devoutish | 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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You'll increase the quantity by how much?

[Is this stalling him? She suddenly has hope she might just make a deal while House is tapping away at his own tablet. She's overexcited, but not so overexcited that she forgets to bid low.]

arm length per animal

oh, pls
we both know he's not the type explode
he'll just try to murder me
or threaten me
calmly
isn't the satisfaction of knowing you screwed over alfie solomons enough?
or

[There's a long pause as if he's broken off and is reconsidering. Really, it's just for dramatic effect.]

look
you remember the last time i died?
i came back and played the piano in the school
solomons tried to request a song
and i told him to go screw himself in mime and song
i wasn't being cute
that limey bastard gave his scalpel to melborn to murder me
i wanna get him back
and that means socking him in the nuts (aka his "businessman" pride)

That's the deal I already rejected. We are still on for two arm lengths for the one cat, yeah? I will offer you one more for the same amount. Two arm lengths per cat, four arm lengths total. Then we're done dealing with the string.

Excellent use of pathos, but you make a habit of provoking people who are liable to murder you. What do you want to do, anyway? Try some logos on for size.

you know that would've been enough for most young, impressionable girls with a dad crush on me

ecks is trying to trade useful things for stuffed animals
you want stuffed animals too
i'm trying to reduce solomons' bargaining position
tell him you won't trade with him for those if he offers
i'll get you half of the stuffed animals ecks manages to purchase
provided it's more than one
i'm not dealing with her whining about cutting one in half

yes. agreed. two cats for four arm lengths of string.

[Is that a good deal? She doesn't know. The string is a finite resource and a valuable one, but there is a good deal of it on the spool. Surely she can spare this much, and she is very eager to secure another deal.]

[He sends the same picture to her again - four cats and the shark.]

Pick which ones you want.

Whatever he's trying to offer, tell him no deal and ask him to try his luck with Steph. She's going to reject him. Don't tell him that last part.

[At least House is pretty sure he can convince her at this point.]

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

A little girl like Hsiaoke?

[She's rattled by Alfie's ruthless tactics, to say the least. Ecks is going to develop a dislike for little girls, at this rate.

She starts well enough with a lowball offer, but House might want to take note of the way Ecks goes silent as she taps out several more messages and rapidly closes another deal on the same terms as the one she managed at the start of all this.]

[House grunts an affirmative, but he's wrapped up in his conversation with Steph for the moment. He will be severely annoyed later at her closing a deal like that.]

[Now that she's settled a deal, his advice of a moment ago will finally sink in.]

Why would he try his luck with Steph?

[Someone hasn't been paying attention to the other messages.]

I want the fish and also the cat on the right side.

[She already has a cat. She wants them all, but if she might only get two she had better get the fish, because she does not have any fish yet.]

Wow, you're even more delusional than my real dad was. And you're underestimating me just like he did... it's a match made in Hell.

Okay, deal. On the condition that I get half even if he doesn't try to trade with me. I have plenty to offer and there's nothing stopping me from going to him.

And no cutting them up, this place is creepy enough already.

snowhell, specifically

fine
deal
you're near the tunnels, right?
or already in them?

Because she asked for stuffed animals, too. She's going to refuse to trade with him for them.

Already in them. You?

I'm not so sure olive oil will work for what I need it for.

Are you sure that it's a spare scarf, sir? And please don't listen to Doctor House, he butts in where he's not wanted a lot.

Don't be like that, Dr. House, it's not nice to call someone a rube.

[He has literally NO IDEA what a rube is.]

I can make my own decisions and my own deals.

She also wants fake animals? [House might recognize the signs of alarm in Ecks by now. She's even ignoring her conversation with Alfie for the moment to hyper focus on what House is saying.]

I am not going to tell him to trade with another person who also wants them.

if you're using it to lube up the joints of your armor
it'll work fine
you'll just smell like olive oil

rube is short for ruben
it's what we call sailors in the future

[It's absolutely not.]

don't get your metallic panties in a twist

building 178
heading for 181 tomorrow

What did I just say? She's going to refuse to trade with him.

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