Week #3: Happy New Year! and How hard to Negotiate with Snake Eggs (or chocolate balls)

あけおめ！ことよろ！

Today's this class was the very first period of the very first day of school after the winter break, and how hard it was for me to stay awake......but the negotiation problem with rare snake eggs vexed me and thinking about it easily woke me up, haha......anyways, our group had really hard time to reach to one solution. I was a seller, Atsuko was a buyer #1, and Kenta was a buyer #2. I needed total of $300,000 to keep my business going on, so I thought I at least needed to sell 1 egg by $30000, and I have to sell 10 of them. Here is our solution for each to get at least some profit: Kenta buys 10 eggs from me by $300,000. And he makes some of eggs breed, make another couples, and make eggs again. Then he sells 10 eggs(keeps other 5 to his) eventually to Atsuko by $100,000. What a great idea! (we thought at that time.)  Atsuko is not in rush, so she can wait until Kenta's eggs to be breeded. Moreover, Kenta works in Biotech labo, so there might be new technology to breed eggs quickly. To reach this solution, we calculated each profit again and again, spending hard time on doing it. Therefore, I think you can imagine our reaction when Ken said buyer #1 only needs egg white and buyer #2 only needs yolk. I wondered why they didn't tell me about that! They told me about how much money they can spend on eggs, how many of them they want, and those stuffs. But they never told me about which part of the eggs they want......Kenta told me he didn't know what yolk was. Atsuko looked very surprised to hear Ken's words.
What I had learned from today's negotiation is that we need to look things diffrently, or from different points of view. We clung to the fact that we had to make a profit, and couldn't see other factors. And it is also important to give all information you have, even if there is some that doesn't seem important.
I thought I learned some negotiation skills from the last time, when we did the orange problems, but I made the same mistake again here......that we never came to think of separating what we want!
By the way, the eggs were so delicious^^ I was suppose to sell them but somehow I came to eat them, haha. Thank you for the eggs, Ken!