Droid Engineer Archive
Thread: Had a good day today.
1 customer ordered:
Adv. R2: 110% med, weapon craft, repair, storage
Adv Surg: 110% med, food craft, storage, data
2 Adv Protocol Droid Chassis for house decorations.
He ordered, was patient, paid full price, thanked me. Makes building Droids a fun job.
pdm619 wrote:
What did you charge him? Just curious...
What would you have charged him? On corbantis. I don't know the exchange rate. Seems bria people spend more money.
Excellent, I wish I had a few customers like that - even just once ina while.
Most people ask for things we can't make ordon't work and then complain about the price. I'm not greedy, I don't charge any more than other DE on my server.
I think the problem is that most peope don't understand how droids work. I try to educate as many people as are interested. But when they see a surgical or repair droid or R2 unit, they think of the movies and want the same functionality.
I explain, they're disappointed, sometimes they buy anyway.
I'm still having fun though.
progman63 wrote:
Excellent, I wish I had a few customers like that - even just once ina while.
Most people ask for things we can't make ordon't work and then complain about the price. I'm not greedy, I don't charge any more than other DE on my server.
I think the problem is that most peope don't understand how droids work. I try to educate as many people as are interested. But when they see a surgical or repair droid or R2 unit, they think of the movies and want the same functionality.
I explain, they're disappointed, sometimes they buy anyway.
I'm still having fun though.
I'll get the occasional complainer. But I just ignore them. I filled out another big customer last night too:
Adv. R2, 110% med, food/craft, lvl6 data, lvl 6 storage
2 Surgical Droid Chassis
1 Repair Droid Chassis
2 Probot Chassis
4 Seekers
That was for 1 dude and his CH/BE shop.
The total for the chassises and seekers was 70k and he even gave me 80. what a cool guy. I forgot what I charged him for the r2, it was a couple hours before he ordered the rest.
Hehe, those moments are fairly few and far between. My largest order was for 4 of every droid chassis available colored randomly plus 5 named R2 chassis. Even though they were for PA hall decor I was pretty excited. Luckily I had enough crated parts to finish all but one BLL that same night. We have to take what we can get I suppose.
Just keep plugging away.