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Thread: Pricing guidelines... think about this before you say no.

Cafa
Wed Nov 19, 2003 11:05 am
#27






Dayln wrote:

It is so simple, charge less than they expect to pay and you have a customer for life. They will buy everything from you. This would work better if we had decay, but it has worked for me as it is.


You guys are free to price however you want too, and so am I.




Not only gave but MADE IT ON THE SPOT (50 minutes of play time) a large Tatooine house for a Master Tailor last night in a jam because old deeds won't work on other planets. Offered it as a gift and received enough materials in exchange to make something like 200 tents.


One hour later, four e-mails with referral orders from her. It's not always just the price.


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Master Artisan - Architect 4/1/4/3
Tempest - Dantooine - Northern Plains




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Dayln
Wed Nov 19, 2003 11:42 am
#28

Exactly right! Good show!


You do right by your customers, and they will do right by you!

Adune
Wed Nov 19, 2003 12:16 pm
#29



Dayln wrote:

I am getting paid for the work I do, and making millions of credits,currently around a million cr a week.

IfI can make that kind of money at my business why cant you? ( or maybe you can, if so, good for you )Im not the problem, my busienss works. I dont work all that hard, I dont have a vendor, I dont sit in town and spam what I am selling.

Business is competition, repeat that to yourself.






Heh, just wanted to pop in & see if Dalyn was still here. As I suspected, he's still making profit as a miner to lose money as an architect.

Anyways, I just wanted to pop in & say I love the experimented harvesters, and thanks for selling them to me so cheap all you Archs. Thanks for the cheap harvesters that have allowed me to stockpile multiple millions of resources that are worth 10-40 cred/u if I wanted to sell them now. I just wanted to remind you that I get 100 cred/u for my final product as the best Armorsmith on Bria.

It amazes me to see Dalyn spouting BS about having a good business model, when I can exceed his profit margin, doing MUCH less work, by simply running harvesters. I don't even need more than 10 lots to make more than a mil a week on resources.

Dalyn, if you want to push for low prices, do so as a "Nice guy", but not as a "Wise Businessman".




Adune, Master Armorsmith
ARR Armor, Strongbadia, Naboo
Adune
Wed Nov 19, 2003 4:34 pm
#30

I could take in more than a mil a week on 10 lots, only mining. You're doing more work for less money. Don't call it good business. Call it being nice.




Adune, Master Armorsmith
ARR Armor, Strongbadia, Naboo
Dayln
Thu Nov 20, 2003 1:45 am
#31

My banker disagrees with you Adune, my small operation is currently doing business to the tune of about 1 million cr a week... profit.
Dayln
Thu Nov 20, 2003 1:53 am
#32

Forgot to add, I realise that a lot of large operations can easily make more than a million a week, but my operation is small, 14 total harvestors running.And a few of those are not directly contriburing to architect sales. I am building our own city on the side.


It is certainly enough for me

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