Can't resell food

[Corwyn]

I just got the following message:
"The traders look at you funny as you try to sell them some of their own Food. It doesn't look as if they took it to be especially funny."

Here's the situation:
* I'm the Banker of a realm, and until just recently we had no traders.  So I sometimes have to move food myself to isolated regions.  I bought 200 food, and repaired.  Then a player just un-paused her character, a trader.  Great!  I can have the trader move the food for me.  Since I can't sell food directly to her, I try and sell it back to the region.  The region has an open "Buy" order, for the same price that it was selling food at.

However, I get the message above when I try and sell it.

I was about to open a Feature Request to allow this in the BugTracker.  But before I do so I wouldn't mind hearing feedback on this.  To me it seems fine -- if a region has a Buy and Sell order for the same price, what is the problem?  In some industries companies buy wholesale, and return what they don't use or can't sell.

[Tom]

No, this is intentional behaviour. There are several possible exploits if we allow re-selling.

[songqu88@gmail.com]

You mean in Avamar? Because if so, then this player thinks she knows the situation.

If you got the food from the region, then you can't put it back there. I don't know if there's some time limit though.

[vonGenf]

If there is one, it is very long, and buying one bushel of food elsewhere does not reset it. I have no idea if there is threshold at which it does get reset.

[Corwyn]

No, this is intentional behaviour. There are several possible exploits if we allow re-selling.

Even at the same price?  I can see the issue if they are at a different price.

[vonGenf]

Even at the same price?  I can see the issue if they are at a different price.

Tax evasion.

[Bael]

Tax evasion.

True, but that could be done more easily through temples or guilds, could it not?

[vonGenf]

True, but that could be done more easily through temples or guilds, could it not?

Only if you don't count your knights' share as "tax".

Admittedly, you shouldn't.

[egamma]

Just sell the food one region over, and the trader can take it from there.

[De-Legro]

Or use a trader market, you know the structure designed to allow traders to sell and buy from each other.

[songqu88@gmail.com]

If this is Avamar we're talking about, it does have a Marketplace...