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first resale is a personal opinion of doing business there is no right or wrong of it, everyone thinks differently and should not feel bad about doing so.

secondly banning is again personal..it is anyones right to ban anyone else from their own structures {providing it is not griefing which is another story}

so how does this help? it is up to you, take it and move on or dwell on it and ruin your gameplay.

you don't mind when folks resell your items, others mind when you resell theirs..it everyone right to think both ways.
You will always get both sides saying "I do it" and "you shouldnt do it"..but let's be realistic..it is your choice.
{and you will be the one to deal with the repercussions for taking either side..thats the game, nothing new there}

Sounds like a serious case of seller's remorse. As the Elyssa said, if they got what they asked for it then what's the issue? Its not like you ripped them off. You have no idea what incentive or reasons that person had for selling something at wholesale and its really none of your business. They might badly need some cash for something and be cutting the price to move it fast. Happens all the time, and the person selling decided to take a loss in potential income in exchange for fast income.

Now this is a bit different from the creeps that hang out at Eisley and talk noobs out of the BARC for 100k... that's just cruel.

RL reselling happens all the time and no one complains, its still the number one way of distributing goods.One person has invested time and energy learning what the true market value of things is, and/or knowing where to market something to get the best value. That person spent his or her time and energy to become proficent at this skill just like the person making the item spent time and energy becoming proficient at crafting. Both are worthy of their income. If someone wants to spend the time and energy to learn how to do both and thus earn money for both endevors, great. But if he or she hasn't gone thru marketing 101, why should they complain about someone else who has? Did the crafter dig all of the resources he used out of the ground himself? Most of the crafters I know buy at least some if not all of their resources. Should the miner thus complain that the crafter has taken his1 to 3 cpu resources and turned them into 5 to10 cpu end products? No, the crafter is worthy of his income for the work involved. The same is true for the marketer or merchant who resells the item.

Personally I dislike resellers and would ban them from my shop the instant they started buying everything up.

I spend a lot of time to stock my vendors with the best stuff I can craft. Being a shipwright, this takes considerable time and I pride myself on having everything someone needs to go from novice to master on my vendors. I get tells all the time asking about a specific component. I don't have to hesitate to say that yes I have that and give them the waypoint.

double post

Message Edited by Egrim on 10-25-2003 01:51 PM

Message Edited by Necesito on 10-23-2005 09:07 AM

There is nothing wrong with reselling. Reselling is what a merchant does.

I do it all the time, particularly when someone is selling a crackhead prices, way below what the resources would even bring if you sold them instead of the finished product. I have bought entire malls before. Once or twice I've had to drop a house as close as possible and run back and forth.

Fairly recently I cleaned somebody out and he had several toons picket my shop. I made macros telling people what a bad person I was and that they shouldn't shop at my store and started picketing myself, right alongside them. I don't think I've ever sold so much in one day.

Banning does nothing, either. Everyone has an alt, or a friend. I make a point to send in someone else to buy up the few people who have banned me for reselling.

Don't want people to buy up your stock? Raise your prices, or do private sales. Otherwise, if you sell below market and I see it, you're logging into an empty vendor.