Droid Engineer Archive
Thread: Slow days
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hopdog
Tue Apr 19, 2005 5:21 am
#1
ahhhh its been so long since i had any real clients. can one of you share your markiting tips so i can figure out what i'm doing wrong? on my shard atleast the programable chips arnt selling and bomb droids are geting rusty.
Straker_Atrella
Tue Apr 19, 2005 7:21 am
#2
I think it is kind of slow everywhere. Some people are taking a break until the CU, others who were waiting for the CU have seen it and left, yet others are testing the CU. Plus a lot of our droids don't do much now, so this gets less people into your shop.
Best I can say is advertise and get your name out.
Obo_alCan
Tue Apr 19, 2005 8:30 am
#4
I was never a high volume seller, but I did notice a drop off when vendor search came in. But it has seemed to have bounced back a bit over the last week or so.
RasalTheWise
Tue Apr 19, 2005 10:07 am
#5
Yeah, pretty much the only thing that moves at a constant rate are my BH droids these days. I have a factory with combat probot parts, waiting for the CU to hit, and working on stocking up on bomb and BH droids.
Straker_Atrella
Tue Apr 19, 2005 11:56 am
#6
The big problem with the vendor search is that people don't know what they are buying.
They go to Droid Deed, they do "medical droid" for a search, they get pages of med droids. Prices varying from 1k up to 80k. 50 med rating, or 110 med rating doesn't mean anything to most people. So they buy the cheap one.
Now they are unhappy with their droid and never buy another, because it sucks. Combat droids arn't much better. The higher CR on an R3 over a Probot really mucks crap up.
For example, an R3 with 3900 HAM with a 590 rating is actually a pretty dang crappy combat R3. Yet it LOOKS a lot better then that 548 rating 3200 HAM Probot.
Again, you end up with an unhappy customer who may never try another combat droid.
I'm not saying there shouldn't be a market for low end droids, just that the customer should KNOW they are getting a low end droid. New droid customers may look at my vendor and say OMG 75K!! This guy is overpriced, and never come back, when the reality is my droids are quality, they just do not know that.
RasalTheWise
Tue Apr 19, 2005 2:25 pm
#7
Straker_Atrella wrote:I'm not saying there shouldn't be a market for low end droids, just that the customer should KNOW they are getting a low end droid...
Yep, and short of hanging out in cnet, spamming droid knowledge, how do we change that general perception? It's really difficult unless you're a well-known DE and you're on a lot.
Straker_Atrella
Tue Apr 19, 2005 3:11 pm
#8
RasalTheWise wrote:
Straker_Atrella wrote:
I'm not saying there shouldn't be a market for low end droids, just that the customer should KNOW they are getting a low end droid...
Yep, and short of hanging out in cnet, spamming droid knowledge, how do we change that general perception? It's really difficult unless you're a well-known DE and you're on a lot.
Well I don't think we should have to do it ourselves. When you buy food, you understand the stats, when you buy armor, you understand the stats. In fact, I think droids are about the only thing I can think of that you don't know what the heck you are buying. Would saying 6 or 10 item storage be hard? 72% med bonus or 110%? 120-153 damage? That's what needs done.
The GVS really put this point into a new priority field.
RasalTheWise
Tue Apr 19, 2005 3:58 pm
#9
The most I do at this point is put in as much real-time stats of the droid as I can in the "seller's description" field and hope people read that before buying. Like translating the combat rating to actual damage, the 20% resistances instead of 40%, the class limitations of some of the droid's functions, etc. I like to think it helps.
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