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Thread: New Idea for all you Buff-Pack makers
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CraftingGenius
Wed Dec 08, 2004 5:33 pm
#1
for all of you people have top quality buff vendors, i have a new idea, sry if its stupid but my idea is STARTER SETS
details:
5 sets of buffpacks
Med Droid
1 Crate of bivoli
+25 Medical suit
how about it?
-Sceno
PS: im not a doctor, it just popped into my head 
Marrow1
Wed Dec 08, 2004 5:40 pm
#2
Believe it or not but there are very few customers that are that new that they do not already have some of the items.
Before a doc will start buffing for example they will already have the droid and clothing.
On the other hand, I had a friend place a food vendor next to my buff vendor that sold bivoli and it sold very fast. So maybe offering the items as single purchases would be better than grouping them. That way if they already have a droid they are not buying a second that they do not want just to get the buffs that they do want.
y-osa
Wed Dec 08, 2004 8:32 pm
#3
Looks like the price tag to that would be 700k-1mil, depending on who is selling, I cant imagine that would sell well as a bundle either, would certainly drag down my salesaas well as having to make an arangment for some crates of be clothes and med droids that could cost me upwards of 10mil for 100 of each, not feasable, although the idea of a comunity mall already has this covered, I have 5 or so wp to malls I visit when I need equiptment that houses rescources, foods, meds, be clothes, loots, armour, spices, vehicles and ship parts.
CraftingGenius
Wed Dec 08, 2004 8:47 pm
#4
well, on some cases you could put less packs, more packs, no droid, no suit. You could switch up the variety or even just make custom orders maybe, and then cut a discount on them. Another idea is get some people to donate money to you so you can afford to drop the price 300-400k, you know what i mean?
-Sceno
weshutch
Thu Dec 09, 2004 11:40 am
#5
Not a bad idea at all. I've though about making backpacked "grind kits" with 25k lok wheat/tat fiber, crafting tools, stims and woundpacks...I get a lot of tells from people who have just bought a crate of Stim-B's asking for the ABEC resources.
Guess I should get around to it
Guess I should get around to it
EtosG
Thu Dec 09, 2004 12:49 pm
#6
Nice idea, i try to go along this line of marketing wherever possible.
Only flaw i can see: 'Most Doctors' starting out will not be able to afford the list price of such an item...they would most likely stretch to buy 1 set of Buffs...earn their profit and respend. This would also provide bags of admin work (Contracts with DE, Tailor etc) to pull it off and thats not something i'm against...a large proportion of my input/work is on Admin.
Maybe if it just contained 1 set of buffs...this would be more appropriate to your average Starter.
Only flaw i can see: 'Most Doctors' starting out will not be able to afford the list price of such an item...they would most likely stretch to buy 1 set of Buffs...earn their profit and respend. This would also provide bags of admin work (Contracts with DE, Tailor etc) to pull it off and thats not something i'm against...a large proportion of my input/work is on Admin.
Maybe if it just contained 1 set of buffs...this would be more appropriate to your average Starter.
ShadowCM
Sat Dec 11, 2004 10:46 am
#7
Grind Kits sound fun. Seriously, it took forever for me to find resources.
There could be bundles of the paks and food, not necessarily the droid and suit.
Or you could have bundles of resources, that would be nice...to me and some new docs. Resources are a pain to those who don't go on much.
Avian Meat
Herbivore Meat
Reactive Gas
Class 4 liquidpetro
Dolovite iron
Domesticated oats
Lokian Wild Wheat
Tatooine Fiberplast
Lots of energy, preferably fusion
WHER TH HL R TESE RSORCS ON VNDRS??
Fobok
Sat Dec 11, 2004 11:15 pm
#8
I like the idea as some kind of prize at player events for new doctors, or as a gift from a very generous guild to help start out a doctor, but speaking as someone working my way up to Doctor (just need to get my organic chemistry up and then AP points)... I was given, by a very helpful player, some money to start up with. After buying resources, and stims to grind medical XP with until I could make my own Stim B's, I have enough stuff to get me to Doctor... but I have like 9000 credits left over. There's no way I could afford a pack like this anytime in the forseeable future.
I love the idea, but I really can't see it being feasible.
Ojes
Sun Dec 12, 2004 7:20 pm
#9
I do carry single packson my vendor and carry 5-pack crates of bivoli, brandy, and havla as well. I purchase mine from a chef's vendor (Eerif) and place it on my vendor at no mark-up just so my buyers don't have to go to 2 different vendors to get their supplies for buffing.
The droid and BE clothes would be good (I have actually gotten a couple inquiries in the past 2 weeks for each). However, I would just put a few single versions of each on the vendor and restock as necessary. They simply wouldn't move quickly enough to stock in mass.
While we are on the topic, have people been experiencing the 'inventory overloaded' error a lot? I have had it 3 times now and it always happens after I have restocked my vendor with buffpacks sets in travel packs. On one ocassion, I nearly had to delete some full 50-pack crates of buffs to free myself from the bug. My main inventory always read something like 34/60 when it happened, I think it hit when I crossed a server boundary....
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