Merchant Archive
Thread: no restock button... almost 2 years into it.. im done.. deletion.. see ya
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Vastar
Sun Mar 27, 2005 2:42 pm
#1
JeCy wrote:
but if you aint near c-net it dont matter what you have or what your prices are you just wont get bussines
Spare me. I wanted business so I started up a mall just outside of Coronet. Location was part of the strategy involved with being a Merchant. (With this new galactic search, of course, that aspect of things has been watered down to a childish level.)
Aside from that one fragment of a sentence, excellent rant.
I really don't know why there's not been a restock button at least. That's always been one of our top things as far as I'm aware but I don't recall them ever speaking to us about it. The sad thing is, as bad as things are here, is there anywhere else to go that's offering anything close to what SWG has for a crafting system? If you don't mind me asking, do you have another destination in mind?
Kryxal
Sun Mar 27, 2005 3:15 pm
#2
Another issue that may be solved soon: bazaar categories (and the related Advertising 3 categories). Now it's not a matter of Merchants complaining, now the fighters are complaining about how they can't find things ... somebody wants something in a crate, and you have to wade through ALL the crates! Somebody wants a weapon, and you have to deal with the various naming schemes (which may soon be modified to sort higher to the top). And so on ... they already have the galaxy search unmodified.
Darkninja_Safaras
Sun Mar 27, 2005 3:54 pm
#3
Ahh yes, a restock button or optoin would be much of a time save. I would like to see that as well. There are categories in the bazzar that i have never seen things posted in. Such as the sign category in the misc branch. I keep wondering if they are eventually going to add things in to fill these spaces, but i have a feeling there just extra unneeded categories. lol oh well.
Darkninja_Safaras
Sun Mar 27, 2005 5:02 pm
#4
I'd like to see them free up skill point req. for merchant prof also.
TeamTwin1
Sun Mar 27, 2005 7:04 pm
#5
LOL. Is this where I call Merchant dabblers names?
/point
/yell
DABBLER!
Seriously:
I've run a successful merchant for about 15 months now and I've had like 3 sales in a week. I'm not even gonna sweat it, just keep stocking.
I would like to see them free up the merchant sp though. Not sure what use Master merchant is anymore.
bluejanus
Sun Mar 27, 2005 8:39 pm
#7
Well sorry to see you go, but you can run a successful business not being near a trade city like Coronet or Theed. I'm not sure if that's possible right now of course. Guess we'll see how much location matters with this change.
JeCy
Mon Mar 28, 2005 1:32 am
#8
ive been a merchant since launch and have sold everything you can possibly imagine.. but ive had it
ive run a store that has had 2500+ items much of which is low sale or low profit.. fireworkds. paint kits, power ups. small resource stacks. for those not soo rich crafters that cant afford or dont want to buy 100k stacks. droid stims. food that people dont stock, like jawa ale, or graylin juice, spice, i even sell tux's.
Ive sold armor, weapons, droids, harvesters, starships, clothing, pets, you name it if its craftable ive had sold it one time or another..
well im done.. spending 8 hours a month reposting items to make a few credits just to have a nice store just aint worth it. Im even poofing my vendor with over 500 crates of grenades cause sales are to slow. no idea why i dont know anyone selling protons for 68k a crate other than me..i dont feel like reposting um. soo POOF im also the lowest priced vendor in the galaxie.. but if you aint near c-net it dont matter what you have or what your prices are you just wont get bussines, ghost towns, cities come and go every day.. what is busy one month will be dead in 2.
I hung on longer than most and have always gotton compliments on having such a well stocked store and great prices.. but im done. Combat class whine and its in the next fix. Waaa i have to wait 3 mins to get a mind buff.. i only have limited time to play soo i cant wait the 2 mins.. or god forbid i have to wait 5 mins for a shuttle.. well this merchant is done.. if restock button ever shows its face i might consiter doing it again.. but honestly im not sure ill bearound that long..
Take care all
Je'Cy Dax
Merchant nolonger
SicariusD
Mon Mar 28, 2005 2:51 am
#9
Do u advertise on your galaxy trade forumn, i did and sold out 3 nade factory runs within 12 hours of stocking and im not a C'net camper, if you are as good and as cheap as u say you are tell ppl and they will come....unless of course you live on rori or talus lol
Combat_Medic_to_be
Mon Mar 28, 2005 5:30 am
#10
You say that about talus but a friend of mine ran a sucessful enough shipwright business from there to cover his costs while he was grinding
KinMisuri
Mon Mar 28, 2005 5:55 am
#11
Darkninja_Safaras wrote:
I'd like to see them free up skill point req. for merchant prof also.
then EVERYONE would be a merchant!! 
definately an issue about the restock button though, or at least an option of using ctrl+click to select multiple items at once to sell
Crimsonsplat
Mon Mar 28, 2005 8:04 am
#12
They already are. Check your galaxy trade forum. Doesn't cost thema single skill point. Oh, and did you notice the bazaar limit got raised to 20k? Good Lord forbid that the non-crafters have a hard time selling their loot.
KinMisuri wrote:
Darkninja_Safaras wrote:
I'd like to see them free up skill point req. for merchant prof also.
then EVERYONE would be a merchant!!
I thought Merchant was an over (skill-point) priced profession BEFORE it was hammered to crap with the nerf bat. Now it's a total waste of points.
Maybe, just maybe, the combat people will howl loud enough that the categories will get fixed. But don't expect a restock button, nor anything else worthwhile until Merchant is a 0 SP profession; only then will combat classes get vendors and start a ruckus.
I'm still trying to figure out how/why crafting got put into SWG in the first place, since SOE doesn't really care about it. Sony is notoriously combat-class oriented, and within that, they perpetually dote on the melee types to the near-exclusion of all others. Any other ex-EQ players out there? You know what I'm talking about.
SONY: Advertising branch to ZERO points. Now. (i.e.:Next patch. )
Andymantium
Mon Mar 28, 2005 8:41 am
#13
it's like master politician was/is...at this rate we'll be a skillpoint-free profession in a couple publishes
TeamTwin1 wrote:
I would like to see them free up the merchant sp though. Not sure what use Master merchant is anymore.
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