Inez: In these poor economic times, people want to be sure they are getting good value for their money  I predict people would be more willing to buy antiques at our fair if we first have the object inspected by professional appraisers who would remove any objects of questionable authenticity  Anika: I disagree with your prediction  Our customers already are antiques experts
Furthermore, hiring professional appraisers would push up our costs considerably, thus forcing us to raise the prices on all our antiques
arguing that an alternative plan could achieve a desired result more easily than the plan originally proposed