On the evening of March 10th, Gorge posted the following to guilds.merchants:
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Any one vialating prices from dryad's page will be posted here for the first
offence most likly killed to show that we are serious. Second vialation you
will be DISINGRATED and i mean that!. For link to prices finger dryad. Any
comments about this post keep to your self unless you have some thing to
contribute. Ignore the typos:P
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I replied:
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In the past I have told several players that if threats of this nature are
made, I will begin offering free services (or cost of materials only, if any).
Therefore, unless Gorge's threat is immediately withdrawn, I will be
implementing that policy for as long as necessary. If Gorge wishes to withdraw
his policy, he is free to post so to this group. You have 24 hours.
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Since then Gorge has made no indication that he has any desire to withdraw his
policy. Therefore, I will be offering free merchant services until Gorge
withdraws his policy through a public news posting. Contact me for details of
services. If you agree that everyone should be able to set their own prices as
they wish without fear of retaliation, please support this policy and do not
take services from anyone who kills those who charge less than their "minimum
prices".
For the record, I am not against standardizing prices. I am against
threatening/killing those who think they can do better business by not
charging standard prices, for whatever reason.

-- Ayli