Ja, he has two things against him: he's had bad dealings before and he has a high start price.
And he has one thing in his favour: it is a highly-sought board.
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Let me relate the story of the monkey and the pumpkin:
An African farmer was plagued by a troop of monkeys damaging his fruit and wrecking his enclosures. He didn't have the means or the inclination to shoot them, so he devised a trap, a simple trap guaranteed to work. He got a huge pumpkin and cut a small circular hole in it and left this pumpkin in a place that had been visited by the monkeys.
Early the next morning there was a ruckus in the garden. It was a monkey chattering excitedly. He had reached into the hole and grabbed a handful of pumpkin seeds but now he couldn't withdraw his fist. He was stuck. And the pumpkin was too big for him to drag away so there he sat, making a hell of a fuss as the farmer approached. Such was the nature of the monkey that he didn't comprehend to release the pips in order to escape. And he was caught.
There is something in that story for any potential parties to that transaction :-P
