851 Hot Auction (2/2)
”I'll give you 105,000 I'm number 18”
”One hundred and ten thousand dollars, men I am determined to win this mine!”
”One hundred and twenty thousand”
”Out of the way, I'll pay 150,000!”
At 150,000, feners were interested in bidding Seeing this, Li Du knew that no one was really optiave Steve a wink Steve held up his sign and said, ”Two hundred thousand!”
He had raised the price by 50 percent The bidding was getting very aggressive
The other ht, while one person shouted, ”Isn't it insane? A mine that only cost 100,000 is now 200,000!”
When a mine was sold, some of the money went to the bank for the loan and some went to the town When the nener paid tax on thethat Steve's offer was so high, Mayor Barron broke down, pointed at hiiven us a lovely price No doubt he is now closest to owning the 120 iven a price of 200,000”
All the mine owners shook their heads, and Mayor Barron wasted no ed it down, and shouted, ”Ok, 200,000, sold”
Li Du and Steve high-fived Their plan was going well, with the first an to realize that they had bid a little too quickly His rivals had no idea about the mine's value and therefore, had no real interest in it
The number 120 mine sold for 200,000, but the two successive mines failed to sell! The two mines both started at the same price of 100,000, but no one wanted them Li Du had visited them and, indeed, they orthless Themeticulously but without success!
One mine after another was put on the auction table They either failed to sell, or were sold very cheaply, with theat 360,000
The owners told Li Du that the a sht mine orth, at best Hence, Li Du had been cheated by Blanchett when he first caht a sht mine from him Both were sht mines, but Blanchett had sold the mine to him at a price of 550,000
Fortunately, he had eventually gotten back the half million he had sunk in anda heap of jewels