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Some of my pokemon seem to have laid eggs recently. I do not have enough space to care for all of them.

I believe that it is common for trainers to sell their excess eggs. If that is the case, then I would be willing to part with mine for a reasonable fee.

(OOC: EGG POST. Please go (here) on her journal and/or leave a note for me on plurk to receive an egg. Prices are P1000 across the board. First come, first serve!)

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[talkyourwayout]

[Louie's seen a couple of alerts go out like this from people, and he just thinks there has to be a better way to market the eggs. Sure, he's not looking for an egg - he's still working hard to catch the first Pokemon he hatched up to the rest of his team - but he figures maybe he and Rei can come up with something... Even if he doubts Rei has much business sense. She seems too quiet to be the type.]

I'm not in the market for an egg right now, but I'm thinking- I mean, the Pokemon will probably lay more eggs before long, right? Do you think you'll keep selling them?

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Yes, I think so.

[talkyourwayout]

Okay, cool.

Because I'm thinking, there's probably more ways to market this. I mean, yeah, even one egg will turn you a profit! But this could be an actual business for you, or anyone else who regularly sells eggs.

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What kind of marketing would you suggest? I am not used to the concept.

[talkyourwayout]

That's okay, I am.

Really, I think a good bet would be to set up a base of operations, so people know they can come to you. But that does mean you couldn't be moving around, traveling-- Which limits what new Pokemon you can catch, if you want to expand. You might be able to talk some locals into handling the "in one place" stuff for you, though! I mean, you're getting the eggs to people somehow, right? So instead of going directly from you to the buyer, the eggs would go from you to the base to the buyer.

Having a set place people know they can go to for eggs? I think that might change the market up, to your benefit.

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Perhaps others could request for me to look after their pokemon when I am present. That would increase the amount of pokemon I have access to, would it not?

[talkyourwayout]

There you go, yes! That's a great approach, I like it a lot. In fact, especially early on, it would be a good idea to see if you can keep an egg when there's more than one, as payment instead of the money. That way, you'll keep your access to that kind of Pokemon!

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That would be very efficient. Do you think such an idea could be successful?

[talkyourwayout]

Totally! Believe me, Rei, I've taken on some pretty big business ventures back home. I know about this kind of stuff!

[If only any of his business ventures has been successful...]

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What kind of businesses?

[talkyourwayout]

Oh! Well, there was Harp-B-Gone! That one took off fast, and it was doing really well! It... wasn't sustainable, though.

[Because he spent all the profits on merchandise that never made it to shelves-]

But my Uncle Scrooge started a lemonade company based on the Harp-B-Gone venture. There's still some things we've been working out, but I'm doing an internship there.

Plus, I wound up gaining control of Scrooge's whole company for a while, plus his biggest business rival's company, so that made me the richest duck in the world, for a day, anyway.

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For a day?

[talkyourwayout]

Yeah, I handed the company back over to my uncle after a monster tried to kill me.

I mean, it was this whole big curse, where the Bombie sought out the richest person in the world and would hunt them down unless they learned humility. Uncle Scrooge got him locked away, but I may have let him out. It was an accident! Anyway, I did learn something about humility from that, and so did Scrooge, so... The Bombie's free to do his own thing now, whatever that is.

Okay, so the whole thing was a mess.

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[adandyinspace]

your sales pitch is seriously lacking, you didn't even say what kinda eggs they are

like, are they even cute?

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I have eggs available for the following pokemon: Gastly, Solosis, Dedenne, Vulpix, Misdreavus, Phantump, Cutiefly, Hatenna.

I do not know which you would consider 'cute.'

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[adandyinspace]

i mean scientifically speakin here, "cutiefly" practically has "cute" in the name, so if that thing's ugly as hell i'd have a long talk with whoever named it

so how reasonable's this fee...

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P1000 would be sufficient.

[adandyinspace]

...ugh, dammit, I really didn't wanna shell out for another egg so soon, but the allure of some kinda secret cutie is killin' me...



fine, deal

guess you do know how to market after all

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I will send you the egg via the computer. Thank you for your purchase.

[adandyinspace]

yeah yeah, just as long as it's cute as it says it is

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It is a very small bug/fairy-type pokemon and looks similar to a bee.

[adandyinspace]

well there goes the SURPRISE

i guess...a bee can be cute...if it tries hard enough

it explains the "fly" part, anyway

so, like, can it make honey, or...?

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I believe so, yes. It likes to eat nectar.

[adandyinspace]

alright, so not completely useless

[Totally not considering selling honey to make back what he spent on the thing-]

a cute mhoney makin bee that i can only assume stings on command, you really oughta lead with that next time

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I will keep that in mind.