not expensive?!"

"That crown is so pretty..."

Lao Tao had just been tricked by someone in Box No. 1. He wanted to raise the price again to disgust the other party, but he was afraid that he would be tricked again.

After hearing that No. 1 only raised 50,000, I hesitated for a moment, but still did not bid...

Don’t be fooled by the same trick twice!

The auction continues.

The crown has been auctioned for twenty-six million.

Yan Yueqing didn't add much, only 50,000 each time.

After customer No. 15 added 27 million, he watched the other party add another 50,000. Finally, he gritted his teeth and pressed the give up button.

the auctioneer shouted.

"Twenty-seven million and five hundred thousand, once!"

"Twenty-seven million and five hundred thousand, twice!"

“Twenty-seven million and five hundred thousand——” Just as the hammer was about to fall, the price was refreshed again.

"30 million!"

Hey! Wait!

The auctioneer looked at the room number where the bid was made.

Number one? ! !

What does that mean? ! ! She lifted herself up? !

(End of this chapter)