Vespel

Back about twelve years ago, I was working for a company that sold industrial plastics. Some of these materials  were expensive; some of them were very expensive. One of the expensive ones was a DuPont product called Vespel.

One day someone called up and said "I'm looking at your catalog, and I like the look of this stuff on page 146, the 3 1/2  inch diameter rod. Looks like walnut, I could carve it. What's the price on that?"
Me: "You're looking at the catalog right now?"
Him: "Yeah."
Me: "You're looking at the picture of the 3 1/2 inch rod?"
Him: "Yeah."
Me: "You see the line immediately below that picture, where it says the price is $7000 per foot?"
Him: "Yeah?"
Me: "That's the price."
Him: Pause, click