You mean, Im free to go have lunch and what not?!
And there was much rejoicing.
Curse you Haggle!!!
Just when you think you are out of it, they pull you back in.
Go have lunch anyway, Meeko. I won’t start until you’re back. 
How will know when he gets back? He doesn’t post very often in fact he mostly lurks.
Lolz. Problem was, I didnt know when I was going. Im EST, so I Was gonna go at 12 or 1.
:-\
I could take my Ipod Touch with me, hit up the wi fi spot in route…
Then I really would have a problem with haggle, wouldn’t I ?
Hey, No simulposting Insults!!! 
[Hijack]
Interesting The Price is Right Episode on today.
All Eco Friendly prizes.
Happy Earth Day!!!
[/Hijack]
Oh no. I confused the scheme here. It’s:
Blue to offer
Gren to accept
Red to withdraw
Sorry about that.
One small detail from perusing past threads:
At the end of the game, you are NOT expected to quote any rules, or mention any points with your portfolio. You simply tell me which cards you are handing in. I do the scoring.
Are we still waiting for confirmations?
No, but we’re waiting for Meeko to come in and say that he’s back from lunch. 
Also, I’m putting together some more helpful info from scanning previous games.
Kickoff will be this afternoon sometime, and close of trading will be next Tuesday evening, the 28th, around 7pm EDT. A nice quick and puzzling round of trading!
A week? A week?!
how…
Weak!
Oh, and I’m back btw.
Repeating a detailed rules post, has some important stuff especially for newbies, so READ THIS:
Here’s how it works. At the start of play, your humble Hagglemaster, (that’s me,) hands out packages to each player, including some valuable game tokens with different identifying characteristics, and also numbered rule slips. The slips, taken as a whole, form a set of rules determining how a ‘portfolio’ of tokens would be scored or evaluated at the end of the game.
You the players are free to make just about any deals you like in the hopes of amassing a killer portfolio, based on, but not limited to, the following types of transactions:
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One player giving another a token
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One player showing another a rule slip, letting them read it and memorizing it, and then taking it back
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One player giving another a rule slip.
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One player giving out an ‘IOU’ that will be redeemed for a specific number of points after the debtor’s portfolio is scored, and before the winner is announced. In case of conflict, all IOUs are evaluated in terms of the order that they were incurred. If the player who owes you points runs out and goes bankrupt, you cannot collect.
For instance, a proposed deal might be, “Hey Joe - if you let me take a good look at rule #16, and throw in that green card, I’ll give you rule #5. You can’t beat that offer!”
As you might imagine, there’s always a fine line to walk between the tokens and rule slips - don’t give up too many tangible assets in exchange for information, but you need to accumulate enough information to tell you what the tokens are really worth.
There may be ‘white elephant’ tokens that have a generally negative effect, however these can be left out of the portfolio if the player is aware of their impact - similarly, a particular bonus rule might require that only so many of a given counter be submitted - the excess can be discarded before the end of game. Or rules might stipulate that having a particular combination of counters or meeting a specific condition will penalize you.
And, at the end of the night, everybody hands in their portfolios for evaluation, and a winner is determined according to the rules from the slips.
Regulations:
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You cannot contact any players about game strategy off the thread. No deals can be proposed, accepted, or rejected in secret. Everybody can see what everyone else is doing, (if they can keep up with the thread.)
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All players are in this for themselves, winner take all. I don’t expect to sign off on any limited partnerships like doctor/naf from H1 or phi/teach from H3 this time.
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The tokens and which number rule slips a player holds are always visible to all, once the moderator has caught up on recent trades and posted an update.
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Trade offers are ALWAYS numbered in sequence, (no matter if they are ‘counteroffers’ or not,) and should be colored in blue for ease of reading when scrolling through the thread. Acceptances are in green and should always quote or otherwise indicate which offer is being accepted, and exactly what any terms that have been left open in the offer should be finalized as. If there is any ambiguity in the acceptance, the trade is void until corrected. Removing a trade offer can be done at any time, and should use red lettering.
Examples:
Post trade offers, in blue, in something like the following format:
Chrisk offer #1: I will give AmazingSarah an F card in exchange for getting a look at rule slip #20.
There are a lot of variants on trades, obviously - you can leave them open to many people, you can leave a lot of options available in what you’re willing to take or receive. You can also mark a trade as ‘repeating’ if it’s such that you’d be able to fufill the terms of the deal more than once, in which case, please say (repeating 4 times) or (repeating infinitely) and more than one player will be able to accept that offer, or one player more than once.
If a trade has some options, such as:
Chrisk offer #3: I’ll show anybody any of my rule slips in exchange for two letter cards, or one letter card out of the following: V, W, X, or Z
Then, if you’re accepting, you MUST specify all of the options or the acceptance will be null and void
BAD - Okay, chrisK, I’ll accept offer #3 and I want to see rule 11.
GOOD - Okay, chrisK, I’ll accept offer #3, and give you two C’s in exchange for rule 11.
Accepts will be posted in green. If you want to make a counter-offer inspired by someone else’s offer, then just post it like any other offer, including numbering it in the same sequence - that is, if you’ve gotten up to offer #4, a new counteroffer will be offer #5 (or counteroffer #5 I guess,) not counteroffer #1
To withdraw an offer before it has been taken, use red. Withdraw my offer #2
And if you can quote someone else’s offer while accepting it, all the better!
After a trade involving rules is finalized, either I will PM both participants with the rule text, or if I’m not online, the traders can PM each other and me. However, do not PM each other rules unless you are VERY sure that the trade involved is a legal one, and particularly that you ‘have’ the rules you’re PM-ing, not ‘seen’ them.
So, is that Iron-clad on no partnerships, or, are you just saying it is unlikely?
Not that it helped them out anyhow…
Very unlikely. But you can ask. Speaking of which, for the record…
In my games…
Asking forgiveness for bending the rules can get you kicked out. :eek:
Asking permission to bend the rules will usually work. 
Does that mean that my pre-conceived ideas involving basic algebra should be thrown out? 
Why throw anything out? If you’re uncertain about something bending the rules, run it by me - in PM if you like. 
Nine clones enter Alpha Complex and are issued instructions and relics by The Computer:
Just Some Guy
Holds rules: 1, 2, 8, 16
Has seen rules:
And holds these coins: 2 Dimes, 1 Nickel, 3 Pennys, 1 Quarter
Justin Credible
Holds rules: 3, 5, 6, 13
Has seen rules:
And holds these coins: 1 Dime, 1 Fifty Cent, 2 Nickels, 1 Penny, 1 Quarter
Mahaloth
Holds rules: 7, 14, 15, 16
Has seen rules:
And holds these coins: 2 Dimes, 1 Nickel, 1 Pound, 3 Pennys
Meeko
Holds rules: 4, 8, 9, 10
Has seen rules:
And holds these coins: 2 Dimes, 1 Nickel, 1 Penny, 1 Quarter, 1 Toonie
MHaye
Holds rules: 1, 11, 12, 15
Has seen rules:
And holds these coins: 1 Dime, 2 Nickels, 3 Pennys, 1 Quarter
NAF1138
Holds rules: 2, 4, 11, 12
Has seen rules:
And holds these coins: 1 Dime, 2 Nickels, 2 Pennys, 2 Quarters
Oredigger77
Holds rules: 5, 10, 13, 17
Has seen rules:
And holds these coins: 1 Dime, 1 Fifty Cent, 1 Nickel, 1 Penny, 2 Quarters
phi2dao
Holds rules: 1, 3, 14, 17
Has seen rules:
And holds these coins: 1 Dime, 1 Nickel, 1 Penny, 2 Quarters, 1 Silver Dollar
sinjin
Holds rules: 6, 7, 9, 14
Has seen rules:
And holds these coins: 1 Dime, 1 Fifty Cent, 1 Nickel, 1 Quarter, 1 Silver Dollar
Meeko Offer 1:
Mahloth:
Your Pound, for My rule slip 4. The actual slip, not a look.
NAF Offer #1
I will trade looks of any of my rules for looks of any rule I do not own. Just looks.
The trading bell didn’t ring yet, guys, but that’s okay. I’ll ring it now, since everybody should have their rule PMs.
Good luck!
TRADING IS NOW UNDERWAY, DING. Meeko offer 1 and NAF Offer 1 are considered to be available for acceptance.