Although Lavinia has eloquently responded, I wanted to challenge anyone
that feels the newly create Act to read the following and act on its
behalf if their true intent is for the "free market."

Each and every guild that crafts, creates, cultivates, or summons forth
something that another party wants has a price list that is to be
adhered to by all members of the guild. This is a simple reality, and
the punishment for going against these pricings is harsh in every
guild's case. However, there are two significant differences when it
comes to the Lands and their bounty. First of all, if there was never
any pressure for herbs and elixirs at lower prices, we wouldn't have to
even be discussing this. If everyone out there, maintained their own
viewpoint that each person should adhere to their own guilds pricing
list, then everything would have continued along its happy little path.
However, this is not the case, instead quite a few out there
hypocritically assume that everyone should adhere to their particular
guild's pricing, but getting cheaper items from someone else's guild is
just and correct. The Forestal guilds even went so far as to drop the
prices of almost every herb to stay in tune with the emergence of new
areas that bear forth harvestable herbs. With this key idea in mind, if
anyone would like to report anyone that ever sells them an herb for less
than the minimum, we'll be happy to rescind said Act and restore the
previous. If you truly want a free market and can remain honor bound by
your own pricing and rules, then we'll be more than happy to let the
will reign. If you wish to continue to harbor these members that break
their Guilds rules, then we have to take all available steps to stop
them.

Which leads into the main reasoning behind any minimum pricing and how
those that break it hurts everyone. A price list is in place for two
reasons. The first is exactly why every other guild out there has a
pricing list, so that a competition doesn't occur that everyone is
underselling everyone else which leads to chaos. Again, in the case of
the bounty that we choose to share with you by choice, not by force,
leads to a second reason that trascends other pricing reasons. The
bounty of the Lands is not to be abused. Taking this into account, there
are only a few ways in which to regulate such abuse. Each way has its
benefits and detriments, but the most clear, simple, and easiest to
understand is by establishing a minimum pricing. By establishing such a
thing, it immediatly conforms the amount of herbs that can be sold to
the market itself because there is a finite amount of gold. For
instance, if everyone sold myrrh, maidenhair, and lovage for two gold,
then the Lands themselves would be quickly stripped bare to satisfy the
huge demand inherent in such cheap items. Thus the pricing serves as an
inherent regulator, so the demand doesn't quickly outstrip the ability
for the Lands to produce.

It's in your hands, if you want the ability for non-Forestal vendors to
price at whatever they want, hold the same committment you want everyone
else to hold with your guild, to ours.

Hunt, learn, and live,
-Rivaidan

Penned by my hand on the 11th of Naturalis, in the year 414 AD.