$1.5 Billion * 4%, the sales commission that Christie received is up to 60 million US dollars.In addition to charging commissions to Chen Rui, the auction house will charge the buyer a certain percentage of the commission, generally 12%, and the commission charged will be reduced step by step if the transaction price higher. For example, the transaction price is less than 2 million and the charge is 12%, 2 million~ 5 million is charged 10%, and tens of millions to hundreds of millions is charged 6~9%.
With a turnover of 1.5 Billion U.S. dollars, commissions are charged at this rate, and the auction house can receive a commission of 110 to 130 million U.S. dollars from the buyer.
Together, Christie auction house can receive up to hundreds of millions of dollars in commission from this auction.
A commission of hundreds of millions of dollars is a huge income.
Of course, this is not the pure income of the auction house. It is also necessary to deduct the auction promotion fee, personnel salary, venue fees, taxes, and fees, etc. The net income can reach more than 90 million US dollars. Even so, 90 million US dollars is also not a small number.
As the head of the Christie auction house in New York, he is also able to get a million Dollars in compensation from this auction order.
The benefits are not just huge commissions of up to $90 million.
Most importantly, the turnover of up to 1.5 Billion US dollars has also made Christie auction house famous in the auction industry.
Fame is important for an auction company.
The seller wants to auction the baby on their handle by auction, in the first time, he will think of Christie, Sotheby, Poly, Guardian and other companies with a high reputation in the auction industry. Because this can produce a higher transaction price that is satisfactory to the seller.
And rich buyers will also go to auction companies with a very high reputation in the auction industry to buy things, because they can buy more high-quality things.
The auction company wants to improve its company reputation in the auction industry, rather than blowing it, but it needs to be supported by a series of dazzling performances.
For example, Christie auction company.
In 1986, Christie auctioned a Manas "Mosna Pieces Street" series, 7.7 million pounds, the highest record of impressionist works.
In 1987, Christie auctioned a Van Gogh "Sunflower" with a record high of 24.75 million pounds.
In 1989, Christie made several major events. The Renaissance painter Ponto Mo "The Duke of Medici" took 22.3 million pounds, breaking all the records of 18th-century European painter works auction, and a Nico pulled brown table sold for £7.5 million in New York, and in addition to painting, it is a world record in many things....
In 1990, a high-quality "Mach.e.l.le Statue" auctioned by Christie auction company broke all auction records and sold for 49.1 million pounds.
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It is these dazzling achievements that have established the leadership position of the Christie auction company in the auction industry.
The turnover will be more than 1 Billion US dollars, with three national treasures of cultural relics, no doubt, will refresh the auction industry many records, pushing Christie auction company to the peak, further laying the leadership of Christie auction house in the auction industry status.
In order to hold this auction, Christie auction house did a lot of work before the auction.
First, in the face of protests from South American countries such as Peru, Chile, Colombia, and Ecuador, as they create a group of nearly 100 people formed a team to pursue the auction.
Christie auction company disregarded the opposition of Peru, Chile, Colombia and other South American countries and the government repeatedly urged the auction of these three pieces of national treasures including "Golden Man", "Golden Boat", "Inca Golden Statue", thousands of gold products, several treasures of gems and jade.
For the recourse of a group of nearly 100 people from South America, Christie Auctions has set up a group of hundreds of lawyers and lobbyists from top industry lawyers.
In the end, South American countries lack sufficient evidence to prove their ownership of the treasures, as well as the relevant provisions and principles of international law and US law.
The US court approved the auction.
History is always strikingly similar.
In late October 2008, Christie announced that it will auction the first Bronze Head statue of Yuanming Yuan in Paris, France from February 23 to 25, 2009. After the news came out, it triggered a heated discussion among the Chinese people. Nearly a hundred Chinese people formed a team of lawyers to pursue.
On February 24, 2009, the French court approved the auction.
Secondly, for the promotion of auction items, Christie includes "Collection", "Art World" and other newspapers, major media platforms and Western art network, Baobao network, collection net, and other network platforms. They spend a lot of resources to make a better publicity effect for this batch of artworks.
At the same time, before the auction, an ancient Inca Empire art exhibition hall was held.
To the prospective bidders, the auction will start in a few days, more than 2,000 pieces of gold products, hundreds of pounds of gems, jade, is also considered "Golden Man", "Gold Boat", and "Inca Golden Statue" three national treasures level artwork.
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New York, Christie auction hall.
The exhibition time is a total of three days and to enter the exhibition hall, you must have an invitation.
Those who can have invitations are carefully selected by Christie, with a certain amount of financial resources and purchase intentions.
"h.e.l.lo, Mr. Chen, congratulations."
"Thank you, Mr. Wu." Wu Yuwen is a famous Chinese collector from Singapore, opened a private museum, collecting collections from all over the world. Products, the most famous collection of which is China"s five famous kilns.
It has a high reputation in Singapore.
"Hill Earl, h.e.l.lo."
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Chen Rui skillfully greeted the guests.
Come to the Exhibition Hall and admire the artwork of the ancient Inca Empire in the exhibition hall.
The sweet Inca music is heard in the ear, and the gold and the lights in the gla.s.s cabinets are shining together.
Everyone in the museum feels that they are in a golden color, surrounded by the golden light of the hustle and bustle as if they came to the ancient Inca gold empire.
There are a wide variety of collections in the museum, which is dazzling.
There are not only various decorations, such as earrings, necklaces, bracelets and pins with various patterns, and daily necessities such as gold cups, gold knives, and golden incense burners. , gold mask, etc., can be described as everything.