More than 300,000 handguns were sold in California last year, and dealers estimate that they sell about three times as many long guns.

No retail price has been set (normally rental titles are around $90 to $92), but if there were one, dealers estimate it would be about $99.

Such oddities are often sold for thousands of times their face value; some numismatic dealers are already estimating that the coin is worth several hundred dollars.

Late last week, dealers estimated that the bonds that mature in 2020 would be priced to yield 7.85 percent to 7.90 percent.

One dealer, who asked to remain anonymous, estimated that it would cost Levi no more than £1,000 a time to have a foundry manufacture one of the bronzes subsequently priced at more than £25,000.

Local dealers estimate that there are 10 million mammoths still frozen in Siberia, and conservationists have suggested that this could help save the living species of elephants from extinction.

Some dealers estimate the value of this precious cargo at more than $1 billion, making it a migration of artworks that rivals the Japanese purchases of Western paintings in the 1980's.

The dealers estimated they could sell approximately 1,500 cars.

But dealers estimate that only about two to five percent actually get used on the rugged terrain they are built for.

These negotiations allow the dealer to estimate a customer's price sensitivity by relying on relatively unobtrusive measures, such as the customer's current automobile, occupation, dress and living area.