The auction industry beats not buy the wind

Recently, a message released by the netizen “Ate Xiaobai” on Weibo: “Ten years ago, American angel investor Xue Manzi went to the United States after a few hundred pieces of art at a domestic auction house, and later did not like art. He refused to pay for the painting and was sued." This caused the topic of "shooting but not buying" to be noticed again.

Recently, several domestic large-scale auction houses have been informed that the phenomenon of being photographed and not bought on the art market is actually very common. Most of them are “big masterpieces” at the level of 10 million yuan, and it is this kind of behavior that often causes the auction house The behavior of "injury" has become the main reason why auction houses have increased deposits in recent years.

Shooting rather than buying the industry is very hurt, "Ate Xiaobai" microblogging was recently released, the old re-raises to the auction community "big brother" who have a lot of emotion.

Chen Dongsheng, chairman of China Guardian Auctions, said on Weibo: (Scher's behavior) involves all auction houses! Dong Guoqiang (Weibo), chairman of Beijing Weishi (microblogging) auction company, also agreed with Weibo.

In fact, in recent years, there have been many “rejections”: from the rejection of the bronze statues of the Rat and Rabbit in bronze medals in 2009, to the RMB 220 million “Han Dynasty Jade Stool” shot in January last year, it was also said Deal."

According to the Statistical Bulletin of the Chinese Art and Antiques Art Auction Market 2010 published by China Film Association, the on-time settlement rate of domestic works of art is very low. In the auction of national art and cultural works in 2010, Chinese painting and calligraphy, oil painting, contemporary art and porcelain jade miscellaneous The outstanding rate reached 50.6%, 43.3% and 43.5% respectively.

"Refused to pay" forced the deposit to be raised. One argument is that in the international art market, almost all Chinese buyers refuse to pay. Hua Xue auction chairman Gan Xuejun (microblogging) told reporters that the auction house is "love and hate" for these buyers.

“The buyer’s failure to pay is mainly focused on auctions with prices exceeding 10 million. Some domestic buyers are focused on high-end speculation, resulting in insufficient supply of the capital chain and causing no payment,” said one person who had been engaged in auctions for many years. In reality, many non-payment phenomena are not caused by the malicious nature of the buyers. Many artworks are as high as 10 million yuan or even 100 million yuan. It can be imagined that if anyone saves so much liquidity on the books, they are often withdrawn from the stock market or other markets. . If an accident occurs suddenly, the amount fails to arrive in time and eventually has to refuse payment.

An auction house manager in Xiamen, who declined to be named, said that some of Xiamen’s big auction houses have also encountered filming and not buying, and those who refuse to pay are often buyers who have not paid a deposit. Their default cost is almost zero. This hurts the auction house because if the seller has not commissioned an intermediary to sue the buyer, the auction house does not have the authority to interfere in this behavior.

"Actually, this problem is very difficult to say and very simple, as long as it increases the cost of breach of contract by the buyer," said Wang Chunyuan, an auctioneer in Xiamen.

In this regard, Gan Xuejun also stated that in Beijing, Shanghai and other cities, in order to reduce the occurrence of “refusal to pay”, the auction company will take measures to the maximum extent, such as mentioning the margin of mention, some of the auction items even require a “special license” Auctioning, or pulling customers who are in arrears, into the “blacklist” directly. At an industry conference in Beijing, he also proposed the establishment of a "blacklist" in the industry, or he proposed several major auction houses inside and outside the United Nations to increase the entry threshold for bidders.