Wrought Iron for Bear Salami

[theTrav]

Ok, to clear this small flame war up, I was BUYING the salami WITH iron.
Not spending salami ON iron.
That means I give 5 wrought iron for a basket of salami, which is very easy to obtain.

I will give you one wicker basket of bear salami for 5 bars of wrought iron when I am online again in a fortnight. I may be able to arrange for another Laketown resident to make the trade in my absence.

[Trafalgar]

That's an insult which is uncalled for Trafalgar, I believe my reading comprehension is quite reasonable.

Your prior post was insulting, so you got an insult in response.

If you're wondering why I didn't try to buy it from anyone ELSE, I would assume that either
(a) other people weren't going to sell bear salami at such a low price either, or

You believe the bear salami is worth more wrought iron than what is being offered

A straw basket of bear salami is 4 bears' worth. I believe that people would rather eat the bear salami themselves than exchange it for 5 wrought iron. I know I would. That's a lot of stat gains and 5 wrought iron, as valuable as it is to me, would not be worth me selling the bear salami. I would be willing to collect and sell a lot of bear salami for a larger amount of wrought iron, however.

(b) If they WERE willing to sell it, I'm still not willing to BUY it for wrought iron.

Wrought Iron is of immense value to you, so you wouldn't sell it for ANY amount of bear salami.

No. There were enough bears around that I saw no reason to pay for them (especially not in something I couldn't make any more of and had to obtain through trade, not that I wouldn't be able to trade for it in other items).

I had plentiful access to bears, and wrought iron was far more precious to me than bears.

Bears are cheap as hell and not worth much wrought at all...

The stat gain they give is far faster than any other food. That said, you may find the amount of bears decreasing, especially the number around villages...

Why on earth would I sell bear salami for something I consider extremely precious?

ummm... you don't sell stuff that's worthless to you to obtain things that are highly valuable to you

Both of them are things I wouldn't want to sell (unless paid a ridiculous amount).

I cannot produce wrought iron.

The ONLY way you can obtain this good (ignoring stealing) is to trade for it.

Obviously.

From the lack of paragraphing in your many statements I'd guess that you're feeling a bit angry and typing before you've thought all this through.

Not particularly angry, no. Perhaps a little annoyed.

My stance is this:
Either you have a surplus of one good, and want to trade it for another good you have a defecit of
OR
You have no business in this thread.

Why are you here? You haven't posted any trade offer or anything.

Edit: Oh, nice timing.

[theTrav]

Your prior post was insulting.

I apologize for the tone of my initial post. You're right, it was over the top.

I stand by my general sentiment that you should not be commenting on trades that you do not wish to partake in or make counter offers for and politely request that you refrain from doing so in the future.

I make a similar request of anyone else who reads this message.