From Guy Inchbald
I fear that I am not persuaded by your feature on how to get exactly what you want (10 May, p 32). Your third item carefully explains that making up to three points is persuasive, but making as many as eight causes the listener to undervalue the whole deal.
I felt persuaded. But by the time I got to your eighth and last item the whole feature had lost all sense of value. Thinking of another tip from item 3, I invite you to give me one good reason why I should believe a word of it.
Upton upon Severn, Worcestershire, UK
