Would you buy a used jet from this Premier ...

Excerpt from Courier Mail:

Queensland Government jet sold for $1.5m less than asking price

6 September 2007

Clearly the hawker wasn't so good at hawking the Hawker.

Nine months after talking up his salesmanship, Premier Peter Beattie says the spare Hawker 800XP government jet has been sold to a Dubai company for $8.5 million – $1.5 million less than what he originally wanted.

"We did very well out of the sale," Mr Beattie told State Parliament.

The Premier had previously boasted about his selling credentials, declaring he wanted no less than $10 million when the jet was put up for sale late last year.

"We are not going to be giving it away at a discount," Mr Beattie told The Courier-Mail on December 29.

See - Used aircraft salesman Beattie.

The more he says, the less you can believe ...