Like the concept, not the numbers....too small to raise my interest.
Suggestions:
1. Should be in 150, 200 and 250 regions.
2. Should be trade specific.....find the HA guy and he sells you a "set of mats" .... 300 shell, 300 lining, 200 stuffing, 200 clip ... the right proportion for you to make ya stuff.
3. Cost = 25 dapper per mat level:
One 150 mat = 1 x 150 x 25 = 3750
Ten 200 mats = 10 x 200 x 25 = 50000
Thousand 250 mats = 1000 x 250 x 25 = 6,250,000
4. Make finding him a mission. That is you find some unsavory character in each capital city (bartender for example) .... you pay him off to find out where he is. This does two things:
a) The mission, at least actually finding him, can be limited to once per season so no one individual can abuse the system. Can also have a time to find him, but if ya don't w/i allotted time frame, you can retake say 4 hours later.
b) It gives the solo player a chance to compete on a level playing field who can saturate the region w/ groups for the sole purpose of tracking this dude down.