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I have been Doc for about 2 weeks and have been frankly disgusted with peoples' attitude towards buffs that aren't up to their 3000 pt expectations or the fact that I am out of enhance packs from time to time. I experimented last night and decided to give free buffs to anyone that said "Thank you anyways" (or something along those lines) when I replied to their buff requests that I did not have any available.

In 4 hours of play near busy mining post on Dantooine I gave away exactly one...(yes, one) buff.

Sigh...end of rant

You know, I've been a master doctor for about 2 weeks also. My experience has been quite a bit different. I hate when I get a buff under 1k, but mine range from 1k-2.5k usually and the people I sell them to, normally strangers are very very thankful to get any buff.. Most understand it's a dice roll for them most part.

I offer buffs for 3k per set, If the player likes what he gets then he/she has the option to tip more this way I dont hear anyone complain about the buffs and they are all happy, unless of course i get a real crappy round of 900's

Back when I was using various resources of various qualities, my pricing schedule was 4k for a full buff (mine were not all 800eff + Master Doc buffs), and I'd tip back 500-1000 credits per stat that didn't break 1k. I did pretty well with this, and people were impressed with my devotion to good buffs.

Now, I have spent hundreds of thousands of credits on 900+ OQ materials, have performed factory runs to get the best experimented subs, and throw out any buff pack that doesn't meet my standards. I don't offer refunds anymore (and I raised my price) since I am doing everything I can to make a goof buff- it's the GAME that gives me 900 one buff, and 2800 on the next using the same pack. Not my fault.

My buffs are also ranging from 1000-3000. People on the Tempest server are generally aware that it is a totla dice roll, no matter what the stats of the buff are.

Anyways, here is how I charge. For a full set of buffs I charge 8k, and I refund 5k if the Health and Action are below 1200 (I usually give back if below 1400). I have never gottena complaint, even when the commando gets screwed with a 900 Health buff. I believe it shows great faith and good business manners to refund a part of agreed price when your product clearly falls short. Even though it is the games fault, why make people mad. I find that when I eat the cost of a bad buff it is only 10% of the time...tops.

And people always choose me over someone next to me, even if his is a little cheaper.

Just my 2 cents