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Originally Posted by pichlo View Post
If you do, please do it carefully.
Yikes! What an awful story. Reminds me a letter J. S. Bach wrote to a family member on receiving a gift of a cask of brandy, partially empty due to evaporation, damage in transit or perhaps customs inspection:

Although my honored Cousin kindly offers to oblige with more of the liqueur, I must decline his offer on account of the excessive expenses here. For since the carriage charges 16 groschen, the delivery man 2 groschen, the customs inspector 2 groschen, the inland duty 5 groschen, 3 pfennig, and the general duty 3 groschen, my honored Cousin can judge for himself that each quart costs me almost 5 groschen, which for a present is really too expensive.
It looks like used ones go for 50-150 USD on eBay, but even half of that declared value is still, as the baroque master said, "expensive for a present."
 

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