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I am EXTREMELY new to the whole crafting/vending thing. I am having trouble getting my vending machine up and running. I can't figure out how to get items into my machine once I have it set up. If anyone can offer any advice I would appriciate it.

Well, first you create it, then you place it. Once it's in the position and direction you want, go to the "Vendor Maintenance" menu, and there should be a choice to initialize the vendor. Then, pay maintenance for however long you want (it's 360 credits per day). Once you do that, select "Use vendor", and since you're the owner, you get options to sell items and withdraw sales. Other people use the same interface, but only get the option to buy, or offer items to you.

Well, i dunno if its a bug or if I am doing something wrong, but I just got Buisness3, and placed my big ugly box, dropped 1k into the maintainence, and hit initialize. However, whenever I try to use it, or anyone else, it says the vendor hasn not been initialized...

Mine is doing the same thing, i've tried twice now once with the ugly box and the bar venders. After i intialize and try to go into it it says that i cant use till it is intialiazed?

This appears to be a bug introduced in the last patch

I've noticed the maintenance costs of my Vendorbot have dropped through the floor.

Previously, I'd place about 20k's worth of items on it and the costs for running it would be astronomical. With this in mind, when I moved to a larger house and set up a new vendor (having emptied and de-activated my previous one) I dropped a lot of credits onto the machine, stocked it up with a LOT of stuff (maybe 60k's worth of items), yet the maintenance rate is really low, about 15c a day...

Any ideas? (Not that I'm complaining!)

- Tyl

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MonkeyofDoom wrote:

I've noticed the maintenance costs of my Vendorbot have dropped through the floor.

Previously, I'd place about 20k's worth of items on it and the costs for running it would be astronomical. With this in mind, when I moved to a larger house and set up a new vendor (having emptied and de-activated my previous one) I dropped a lot of credits onto the machine, stocked it up with a LOT of stuff (maybe 60k's worth of items), yet the maintenance rate is really low, about 15c a day...

Any ideas? (Not that I'm complaining!)

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Pre-patch, the vending machine and robo-bartender had maintenance of 1cr + 1 credit / 1k creditsmerchandinse. So a vendor loaded with 60k's worth of stuff would cost 61 credits/hour. The NPC vendors available at Novice Merchant would always stay at 1 credit / hour.

After the patch, all vendors cost 15 cr / hr, no matter how much the stock costs. Well, they're cheaper for merchants with skills in Efficiency (I think you get "reduced vendor costs" at II or III).