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Yeah, this is the reason your discussion seemed kind of overstated to me. We have fewer connections, capital, and spare time than the other clans, so there should already be arbitrageurs in the market willing to buy up those cheap seals you were assuming would be on offer. (At least afaict, your idea relies entirely on us being able to buy cheap seals at X and then turn around and sell them to the people who are willing to buy them at X+1. In other words, it relies entirely on us being faster than those people, and faster than other people who would want to sell to them. (Also, either on demand for price X+1 being the same as demand for price X, or on us being okay hoarding seals.) Am I missing something?)
@eaglejarl, I doubt there's a big "print money" loophole here. It does seem like the price setting could end up as a price floor rather than a ceiling, which it sounds like is what you wanted? (Hypothetical Hokage is concerned about clans threatening to raise prices.) Assuming the Leaf Military Store sells seals back to ninja, though, their prices would act as a ceiling.
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I might be missing some of the nuances here though, like whether the Tower buys the Tower-price seals,, has first right of refusal on them, or just requires the price. Right of refusal does seem most elegant. For avoiding tricky back-and-forth trades (sealmasters A and B trade back and forth at Tower price, then do whatever they want), there's a) ANBU knocking heads together, or b) requiring the price for 50% of net seals sold. It's probably impossible to avoid clan-internal trades (you can't force them to post all trades at the Official Leaf Registry), but if All Legal Non-Clan-Interal Seal Trading happens at the All Legal Non-Clan-Internal Seal Tradinghouse, I think there aren't hard-to-patch exploits.
Ed: Probably it's unspoken but understood that all the clan sealmasters make a bunch of seals for internal use that obviously aren't listed on the market, plus maybe make internal clan 'gifts' that end up being sold/traded informally (again, not officially on the market). As long as the volume that trickles out to the broader market isn't too large, the Hokage tolerates it as clan prerogative, but if it's too much then there's the threat of punishment for contravening the spirit of the rules.
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