Talk:A discount for purchase in bulk/@comment-73.161.104.62-20151204033417

I favor this transaction ardently.

Net results:

-Gain of Hedonist Quirk up to cap, a difficult thing to achieve by many other means and a good one if you have a large number of uncapped stats. Tends to get drained if you rely on Church ties to fend off Scandal, so a top-off is good when it's available.

-Loss of half an Echo. Yes, a firm negative.

-Transfer of 7.5 Echoes of Romantic currency into Wine currency. To borrow better words than mine, ,that's a big dump of 1879, if not a profitable one. Doing this seven times would cost seven turns and 3.5 Echoes. Bad deal, right? Acquire 100 1879 by simpler means; when is next convenient with the Portly Sommelier, exchange 5000 1879 for the '44 at a 10 Echo markup. 6.5 echoes up, maybe nine turns in. So far so good, still not huge profits but if we repeat this again or come by a 25th bottle of the '44, a simple item conversion will yield two Echoes in stories and, in th event of a critical hit - er, rare success, a whole Searing Enigma. The subsequent trade of these cellars is reasonably profitable in very narrowly useful currencies, so Cellars is a fine point to cash out in the wine trade once you've gotten certain other tasks out of the way.