Seeing as barnett has no cash available to buy paint up-front, in my opinion, he now has these options open to him:-
a) Win EuroLottery tonight, the prize total is 22 million and so that'd just about be enough for what he needs the cash for.
b) Rob a bank - people like him ain't got the nuts for it ... And why risk that when he can screw his trading partners?
c) Get sables to buy the paint for him because he can't get credit anywhere but because everyone knows sables is barnett's partner in all this and who'd sell paint to him?
As I see it, there's only three options that I can think of:- jon payne could sell to sables even though he's been made aware of the situation; And then there's Powerball maybes, but I heard they are owed money by barnett.
However, that might not prove to be sufficient a deterrent if they ramped the price up and tried to get back at least some of the money owed via an increased premium price on the paint.
Lastly, there's Proball, a Dutch outfit but I don't know them or their ethical stance in this matter.
And so, he's not out of the woods yet it seems, I know where I'd put my money on but we'll have to wait and see how it all pans out.
I'm sure of one thing though, there'll be more surprises and ethical capitulations before this sorry tale turns its final page.