"Then you name a price. How much are you willing to pay?" The middle-aged man realized that although Li Xiangdong and his companion did not know the trade inside and out, they were no fools either. Besides, he had spent 20,000 when he acquired this raw stone; because it had zero distinctive features and the gamble was far too high, nobody had ever dared to take it off his hands, and it had actually been gathering dust in his inventory for several years. Seeing that Li Xiangdong was interested, he wanted to take the opportunity to unload it.
After pondering for a moment, Li Xiangdong replied, "If you ask me, 50,000 should be about right."
"50,000 is way too low. There's no way I can sell it at a loss." In truth, 50,000 happened to hit the middle-aged man's absolute psychological bottom line, but this was business—he naturally wanted to squeeze out as much as he possibly could.
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