[TML] First Session CT Questions - long

[Richard Aiken]

On Nov 4, 2007 6:40 PM,  <shadow at shadowgard.com> wrote:
> On 4 Nov 2007 at 10:38, Keith Grant wrote:
> > When a player asks "can I
> > buy X here?"  The question I have to answer as a
> > referee is "Would someone selling X here be able to
> > turn a profit?"  When there's no profit, there's no
> > store.
>
> Not true.
>
> If there isn't enough profit, there won't be a store for long. But
> there are often optimists who think they can make a profit at
> something.
>
> They'll lose money and eventually go out of business. But they can
> hang on for suprisingly long times.
>
> So that means that unprofitable businesses are rare, and if present
> are either new and not bad or old and obviously not doing well.

Fred's Gatlinburg Autoparts: Owned and still run by an ex-mayor of the
town, who's well into his seventies now and severely crippled by
arthritis.  His prices are higher than the Autozone discount store
down in Pigeon Forge.  But he's known just about every mechanic in the
area since they were in diapers.  Most of them will pay a little more
for a part (and pass the cost on to their mostly-tourist customers . .
.), just to give him their business.

-- 
Richard Aiken

"Never insult anyone by accident."  Robert A. Heinlein