6.18.2 SHOPKEEPING
In order to purchase a shop, you must find someone willing to sell you
one. In order to do this, you could either go to various player-owned
shops in the major cities or Delos, and then type WARES. If the shop is
closed, then contact the city government about buying it from them. In
the case of Delos, speak to Razmael about buying a closed shop, although
these shops when closed are usually resold by auction. If the shop is
open, then you must contact the owner of the shop to purchase it from
him.
Once you own a shop, you may put items for sale by doing the following:
1) Drop an item on the floor of the storeroom for your shop.
IMPORTANT NOTE: Items dropped on the storeroom floor will not decay;
however, items inside containers will decay. Note that you can only
have 500 items in your shop at any time, priced or not.
2) Use the PRICE command.
Syntax: PRICE <item> <price> [SHELF <#>]
- If you wish to price a single item, use PRICE SINGLE <item> <#>. This
will only set that item at the price.
- If you wish to stop selling an individual item, you may UNPRICE
<item>.
- If you wish to share your shop with your friends, you may do
ALLYSHOP ON while in your stockroom, in order to allow those on your
allies list to use the PRICE command in your shop. ALLYSHOP OFF will
reverse this.
- When someone purchases something from your shop, the gold will be
deposited on the floor of your storeroom. Thus, it is in your best
interest to ensure that only you and those you trust completely have
access to your storeroom. READLOG SHOP will also show transactions.
You can also WRITELOG SHOP to leave notes for yourself or others.
- Your shop will cost the city it is in money to pay for guards to
keep thieves and brigands out of your shop. As such, the city may
decide to tax your shop. If you type CITY SHOP INFO while standing
in your shop, you will be able to see what taxes you owe.
- You may pay your taxes by typing CITY PAY SHOP TAXES while standing
in your shop, with the gold in your hands.
- You can keep track of any shops you own by checking SHOPLIST at any
time.
- You may add and remove locks to the doors in your shop with SHOP ADD
LOCK <dir> and SHOP REMOVE LOCK <dir>. Adding a lock will cost 1000
gold.
- You may fashion a key to work on a lock in your shop with SHOP
LOCKWORK <key> <dir>. You can get a blank key from any locksmith
with 1000 gold and the REQUEST KEY command. Keys purchased in this
manner will bear your mark.
- You may sell your shop to another player by doing:
SELL SHOP TO <person> FOR <x> GOLD.
The player will be asked for confirmation, and if he has the gold,
the gold will be transferred to your inventory. Be sure to give the
new owner your keys.
Note that both you and the person you are selling the shop to
need to be in the shop.
SECURITY NOTE:
- It is -highly- recommended that you place a monolith and a
key sigil in your stockroom. This will prevent people from
portaling in (monolith) and automatically lock it when you
leave the stockroom (key). It is also recommended that you
keep an eye/firefly sigil on hand to protect against the most
well-hidden of thieves. HELP SIGILS for more information.
See also: SHOPS, SHELVES, KEYS, SIGILS, SHOPCACHE, PRICE POLICIES
