Here they gained permission from the Portuguese commander to trade on the island but considered the prices asked too high.
People simply don't carry enough change to pay the higher prices asked these days.
Paying the price asked and moving on-it doesn't seem honest to them.
The prices asked wouldn't pay for the improvements, while the land, of course, is thrown in for nothing.
As a happiness investment in joy of beauty and climate, it was worth a thousand times the price asked.
So, don't flatter yourself that your secrecy's worth any price you choose to ask.
It's that the standard of journalism at the Times doesn't warrant the extravagant prices asked.
The posters range from $2,500 to $36,000, about double the prices asked in 1980.
It also found the average selling price of 9.8 percent lower that original prices asked by the sellers.
But he paid the price asked, and he exercised no violence whatever.