Rust Bucket Motor Credit Corporation (RBMCC), a subsidiary of Rust Bucket Motor, offered some securities for sale to the public on March 28, 2008. Under the terms of the deal, RBMCC promised to repay the owner of one of these securities $100,000 on March 28, 2037, but investors would receive nothing until then. Investors paid RBMCC $23,799 for each of these securities; so they gave up $23,799 on March 28, 2008, for the promise of a $100,000 payment 29 years later.