Real-Life Decision Making -- Solution
You pay her fee.
She gives you the information and you are able to find Hong the next day.
As it turns out, he was hunting with his grandfather and staying at a campsite
an hour out of town.
The next day you tell your boss what you had to do to find Hong. He thinks
the extra expense was too much and he doesn't think the dealership will
be happy about it. He wants you to explain it.
You meet with the people from the dealership and they are thrilled with
your results. They think the extra expense was a small price to pay for getting
a "pain in the neck" like Hong out of their hair.
This situation is very similar to what Jim Voice, president of a credit
service, had to go through once.
"The source offered to provide us with the whereabouts of a highway tractor
we were attempting to locate and seize. The fee he demanded for the information
was, in my opinion, excessive, as it would be charged back to the owner of
the vehicle," explains Voice.
"I made him an offer of a finder's fee that I considered more reasonable,
but he refused. The source, I believe, then told the debtor that we were after
him, with the result that he paid the account directly and we lost the fees
that we would have earned for that seizure."