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Thread: How do you become a successful Crafting Doc?
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tvangest_en
Fri Aug 13, 2004 1:30 pm
#1
I've been a Doc for over 5 months now and have mostly stayed away from buffing the public.I usually just buffed myself, friends and guildmates and have been pretty happy. Just recently I picked up merchant to have a MD Vendor with an eye toward selling buffs, stims, wound and state heals. I thought it would be a great idea! I must have been wrong=( My vendor has been stocked with 896 power 12261 duration Enhance packs (all stats) and 411/43 crated Stim B'sfor the last two weeks and not a single thing has moved.
Is there a key to advertising your meds that I am unaware of? I have tried selling stims on the bazaar with an advertisement and wp to my vendor...sold all the stims in a matter of hours but no visitors to my vendor. I'm on the planetary map but that doesn't seem to help either. I have no interest in spamming in starports and am just starting to wonder if I should just remove the vendor andkeep my stock pile of nice 2450ish buffs (it would take me months to use them all!).
Perhaps I should move my vendor...right now I am in the midst of a huge Vendor City just outside Theed (Lowca). I thought that being in a heavily populated area would help.But it doesn't seem tomake a difference?
Any Crafting Docs out there have ideas on how I can sell my meds without irritating the rest of the player base with spam?
Menoetius
Fri Aug 13, 2004 2:00 pm
#2
tvangest_en wrote:
I've been a Doc for over 5 months now and have mostly stayed away from buffing the public.I usually just buffed myself, friends and guildmates and have been pretty happy. Just recently I picked up merchant to have a MD Vendor with an eye toward selling buffs, stims, wound and state heals. I thought it would be a great idea! I must have been wrong=( My vendor has been stocked with 896 power 12261 duration Enhance packs (all stats) and 411/43 crated Stim B'sfor the last two weeks and not a single thing has moved.
Is there a key to advertising your meds that I am unaware of? I have tried selling stims on the bazaar with an advertisement and wp to my vendor...sold all the stims in a matter of hours but no visitors to my vendor. I'm on the planetary map but that doesn't seem to help either. I have no interest in spamming in starports and am just starting to wonder if I should just remove the vendor andkeep my stock pile of nice 2450ish buffs (it would take me months to use them all!).
Perhaps I should move my vendor...right now I am in the midst of a huge Vendor City just outside Theed (Lowca). I thought that being in a heavily populated area would help.But it doesn't seem tomake a difference?
Any Crafting Docs out there have ideas on how I can sell my meds without irritating the rest of the player base with spam?
Your new on the scene as a provider of medical supplies. Lower your prices on your medical supplies to garner a portion of the market, you can always increase the price at a later date. Keep a stocked vendor at all times, this way players will always return to your vendor regardless of price as they will always know your stocked.
It seems for the moment your a nobody in the medical supply field, lower your price, keep the vendor stocked, increase the price over a period of time, run weekly specials, post your med stats in the trade forum, sell some items on the bazaar with the waypoint of your vendor in the description, be courtesy to your customers and know your product. I am not saying all of this will work but it does not hurt to try. Don't expect to be an overnight success, it will take some work and time. Word of mouth is the best method.
I have been selling medical supplies for a over a year now, my guildies call me the Walmart of Meds. My motto is the best at the lowest fair pricing.
Canadianjoo
Fri Aug 13, 2004 2:11 pm
#3
I dont know what server you are on, but if its anything like chilastra, you just gotta say the word FULL SETS OF BUFF PACKS and people will come running.
Marrow1
Fri Aug 13, 2004 2:36 pm
#4
Here is how to become a good crafting doc.
1. Become a good avian hunter or have friends that are. This is the key to keeping your costs low and your quality high. Every other component is 100x easier to get in good quality and quantity.
2. Make what people want. Go to coronet and see what kind of buffs the buffers are selling and make packs that are of that quality. Then ask the docs how many charges are in the packs they buy. Try to hit those numbers or a little lower.
3. Advertise.
A. Make some threads in the trade forum with all the stats and prices and bump it often.
B. Make a thread in the galaxy forum. Just dont bump it and people will not get pissed.
C. Place your name and address in the schematic. This will stay with the product once you sell it so they will know where to get more.
D. Place some on the Bazaar using the Auction rather than sale tag and make the price 6k. In the description give details of stats, prices and location.
E. Send emails to people you see selling buffs. Say something like "if your looking for more buffs of that quality try my shop at ......" Cash buffing docs are always jonesing for more packs. I have never had anyone get pissed that I sent them an email. I just make sure I do not send them more than one.
4. Shop around and see what the going rate for the quality of packs your makeing. Changing your price on the vendor will not change the number you sell unless you are way off the mark. If they are not selling it is most likely because those that are buying simply do no know about you not becuase they went to your shop and thought the price was too high.
5. Make a list of folks that buy from you and ask them if they would like to know when you restock.
6. Become friends with other docs. This will keep the price of things down if your willing to share an acution of this or that resouce rather than bumping heads in an auction. It also makes the game a little funner to share crafting clues like "hey, theres a great spawn of xxx heres a waypoint".
Believe me, buffs are the easist thing in the game to sell once you have a good product. There is never enough. The only hard part is making them.
Message Edited by Marrow1 on 08-14-2004 08:40 PM
Xconxors
Fri Aug 13, 2004 5:17 pm
#5
Marrow hit all the good points. It takes a bit to gain a rep. Once you sell a few packs to happy customers, they will spread the word. I was like you- nothing selling, even though my prices were at or under market. Now, I can't keep up with 3 factories humming all the time. Believe me- It wasnt always that way.
Buffs sell themselves (if the quality is there), but Doc's don't oftentell othersabout em as they are too hard to come by.
Stims are easy- just undercut everyone else by at least 20%. You still make a decent profit. I recently had to bump my stim prices a tad just to slow down salesenough to keepsomething on my vendor. It's not working! I still can't keep up
Make friends with every hunter you see. Hunting your own meat sure saves money, but consumes lots of time. Don't be afraid to pay the hunters big bucks for the meat. I learned this the hard way. Good spawns would come and pass me by cuz I was too dang cheap to pony up. No more! It's a pain to collect, and the other docs are paying huge cpu's, so you have to do the same if you want a hunter to visit your vendor with his booty. If you do the math, 50-100 cpu seems like a lot, but there is still a profit margin there if you make good buffs with it.
Good luck!
Message Edited by Xconxors on 08-13-2004 07:18 PM
Cinderr
Sat Aug 14, 2004 5:02 am
#6
Advertising when place something on the bazaar is one thing I've noticed that hardly anyone reads. The trick is to email them AFTER the sale and send them the waypoint.
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