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Frenzi

Tue May 18, 2004 2:14 am

Things havent been going well for me recently...ive easily spent 10m credits mastering architect, buying up a good stock of resources (high quality steel, and ore for walls) and have made a good amount of stock and put it on my vendor. Ive advertised and everything but I guess my shop isnt in a great location, and there are several power sellers who churn off hundreds of harvs in a run and can sell cheaper.

Have started to lose faith a bit recently until yesterday...

Sold a bulk order of BER 13 chems for 650k, a guild hall for 250k and other odds and ends. I log on this morning and someone has been to my shop and bought some of my snazzy furniture and a few other orders have gone through, totalling 500k in total.

Getting quite a few custom orders out of the blue from people who have probably just done a search on 'Master Architect' and its starting to get interesting.

This is my first crafting profession and im starting to enjoy it.

biwan:

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EnFERn0

Tue May 18, 2004 2:55 am

#2

Sales has been very slow the last weeks.

I logged on on thursday and too my suprice a staggering amount of 120 heavy harvesters was sold over the night!

Sales seems to be increasing again. First the holo grinders went nuts buying harvesters. Then they stopped, and people

have realised that the market is in high demand for more or less everything. Some have desided to go crafter to make some big fast bucks.

Here on Sunrunner, factories flora/chem/water sells good. Not to mention Fusions

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Frenzi

Tue May 18, 2004 3:13 am

#3

'120 heavy harvesters was sold over the night'!!!!!!!!!!!

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Dark_0ne

Tue May 18, 2004 4:31 am

#4

one question - why were you using high quality resources to make wall units ?

I thought that resource quality was completely irrelevant for these components .....

Tony Weyland - semi retired

Bandola

Tue May 18, 2004 4:51 am

#5

I suspect he meant he has been buying HQ steel (for harvs) and ore (grind quality) for walls.

Punctuation is our friend...

Message Edited by Bandola on 05-18-2004 04:52 AM

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Frenzi

Tue May 18, 2004 5:08 am

#6

(high quality steel, and ore for walls)

Yup...mustve bought about 1.2m units of verrrry nice steel, all essential stats over 950 but I know I only need crappy ore.

If anyone else out there thinks they are struggling...just get lots of components in stock, advertise as much as you can and wear your 'Master Architect' tag with pride as thats what people do searches for.

Cant wait till I get up the Merchant tree then I can have one of them annoying little barker droids aswell!

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Frenzi / Armourer
Cancelled due to the 'NGE'
They destroyed the game we love

Nadiel26

Tue May 18, 2004 5:36 am

#7

i dropped archie because my server is cominted by a few archies, 1 who can mine million and millions of resources each shift to sell cheap and still make lots of harvies......regrinding it to make custom orders for my guild since i didn't enjoy archie, just dont want ti to be a money sink again

Nadiel
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Pawlin

Tue May 18, 2004 10:14 am

#8

Frenzi, it sounds like you had an initial period where sales where slow but hten things started to pick up. That sounds pretty normal to me. When you first start out it will take a little while to build up business and get some repeat customers. It took me 1-2 months before my business really picked up.

Sales do tend to bounce up and down from day to day and week to week. You might sell next to nighting for 2-3 days and then one day someone will walk in and buy all your heavy floras.

And one week it could be 2-3 large custom orders and then the next week you might get no large orders.

Pawlin Construction of Kettemoor.
Harvesters and Crafting stations - Triad Coronet Mall just outside Coronet (-177 -5490)
Architect, House, Furniture, Harvester FAQ
Oprolan the Wookiee of Sunrunner. Cheap resources W. Daeric Talus (-639 -3058)
"Worst FF ever *thumbsdown*" -- Pawlin fan club
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NullTensor

Tue May 18, 2004 2:42 pm

#9

Nadiel26 wrote:

i dropped archie because my server is cominted by a few archies, 1 who can mine million and millions of resources each shift to sell cheap and still make lots of harvies......regrinding it to make custom orders for my guild since i didn't enjoy archie, just dont want ti to be a money sink again

Who are these Archie and Harvie people?

octobe

Tue May 18, 2004 2:45 pm

#10

NullTensor wrote:

Nadiel26 wrote:

i dropped archie because my server is cominted by a few archies, 1 who can mine million and millions of resources each shift to sell cheap and still make lots of harvies......regrinding it to make custom orders for my guild since i didn't enjoy archie, just dont want ti to be a money sink again

Who are these Archie and Harvie people?

lol archie and harvie people...LOL

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buffbc

Tue May 18, 2004 4:29 pm

#11

You will find that once you get some repeat customers and word of mouth gets out, especially if you do things like small bulk discounts (I mean it is no skin off my nose to give 10% discount on orders over 2 million :smileyhappy that people will be knocking on your door.

Heck I have one customer that brought in at least six others so far...needless to say I treat that customer VERY well!

Joeble
Master Architect/Master Artisan//Merchant/Pistoleer

Cafa

Wed May 19, 2004 12:46 am

#12

Wow! Most I ever sold off of vendor in a day is 84! That's great mate!

My colleague Pawlin speaks the golden truth. Architect is NOT the profession for people without patience. It's take long term planning and the ability to stick with a plan to stay successful in this market. If you cannot deal with long-term cycles of business I seriously suggest armorsmith and weaponsmith. Your life will be much easier, IMO.

Of course those have their trials and tribulations too, yet architect is fundamentally unique in the volume of resources required for the simplest of items. That same amount of steel you bought could make enough weapons for all the players on the server, probably.

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Pawlin

Wed May 19, 2004 9:55 am

#13

Frenzi wrote:

Well had an email yesterday asking for a quote for 30 heavies, sent off what I thought was a reasonable quote but he didnt get back to me. Guess ill have to check my prices compared to others.

Its a good idea to know what the competition is charging for stuff. But there will always be someone cheaper than you. It may sting to lose a large order like this but I wouldn't be too hasty in dropping your own prices. You might want to enquire with that person and see if they are still thinking about buying the 30 heavies or not. If they are shopping around then you could try haggling a little if you want to get the business.

Pawlin Construction of Kettemoor.
Harvesters and Crafting stations - Triad Coronet Mall just outside Coronet (-177 -5490)
Architect, House, Furniture, Harvester FAQ
Oprolan the Wookiee of Sunrunner. Cheap resources W. Daeric Talus (-639 -3058)
"Worst FF ever *thumbsdown*" -- Pawlin fan club
"I am not going to win Miss Congeniality again this year in the Senate." -- John McCain

** Please refer to Elyssa's answer

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