Chapter 16: What I Saw at First Glance Was Suits!

Sean Knight noted down Monica Brown's contact information, closed the suitcase, placed it in the back seat, and drove back to his container.

He spent this day basically sorting through the stuff in the suitcase.

By the end, he had sorted out a total of 4 notebooks, 3 cameras, 7 lenses, 5 handheld game consoles, 7 tablets, and 2 mobile phones.

These were all quite valuable. The value of just these items alone was almost enough to cover the auction price.

Then there were some brand-name luggage bags, some of which Sean had seen from Traveler, as well as world-famous brand donkey packs and the like.

Over a dozen sets of unopened massage wands and boxes of condoms.

These could also be sold for some money.

The clothes were separated into two piles. The brand-name clothes were put aside, and the ordinary clothes were put aside. As for the dirty and unwashed clothes, they were simply thrown into the garbage heap.

There were various small appliances, such as foldable electric kettles, electric cup burners, several badminton rackets, ping pong rackets, basketballs, rugby balls, and so on.

Also, a pile of books.

After sorting everything out, Sean called Mr. John:

"I'm back, and I've collected a bunch of stuff. Do you have someone who buys second-hand computers, cameras, and lenses? I've got a batch here."

"Yes, I do." Mr. John laughed, "I didn't expect you to be so fast! Oh, your little toys have been sold, and excluding my commission, you can get 61000 dollars!"

"Oh wow!" Sean whistled, "that's great news!"

"I'll give you the phone number of a general store owner who buys all kinds of things, including electronic devices.

He takes nearly everything that comes out of the airport luggage, and these things are said to be very popular on the second-hand market!"

Sean recalled that the online second-hand market in the Beautiful Country was not as good as China's. It was also very popular.

Sean made a phone call, and the owner asked for the address, saying he would be right there.

Sean then called Monica Brown.

"Hello, who are you looking for?" The voice on the other end was soft and sweet-sounding.

"Are you Monica Brown?"

Sean spoke in Mandarin, and the other person also replied in Mandarin:

"Yes, I am. Who are you...?"

"Did you lose a suitcase at the airport?"

Sean was sure that Monica Brown's suitcase was lost. He thought that such a girl would not throw away a photo album containing her youthful memories.

"Yes!" The voice on the other end became excited, "Is it with you? Where are you? I can give you a reward, please be sure to return my suitcase to me, ..."

"No need for a reward." Sean could feel the other party's anxiety and imagine the expression on the beautiful youthful face in his mind. He even felt a little heartache.

"Then..." the other party didn't know what to say.

"Where are you now?" Sean asked.

"I'm studying at Columbia University..."

"Okay, come to New York Harbor when you have time. I'm here, and your suitcase is here too."

"Okay, okay!" Monica Brown on the other end was particularly happy, then carefully asked, "How... how did my suitcase get to you?"

"I am a treasure hunter." Sean was still very proud, "I bought your unclaimed suitcase at the airport auction today. By the way, how did you lose it?"

"When I got off the plane, I took a suitcase that was identical to mine." Monica Brown was full of regret:

"It wasn't until I got to the university that I realized I had taken the wrong one. I guessed that mine had been taken by someone else, but no one contacted me. If only I knew it was at the airport..."

After hanging up, Monica Brown made a fist and gestured happily, "Great!"

Emily Taylor, who had come to study abroad with her, asked:

"Monica, what's so exciting?"

"My suitcase has been found! The person who found it is our compatriot, and I'm going to pick it up after class!"

"Really, that's fantastic!" Emily Taylor was happy for Monica Brown, "But still, be careful, I'll go with you!"

"Yeah, okay!"

The general store owner was named Ham, a bald middle-aged man who drove an off-road vehicle to meet Sean. Seeing Sean, he smiled and said:

"So you're the lucky Zhu that John was talking about? I've already bought some luggage from the airport today, but the guy didn't get anything good. Let me see what you have here... Oh my God!"

Seeing the items Sean had laid out, Ham's expression was very exaggerated :

"Kid, you've struck it rich!"

Then he started calculating the prices.

Ham was very familiar with the market and used a calculator to quote prices and add them up:

"Apple 12, 500 dollars; 13, eight hundred dollars, Canon's Camera, this one is well maintained, this one too... with lenses, six thousand dollars..."

In the end, the electronic products sold for 22,000 dollars, which was double the money invested in just that one item!

"These clean brand-name clothes are not bad either. Let me see... not bad, these clothes, 3,000 dollars..."

"Oh wow! There are so many of these for the ladies!" Ham was delighted to see the massage wands, "These things are quite popular... let me see, nice, there's a brand name, all together, I'll give you two thousand dollars..."

In the end, the various items, including the brand-name clothes, and the well-preserved luggage bags, sold for a total of 41,000 dollars.

A profit of 31,000 dollars!

Together with the 61,000 dollars from John, Sean's net worth had already exceeded 100,000 dollars!

And it had been less than one week!

It felt like a dream!

Ham's offer was relatively fair.

Before he came, Sean had already checked the approximate prices on the second-hand website.

Ham's offer was about 30% lower than the online prices, which was an appropriate price.

After all, he had to make a profit and pay John a commission.

Sean also knew that if it weren't for John, he might have been lowballed if he had tried to sell the items himself.

It was much easier now.

"Don't you want those condoms?" Sean asked Ham.

Ham shook his head:

"No, even though they are brand-name products, selling second-hand items like this online, even if the small boxes are unopened, is very difficult."

Sean thought, well, he'd just have to keep them.

After receiving the money and helping Ham load the items onto the car, Sean happily started cooking.

At this time, Monica Brown and Emily Taylor arrived.

Following the information Sean gave, they turned several corners to get to the container dormitory and were quite curious about the living environment there.

However, looking at the living environment, they had some guesses about Sean's identity.

He was probably working illegally! Otherwise, he wouldn't be living here!

However, the container was quite tidy.

This won Monica Brown a little bit of goodwill.

As she peered into the container, she immediately spotted the pile of condoms on the floor.

Her face instantly turned red!