I Spy With My Secret Eyes

Chapter 11

Oliver sighed and said, “Queenie, I’m still self-aware. If you say something like that, aren’t you afraid that the boss will fire you?”

Queenie’s face changed, and she immediately became timid. “I’m just kidding. You won’t report this to the boss, right?”

“I’m not a snitch.” Oliver went to check the previous inventory after saying that.

He was now even more familiar and understood how his eyes worked. This legendary cheat code was truly unmatched.

There was a saying. Everyone had their own expertise, and there were different approaches, each having its own merits.

For example, appraising. Those who love antique items would have an eye for identifying antiques, but they would be weaker in identifying antique calligraphy and painting.

As for those who were good at antique calligraphy and painting, they would be weak in identifying jade stones.

Those who were good at identifying jade stones would be weak at identifying porcelain wares.

No one could be perfect and proficient in all aspects.

However, Oliver’s visual identification skills were impressive. There was nothing he couldn’t identify. What he lacked was access to those types of opportunities.

It had been fine the entire afternoon. The luxury recycling business was different from ordinary businesses. It was normal for them not to open for three days straight, and one business deal was already enough sales quota for the entire month.

Oliver thought it was time to close the shop and get off work today, but at five o’clock, Yvonne received a call and reported it to him.

“Mr. Eastwood, a regular called and said that there were some items they wanted to sell, such as watches, clothes, and bags. She said there were many items, and it was inconvenient for her to show up, so she asked us to come…”

“Okay, let’s go. Who’s coming with me?” When Oliver heard that there was a business, he didn’t care whether it was time to get off work or not. He wanted to hurriedly make money for Hailey. Of course, he would be making money as well if Hailey was making money.

The ladies there looked at each other, avoiding his gaze when he asked that.

Yvonne simply said, “Forget it. I’ll go with you.”

The five girls were young, beautiful, and unmarried, so they all wanted to get off work early and meet up with their partners.

The client’s home was at Juset Riveria Residences, which was also a high-end residential area in the city. It had mansions, villas, and high-rise units.

The client was a woman named Sofia, who was in her thirties. Her husband was a businessman who would make money out of any profitable business, and all his businesses were big.

However, in the previous week, her husband died of a sudden illness. Somehow, a mistress appeared after he died, and his parents had taken control of the company.

Sofia’s husband died suddenly, leaving no will or letter at all, and there was now a family dispute. Except for the mansion where she lived now, she had no shares in the company and no savings were left to her.

What annoyed her was that the mansion she lived in had been mortgaged at 2 million dollars by her husband. When her husband died, the bankers came to urge her to repay the loan within a week, or the bank would take back the house for auction.

Sofia was at the edge of despair, so she could only sell the luxury items she bought before to make a living now.

On the way there, Yvonne told Oliver about Sofia’s tragic story. Sofia used to be so glorious, but she was unlucky now.

The mansions at Juset Riveria Résidences were beautiful. Each building covered an area of about 3,000 square feet, and each exclusive garden also had an area of 2,000 square feet.

The luxurious mansions there were several levels lower than the manor Hailey was living in, but were also a luxury that Oliver and Yvonne had never experienced before.

Sofia was not as delicate and fashionable as before. She opened the door with fluffy hair, dark circles under her eyes, and wrinkled pajamas.

The floor of the living room was already filled with women’s bags, including Hermes and Louis Vuitton. There were also women’s watches, seven or eight boxes of them, and a dozen sets of custom-made clothing.

Sofia was on the verge of tears as she said in a low voice, “Take a look. I’ll be selling all these. I’ll be selling the Maserati outside as well…”

Oliver nodded and started working immediately to identify the goods.

Half an hour later, Oliver took the notebook and said to Sofia, “Ms. Clark, I’ve done the identification. There are 14 bags in total, but because they are old and most of them have scratches, we can only pay 134 thousand dollars for all 14 bags. In addition, there are eight women’s watches, six of which are high-grade imitation watches, and only two are genuine ones. We will offer 32,000 dollars for the two watches. As for clothes… Clothes are the least valuable, so we can only offer 16,000 dollars in total, and all that adds up to 18,200 dollars altogether. Please, take a look.”

“Only 18,200 dollars?” Sofia said disappointedly and covered her face. “My credit card this month is 434 thousand dollars… Can you check how much my car is worth?”

However, Oliver didn’t look at the car. He pointed at a painting on the wall and said, “Ms. Clark, this is ‘The Water Lily Pond’ by the Impressionist painter, Claude. Its market value is about 80,000 dollars, but if operated through an auction house, it may be sold for 140 to 160 thousand dollars, but it will take time…”

Sofia’s eyes lit up and she burst out. “80,000 dollars? Sold! Do you want this? There is still a lot in my husband’s study. Come! Come with me to the study!”. Text © 2024 NôvelDrama.Org.

Hearing that these books and paintings she never cared about or noticed were so valuable, Sofia was suddenly energetic.

Her husband’s surname was Hubbard. The study was not big, but there were many paintings and calligraphy art on the wall, as well as some porcelain jade.

Oliver’s heart skipped a beat. This was a huge deal since there were many treasures here.

But after looking at it, he found that most of them were worth less than 100 thousand dollars, mostly about 10 to 40,000 dollars.

Oliver didn’t find anything particularly valuable. It wasn’t like stone gambling, where he could earn more than 600 thousand dollars at once.

After looking at the study, Oliver explained to Sofia about the items there. “Ms. Clark, there are 54 pieces here, and I’ll explain the value of each of them one by one…”

Sofia was surprised and delighted. Mercer used to focus on buying and selling products such as automobiles and electronics. She had never heard her husband saying anything about antique calligraphy and painting, and Sofia was also not interested in them. However, at this time, she was listening to Oliver explaining them one by one.

Each of these 54 pieces was around 20 thousand dollars or so, and the most it could sell for was around 50,000 dollars, so it was 1.49 million dollars in total. It was definitely a pleasant surprise.

Plus the painting in the living room that was worth 80,000 dollars and the luxury goods worth 18,200 dollars, there would be a total of 1.75 million dollars.

Sofia suddenly got excited. She leaned closer and said to Oliver, “I want to sell them all. Do you guys take houses?” “Houses?”

Oliver was dumbfounded. After thinking for a while, he took out his phone and called Hailey.

The phone call went through, and Hailey’s voice sounded a little lethargic. “What’s up?”

Oliver covered his phone and walked out of the study. Then, he hid on the balcony in the living room before whispering to Hailey, “Boss, there’s a customer called Sofia who wants to sell her items. We are now in her house. After the luxury goods inspection, I offered her a total price of 18,200 dollars, but her

husband has more than 50 antiques, and my total price is 1.57 million dollars. The profit we can get if transferred to professional collectors is at least 1.4 million dollars, and there is something that you should handle personally. Sofia said she wanted to sell this mansion as well…”

After she heard Oliver’s words and realized that it was a huge business, Hailey suddenly said in a loud voice, “Okay. I’ll be right there!”

Hailey also knew Sofia since the latter had frequented her shop multiple times.

In the past, True Treasure second-hand store had a monthly profit of 200 thousand dollars at most and 60 thousand dollars at least.

Oliver was really Hailey’s lucky star. He just made 780 thousand dollars yesterday and also helped her expose Samuel, forcing him to compensate for a loss of more than 200 thousand dollars.

In addition, he also saw that her Rolls-Royce Dawn was a damaged car. Her best friend, Ariana, had been contacting her ever since, saying that the boss of the company wanted to solve this matter in private.

Hailey didn’t bother to answer. She just asked the lawyer to claim the compensation on her behalf. Her friendship with Ariana was over, so there was nothing more to say. What needed to compensate should be compensated, and what she wanted, she would get. She wasn’t an easy person.

These were the losses that Oliver recovered for her. Today, she was worried about things that happened at home. She didn’t expect Oliver to surprise her again. On the first day of promotion as a store manager, he brought her a big business with over a few million dollars of profit, so of course, she was surprised.