Dealing before the game

Hello,

I have a question,

There was a situation where during choosing seats before final, player offered a Vp to another player for take exact seat.

Is it allowed?

I know that discussions arę ok according to this

groups.google.com/g/rec.games.trading-cards.jyhad/c/ma8z8iBgHEU/m/j6EWZ_p_1iAJ

But i'm not sure about this kind of "trading"