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IC trade organization post

To facilitate the spread of supplies, requested goods and goods available for trade may be listed here. ALFIE SOLOMONS may be contracted as broker for an additional fee to be negotiated by the parties involved. Brokerage services may include:

Negotiation of the trade deal
Enforcement of the pre-arranged terms of the trade deal
Delivery of goods

Once an agreement has been reached, the broker will require a small nonrefundable deposit, to be paid as soon as possible. Full payment will be due once the trade has been completed.

Participants must be aware of the risk involved in trade in Norfinbury, including but not limited to significant delays caused by unforeseen town activities and the disappearance of trade goods to due the deaths of one or more participants. The broker will be responsible for making a good faith effort to see a deal done, but cannot give a 100% guarantee of success. The initial deposit is nonrefundable regardless of the outcome of the deal, except in cases of negligence on the part of the broker. If a trade fails or is cancelled for any reason, final payment will not be required. Purposeful failure to uphold any part of an agreed-upon brokerage deal will result in future blacklisting from brokerage services.

The broker will not act as an enforcer for deals made by parties who do not hire him as broker from the onset, and no protections or guarantees will be given in these cases.

[OOC: WELCOME TO TRADEAPALOOZA. As you can probably tell, this is an IC trade organization post and brokerage service run by Alfie Solomons. IC discussion of any kind is totally welcome - just make sure it's under the right header! On an OOC level, it's like the player-placed items page in that it's an independent player-run thing and not managed by the mods. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me OOCly at

ihdreniel or through PM!

2/9/17 ADDENDUM: Since Alfie has been outed as the guy who stole House's supplies and characters might no longer trust him to see their supply lists/broker trades, I'm just adding a reminder that comments to this post can be filtered from him!]

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i like Doctor House more than I like you

[But does she like him more than she needs stuffed animals?]

Are you planning to hire Dr. House as a broker for us?

You walk away now to prove that you can. Then you come back later. Who are you trying to haggle with right now? If you've got more than one person offering you stuffed animals, you can use that to your advantage. Even if you don't, you can play it like you do to get them to lower their price.

I am trying to trade with Alfie.

[She doesn't look him in the eye as she admits it.]

He is the only one who has offered them right now. He agreed to give me one cat for two arm lengths' of clear string, but he has three more cats and a fish and I want those also and he would not agree to two cats in exchange for the clear string.

[She glances down at the most recent message.]

He wants to know whether I am employing you as my broker.

No. You're employing me as an advisor. You're doing this. I'll advise. And my advice is that you tell him Wilson offered you two stuffed dogs for a bottle of aspirin, and that seems like a much better deal. Because you're the one with something physically valuable here. If he wants to be a little more generous in his offer, you'll reconsider.

Show me the conversation.

[Looming now.]

[It helps that he's no longer telling her not to make the trades at all, but it's mostly a natural response to a clear command when she turns her tablet and shows the conversation to him.]

Alfie wants to see photographs of everything I am willing to trade.

Scroll up through the rest of the conversation. [If she does, he'll glance over the items she's listed.] He already knows what you're offering. Take pics of the things you already listed. Don't show him anything else.

Edited 2016-10-22 20:53 (UTC)

[ Fuck you House, Jack wants that schnapps too-- ]

Ive got a Scarf if You give Me the Schnapps, eh?

no. I am not planning to hire Doctor House as a broker for us.

[She attaches a photograph of a glass jar with a metal lid containing a dozen colorful thumb tacks, a clicker with a number display, a spool of fishing line with a small quantity unwound to show what it looks like, and, perhaps against Doctor House's wishes, a bottle of aspirin with its lid still on to conceal how much is still inside. If she's going to say she got an offer for it, logically she should show that it's something in her possession.]

Doctor Wilson offered me two fake dogs in exchange for the aspirin. Doctor Wilson has offered me a significantly better trade. I think that is the trade I am going to accept unless you want to change your trade.

[She's much more cooperative at this point, scrolling up when asked. When she sends pictures of all the things she's offered, she's perhaps a little more generous than desired -- she also includes an image of the aspirin bottle.]

Alfie thinks that I do not know how to lie. I told him that I had not learned to lie, and he tried to teach me how, but I think if I lie to him too much he will figure out that I do know how to lie.

[ Alfie's reply arrives, and she lets out a flat little groan.]

He knows that I can take more than one trade.

Edited 2016-10-25 18:15 (UTC)

Sure, all right. But you can accept more than one trade, can't you?

[House frowns at Alfie's message.]

Tell him you're aware of that, but since you have people willing to offer you better trades, you'll be holding onto your supplies until he sweetens the deal or you find someone else willing to offer you a better trade. Dr. Wilson's trade is proof that Solomons is trying to squeeze you for more than the stuffed animals are worth.

Also tell him good luck on finding anyone else to trade his stuffed animals with. You're the only buyer for those things here. That means you control the price, not him.

Edited 2016-10-25 20:40 (UTC)

[Fuck you harder, Sparrow.]

i've got a hospital bedsheet that can act double duty as a giant scarf and thin blanket along with the olive oil
this rube just arrived
you don't want him trading away vital clothes

Edited 2016-10-25 19:13 (UTC)

yes.
i can have more than one trade
i want more than one trade

[That's outside the script Doctor House gave her, though. She is glad that Alfie is not enforcing his rule about using voices for deals.]

but other people also have fake animals and if Doctor Wilson will give me two fake dogs for the aspirin that means that you are asking for too many things for the fake animals.

good luck finding anyone else to trade fake animals with. I am the only buyer for those things here. that means I control the price, not you.

Ecks, you do an excellent imitation of Dr. House. My hat's off to you.

This is a trade. We're trying to find a deal that satisfies us both. If we can't manage that, then we wash our hands of it. Yeah? It might be that we'll reach an agreement that we both find acceptable. If we don't, that's all right, I can give the toys to Emily.

NO
DO NOT
WHO IS EMILY

[Ecks faithfully conveys that -- perhaps a little too faithfully, frankly. Alfie's reply comes in a few moments later and she all but convulses, scrabbling out a short, immediate reply before she can even think.]

Edited 2016-10-26 03:01 (UTC)

You can do what you like with your things, and I can do what I like with my things. Right now, the toys are my things.

I HAVE: Rubber gloves - yellow Sanitary wipes Cephalexin (antibiotic) Hand sanitizer Ammonia Cigarettes Ceramic shards Screwdriver - flathead, slightly bent Can opener 2-blade razor Drinking glass Fork Metal coaster Coffee mug Cookie jar Glass Shards Red acrylic paint (mostly used up) Cadmium yellow oil paint Large tapered paintbrush Spiral notebook - black Spray paint - black Book on interrogation techniques Blue yarn - 2 pieces, one small mitten's worth each Charcoal Paperclips x5 Rubber bands x2 I WANT: Warm things for nesting Fake animals Stuffed animals Condoms Toothpaste Your soul

Edited (formatting) 2016-10-26 03:12 (UTC)

how would you feel about participating in a hussle on solomons?

[House facepalms and sighs when he gets a look at her message. He scrolls through the rest of the trading post.]

Emily's the little girl he's traveling with. Stall him.

[He sends a message to Steph.]

Edited 2016-10-26 04:24 (UTC)

Dispassionate. Would it be fun?

when is trying to rip off a 1920s cockney gang lord not fun?

When it doesn't involve a hilariously publicized overreaction.

["Stall him," House said. Go on with negotiations is what Ecks hears over the blood roaring in her ears.]

you do not have use for them
you have use for the things I have.
the clear string is very good and I will increase quantity for more fake animals.

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