Many of you will recall the old joke about a man who goes into a Rolls-Royce dealership and asks the snooty salesman how much the Silver Shadow in the window is only to receive the disdainful reply, "If Sir has to ask, then Sir cannot possibly afford it."

When I saw the first post in this thread I was tempted to make a similar response on the lines that if you have to ask, then an Eriba is not for you. I then thought that this wasn't a particularly helpful answer to a genuine request from a new member and potential owner and managed to restrain myself.

For many of us though, it was a sort of instinct or gut feeling that first sucked us in, not a careful analysis of the pros and cons. Thank goodness!