When I was doing freelance training a company asked me how much it would be for a week's C++ course for X people, and when I told them they said that wasn't hig

When I was doing freelance training a company asked me how much it would be for a week's C++ course for X people, and when I told them they said that wasn't high enough. Yep, budget spend time. So I asked them, theoretically of course, how much they were expecting to pay (and then said that I was prepared to accept that figure, but only this once ;-)