[quote name='EgoFreaky' timestamp='1330302927' post='2928880']
Damn.. we've had this exact policy for years.. If I had known it would piss of MK to this extend I would have announced it on the OWF
Common sense?
You make a deal with an alliance, the alliance ensures it's paid up. You try to avoid the hassle and make deals on your own, you have to get your tech yourself and the alliance does not guarantee delivery.
Looks like common sense to me.
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The common-sense solution is to put the whole "white list" "black list" "official" "unofficial" "refundable" "nonrefundable" business on your own membership, which understands your alliance and its procedures, and to adhere to standard practices when it comes to foreign relations (taking action if your member runs away with somebody's money).
As a tech seller, when you accept that aid, you agree to send tech in return. If you take that money, you're taking the responsibility that comes with it. If you don't follow through on that, your alliance should just send the tech for you and consider it an opportunity to:
1) Keep amicable relations with the alliance the buyer is from, which has just sent an aid offer that would have benefited your alliance
2) Identify and help educate some of your members who may not be very familiar with tech deals
3) Identify 'problem members' and 'aid thieves' at minimal cost to you
All at a low cost of only 100 tech...
OR, you can go this route, insinuate that your membership is too stupid to understand a tech deal, refuse to force accountability on your membership, create needless and unnecessary paperwork and applications, and essentially 'black list' people who would be sending your younger members money that they badly need. You end up getting ridiculed for it (and rightly so), and eventually somebody might test it and end up either exposing your lack of a spine or destroying you and your allies.
All to save 100 tech...
[quote]Even bothering to reply to the likes of Penkala hints at a much bigger underlying issue. [/quote]
Good argument, man. Now who are you, again? And what have you ever accomplished?