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Didn't he pay too much if 3 extra hitmen accepted a reduced offer? Only the last one was below market rates it seems.

• iakh 7y ago
  Or not enough since the job was not done
  • onetimemanytime 7y ago
    No, he paid so much that everyone thought they'd make money and not do the killing themselves. Had he offered say, $30k, the killer would not have outsourced it.
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    • Someone 7y ago
      …and the job might have been done (might because the first person in the chain may never have intended to do the killing himself. The intermediates may just be brokers needed to move from the circles of rich Chinese to the circles of killers) Of course, offering too much also runs the risk of “Chinese Whispers” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_whispers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_whispers) the initial message “Foo will pay $X to kill bar” could end up as “bar will pay $x to kill Foo”.