A Historic Market Unveiling and the Birth of Trade

[azrid]

I'm glad somebody finally made a real market

It's a shop not a market though. Single person/organization selling stuff is not a market.

As the founders of trade, the Herald believes we are the most qualified to decide what our market should be labeled as. Thank you.

Its a shop unless you are offering barter stands for outsiders.

[TheHearthlandHerald]

bro haven markets are sad as fuck, whenever they succeed in being useful for the people, they inevitably get sieged, good luck tho getting those tokens

The journalists of the Hearthland Herald hold our values of integrity, transparency, and truth in the highest regard. Engaging in or endorsing any form of token purchasing goes against the very essence of our purpose. We pride ourselves on offering our wide selection of goods for items that can be acquired through reasonable means and that of course does not include tokens.

- The Hearthland Herald Team

[Saxony4]

I didn't think it was possible but this market is even more greedy than WB was
The selection is also severely limited
would not visit again

[OIchi]

The journalists of the Hearthland Herald hold our values of integrity, transparency, and truth in the highest regard. (..)

Saying that after mislabelling your shop as a market and calling yourselves founders of trade just proves how little value your words hold.

[VDZ]

To save everyone a trip, here's what they're buying (4 barter stands):

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(the bronze coins are also their own currency, 'writing quill')

Here's what they're selling (7 barter stands):

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hearthland herald shop selling2.jpg (217.26 KiB) Viewed 615 times

Not sure what the 'fountain of youth' stuff is about, there's no public well or anything. Just those 11 barter stands and a notice board with Hearthland Herald stories.

[Ø]

I'm not feelin' the new gold standard here...
Prices for consumer purchases seem about the same as bronze prices. Yet, prices for sales to get gold is 1:3(g:b).
Some items are worse on their price point; Heartwood Leaves in particular... Was 10:1(b:l) and is now 1:1(g:l).

No thanks. That's a lot of work for next to nothing while everything costs quite a lot.

[Adata]

Imo Herald has not only great journalists but neat market. Free press haters gonna hate.

[springyb]

+1 for gold standard and +1 for no tokens.

[VDZ]

+1 for gold standard

Huh? They're not selling gold (in fact, they're not consistently offering any item in exchange for their gold coins), and the coin costs are above their gold value (e.g.: guano is 15 quills (0.15 gold), while WEB buys it at 50 baycoins, and you can get a gold nugget there for 11 baycoins (i.e. guano is 0.45 gold there)). This is a fiat currency, worth whatever they let you buy with it. It's like claiming the US Dollar uses a cotton/zinc standard.

[Ø]

+1 for gold standard

Huh? They're not selling gold (in fact, they're not consistently offering any item in exchange for their gold coins), and the coin costs are above their gold value (e.g.: guano is 15 quills (0.15 gold), while WEB buys it at 50 baycoins, and you can get a gold nugget there for 11 baycoins (i.e. guano is 0.45 gold there)). This is a fiat currency, worth whatever they let you buy with it. It's like claiming the US Dollar uses a cotton/zinc standard.

The use of the word phrase "gold standard" is likely my fault and is meant that they seem to be phasing out their writing quill with a buy back to exchange them for gold coin. The phase out of the former standard is what makes their shop/market a "gold standard" and is not meant as a global standard.

Apologies.