Ascelonia
29-10-2008, 18:53
Ascelonia Consolidated Industries is a band of supercorporations who have united to create a large industry, though not a large enough monopoly to supress ideas, competition, and innovation. We specialize in the sale of arms, but we also work in other areas of the market because we are a global conglomerate. The Office of Foreign Investments is now expanding to accomodate overproduction and an excessive surplus of goods (due to our technocracy). We are now offsetting our surpluses by selling to countries with greater need and urgency than we do.
All products come with a three-month warranty. Warranty may be extended to three years by paying an extra 35% of purchasing price. All products are non-refundable unless they contain a defect (that existed prior to shipment and after factory production). Prices are fixed and non-negotiable.
Our most important job, here, is to serve YOU our valued customers.
The Customer
1. The customer-nation shall ensure that sufficient funds are available before placing an order at a storefront. The customer-nation may do this by checking one of three budgetary calculators (Pipian (http://www.pipian.com/stuffforchat/gdpcalc.php?nation=sarzonia&defenseprovided=1&defense=21) (replace Sarzonia with your nation's name and replace the 21 with your nation's percentage of GDP spent on defense), Thirdgeek (http://www.thirdgeek.com/nseconomy.php?nation=sarzonia) (replace Sarzonia with your country's name to get your figures), or Thrace Taliteann (http://members.fortunecity.com/thracetailteann/html/gnp.html)). You are supposed to account for money needed for salaries, supplies, support, and other logistical and non-combat elements and not spend your entire funds on buying ships, tanks or artillery, or fighter jets. However, so many people spend on actual weapons on NS and do not factor in other expenses that very few storefront owners will get you for lack of attention to logistics. However, that lack of logistical foresight will show up in RPs, so keep that in mind.
2. The customer-nation shall write the order clearly and effectively. Some storefront owners (notably Isselmere and I) ask you to do some RP, even if it's as simple as "my country would like." That is a good way to provide you with quick RP skills. It helped me get more comfortable with RP here on NationStates. However, check the storefront thread you want to order from to find out what the storefront owner expects.
3. The customer-nation shall be courteous to the storefront owner at all times. There is no rule that forces a storefront owner to sell you items. If the storefront owner is giving you an IC reason for denying your order (be it lack of funds or concerns about your government type), getting nasty will not help your cause. Not only may you be alienating the storefront you tried to purchase from, but other storefront owners will be paying attention to purchases from their competitors. You may find it increasingly more difficult to purchase items if you start to get a reputation as a hard head.
4. The customer-nation shall pay attention to storefront conventions when it comes to payment of orders. Typing "money wired on confirmation" and receiving said confirmation usually means that the order is considered a done deal.
The Owner
1. The owner-nation shall outline policies regarding sales, discounts, and other storefront rules in a clear manner. In addition, the owner shall enforce these policies consistently with all customers.
2. The owner-nation shall confirm or deny the order in a reasonable timeframe as his or her Internet access and RL responsibilities allow. Denials for IC reasons such as those listed above shall be made ICly with an explanation. Denials for OOC reasons (for instance, if a country that the storefront owner IGNORES tries to buy something), the owner should post an OOC note denying the order.
3. The owner-nation shall be courteous to the customer-nation at all times. Even in a "game" that is largely based on the imaginations of its players, customer service is a vital element of storefronts. The better storefronts act as businesses, and businesses that neglect their customers in a highly competitive environment will be left behind.
4. The owner-nation shall not advertise his own storefront in an attempt to draw customers from a competitor's storefront. This is considered rude and the moderators will intervene if you do not delete such a post.
OOC: I am available to you during weekday evenings and sparsely throughout the weekends.
All orders will take a day to confirm after money is sent. It will take another day to ship products to your nation. We, here at Ascelonia Consolidated Industries, apologize if that is inconvenient.
We are not responsible nor do we claim responsibility for misuse, neither accidental nor intentional, of our products. Nations may do whatever they wish with our products. We have a "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy and if it does come to our ears that a nation is misusing our products intentionally. That nation will be blacklisted.
Nations can request to have another nation blacklisted, but they must have a good reason or they face the possibility of being blacklisted as well. To have another nation blacklisted, the nation in question must be either misusing our products or causing harm to our business (either directly or indirectly).
Blacklist
None
Departments
1. Non-Lethal Weapons
2. Small Arms
3. Assault and Heavy Weapons
4. Mobile Artillery
5. Heavy Artillery
6. Special Artillery
7. Artillery Munitions and Rocketry
8. Miscellaneous Weaponry
9. Armour/Armour Modifications
10. Armoured Vehicles
11. Ascelonia Transportation Department
12. ChronoTech Corporation
13. Arkadica Security Incorporated
14. Arcindis Construction Conglomerate
15. Tachyon Energy Corporation
16. TA Robots
17. Aotima Motors
18. Tourism and Entertainment Department
19. Miscellaneous
20. New/Temporary Products
Disclaimer: Ascelonia Consolidated Industries is not responsible and does not accept responsibility for deliberate or accidental misuse of their products.
All products come with a three-month warranty. Warranty may be extended to three years by paying an extra 35% of purchasing price. All products are non-refundable unless they contain a defect (that existed prior to shipment and after factory production). Prices are fixed and non-negotiable.
Our most important job, here, is to serve YOU our valued customers.
The Customer
1. The customer-nation shall ensure that sufficient funds are available before placing an order at a storefront. The customer-nation may do this by checking one of three budgetary calculators (Pipian (http://www.pipian.com/stuffforchat/gdpcalc.php?nation=sarzonia&defenseprovided=1&defense=21) (replace Sarzonia with your nation's name and replace the 21 with your nation's percentage of GDP spent on defense), Thirdgeek (http://www.thirdgeek.com/nseconomy.php?nation=sarzonia) (replace Sarzonia with your country's name to get your figures), or Thrace Taliteann (http://members.fortunecity.com/thracetailteann/html/gnp.html)). You are supposed to account for money needed for salaries, supplies, support, and other logistical and non-combat elements and not spend your entire funds on buying ships, tanks or artillery, or fighter jets. However, so many people spend on actual weapons on NS and do not factor in other expenses that very few storefront owners will get you for lack of attention to logistics. However, that lack of logistical foresight will show up in RPs, so keep that in mind.
2. The customer-nation shall write the order clearly and effectively. Some storefront owners (notably Isselmere and I) ask you to do some RP, even if it's as simple as "my country would like." That is a good way to provide you with quick RP skills. It helped me get more comfortable with RP here on NationStates. However, check the storefront thread you want to order from to find out what the storefront owner expects.
3. The customer-nation shall be courteous to the storefront owner at all times. There is no rule that forces a storefront owner to sell you items. If the storefront owner is giving you an IC reason for denying your order (be it lack of funds or concerns about your government type), getting nasty will not help your cause. Not only may you be alienating the storefront you tried to purchase from, but other storefront owners will be paying attention to purchases from their competitors. You may find it increasingly more difficult to purchase items if you start to get a reputation as a hard head.
4. The customer-nation shall pay attention to storefront conventions when it comes to payment of orders. Typing "money wired on confirmation" and receiving said confirmation usually means that the order is considered a done deal.
The Owner
1. The owner-nation shall outline policies regarding sales, discounts, and other storefront rules in a clear manner. In addition, the owner shall enforce these policies consistently with all customers.
2. The owner-nation shall confirm or deny the order in a reasonable timeframe as his or her Internet access and RL responsibilities allow. Denials for IC reasons such as those listed above shall be made ICly with an explanation. Denials for OOC reasons (for instance, if a country that the storefront owner IGNORES tries to buy something), the owner should post an OOC note denying the order.
3. The owner-nation shall be courteous to the customer-nation at all times. Even in a "game" that is largely based on the imaginations of its players, customer service is a vital element of storefronts. The better storefronts act as businesses, and businesses that neglect their customers in a highly competitive environment will be left behind.
4. The owner-nation shall not advertise his own storefront in an attempt to draw customers from a competitor's storefront. This is considered rude and the moderators will intervene if you do not delete such a post.
OOC: I am available to you during weekday evenings and sparsely throughout the weekends.
All orders will take a day to confirm after money is sent. It will take another day to ship products to your nation. We, here at Ascelonia Consolidated Industries, apologize if that is inconvenient.
We are not responsible nor do we claim responsibility for misuse, neither accidental nor intentional, of our products. Nations may do whatever they wish with our products. We have a "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy and if it does come to our ears that a nation is misusing our products intentionally. That nation will be blacklisted.
Nations can request to have another nation blacklisted, but they must have a good reason or they face the possibility of being blacklisted as well. To have another nation blacklisted, the nation in question must be either misusing our products or causing harm to our business (either directly or indirectly).
Blacklist
None
Departments
1. Non-Lethal Weapons
2. Small Arms
3. Assault and Heavy Weapons
4. Mobile Artillery
5. Heavy Artillery
6. Special Artillery
7. Artillery Munitions and Rocketry
8. Miscellaneous Weaponry
9. Armour/Armour Modifications
10. Armoured Vehicles
11. Ascelonia Transportation Department
12. ChronoTech Corporation
13. Arkadica Security Incorporated
14. Arcindis Construction Conglomerate
15. Tachyon Energy Corporation
16. TA Robots
17. Aotima Motors
18. Tourism and Entertainment Department
19. Miscellaneous
20. New/Temporary Products
Disclaimer: Ascelonia Consolidated Industries is not responsible and does not accept responsibility for deliberate or accidental misuse of their products.