He is not going to let you wait to buy EQMs in December, when you'll have a good idea which of your travel plans will materialize and thus how many EQMs you need to buy. Instead, he's jacking up the price now, making you pull the trigger when you don't know. He's figuring you may buy more EQMs than you need, just to be sure you have enough. And he's right. All because you didn't heed me.

RNE, admiringly, "Jeff may be craven, but he's not crazy."