Artisan Archive
Thread: WARNING TO ALL NEW BUSINESSMEN
They need a huge warning to all new merchants that reads:
Make sure to remove any/all merchandise from vendors before removing the existing one. It may look like the merchandise stays in stock, but actually at this time, it becomes locked in a stock limbo if left in an old vendor. While the stock gets listed to you, it's not visible to customers, and you will find that you can't remove it either.
Please urge the DEVs to correct this ASAP and please find a way to get us access to our lost stock.
I had this problem and I put in a help ticket on it. I did recieve a response and a CSR asked for a detailed list of what was stuck in limbo. I responeded last night so Ive not heard back from him yet. I'd deftinally send in a help ticket on your server and see if there is anything they can do to help.
BudaKhan wrote:
They need a huge warning to all new merchants that reads:
Make sure to remove any/all merchandise from vendors before removing the existing one. It may look like the merchandise stays in stock, but actually at this time, it becomes locked in a stock limbo if left in an old vendor. While the stock gets listed to you, it's not visible to customers, and you will find that you can't remove it either.
Please urge the DEVs to correct this ASAP and please find a way to get us access to our lost stock.
It would also be nice if you would warn all New Businessmen (via the Game Manual maybe?) that the fee to Maintain a Vendor Increases Dramatically based on the number of items for sale. I am not even a Novice Merchant yet. I put up 4 suits of Chitin Armor = 36 items for sale in my Vendor and his Maint. rate went from 10 to 59? My Vendor is now more expensive than my harvesters. What exactly is this based on? I wouldn't have thought to check again once I paid about 1k when I first set the Vendor up-at the rate of 10 it said I was good for several days out. Low and Behold the next day after I've put Items in- I check it by accident and the Vendor is Damaged 5%, my maint rate is 59, andit says he needs 76 credits to repair. I drop 5k in only to find all but 1400 Vanishes within a minute. Why?
At this rate it's so much more effective just to set up a text Macro saying --/yell Chitin Armor for sale- PM me Please
---- and Spam the masses in a major city like Coronet, rather than ask someone to hike 20 minutes and back to my shop in our Soon to be Player Run City to buy from my price-gouging Vendor.
The worst part of it is that I will never see that 3600 credits I lost and if I submit a report to the CSRs, I'll geta pat on the head and an "I'm Sorry." I wish they would drop the apologetic routine and just tell me up front that I'm SOL. At least that would save everyone a lot of time, hassle, and it would enable them to get back to more important.
Not intended as a rant or to be rude, just a statement
Thanks,
-Marc