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Thread: New vendor limit numbers.

Pawlin
Mon Aug 16, 2004 3:57 pm
#1

As you know, on August 6th, we put some preliminary changes to the Vendors on Test Center. These changes are part of the commodity server enhancements that we have pushed out. We apologize for any anxiety you may have experienced, but I’m glad to announce we’ve been able to make some good changes to the Vendor limits. While we can’t make the Vendor limits aggregate, we have doubled the number of Vendors merchants can acquire and also increased the amount of Artisan Vendors.



The revised Vendor limits are as follows:



Artisan Business III: Get (1) Vendor, that will hold (100) items, for a total of (100) items for all vendors


Artisan Business IV: Get (2) Vendor, that will hold (100) items, for a total of (200) items for all vendors


Merchant Novice: Get (3) Vendors, that will hold (250) items, for a total of (750) items for all vendors


Merchant Management I: Get (4) Vendors, that will hold (250) items, for a total of (1000) items for all vendors


Merchant Efficiency I: Get (5) Vendors, that will hold (250) items, for a total of (1250) items for all vendors


Merchant Management II: Get (6) Vendors, that will hold (250) items, for a total of (1500) items for all vendors


Merchant Efficiency II: Get (7) Vendors, that will hold (250) items, for a total of (1750) items for all vendors


Merchant Management III: Get (8) Vendors, that will hold (250) items, for a total of (2000) items for all vendors


Merchant Efficiency III: Get (9) Vendors, that will hold (250) items, for a total of (2250) items for all vendors


Merchant Management IV: Get (10) Vendors, that will hold (250) items, for a total of (2500) items for all vendors


Merchant Efficiency IV: Get (11) Vendors, that will hold (250) items, for a total of (2750) items for all vendors


Master Merchant: Get (12) Vendors, that will hold (250) items, for a total of (3000) items for all vendors




Kurt "Thunderheart" Stangl





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guidone
Mon Aug 16, 2004 4:43 pm
#2

i can deal with this




X'ander


Elyssa
Mon Aug 16, 2004 4:48 pm
#3

Lower than I would have liked, but acceptable.



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Dvnce
Mon Aug 16, 2004 5:12 pm
#4


yeah but the double the vendors are nice...



though..


remember this is not the merchant revamp... but more or less some lil merchant love... that is why the thread I have going on about what would it take to make you want to use another person as a reseller .... is soooo important right now...

Message Edited by Dvnce on 08-16-2004 05:14 PM




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rofak
Mon Aug 16, 2004 5:43 pm
#5

12 vendors! Wow!



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ZenDragonMLS
Mon Aug 16, 2004 6:51 pm
#6

As I read down the list I kept looking for the limit increases that would allow me to have a *single* "Furnishings" vendor. I didn't see them. So now I'll need to figure out a "logical" way to break my furnishings vendor into 2-3 pieces. I don't mind paying the extra maintenance for the additional vendors, but this *absolutely* adds to my workload and makes the customers work harder also. So for both me and my customers this "game" that is supposed to be fun got a little more "drugery" added to it. As the game approaches the physical world in its "administrivia", it becomes less fun. At some point it isn't fun enough to continue.



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Sevardos
Mon Aug 16, 2004 8:07 pm
#7

This is much better than I expected and I'm happy with the compromise.


Not sure if anyone saw it, but TH later responded that they tweaked it a bit more. At Master Merchant, it gets bumped to 300 items per vendor for a total of 3600.


It's a very good change.


However, SOE's approach to this was still insulting and bad PR. They could have handled communicating this far better than they did.






Sevardos

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Bandola
Mon Aug 16, 2004 11:59 pm
#8

This could be OK as long as they release it in steps.

It will be of no use if they let all this out in one publish, we will need to be able to set up new vendors and move our excess vendor items across before they reduce the limit, otherwise what am I going to do with all the items on pages 2 and 3 ? I will just lose them ? I don't have space to store them. (in fact I'm not certain I have space for the addtional vendors in my store even)...




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Iannyen
Tue Aug 17, 2004 4:34 am
#9

These numbers are much more acceptable to me. I also like the increased number of vendors.


As an architect that specializes in Furniture, I like to subdivide my crates from singles by vendor. So, for example, I have one vendor in a mall that is "Furnature by Iannyen", and right behind her, is another vendor, named "Crates and Barrels of Furniture by Iann" - who obviously stocks the crates. And I do move crates of 5 and 10 units, especially chairs, tables, lamps, plants, etc.


I don't think I'll have a problem with using 12 vendors. Who knows, I may even sell other peoples stuff. I'm very nearly a Master Merchant, after all >



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Personal Orders are available, as well as decorating services;

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Sevardos
Tue Aug 17, 2004 4:44 am
#10






Pawlin wrote:





Bandola wrote:

This could be OK as long as they release it in steps.

...otherwise what am I going to do with all the items on pages 2 and 3 ? I will just lose them ? ...





Yes, how is this going to be implimented? What happens to vendors that currently have 500+ items on them?









From what I've read so far, any vendor over the limit will remain but you will not be able to add anything new to the vendor. However, if anything expires during that time, you'll still only have 7 days to remove it from the vendor before it disappears.


As a Master Merchant, this shouldn't be too bad. You can put additional vendors up and start transfering. However, this gets trickier if you only have Novice Merchant or Business 3/4.





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RotorofCorRng
Tue Aug 17, 2004 6:19 am
#11

Well, I am unloading my furniture vendor. Just made a post on my server, all pieces 50% off. After publish 10 I will only carry my signature line, and custom orders. For now, I need to unload 600 pieces of furniture.



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Brantoc-Pax
Tue Aug 17, 2004 7:24 am
#12

Thank god. 3000 isn't what I want, but it's 100x better than the original limits.
Cafa
Tue Aug 17, 2004 8:45 am
#13

I have 2100+ pieces of furniture on vendor now. Time to put up a sign that I now refuse to do any furniture orders. 250 items per vendor blows.


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