I think $99 is a small price to pay for learning a lesson that hopefully will stick with me for the rest of my life. I would have preferred to have bartered for a lessor amount – say $15, a dozen free-range eggs or a sack of pecans – but the deal was struck and I paid the price.
To be specific, my hard-earned $99 is exactly how much I paid for four pairs of high-dollar but heavily-discounted…