IC trade organization post

[devoutish]

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!]

Comments

BROKERAGE SERVICES

[devoutish]

Comment here in character if your character wants Alfie to help them broker a deal and/or deliver goods!

@username; text; private

[advanced]

Do you keep anonymity?

@ASolomons; text; private

[devoutish]

I do.

[advanced]

I want the ammonia.

I have an artist's smock and bubble wrap for her requirement of 'nesting'.

What's the fee?

[devoutish]

Now, wait a moment. You want to be anonymous from Stephanie as well?

[advanced]

Yes.

[devoutish]

That's a bit curious. I'll ask her if she'll agree to a deal with an unknown party.

@LELRIC; audio

[armoured]

Excuse me, Mr. Solomons, it's Alphonse Elric here. Kunsel and I want to trade machine oil for toothpaste and sauce packets, but we're pretty far from each other. Could you help out?

@ASolomons; audio; are we okay to say this happened either late on 173 or on 174?

[devoutish]

[Points for replying in audio like a civilized man, Al.]

I can, yeah. I'm a bit under the weather myself at the moment, but I've got a boy I might employ.

absolutely!

[armoured]

Really?

[That's concerning for Alfie being ill.]

How much would you charge for delivering to us both?

[devoutish]

You'll give me something small for arranging it, and him something a bit larger for his time and effort. The payment to me, which you'll give to him to pass on, will act as the deposit.

Your last sauce packet seems a fair deposit to me. Do you accept?

[armoured]

Sure, of course.

[That's no big thing, he's happy to part with it.]

Who are you using as a runner?

[devoutish]

I'm arranging that now. Sora, most likely; he'll come to you first. If not him, if someone else, the deposit will need to come from Kunsel instead, but we'll arrange that if we need to.

If I can't get anybody else, I will do it myself, but I'll be moving slower than I would normally. You would get a discount, in that case. Smaller payment.

a few minutes later

[devoutish]

Right - we're offering to do this in exchange for the sweet and sour sauce, the handsoap, and the protein powder. That's all coming from you, because he'll be starting with a pick-up from you and ending with a delivery to you. If that that offer's not acceptable, or if you want Kunsel to share in the payment, we can work that out. Bargaining. Yeah?

@cutthroatbitch; voice; Day 189; private

[wilsonsheart]

Hello, Mr. Solomons.

I don't have any current arrangements with anyone for any deals, but I was wondering how you'd feel about having a doctor on call for any potential future inquiries from your clients.

@ASolomons; audio; private

[devoutish]

What does doctoring have to do with trading?

private

[wilsonsheart]

Doctoring doesn't, but I was thinking less along the lines of my medical skills and more along the lines of being able to write prescriptions.

private

[devoutish]

Mm.

[He likes this idea, potentially.]

Yeah. Have you got a flat fee in mind, or are you flexible?

private

[wilsonsheart]

[Amber smiles to herself. This is going well, so far!]

Very flexible. Right now I'm interested in making a med kit, but I've been told that I might be able to persuade people for donations.

[After all, giving her medical supplies just means she can help treat the injuries of others.]

private

[devoutish]

Yeah. I'm sure you could, yeah.

Put your name on the list. Supplies offered - prescriptions.

@LELRIC; audio

[armoured]

I have some cookies, they're fresh and warm at the moment, though obviously they won't stay that way forever. I wondered if you could help me get them to the children here, maybe one each if there's enough?

@ASolomons; audio

[devoutish]

They won't stay that way for longer than five minutes, I'd wager. How many have you got?

[armoured]

[The description just said 'cookies', so let's go with twelve because my cookie trays are all in dozen batches.]

I have eleven now, I gave one to Mr. Gray.

[devoutish]

You're traveling with him, are you?

[armoured]

Yeah, that's right. We've been together for a while now.