User blog comment:Doctor Ibrahim/Ask the Doc and his Family!/@comment-27950421-20170302224659/@comment-28358106-20170508171117

"And that is an interesting point to consider, and, I think, a perfect opportunity for us to bring up the finer points of how our market works."

Adelaide puts out her cigarette and leans back. "We, of course, have guilds of our own. The Aengerithas, which goes by the somewhat innacurate but easier name to remember of the 'Smith's Guild, ' is run by the Dwarves, as you now know.  To be able to sell metalwork or materials related to metallurgy of any kind, one must belong to the Aengerithas.  The same goes for the Seamstresses' Guild, which is a state-run organization overseen by a cadre of Arachnes.  They hold the market over all soft goods.  To sell either kind of good requires membership into their respective Guilds, which only requires a nominal percentage of sales of those goods, the number of which currently escapes me..."

"One to five percent, My Lady, depending on the quantity," Asja says.

"Ah. Thank you, darling.  So you see, the sellers here in the Capitol already have a membership into those Guilds.  While I see no problem with them joining your Gold Scale Guild, they may take issue with having to belong to multiple Guilds.  Thus, I have a proposal that would allow you to avoid your goods being tarriffed through those sellers, and break into a budding, high turnover market at the same time."