Talk:Tom/@comment-5965519-20150412164619

The first page of the newspaper includes a DAILY DEAL, offering one tool for some number of gems. It will always be more economical to hire Tom to go find those tools for you, rather than choose the Daily Deal. You can usually hire Tom for less than half the cost of the Daily Deal, and he is then yours to send out up to 12 times in a day (every 2 hours in 24 hours). He offers you between 7-9 of each tool, so you could potentially get about 90 of the tool you are seeking, rather than the 20 or so of the tool offered in the Daily Deal.

True, the newspaper does not cost you coins to buy a tool, but Tom always sells at wholesale to you (see my blog mentioned below), so you can buy one extra round of tools or other items from him and resell them for a profit to make up the difference. And the savings in gems is far more significant.