Well, from my experience working for a couple of billionaires over the decades, the people with a lot of money buy what they want and when they want it.

To get into that mindset, a fellow needs to consider what amount of money is meaningless to them. To my nephew, who refuses to get a job, maybe it’s $10. At one time, back in the 80’s when I was trading oil and minting money, $2000 or so was nothing, though that isn’t true anymore. So what I’m saying is that $6000 isn’t much money to some people. If they want a special rifle from Hill Country, cost is most likely not a consideration.

I used to do business with a guy that married a rich girl, whose Dad was a famous author. The guy called me one day, wanting to buy me lunch and show me his new car. I told him I had already seen it last week. No, he said, the new new car. His super wealthy FiL, who had terminal cancer, sent him, and all the rest of his kids and SiLs a card that said “go down to the Porsche dealership and pick out a Porsche, no limit on cost”. My friend had a red twin turbo 911.

That same guy that had the cancer told me one time that he was upset at the cost overrun on his new swimming pool. He said it was “a quarter million over estimate”. He was having it blasted out of the side of a mountain in Switzerland. It was to be a huge indoor pool. I just listened. What do you even say in response to a statement like that?

The last billionaire I worked for had a huge parking lot at his weekend house in the Utah mountains. The parking lot was heated.

It isn’t the same for them, regarding cost. It was interesting working in that environment.

I wish HCR would sell that Rifleman stock,
I love the feel of that stock.