Now, now JR, no need to cast ASPERSIONS.
(As you can indubitably deduce, I acquired the companion dictionary on further reflection. The Brittanica Company even included a pocket thesaurus, gratis!)
Sukus assures us he’s a value investor and so such a deal as you propose would be of little interest to him for a set of encyclopedias, though I’m sure we can all agree that $3000 would make an empirically justifiable target price for a scarce share of NWBO in the future.
I too am a value investor, and not just in NWBO—I negotiated the price of my beloved encyclopedias down to under $20 per month with the previously mentioned adjustments to interest rate and term.
Speaking of “unloading,” prior to the frenzied negotiations on price, the salesman had assured me he hadn’t “unloaded” a set in years. That was all that was required to motivate me to make a purchase, for I too am no crowd follower. You should have seen his visage brighten when I said, “Stop right there — I must have them!”
In actuality, he was initially befuddled because he had just picked up a set of Tiawanese steak knives and hadn’t uttered a word about them when I interrupted him in my unbridled enthusiasm.
He mistakenly thought I was interested in the steak knives he had yet to pitch and not the rare books whose sale he had prematurely and precipitately abandoned.
Although in my erstwhile post I complained about the deleterious effect on my cognitive functioning that resulted from listening to the Scotch and Drambuie swilling Mr Nailz, in hindsight, without his unintentional influence, I might not have been in the proper frame of mind to seize the preternatural opportunity presented by the “random” knock on my door by an itinerant salesman.
Armed with a fully indexed trove of immense knowledge and a new found frame of mind, who know what adventures await me!
It could all be yours too for merely $20 per month.
