Best type of Bussiness

[Gary Connor]

What do you think the best things to sell are? Tools? Furniture? weapons? what? i have 2 shops in cantr, 1 is doing really good, and another is doing ok. (due to the fact there aren't many people where the shop is) What do you think?

[nitefyre]

Weapons and Tools, and of course Steel would always be wanted.

[Báng]

Helaing food where there is a lack of it, and food in general where there is a lack of it.

[Meh]

I was thinking of setting up healing food insurance at one point but never got around to it.

Insurance is the biggest scam going. Charge 10 people 10% of the amount of healing they are insured for. If you ever run out declare bankruptcy.

[ephiroll]

I've really never tried to set up a business, or at least one that actually functioned as one, my chars that did always ended up getting caught up in more important activities.

[Ash]

Heh, one of my chars is making loads of curing tubs, and other thing for clothes, he might make a business out of it, but is it really something to be doing? As people need clothes because most people are NAKED!

[Báng]

Yeah, the clothing business would be a great one to step into. One of my characters have suggested it to his friends, but I don't know if anything is happening.

Then again, some people don't really care if they have no clothes. Untill you NEED clothes, to keep you warm or something, characters mightn't be too bothered about them.

[Ash]

Well some people might be ashamed of what they have, flat chest, dinky winky.. lol. Ya know?

EDIT: Or what they don't have

[rklenseth]

My character, James Whitmore, has a pretty good business going in Seatown Forest but he is often side tracked as others need the other services that he can provide and is also well known for.

Another character, Thomas Covenant, created Covenant Corporation in Tircqi and that was really successful up until Purple Tortoise took over. When he returned to Tircqi, he wasn't able to work on it before he was murdered by certain people that didn't like the fact that he held too much power and he didn't have the same ideals as they did.

[ephiroll]

Yeah, I've been thinking about the recent introduction of clothing, a man could become very rich in that industry, but it would take alot to set up all the equipment, I think governments will begin to get into the clothing deal soon though, especially as uniforms for security forces and leaders at first, and it'll quickly become fairly common as more people gain access to the materials.

[Sho]

I know that Lad is making the machinery needed to make cloth. I don't know what the clothes will be used for, but it does seem to prove your point.

[Bowser]

I wouldn't want all my characters to be in the business of making clothes, but one of them does own all the machines and tools needed.

So far I have made a fur cloak, toga, hemp tunic... haven't made and silk or leather things yet.

One thing that has hindered businesses so far is that lay people sometimes make their own tools and manufacture items themselves instead of purchasing from business people. Maybe clothing will be one industry where it is cost effective to just buy from a provider instead of building your own machines.

[g1asswa1ker]

The big problem with the business is that they rarwly want to share or make a fair deal. IE rich get richer and the poor stay poor. I for one would like to have a full set of tools but iron hordes wont let anyone have some unless they trust you...dumb part about that is all I need is enough butter

[rklenseth]

Well I don't think the point of business is to share. Then it wouldn't be a business any more. But I think James Whitmore and his shop makes pretty fair deals. Better than any other place in Cantr.

[Meh]

Actually the profit part of business was not always there. It was long considered greedy to make any profit in some religions in others that is still the case and in other profit was always allowed. In a medival setting not that this is one the majority would be sort of "only enough profit to support the family".