18 boxes!
A total of 113,000 scrapped screens, all taken away!
He Dong was worried these screens would get crushed into shards, but Xu Duo didn't seem concerned at all. After all, the boxes provided protection—unless someone tossed them from a tall building, they wouldn't shatter into bits. Moreover, as long as they weren't ground into particles, the Refurbishment System could still restore them!
"So much stuff?" Uncle Xu stared at the towering stack of boxes, his eyes filled with astonishment.
"Yup, 18 boxes!" Xu Duo beamed. Once these screens were refurbished, she'd hit the little goal she set before the New Year—a net profit of 110 million, pushing her bank balance past 300 million. "This is my business—scrapped phone parts."
"These are all scrapped… and you can still make money?" Uncle Xu still couldn't wrap his head around it.
"Uncle, think about the scrap collectors. The copper wires, rusty iron—those junkyard owners still make money, right?" Xu Duo asked softly.
"Buy low, sell high. Of course they make money!"
"Well, same thing here!" Xu Duo didn't explain further—any more and she'd be exposing her biggest secret.
Uncle Xu didn't probe any deeper. Rather than racking his brain, he might as well carry a few more boxes upstairs. It wasn't that he was slow, just that he was an easygoing person. Since his own niece was behind it all, there was no way she'd trick them. As for the pay? They hadn't discussed it yet, but he trusted she wouldn't shortchange him and his wife.
Once the boxes were all moved upstairs, Xu Duo hit the road again—this time heading for Longsheng Tower to collect scrapped iPhone 4 batteries. She'd done this several times before the New Year and had the process down to a science. The stall owners inside Longsheng Tower were all familiar with her by now. Once they saw her arrive, anyone interested in selling would pull out boxes and line them up in the hallway, waiting to weigh them and get paid. The scene was buzzing with activity.
This haul was bigger than any before. One stall owner, for some unknown reason, pulled out several boxes. When weighed, they totaled over 1,400 pound—that's more than 3,000 batteries.
[Ding… Detected refurbishable product: iPhone 4 battery. Quantity: 198,960!]
[90% condition: ￥1,591,680, 85% condition: ￥1,193,760]
[Refurbish][Cancel]
Don't get it wrong—this wasn't something Xu Duo triggered manually. The Refurbishment System popped up all on its own, which was incredibly convenient. She didn't even need to count the quantities herself anymore. With the system upgrade, it now automatically tallied everything—saving her a ton of effort.
Just this batch of batteries, once refurbished and sold, would be worth over 30 million! Combined with the 113,000 screens, the total value of that batch would reach a terrifying 170 million.
With this post-holiday operation alone, the total value of the two batches exceeded 200 million. The net profit was crystal clear: the cost of recovering and refurbishing the screens was under 2.3 million; the cost for the batteries, including refurbishment, was just over 1.7 million. In other words, total cost was under 4 million, but the total value exceeded 200 million, with a net profit of over 196 million!
Even robbing a bank wouldn't be this profitable.
"These must've been the bottom-of-the-barrel stock they had tucked away," Xu Duo mused, and her guess was spot-on. "Going forward, the volume we collect will return to normal. There'll be a rough daily average. And once more people jump in to grab inventory out of envy, the quantity will only decrease."
"Doesn't matter. He Dong's cousin is helping with pickups now, so we can just go every few days—no need to do it daily anymore." Xu Duo understood well: not only the scrapped batteries, but also the screens wouldn't come in huge quantities like before the New Year. The wild growth period was over, and everything was going to normalize. That's why she had already started branching into the second-hand device business.
Leveraging Hua Shenbei—or more accurately, leveraging iPhone recycling—had indeed made her a fortune. But with shrinking collection volumes, even though it was still lucrative, there was an upper limit. After all, diversification is the key to long-term survival. You can't tie your future to just one tree.
Nearly 200,000 batteries—that's a massive weight. Dozens of boxes stacked haphazardly. Xu Duo had to make three trips just to haul everything back. It was a bit of a grind.
She didn't refurbish them immediately. Too many eyes were already on her. This batch? She'd release it slowly—wait a few days before flipping it. A little smoke and mirrors—mixing truth with falsehood—was the best way to protect her secret.
After resting for a few hours, by evening, Xu Duo freshened up, changed into a polished outfit, and set off in her low-key Volkswagen Phaeton for a dinner appointment. The meal itself wasn't the point—it was about building relationships. If a deal could be struck over dinner, even better.
Sometimes, things just line up perfectly…
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