Chapter 3: Who makes the most money?

With Sean Knight's comment, other people also began to ridicule Madden, Diana Smith, and others.

Sean, however, was left out by them.

The auctioneer was also left out, so he simply raised his voice and repeated Sean's bid of 125 dollars twice.

Still, no one joined in the bidding. The auctioneer pointed directly at Sean, indicating that he had won the bid.

Without waiting for Sean to give his thanks, the auctioneer immediately turned to the fourth container.

Sean didn't hurry to clean up the container but paid the freight yard owner and followed the auctioneer to the fourth container.

It was then that everyone's attention shifted from the big players to the container.

As the container opened to reveal neatly arranged boxes, everyone's attention was instantly focused!

Usually, good things were stored in such boxes.

The boxes were new, and no matter what was inside, at least it was new!

The auctioneer also became interested. After discussing with the freight yard owner, he started the bidding at 500 dollars, with each bid increment of at least 50 dollars!

Someone immediately raised the bid to 600 dollars, and the price soared to 1,000 dollars!

At this time, Sean regained his composure and activated his Sky Eye to look inside the container.

There were twenty to thirty boxes of paper outside, and brand-new printers in the middle! Although there were still printing papers in the boxes at the back, these printers alone were worth a gamble!

At least a dozen of them!

These things were valuable!

At this point, the bidding price had reached 2,000 dollars.

Sean immediately followed with a bid of 2,100 dollars.

Hearing Sean's voice, a few people turned their heads to look at him.

Sean laughed:

"I think there should be good things inside, right?"

Joey laughed and said:

"You can't read, can you? It's clearly written 'paper' on the boxes!"

Sean just smiled without saying anything.

Although Joey said this, he still quoted a price of 2,300 dollars.

Sean believed that Joey was just saying that to keep others from knowing their true intention!

Those who regularly frequented the container treasure hunt must have seen boxes of paper used to store other things!

However, Joey's tactic indeed discouraged a few people. When the price reached 2,500 dollars, fewer people participated in the bidding.

Madden had already won a container before, but he still persevered at this time.

"2,700 dollars!" The auctioneer continued to call out the price.

This was the price Sean offered.

"2,800!" Joey raised his hand again.

At this moment, Diana Smith raised her hand.

"2,900 dollars, 2,900 dollars..."

"3,000!" Sean raised his hand for the last time, whether it worked or not, that's all he had.

He hoped the others would give up.

However, Madden raised his hand once again.

Sean shook his head, turned back to his container, and gave up this time.

Joey finally won the container for 5,100 dollars.

Sean began to clean up the items in the container he won.

In his heart, he was thinking about Madden next to him and Joey on the other side.

With high probability, both of them would make a lot of money.

Those musical instruments could be worth around 15,000 dollars. If there were collector's edition instruments among them, the price could be even higher.

Not to mention the printing paper, just those dozen or so laser all-in-one printers were worth almost 10,000 dollars.

Compared to their big gains, Sean's share could only be considered a small profit.

Some people outside had already left, while others were still watching the excitement.

Sean moved out the table and began to clean up the old clothes.

These old clothes were relatively clean and had been washed. Judging by the style, they were fashionable in the last two years.

Sean flipped through them one by one, hoping to find some exclusive designs, not even letting go of the clothing bags.

He indeed found a few tens of dollars in change.

But that was all.

George Qiao, who was nearby, looked at Sean's actions and mocked:

"No need to look any further, there's no valuable clothing. This container was clearly used as a warehouse by ordinary people. Now that the rent of the container is more valuable than the stuff inside, they naturally won't want it."

Sean thought about it and agreed, but he still needed to clean up the container.

Seeing Sean ignoring his advice, George Qiao went to clean up his boxes.

Sean moved out the boxes of clothes from the container, opened them up, and finally took out the box containing the typewriter.

At this time, a black girl came over and asked Sean:

"Are you selling these clothes?"

Sean hurriedly said:

"Yes!" The girl immediately started to bargain.

"100 dollars, and you take them all." Sean simply threw out a price.

100 dollars would at least cover his expenses.

The girl carefully looked through the clothes and found them to be quite clean. She took out 100 dollars, then picked up the box and left.

Finally, the girl wanted to take the box with the typewriter as well. Sean quickly stopped her:

"This box doesn't contain clothes; it doesn't count."

The girl didn't believe him, so Sean opened the box.

There was an old-fashioned typewriter inside.

Seeing the typewriter, the girl was disappointed, but she still thanked Sean and left.

If these clothes were sold in the second-hand market, it would be no problem getting 200 to 300 dollars.

Sean didn't want to bother.

After all, he really didn't have the spare time to do this.

The black girl's argument with Sean attracted the attention of the Joey Brothers and Madden.

Seeing the typewriter, the Joey Brothers stopped cleaning their boxes and ran over to take a look.

"This typewriter looks pretty new, well maintained... and the box is original!"

Elder Joey carefully inspected the box and said.

George Qiao inspected the typewriter closely, then said:

"It has been regularly oiled, with no rust on any parts, I think it's still functional!"

With a sense of excitement, Sean said:

"Ha! I'm making money!"

"What do you say, would you sell it to me for 2,000 dollars?" Elder Joey glanced at George Qiao, then asked Sean.

Madden intervened:

"Why not sell it to me for 2,500 dollars instead?"

Sean shook his head:

"I think if I give it to John, he could sell it for 3,000 dollars!"

Sean remembered John mentioning similar typewriter prices. A well-preserved, functional typewriter could fetch around 3,300 to 3,500 dollars for a collector.

He left a profit margin for the buyers.

After all, if there was no profit, they wouldn't buy it.

"Alright, I'll buy it for 3,000 dollars." Elder Joey agreed immediately.

Sean looked at Madden, who shrugged and turned away.

"Deal!" Sean and Elder Joey high-fived.

Just this one deal was worth the whole month's salary of a middle-class person in their country!

Exciting!

After getting 3,000 dollars in cash, Sean prepared to clean up the remaining garbage. George Qiao stayed, patted him on the shoulder, and said:

"Sean, there's another deal, are you interested?"