Doctor Archive
Thread: Curious question: how many of you actually sell buffs?
I stopped selling buffs ages ago. The other evening I sold a full set of buffpacks worth on dathomir for 12k a set and made a nice tidy sum for just over 30 mins work, but the hasstle of making sure I'm not ripped off and the hasstle of people whinging about the cost, only 1 person in 25 and he paid up when I told him I couldn't care less if I buff him or not, reminded me that I hate buffing for cash.
We doc's are unapprechiated. It wouldn't suprise me if some people think we have buffpack trees growing by our houses and can pick them when they're ripe.
LETS ALL GO ON STRIKE.
. When I became a Doctor I purposely did not buff because of the problems listed here. Unfortunately the public is not patient or understanding. I purposely avoided this part of being a Doctor. Same with healing in the Medical center, I just don't do it to avoid the problems. Some People and guildies know I am a Master doctor and know If I am around or they come to me I will do Healing and/or a set of enhances for free. I get a whole lot less frustration then trying to sell enhances.
Indicat wrote:
I don't know who came up with it but I keep the following in my bio, "Yes, I can buff. No, you can't have any. Want to fight about it?"
Words to live by. I usually buff myself, since I can get more money killing Jantas and twirling my Hammerthan to buff Tommy Jackoff who always sends a 'u buff mi' tell when I'm knee-deep in a 6-man Piket mob. But if they're really annoying, I charge them severely(20-30k). I alsobuff myguildies, since they saved my ass financially during my newbie days.
I havent stopped, ive just turned into a real a$$hole when i buff. This is exactly what my message says:
"/say Please enter the buff line behind the farthest player to MY right. Do NOT tip before I say your up, I will NOT see it in the spam, any tips recieved before hand will be IGNORED. Buffs are 10k, hit for 2.2k and last for just over 3 hours. Please do not exit the line once you are on it, or ask to jump to the head of the line. All requests of this nature will be ignored. Again, buffs are 10k, last 3 hours and hit for 2.2k., the line starts to MYright. Thank you and Happy Hunting!"
I just got WAY to pissed off with people saything things along these lines(in no particular order of annoyance)
"10k is to expensive, I only have 3k... will that be enough?" (NO!)
"These buffs suck" 2 seconds later "**edit** it, Im getting ripped off but hit me anyway" (No skin off my nose)
"Can give you 12k to jump to the front of the line?" (Can you read?)
"Can you sell me your buff packs? Ill give you 10k for each one" (honey, it costs more in resc to make em!)
"Can you buff me any faster? I want to go hunting" (argh! so do i but im buffing your ass anyway!)
"These suck! I could have gone to [insertfellowdocsnamehere] and gotten better buffs than this for 8k! I want a refund" (well, I said what they were, no you cant have a refund.... are the buffs on you? Contract terminated)
Let it be know that I make my packs to have 22 uses, if one pack doesnt, it goes on the vendor. I hate carrying extra if i dont have to, so this one really annoys me:
"How much for just a quickness buff?" reply:" I dont break up my sets, but I would recomend some Tat Sunburn" reply "Thats bullsh!t, Im not paying!" (thinks to himself: Sweet! I can stop buffing sooner!)
Everything in () are what I thought im not that much of an a$$hole
You do get the occasional peope who are realy nice. I was buffing one guy while we were waiting for the shuttle, It took off before I finished, and he was Overt so I had a TEF. An imp comes up, kills me and gets my droid and my bike. The guy I buffed tips me 100k. I sent him a tell saying to him that he sent me to much and i will send 90k back. He relpied that the 90k was for the bike, getting killed and missing the shuttle. Gotta love people like that!
Over all, the only time you get thanked for your efforts is on an adventure planet, people in LAG-o-NET are jerks. Dont buff there.
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