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Market Procedures

Mar 31, 2013 13:21:03 GMT -6 Word Count:

Post by Brady on Mar 31, 2013 13:21:03 GMT -6

Market Procedures

The Black Market is for selling outside of the Emporium... outside of the law itself. It also functions as a pawnshop, which is useful for a quick loan or to avoid the hassle of finding a buyer. As they say, one man's trash is another man's illegally traded treasure.

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Characters may sell, purchase, or otherwise trade any appropriate merchandise by creating threads in this board labeled with their corresponding intent--"Buying" or "Selling." Your post should describe what you are looking for or selling, whether it is specific like "Auditory Sensory Power Level 4" or broad like "any sensory power." It should also cover what payment is desired/being offered and if there is any room for negotiation.
Sales may be through a variety of methods, such as a silent or public auction, flat/direct sale, or an offer system. Although bids or other communication may be handled through private messages if desired, all involved parties must post clear, public consent to the transaction before staff will process it.
Merchandise considered appropriate for selling and/or for payment includes, but is not limited to: real money, IC currency, artwork, items, alliances, knowledge, slaves, tamed horses, herd members, property, discounts, deviantART points or another site's virtual currency, favors, plots, and memberships.
These exchanges may be IC or OOC, decided by the thread's creator in their 1st post. IC threads can still have OOC notes within them to account for OOC-specific content, such as trading art. If you choose to roleplay your exchange, you must adhere to the 200 word count minimum per post. Equine and OOC accounts are permitted to use the Black Market; while it is simplest for equines to handle black market exchanges OOC, they may be roleplayed if you can reasonably explain the horse's presence. Horses and humans cannot communicate without appropriate abilities, such as through the alchemical potion "Species Swap."
Once an arrangement is set, either the customer or seller may post in Invocation for staff to distribute any agreed payment. Inform staff in your Invocation post if you would like to continue roleplaying in your purchase thread, otherwise it will be archived.
If you are struggling to generate attention or interest in your post, you may wish to advertise through our site-provided systems, such as our classifieds, the IC newsletter, an IC thread via character-to-character interaction, our adbox in the left-hand sidetable beside the cbox, or the "promotion" field in your account under edit profile > personal.
You may also bump your thread by posting "bump" once every 7 days; this will push your thread to the top of the board, renew its link in the "5 most recently updated threads" section of the left-hand sidetable, and raise your position in recent threads.

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To pawn an item, create a thread in the Black Market with the label "Pawning" and post in Invocation for staff attention. List which item(s) you are pawning and a receipt for where it/they were acquired.
Staff will pay you 75% of the item's cost and remove the item from your account's inventory. The amount paid is always rounded up to the nearest whole coin/spirit. If there is not set price for your item, administration will do their best to determine its approximate worth.
The pawned item is held by the site for 14 days. During this period, you may buy the item back at the same price the site purchased it for by posting in your original market thread.
After 14 days, the item is considered forfeited and the original market thread will be locked and archived when next noticed by a staff member or when reported through Invocation. The item is then released for public sale for a higher set price. You may purchase your own item back through the public sale bulletin at its new price if desired.

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