Hasn't he heard of the Credit Crunch?

This morning I received an e-mail from a customer asking if he could send us a cheque for this book - Viz The Fish Supper and what the total would be inclusive of p&p. I said yes, of course and told him that the total would be £7.75 inclusive. This was his reply:-

"I’ll send £8 if I may; I hate writing fiddly cheques and my arm hurts a bit this morning anyway."

Now that's my kind of man!

This is the first time ever, that somebody has offered to pay more for a book than the price we quoted. Although I did hear a story once that Michael Winner bought a book for £30 and sent the bookseller a cheque for £100 but that might just be a booksellers' urban myth.