Wrong time to shop

No reasonable offer will be refused!

That's what my radio was telling me today about some boat dealer show. These dealers must be crazy people, since they feel the need to assure us that they accept reasonable offers. Apparently, unlike normal people, they usually do not. No wonder they need to do this boat show; they need to rehabilitate their image.

Still, it's obviously the wrong place to go for a good deal on a boat. I want to go when they're accepting unreasonable offers. "Fifty bucks for the Mercury outboard? That's extremely unreasonable sir! But since we're not interested in reasonable offers today, it's yours." See, that's when you get the really good deals.