Elephant Sale in a Bargain Market
Driving a hard bargain to sell your next elephant...
i.e. How To Sell Ice to an Eskimo
Two businessmen meet in a bar for a lunch suggested by one of them. The inviter
says, “I have a great deal for you. When I was in California, I went to a town
where the circus stays during the winter. I happened to pick up an elephant. I
could let you have it for a hundred dollars.”
The other businessman sipped his beer and said, “What am I going to do with an
elephant? I live in a small condo. I don’t have room for my furniture. I can’t
squeeze in an end table. So I’m going to buy an elephant?”
The first businessman said, “I could let you have three of them for two hundred
dollars.”
“Now you’re talking!”