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Thread: Sale of Vehicle Customization Kits still strong?
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Asteroids
Fri Feb 20, 2004 5:54 pm
#1
Any of you still selling these regularly? After the first couple of days of decent novelty sales, can't seem to shift these now.
Newton13
Fri Feb 20, 2004 7:43 pm
#2
Mine are still moving.. running into the second wave of "my paint poofed"..
JimerLins
Fri Feb 20, 2004 8:45 pm
#3
Haven't been on tonight yet, but as of last night they were moving pretty well. I had initially done a run of 50, then the other night finished a run of 800, and removed the one per customer restriction. Several people bought a few. I imagine there'll be more sold when I get on this evening, but with 9 charges each, I don't expect much repeat business for a few weeks, unless people are really getting bored with their paint jobs fast. 
Puck_Starfire
Fri Feb 20, 2004 10:06 pm
#4
Here and there. I think people are tired of repainting them by now. Seeing less and less customized vehicles.
Mightion
Fri Feb 20, 2004 11:03 pm
#5
I used to sell them for 5k, then went down to 4.5k. Last time I tried selling them in Coronet I was asked if I was crazy, since people were selling them on Talus for like 800 creds for 9 charges...
It was profitable while it lasted, though. 
Whrlwnd13
Sat Feb 21, 2004 12:37 am
#6
I droppedthe price down to 4.5k for a 9 charge unit, (about a week ago) to match what most other Artisans were selling them for.
They're still selling, about5 a day without advertising (aside from my sign outside my house). When i'm spamming at the starport the sales go up. but no where near the +50units i was selling the first few days.
Asteroids
Sat Feb 21, 2004 4:15 am
#7
Probably not worth the effort now anyway. I checked the bazaar the last week or so and its flooded with them. 9 charges at 2k. No wonder I'm not shifting any.
sosusred
Mon Feb 23, 2004 7:20 am
#8
Iput 6 7 charge kits on the bazaar at coronet starport a few days ago for 4k each and have sold half of them. I think people dont buy em cuz they dont last that long. they dont see a value for their money.
sosusred
Mon Feb 23, 2004 7:28 am
#9
oh and what you should do is buy the cheaper kits yourself and resell them for your price
DarthIguana
Mon Feb 23, 2004 10:07 am
#10
Asteroids wrote:Any of you still selling these regularly? After the first couple of days of decent novelty sales, can't seem to shift these now.
I think that it would be easier to sell these kit if new vehical HAMs weren't bugged. It sucks that that bug was introduced at the same time multivehical ownership was introduced because new vehical sales went into the crapper and with new vehicals, go customization kits...
Anyone know when the vehical HAM patch is going live?
Chris
BoberFett
Mon Feb 23, 2004 11:29 am
#11
On Bria, I just had a bunch of bazaarsales time out. 8 charges for 2k. Time to slash prices. I've still got hundreds of these darn kits.
jaskunkel
Mon Feb 23, 2004 12:03 pm
#12
Didnt really have any to begin with, but cant give them away now. People are irked at the (lack of) length of time that the customization stays. Why is it so short? I'm all for stuff wearing out, but 2 or 3 days and poof? Come on...
And what are the possibility (probably impossible) and thoughts on being able to specify an initial color scheme when you create the vehicle?
BoberFett
Mon Feb 23, 2004 12:54 pm
#13
jaskunkel wrote:
Didnt really have any to begin with, but cant give them away now. People are irked at the (lack of) length of time that the customization stays. Why is it so short? I'm all for stuff wearing out, but 2 or 3 days and poof? Come on...
And what are the possibility (probably impossible) and thoughts on being able to specify an initial color scheme when you create the vehicle?
I think they devs feel like they're giving crafters something by giving us repeat business. Too bad they don't understand with the incredibly short life of the product, people choose to go without it completely.
I think the general consumer would rather pay 10K for a permanent paintjob than 2K for 5 paintjobs that only last a few days each. That's how I'd prefer it to be. And I'd still change the color now and then just for the sake of change, even if each change cost more. As it is, I change my paint job every few days just because I so many kits around. I've got a really cool white w/green trim X34 right now.
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