Smurphy's E-mail Inf Exchange

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Smurphy's E-mail Inf Exchange
My account is @Smurphy

Current Rates:
Smurphy's Inf Exchange Rates:
Your Influence --> 95% my Infamy
Your Infamy --> 95% my Influence

I am re-opening my Inf exchange because of Issue 17's e-mail feature. My Inf exchange will be semi-for-profit. "Semi-for-profit" means I will probably make some money off this endeavor but I won't be using cut-throat business tactics and I won't be attempting to maximize my profits. The basics of how the exchange will work in I17 will be another player will send me an amount of Influence or Infamy via in-game e-mail. The first opportunity I am able I will send an e-mail back to that player with the appropriate amount of Inf from the alternative side.

I do all my business in an open and honest manner. I am sure many players can vouch for my open and honest services and that I will do what I say. I cannot say with a straight face that I only make "fair deals". However, I can say with a straight face that I will only take another players inf or items with their explicit knowledge and consent that I will be taking the Inf or items we agreed upon.

Any amount of Influence or Infamy is acceptable up to 1 Billion. Please only send me 1 Billion at a time. Please do not send me 4 e-mails of 999,999,999 each. If you want to do big piles I likely can accomodate it, but please only send the first e-mail, wait until you get the appropriate amount in return, and then send another. Please don't send me with fancy instructions or "send the inf to xxx". I want to keep it simple. If I'm not sure what is going on or for whatever reason I may simply ship back your Inf in the exact same amount and on the same side -- total refund.

My rates will change over time. I suspect that my rates will lower over time as I get a better idea of what the "average" amount going to and from each side will be. At the current time I believe more Infamy is desired to be exchanged for Influence. My rates will reflect that belief. If my rates are incorrect, they will be changed. The idea of the rates is to maintain an inventory of both Influence and Infamy at all times. At no point in time should I be in danger of only having Influence nor only having Infamy. My rates should change to prevent such things from occuring.

Smurphy's Inf Exchange Rates:
Your Influence --> 95% my Infamy
Your Infamy --> 95% my Influence

100 Influence you --> 95 Infamy me.
100 Infamy you --> 95 Influence me.

I highly encourage players coordinating with each other and finding better deals than I offer. Feel free to post here and coordinate with other posters that you find in this thread or others to get BOTH of you a better rate than what I provide. I cannot vouch for players who post in this thread. Please, just let me know how much you guys traded and at what rates. I don't even need both players names just a "we traded 100 at 1:1" or "I traded 10B at 1 Influence to .9 Infamy". I support competition, undercut me all you like.

I suspect various problems will arise from this service that did not arise in my previous exchanges. I will handle them as best I can. I'll be attempting to take screenshots of all the Inf I receive/send out. However, I still suspect that at some point in time problems of "I sent/you sent" will arise. Try to take pictures yourself of how much you sent and when. I'm not sure what will happen when MY e-mail is full. I'm not sure what will happen when YOUR e-mail is full.

Feel free to fire questions, post your own better rates, write-up testimonials about previous services you have received from me, or blame me for global warming and your inability to purchase overpriced Kinetic Weapons on the market.

I am curious, just from a purely academic standpoint, as to exactly how great a reserve you have to maintain in order to fill orders such as these. Seems like an awful lot of responsibility and potential risk due to crafty players trying to rip you off, so I assume you make a decent living off of it. However, I can't imagine how much start-up capital it must require to even begin such an operation! I don't mean to pry of course, and if you feel that revealing such information would be detrimental to your business, I totally understand.

I do think that it is quite interesting seeing all the ways people find to carve-out individual niches in MMOs, far beyond the scope of designer intent. Bravo to your entrepreneurial spirit!

I have run such services before. A large amount is quite important to have on both sides.

Allow me to shamelessly plug a contest I am running. Link to 20B Inf AE contest. I am spending 15,000,000,000 guaranteed to merely commission some AE arcs and another 10,000,000,000 if one gets Dev Choiced. That answer the question enough?

Honestly, I don't know how much money I have. *EDIT* I did count enough to cover the AE contest right now.

Most awesome, thanks for bringing it back Smurphy! You will have my business very soon!

You're a real market performance artist, Smurphy. Looks like a great service.

WARNING: I bold names.

can i just send love letters to your piles of inf?

I'm assuming Smurph will run out of influence fast and posting a worse rate: email me infamy and I will email influence, at 1:0.8 . (1 million of your infamy gets you 800K of my influence)

It's not even live yet, and already there's cut-throat competition.

I have to say though, it's a wonderful idea, and I'm sure I'll need it sooner or later.

wouldn't cut-throat competition be where I was giving people a better deal instead of a worse one?

Great service from two very honorable men, I may be taking you both up on your offers once GR opens up.

Smurphy, how should i contact you? i have 980mill sitting on redside and i need cash blueside. im @AresSupreme, @AresSupreme2

Tyvm Smurph. +1, fast and simple transfer

Bah, is there a chat channel output for sent e-mails? I couldn't find a way to confirm who I sent an e-mail to and how much.

Feel free to send me a test e-mail or a small amount first to make sure we get it right

Thanks for the service its very much appreciated

Thanks Smurphy!

So far I've received...

1,020,000,000 Influence from other players and...
1,820,000,000 Infamy from other players.

So far, even at these rates, I'm receiving more Infamy. Of course I haven't been open long and I expect more trades today.

Updating Rates. Recently I've been sent several billion Influence.

Odd that youre getting more infamy than influence. Everyone says that infamy is so much lower. Those numbers look almost 2-1 more infamy coming in. Or maybe im ooking at the wrong numbers.