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i've always sold full suites in backpacks.... if thats what you are talking about

me too theres no way im listing 4000 pieces of armour seperatly

Absolutely - managing all those spares and extras is a nightmare when selling individual pieces.

95% of my sales are from packs- if you take the effort to make a system of similarly structured descriptions and pack-names, it looks quite good imo. And (I know you have been a smith for a long time, so this doesn't apply to you, but) when you break out of the "unknown armorsmith" category, I don't think many people will be afraid of buying packs even if they can't see what is inside, but have to trust you. (I sold a suit of +350 health RIS in a pack today at 22 million - to someone I don´t even recognize the name of )

Personally, I sell about 66-75% of my stock as suits in backpacks. That being said, I think it's almost necessary to also sell excess parts, particularly helmets, chestplates, and leggings, since they wear out the fastest.Most of my customers appreciate that they can come in and grab a spare if a piece breaks without having to immediately invest in another full suit.

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Brutus_Krylop wrote:
Personally, I sell about 66-75% of my stock as suits in backpacks. That being said, I think it's almost necessary to also sell excess parts, particularly helmets, chestplates, and leggings, since they wear out the fastest.Most of my customers appreciate that they can come in and grab a spare if a piece breaks without having to immediately invest in another full suit.

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I was actually thinking about selling sets with 2 chestplates, 2 helms & 2 leggings and 1 each of the rest. Seeing as decay rate kills those three pieces, why make them buy singles seperate, or purchase a full set each time one of those three decays too much.

I thought about doing that too. The thing I worry about is that people won't notice what it is and think it's an overpriced single suit. I'll make a few sets anyways and see how they sell.

I am a pack seller too. I know it's been said before and I know that I'm asking for a big "sit down!" but it would be nice for ASmiths and any other crafter to have access to a maniquin that you can apply your armour too for display and sales purposes only, ignores (poxy) biolink... so you can place the full suit on the maniquin, onyour vendor, that once put on the maniquin is just 1 unit like a factory crate, so you can actually display some wares in your shop without having it fill quickly and not be able to have other deco's. then you canhave it fully displayed for the customer to see with the resists and other required info displayed on the vendor, no differant to how any of us do it now on packs but your customer can see what She/ he is buying.

k i'll sit down now

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Nixen wrote:

Absolutely - managing all those spares and extras is a nightmare when selling individual pieces.

95% of my sales are from packs- if you take the effort to make a system of similarly structured descriptions and pack-names, it looks quite good imo. And (I know you have been a smith for a long time, so this doesn't apply to you, but) when you break out of the "unknown armorsmith" category, I don't think many people will be afraid of buying packs even if they can't see what is inside, but have to trust you. (I sold a suit of +350 health RIS in a pack today at 22 million - to someone I don´t even recognize the name of )

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I don't know if I'd call it a long time, but I do fairly well. Most of my business though does tend to be custom work. I'm just glad I reached the point that my armor is most of the time capped (my assault right now is 7 points below cap).

Message Edited by thegreywolfe on 10-21-2005 12:37 PM

I also sell pretty much all of my armor in full sets in packs, with the random few pieces for extras/spares on there as well. I agree that a vendor stocked full of well-named full sets looks MUCH more professional and organized than one with just random pieces all over.