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« on: July 24, 2013, 04:43:24 pm »
How bartering works:
Buyer: I'll give you 1,200
Seller: (thinks, "Hmm, it cost me 1,000"), how about 1,500?
Buyer: I could do 1,300...
Seller: 1,400 and you have a deal
Buyer: let's split the difference and call it 1,350
Seller: deal!
How bartering works in DF (at least in a new fort):
Buyer: I'll give you 1,200
Seller: (thinks, "Hmm, the value is 1,000), how about 1,900?
Buyer: I could do 1,400...
Seller: 2,100 and you have a deal
Buyer: You are gouging me, but I'll be willing to split the difference. 1,750.
Seller: Look, I'm getting angry here, let's just say 2,500
I get annoyed at the screen sometimes in these situations and end up seizing the goods (or deconstructing the depot). In my current game, I've found that if you do it more than once or twice it just makes it worse -- it is getting to the point where the first counter-offer is more like 5,000. I've even tried buying about 1/3 of what I wanted at a ridiculous profit ("The trader seems ecstatic with the trading"), but as soon as I tried to offer the other 2/3 of the goods at a 25% profit, the counteroffer went way up again. Did I screw myself here?
