Okay, you might be right about that, but if you are, it just proves my point even further! He's giving them away! I guess the original plan was just to offer up Chewie as a token of goodwill as well, but when he saw how easily Jabba took the droids, he went, "Hey, Leia, screw giving our friends away! Maybe we can make some money off of this! Alright. Here's the plan..."
Luke Skywalker: first of the new Jedi or entrepreneurial douchebag? You decide.