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Thread: Question on Ethics

Napard
Tue May 03, 2005 11:05 am
#14




Jaxus wrote:

You made 15 mil selling bomb droids to a guy and people are telling you to ban your best customer? ARE YOU CRAZY! Think of it this way, at least hes making money from people so he can buy more from YOU, the averagecustomer just..well.... blows them up. I'd send him a thanks for the business email.

Oh and as far as letting people know they're yours, just name them in the crafting phase with something like Bob's Bomb droid or Nape's Napalm.

Message Edited by Jaxus on 05-03-2005 01:16 PM




My original post said that I already put my name in the deed. What I'm upset about it is what was just mentionedby Rasal - This guy keeps buying out my stock. I don't have the lots or the time (but I can afford the resources now!) to continously make bomb droids for my customers who actually use them, only to be bought out by one person and my customers havego to him and pay a 100% markup (though for him, it's a smart move, I'll admit). Not to mention I don't have the lots for the droid du jour - seekers and probes. So far, the only way I have mitigated this risk is to stash some away for the customers I know of. I like the idea of posting on the Bria forum...that may be a good route to go the next time I have another batch of 122 coming out of the factory.


Furthermore, if the guy let me know he was going to do it (no matter the price) - fine...place an order and I won't bother uncrating them and putting them on my vendor. But, so goes it. If nothing else, I'm "grinding" merchant faster! Afterall, it may be frustrating, but at least it's not a ~real~ business!!




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Napard Vinestra
Master Bounty Hunter - Master Rifleman
Bria

Envoy3113
Wed May 04, 2005 7:21 am
#15

I would be pissed.



Make your next run with a minimum of droid related info, then...INCLUDE THE PRICE AND WP FOR YOUR VENDOR in the name of the product. It will look ugly but there will be no freekin way that he will be able to resell them at the mark up



Don't raise your prices and make your customers bite the bullet for this guy being an ass.


Message Edited by Envoy3113 on 05-04-2005 10:22 AM



There comes a time in every mans life when 86 years is just too damn long...
Napard
Wed May 04, 2005 7:54 am
#16
I haven't tried to make any detonation modules yet (everything I've done post-CU is from a pre-CU schematic). It's my understanding that I can't make any good detonation droids right now (module or R3 Deed). So, until the crafting problem get's fixed, I'm just going to keep doing runs of seekers and probes. Seems to be a good time to have the harvs out there sucking up resources too (assuming you don't get one-shotted placing them!)



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Napard Vinestra
Master Bounty Hunter - Master Rifleman
Bria

Stravros
Fri May 06, 2005 3:46 am
#17

hes not doing anything wrong, so either up the price on vendor droids , then personaly deal with people you know if you want to keep old price. or refund them after sale when you can. done this myself in past to try stop someoene else buying an item someone wanted me to put on vendor..


personaly i always look out for items going cheap. i even brought a load of cheap harvs which i dont normaly make and sold them slightly higher than i paid and they had crafters name on.


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Zenoee
Fri May 06, 2005 7:11 am
#18

I haven't had the 'pleasure' of dealing with someone like this... However, I think the best solution has already been stated, it might not make for a cool fancy name, but I think it would work. Next factory run, name them "Your name, your vendor location, your price, droid name". Anyone seeing this droid on a vendor for twice the price and a location of where to get the original... well they'll come to you. Call it free... eerrmoney making advertisement! His business won't last long like that. I know I enjoy this profession, but I don't want to spend my play time building stuff for someone else to sell for twice the price. I want people to enjoy the game, and my droids as much as I do playing and building them. I wouldn't want to hurt my customers because of one bad apple.


Even if you put one droid on there for 10 mil and explain why the others are named that way, I think everybody seeing it will understand. They don't want to waste their money on that planet to get the same thing on this planet for 1/2 price, and it being the original seller.


MachineZed
Fri May 06, 2005 2:54 pm
#19
My solution is speak with him, send him an email, be respectfull and nice. Let him know that you have since raised your prices, but will not raise your prices to his levels, try to come to an agreement see if he will lower his prices that way the both of you will be selling at the same price. You will make more money from real customers, and have a chance at making a friend.


I do not see other DEs as compitition I see them as resources. One DE in particular, was always making better products than me, I saw his mark and strove to meet or beat that mark. We would give each other WPs to the nice spawns of Tolium or the high Cond Steel. That way if I ran out of that resource I could always ask him for some and vice versa.



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Xrystal
Sat May 07, 2005 4:54 am
#20

I would personally talk to the guy and thank him for his business but could he possibly lower his purchase qtys so you get a chance to restock before his next purchase. Coming to an agreement on a price range that is less distant is a good idea too but if he doesn't follow through on the first requestafter a couple of attempts at reasoning I would do one of 2 things .. ban him (what and lose those sales!!) or leave a collection in storage in case he buys you out each time and advertise that buyers can contact you if they don't see what they see in the vendor. I usually check my sales daily and at least once a week refill the vendor with what is sold so I always have something in time for the weekend when I have my best sales.
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