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[glass nacelle]

'He had anyhow placed four season passes, three of them for real, and one because it was – he knew it well – extremely pleasing.'
https://www.wordreference.com/fren/abonnement

« placer » here is more like applying or buying

[modest gale]

oooh a season pass makes sense, thank you
getting a pass for real was the part i hesitated if i got it right

[eager coyote]

The sentence says "because he was - he knew it well - very likeable", referring back to Sammy himself.

And the "quand même" is used for emphasis, it's the equivalent of saying "no less than four" in English, or adding "impressively" to the sentence. Sammy is proud of his performance at work.

It sounds like Sammy works in sales and his job is to sell some kind of subscription or pass. I think "placer quatre abonnements" in this context means "to sell four passes". Three were "real" sales while one was due to his being likeable. Not sure what that means exactly.

The whole story is written in a very quirky style that is pretty hard to parse.
https://excerpts.numilog.com/books/9782867448973.pdf