Post #611851 by A Frame on Thu, Oct 27, 2011 4:25 PM

My own Amazon purchase experience from three years ago took three to four months and ran me about $65.00. The copy that arrived was in excellent shape. I feel lucky now seeing these head scratching list prices.

My suggestion for those in search of The BOT would be to continue checking lots of different places for a copy. I related a story to Sven a few years ago about garage sale BOT transaction I witnessed.

I had been at this sale for a little bit when the woman who was having the sale explained that 20 or so boxes of assorted stuff off to the side of the garage was not sale. I stayed away from boxes, others didn't.

I few minutes later, while I was asking the woman for prices on some items, another woman walked up to us. She held up the BOT in our faces and asked "How much for this?” My eyes were popping out of their sockets until the seller told her that it wasn't for sale and that she must have gotten it from the "off limits" boxes. The woman stressed that she really wanted it badly "because it would fit so beautifully on my TIKI Alter" but the seller stood firm. The TIKI woman asked “Are you sure?” She had a sad, disappointed look on her face as she turned to put the BOT back in the box home it came from when suddenly the seller said "You know, I don't need to hang on to that book. You can have it for three dollars".

My head was still spinning when I offered the new owner $20. She said no and that she just had to keep it…very understandable.

The moral of the story for you hunters is to keep looking in spots you wouldn't think you'd find the BOT, don't listen to directions and never, ever take no for an answer once.

$3 for BOT. Truly a gift from the gods!