Thank you for reading the story and completely missing the point while proving it. You seem to assume he would respond how you would respond. He didn't. He had

Thank you for reading the story and completely missing the point while proving it. You seem to assume he would respond how you would respond. He didn't. He had never heard of the company because he had never looked. When I told him about it, he didn't care. When I told him they were possibly over paying, he didn't care. It was trivially easy for me to come up with that info and he had never cared to look at it before and he didn't care to use it when I told him about it. He didn't say any of the things you said. He didn't say anything even close to that. He had no intention of negotiating the price with the company then were likely to settle on. He was apathetic. *edit: You also seem to have completely overlooked the part where I said it was a combination of his apathy and the way the law works. The two are coincident. Seeking out companies for contracts is risky business as it can trigger collusion / corruption investigations (according to him).