To: Bristol Constructions | From: Abel Deacon of NHI

[Shulsky]

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User ID: Blake, Esme
Recipient: Deacon, Abel
Subject: Platinum Inquiries
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Good afternoon Mr Deacon,

I agree that the route is convenient for traders, close by, safe, and only moving through Liberty itself. As such, under normal circumstances, Bristol would prefer that customers purchase Platinum from our Arcetri installation directly. You and Elcano Manufacturing Complex, however, desire a special degree of attention and the burden of supplying your own installation - a degree of attention which, as I said before, costs.

If it was as you stated, that the route would be convenient and good and such, then Elcano should have no trouble whatsoever in attracting a base of nominally independent traders who would be willing to supply the station with such goods or your installation would simply supply itself directly - the normal course of events. This appears to not be the case.

As such, we believe that supplementary payments for shipments of Platinum to Elcano are very well warranted as you would be paying for the convenience of not having to supply the station as well as the inconvenience of those independent contractors and affiliate companies. Bristol is willing to negotiate such payments down to 100.000 sc per every shipment of 4.000 units of Platinum or more, but we feel that they are a prerequisite of holding the capacity to make such demands. A increase of profit by 25 sc per unit would, after all, incentivize traders further.

If this arrangement is unacceptable to Elcano Manufacturing Complex, then our apologies and our recommendation that your installation either supply itself or advertise itself to the greater trading community - possibly through listing your stocks and purchasing prices of Platinum on the Neural Net.

May the new year prove fruitful to you as well.

V/R
BLAKE, ESME
CO -BCV-SAGGIATORE (IND-BRI00033-K834)

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