Brazilian bargains

A lovely engineer called Sergio just came round and fixed our wifi problem so we now have the luxury of two devices connected at the same time. As with almost everyone we come across these days, it wasn't long before the subject of the robbery came up and his opinion was sought. He suspected the nanny had been too free with her gossip. But the thing that gave us a real laugh was when he said that the iPhone would probably have been sold for a piddling 100 reais (£40) and I said I would have given them 200 reais for it, prompting this anecdote: a friend of his had, while being robbed of a Rolex watch, asked the robbers how much they were going to sell it for? They told him 200 reais and he wrote them a cheque for that amount with his phone number on the back. They let him keep the watch. A week later he got a call from them asking if he wanted to buy another Rolex !