It didn't take long for Lynn to borrow List from Hill; he had to negotiate and clarify all resource prices with Laila: this lady is completely untrustworthy and very likely to exploit any loopholes.
Laila has always been capricious, likely to stir up some excitement intentionally to attract people to Luskan, but Lynn was unwilling to let Hill suffer such great losses.
In the past, using such gimmicks on the Ferun Great Land indeed worked; back then, there were only limited merchants capable of long-distance trade, and adventurers could make only a small profit from a few goods.
But now, there are nearly a billion Undead folks, each having considerable storage space, and they are typically wealthy—not to mention those among them with excellent economic acumen: Lynn had long noticed these intermediary traders skilled in reselling not only make profits among their kind but also trade margins between several cities.
