"So... how should we go about selling this?" Director Su hesitated for a moment before asking. It was obvious that, as an old-school intellectual, he felt a bit uncomfortable with Yan Fei's practice of treating knowledge as a commodity for sale.
"Well, that depends on how much you need!" Yan Fei replied. "My initial estimate is that it'd fetch at least eighty to a hundred thousand dollars, but since this also contributes to society, I'm willing to settle for sixty thousand dollars. That's the package price. If you want to buy them separately, we can negotiate that slowly."
Offering sixty thousand dollars was an outrageous starting price, waiting for them to negotiate it down.
