Merchant Archive

Hiya folks.

I sell alot of stuff on the bazaar. I was wondering if you can set up a default e-mail that goes out to your customers upon completion of the sale, thanking them for their purchse etc.... My merchant skills are minimal still and I do not have a private vendor yet.

If this is not available I think it would be agreat feature to SOMEDAY perhaps have available to us. Do you send e-mails to your clients thanksing them for their sales? How do you keep up with them if so?

Thanks for any tips or info you may have.

----- Saraya ----

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Maralith wrote:

Hiya folks.

I sell alot of stuff on the bazaar. I was wondering if you can set up a default e-mail that goes out to your customers upon completion of the sale, thanking them for their purchse etc.... My merchant skills are minimal still and I do not have a private vendor yet.

If this is not available I think it would be agreat feature to SOMEDAY perhaps have available to us. Do you send e-mails to your clients thanksing them for their sales? How do you keep up with them if so?

Thanks for any tips or info you may have.

----- Saraya ----

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There isn't any way currently to automate it. I fear making it too easy to do might open this up to abuse, but that is just a fear I have about this method of advertising.

What I did was this. I had a waypoint to my shop. I had the text of the email which was just a little blurb about my store and an invitation to come and take a look at what we had to offer. I would put that in my clipboard every game session then as each bazaar sale came through I would create an email to the user who purchased on the bazaar and past the text into the body. Then I would drag the waypoint over and send. With the intoduction of the /notepad feature you can now save that text there and not have to worry about cutting it from notepad or some other external program.

I have emailed one of these messages to myself then I forward it to the purchaser.

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Draznar wrote:
I have emailed one of these messages to myself then I forward it to the purchaser.

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Draznar how do you get around the quote text?

It just takes a secound to delete the > and I only do these in a batch. Usually only once a day. I put all the purchasers on To line. Oh, another thing I found you can seperate using a comma or semi-colon, but some times get errors with the comma. Use ;

Another thing I do is put my shop wp in with the item description my bazaar items, also indicating that thse items are minus the transportation mark-up at my shop.

I have a question on the /notepad feature. I haven't really used these features, same as the /load command. How do you create a file using it, how do you use the command, and how do you copy and paste? As we all know the windows ways(ctr-c, ctr-v) have other functions in this game.

I did what someone already mentioned, just have a default email I send out to everyone. Is it spamming? Yes, but it's like going to a store and getting a receipt that has the store address and a "Thank you for shopping with us" statement at the bottom. It's not spam in a way, it's advertising in a better way until the devs can give some real advertising techniques to the advertising tree (besides worthless ad-barking).

Puck, I use a default EQ style layout and remap my keys as necessary. That's what I did with ctrl-c and v soI could use the standard Windows way.

I also use a forwarded Advertisement Flyer. I usually send this out in one bulk email after I log in or find some down time. Also, I only send to bazaar sales as I figure they already know where I'm located if they buy off my vendors (only have one location). In addition, I keep track of the names I send to....use my old dayplanner for this. That way they only get one email from me.

Brae-Lun

i used to just copy and paste an email thank you to all my customers... i used to have to keep it in a text file and alt tab out... however now i can keep it in /note or /notes don't remember which... eitherway i just copy and paste it in an eamilt o my bazzaar and vendor custoemrs... i've been doign that since july 10th. i don't think i've seen too many others send me thank yous... thats for sure...

There are no default keys assigned to cut/copy/paste. You have to assign them yourself. You have to go into options (ctrl-o) by default. Click on the keyboard tab on the left and then the chat tab at the top. Under that chat tab you'll see cut/copy/paste and you can then assign keyboard commands to them. Personally I use ctrl-shift-c for copy and ctrl-shift-p for paste. I don't use cut. Hope I got those tabs right, doing this from memory.

Ok...my quetion is still not answered. Using the keyboard map as is, how do you cut and paste? I know that yeh, you can use /notes to make a txt file, and I know all you have to do is paste it in your email. So, my question still is...HOW?

I have a very nicely colored email with WP's to my shops that I sent to myself...when I forward it to someone else you just need to delete the quote marks which only takes a second. I stopped this practice tho when I started getting dozens of sales a day...I was just spending too much time on this.

It's called Marketing. Do you stop shopping at your favorite stores whenever they hand you a receipt? Or when they ask you to "Please come back and shop here again"? It's called Advertisement. Marketing. What you call SPAM isn't SPAM at all. It's us playing our professions accurately. We're SALESPEOPLE. And one lost sour apple(you) does not equal all the customers I gain when they check out my shops and find that they can buy a ton more than they could on the P.O.S. Bazaar, and at better prices most of the time.

So, delete my "Thank You" email. It won't bother me. If someone thanking you offends you, tough **edit**. It's just an email after all, and it's not that hard to hit <delete>.