It is outrageous that you can not produce an item for less than what it
sells. How do they expect people to make money at trades? With static
orbs costing about 1 pp, there is no way to make a reasonable profit given
that you must also buy pie tins and skewers. Yes, you can try to make the
pie tins and skewers but how many people are masters at pottery,
blacksmithing, and tinkering?

Well, rest assured, I will be sending /feedback to them on this subject. I
bet the next thing I will hear is that store bought cams are cheaper than
tinkered cams.

At 03:00 PM 07/06/1999 -0400, you wrote:

>From: "Apple" <scraple@...>
>
>Greetings Fellow Gnomes
>
>I am glad to hear that you are selling compasses at all. In many towns I
>have come to there seems to be a merchant who will sell them. The merchant
>is not used often from what I can tell because they are always stuck in a
>back corner. There is a merchant one in qeynos by the docks. if you walk out
>of Fishes ale and go to the docks you will see a tall building on your right
>and a merchant sitting in the middle of a counter that goes in a circle
>around him.. He sells compasses for 2pp and it seems to cost us 3pp to make.
>Anyone else see a problem with this? I for one think that the vendors should
>be selling there compasses for around 7pp. That gives us some nice room to
>work. I have also seen compasses for sale in the High Elf City and Halas
>(all
>for 2pp).
>
>
>Klade
>A Magician of Povar
>
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