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. Or you can have it free."
He added, "While I can't speak for Maggie Snodgrass, she'll make an
accounting to me, and it will be honest; there is nothing small about Maggie.
But don't expect that salvage to show too much net. Or maybe a loss by the time
she sells it because- You know where Budget gets those crocks they rent, don't
you?"
I admitted ignorance. He went on, "Every year the quality leasers, like
Hertz and Interplanet, sell off their used cars. The clean jobs are bought by
private parties, mostly Loonies. The stuff needing lots of work goes to boomers.
Then Budget Jets buys what's left at junkyard prices, starvation cheap. They
rework that junk at their yard outside Loonie City, getting maybe two cars for
each three they buy, then they sell as scrap whatever is left over. That jalopy
that let you down-they charged you list, twenty-six thousand... but if Budget
actually had as much as five thousand cash tied up in it, I'll give you the
difference and buy you a drink, and that's a fact.
"Now Maggie is going to recondition it again. But her repairs will be
honest and her work guaranteed and she'll sell it for what it is-worn out,
rebuilt, not standard. Maybe it will fetch ten thousand, gross. After fair
charges for parts and labor, if the net she splits with me is more than three
thousand, I'll be flabbergasted-and it might be a net loss
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