"I don't want to sell it; it's just that we're not offering enough!"
"But we've really offered too much; is that appropriate? I'm not stingy..."
After a good while, the Half-sphere Leader sighed, "Fortunately, only a small portion of the public knows about this, otherwise the situation would definitely escalate further, maybe even beyond control. The entire civilization would go mad."
The Half-sphere people would indeed go to war over this matter against a more powerful civilization... If humans knew about this, they would surely think these folks had gone completely mad.