Looking at the bright side: Yep, EU is growing alright, it is no longer the tiny village where one would suffer consequences for doing things like that. Consequences like being effectively blackballed and being unable to find a player to buy the shop who is either unaware of the history or does not care.
It's a shame, but ADI can be so blatant about it because the number of players with the means to buy shops is growing, and there is bound to be a few for whom money is more important than ethics or the interest of the community as a whole.
EU has been around a while, but it is only very recently that its business community has grown in size and diversity. It is no longer a small club of players who all know each other and, for their own sake, kept their dealing and relationships friendly and positive. We saw names on the mall auction that many long time players were either clueless about, or knew very little. It's good for growth, not so good for the business atmosphere.
Things are going to get more hard nose and not always pleasant in the future. We can't roll back time, but we can adapt. When New Oxford came about, I was thinking that business was getting more diverse, with more avenues and more complexities in valuating assets and potential business income. More shops in new context, more LAs, etc. Trust issues as well with new, or unknown players, getting in business in ways that, while "legal" in a EU context, might less than friendly toward the community in general and other business participants in particular.
EU has reached the point where some kind of Better Business Bureau would be useful to both businesses and customers, or at least a medium to collect and communicate relevant data and knowledge about business in EU.
Now, we are about to get a hundred new business owners in EU ... let me get back to you on this in a couple weeks ... I have some ideas
), so why bother selling here? just sell to neo.
