At the end of the auction, Dickens and Lu Guan brought their men to pack up the two storage units.
The main unit to pack up was the second storage unit, which was filled with boxes of books. There were at least 30 to 40 boxes, and Godzilla and Big Quinn were hard at work.
Chalmers came over to take a look. He did not see anything unusual and walked to the door of the first storage unit. Then he grinned and said, "Buddy, don't you guys feel that the items inside are not big enough for a full set?"
Dickens looked at him strangely and said, "Oh, no."
Li Du leaned against the door. He did not care about what was in the storage unit. In fact, everything was arranged by him.
Lu Guan, who had come to inquire about the furniture in the storage unit, and Dickens, who had followed to inquire, were all arranged by him. Today's auction, and even the treasure hunters who had rushed over, were all arranged by him.
He had purposely given Chalmers a chance to hold a community storage unit auction. However, his intention was not for the furniture, but for the magazines in the storage unit.
Everything went according to plan, which made him feel lucky. In fact, from his point of view, this plan could easily be flawed. As long as Chalmers contacted Dog Ears Rick, his plan would be ruined.
Fortunately, as he had expected, Chalmers was a petty person. In order to prevent his cousin from borrowing money, he did not tell him about the situation of his storage unit.
Otherwise, with Dog Ears Rick's shrewdness, it would be easy for him to determine that Lu Guan and Dickens' visit was a ploy. As long as he came to a few storage units to take a look, it would not be difficult to find the full set of magazines.
To Li Du, doing this was a little too open and aboveboard. He had not wanted to do this at first. He had thought of spending money to buy the magazines for his collection.
In the end, Chalmers did not give him the chance and even bullied him together with Dog Ears Rick. He had no choice but to do this.
Now that he heard Chalmers' question, Li Du looked at the storage unit and realized that something was missing.
There was a piece of antique furniture missing. There were originally six chairs, a table, and two small cabinets, but now one chair and one small cabinet were missing.
Dickens did not realize what was missing because he did not know what was inside. He was just following orders.
Noticing that a chair and a cabinet were missing, Li Du asked, "It's the furniture. There's something wrong with the whole set of furniture, right?"
Chalmers coughed and smiled. "You have sharp eyes, Chinaman. Yes, the furniture here is not a complete set. One of the chairs and cupboards are missing."
Dickens came to his senses and said, "F * ck, you actually moved the warehouse and separated the furniture sets inside?"
Chalmers smiled slyly and said, "Don't be rash, buddy. I did do that, but I didn't break the rules, did I? It's your eyesight that's not good enough. You didn't notice the missing furniture. "
Dickens was furious and said, "You are really a despicable person. To be honest, I rarely call someone that, but you are a despicable person!"
Chalmers did not care about the way he addressed him. He spread his hands and said, "I did it openly. It was your lack of foresight. If you had noticed that two pieces of furniture were missing, you could have stopped bidding."
He had done that because Dickens had casually said that the furniture needed to be a complete set to be valuable. Otherwise, the value would be halved.
Li Du gestured for Dickens to calm down. He asked, "Since you've kept the furniture, it looks like we'll have to spend extra money to get it, right?"
Chalmers smiled proudly. "Yes, but since we're business partners, I can give you a discounted price —"
"No need, keep it for yourself," Li Du interrupted him, then turned around and left.
Originally, he had felt a little bad about snatching the magazine from Chalmers's place.
Now, after seeing this guy's treacherous behavior, the knot in his heart was unraveled. He did not feel that there was anything wrong with what he had done.
Chalmers did not mind Li Du's departure. The warehouse was in Dickens's hands, and his target was Dickens. Hence, he asked, "I'll give you a discounted price —"
In the end, Dickens said in an even more straightforward tone, "No need, keep it."
Chalmers was stunned. He said in surprise, "What do you mean? Don't you want to make a complete set of furniture to maximize its value? "
At this point, there was no need to hide anything. Dickens said, "I don't have any ideas. The one who actually bid for the warehouse was Li, that China guy. If he says no need, then no need."
Hearing this, Chalmers felt that there was something fishy about the matter. However, he could not figure out what the problem was no matter how hard he racked his brains.
Li Du did not look for him to brag about the National Geographic magazines. The truck carried the magazines back, and Li Du went to find an Amish carpenter to order a batch of oak bookcases. That was the end of the matter.
This set of magazines belonged to him, not to the company he and Hans had set up. He could keep it for himself.
There were too many magazines, and he really wanted to display them all in the bookcases. However, there was not enough space in the cabin, and the house he rented from Luo Qun's family was also not enough.
For nearly a century and a half, there were 12 magazines per year. That was 1,400 to 1,500 books. Furthermore, the National Geographic magazines from the latter half of the century were very thick, and they needed a special room to store them.
As such, Li Du had the idea of buying a house. He needed one.
Big Quinn's house was ready, and Li Du planned to renovate it. If he bought one now, he could make it in time to renovate it together with Big Quinn.
Hans thought of ways to sell the sports equipment with the celebrities' autographs. He found someone to appraise them, but the conclusion was that the price was not easy to estimate.
These things depended on the customer. If they met a customer that they liked, they could offer a sky-high price. If they did not meet a suitable customer, then they were not worth much.
However, after the separate valuations, the value of these sports equipment was very optimistic. The Yankees' baseball training machine, in particular, had the highest unit price, which could be sold for 200,000 dollars!
Next was the golf club with Tiger Woods' autograph. Last year, Manhattan, New York, had held a sports equipment auction, and a set of similar golf clubs had been sold for a high price of 140,000 dollars.
From this auction, Hans also wanted to organize an auction for famous sports equipment. They had enough items on hand, and with the addition of some other items, it was enough to support a small-scale auction.
Li Du took out all the books, sorted them according to their time, and put them in a new storage box. For the next few days, he continued to look for valuable storage units.
However, there were not many valuable storage units, especially now that he had broadened his horizons and was in high spirits. He did not want to look at storage units with a profit margin of less than 10,000 dollars.
Just like that, he searched for a few days and looked at some storage units, but did not find anything.
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