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nolan007

Thu Feb 19, 2004 8:59 am

I wouldlive to have an option to limit the number of sales to a particular customer.

Why?

I'd like for all my customers to have an option to buy my goods. It may not be a bad optionto limit some of my customers from buying all of my stock upand going to Coronet to resale it or whatever.

You may say: That's a great problem to have!

I don't believe it always would be a great problem because when other customers come by and you're out of stock.... they often don't return.

Also, you could say... raise your price! I could do that but I'd like to keep a steady flow of customers due to reasonable prices.

Anyhow, I thought it might be a nice addition....

Vendor says, "I'm only able to sell my 5 goodsper customer.. these prices are too cheap to do otherwise!"

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( Maybe one day these ideas will be considered or implemented. Bump it, please? )

Puck_Starfire

Thu Feb 19, 2004 9:16 am

#2

Well what are your prices? Are they comparable to the other crafters? Or are you undercutting them? Anything under a variance of about 20% is undercutting them. And trust me, elite crafters hate to be undercut. For example if the server average for an R3 Droid is 25k, and you sell for 20k, that's fine. But if you sell them for 10k, that's when the problems start.

I know a lot of crafters WILL go around and check out prices and "buy out" the competition if their prices are too low and re-sell the goods on their vendors. After begging for some way for SOE to stop the undercutters, nothing could or would be done about it. So many people took the market into their own hands and decided to take care of the undercutters themselves. Really, these undercutters bring the problems on themselves. I know I used to before it became too time-consuming. I used to sell meds, and for example the going rate at the time for Stim B's was 1200cr. If I went to a vendor or bazaar and saw them for 100-500cr, I bought them up and re-sold them.

Really, there is nothing wrong with re-selling and this happens even in the real world all the time. It makes everyone happy. If all the undercutter wants to make is 50% of the average price, fine. He'll still get his credits for the items that he's making no profit on. And the other crafters are happy because they feel they are doing their part in trying to keep a healthy economy running.

The idea isn't bad, but if someone is buying up all your goods then maybe you should do some homework and compare prices and see if that's a reason why.

kwynn

Thu Feb 19, 2004 10:36 am

#3

I think it would be a difficult thing to do from a dev perspective. How would you propose to limit the number of purchases? Is it a limit based on vendor viewing or atime limit or what? And no matter how it was implemented there would probably be easy ways to get around it. It might look like you sold 5 items to10 different customers but you have no way of knowing if all of those customers didn't turn around and give everything to one person who then took them and resold them somewhere.

If you do have a problem with a single person always buying up your stock maybe you could contact that person and arrange a business deal with them. Or you could ban them from entering your establishment.

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Kwynn

OnyxStormhaven

Thu Feb 19, 2004 3:26 pm

#4

I've had the same problem from time to time. I sell both high end crafing stations and tools, and 'starter' stations and tools. I sell the starter stuff realy cheep becuase teh people that will be buying them don't HAVE a lot of credits. Well, I had someone come in and buy me out everyday. I simply banned her from my shops. You can do that in the building administration. There is no rule that says you HAVE to sell to someone. If you don't want their bussiness, don't let them in your shop.

Baisl

Puck_Starfire

Thu Feb 19, 2004 4:06 pm

#5

Yeah, my only thing is I'm an Artisan to make money, as I imagine most crafters are. I just don't see the reasoning behind selling to Bob but not to Joe. To me a sale is a sale. It doesn't matter if Joe buys everything or if he buys one item. As long as the item gets moved I'm happy. But, I don't have too many moral reasons behind my sales techniques. The only moral decision behind my prices is that I watch outfor my fellow Artisans by not undercutting them, andspread the word on those Artisans that do.

Stargzrrag

Thu Feb 19, 2004 4:23 pm

#6

I put a sign near my vendors saying if I'm out of something to mail me.

I've also asked some of my customers that buy in HUGE quantities to deal with me direct and not empty out my vendor.

~Agrin Pi'Nel~

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