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Ok, here is my latest stupid tell.

Scene: Customer standing in front of a Vendor Called "Prinethea's Furniture and Florist"

Incoming Tell: dont ya ever stock your vendor dude, there are no small houses in here

Times like these I wish i could give out Stupidity Badges!!!

~Prinethea

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PrincessThea wrote:

Ok, here is my latest stupid tell.

Scene: Customer standing in front of a Vendor Called "Prinethea's Furniture and Florist"

Incoming Tell: dont ya ever stock your vendor dude, there are no small houses in here

Times like these I wish i could give out Stupidity Badges!!!

~Prinethea

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Yea..why aren't there any houses on there slacker!

And when are you paying my consultation fee from the other day ???

My favorites are the ones that come into your shop with their friends, not realizing that you're in your shop, just in another room, and can hear everything that they say.

I have a little 'refuge' set up in the basement of my shop where I can go and sit and craft or chat or do the occasional private fitting (which is exceedingly rare) when I get a mail from someone. I was overjoyed that it was a mail and not just a random tell from someone I didn't know. In it, they asked me for the waypoint to my shop, as a friend told them mine was the best place to find furniture. Great! So, I respond back and give them the waypoints to all three of my shops.

About a half an hour later, two blips appear on my radar ... two people head into my shop, and I overhear their conversation (paraphrased from memory):

Dude1: click on that one on the right, there, and sort what's on it

Dude1: there isn't much here, who told you to come here?

Dude2: Dudette1

Dude1: well, take a look and see if there's anything you want

Dude1: i don't see anything

Now, at this point, I'm furrowing my eyebrows. I know that there's not much on there at the moment, but to say that there isn't anything there is a stretch. I'd been working on getting Master Architect, so I hadn't really been paying too much attention to keeping my merchants stocked, and that *particular* merchant was at my main shop, which doesn't get nearly as much foot traffic as the others do.

So, I got up, and went upstairs to take a look at what /was/ on the vendor. Forty-seven pieces of furniture were still there.

Me: There are 47 pieces of furniture on that vendor.

Dude1: yeah, but not what we're looking for

Me: Well, what are you looking for?

Dude1: Tell her what you want. (to Dude2)

At this point, I'm thinking: This is a little bizarre.

Dude2: torches

Me: Torches usually sell out rather quickly. How many do you want?

Dude2: just a handful

Me: Well, if you give me an actual number, I can make you some.

Dude2: how many do you want? (to Dude1)

At this point, I'm wondering why Dude1 doesn't just speak for himself. This is more than a little ... strange.

(silence)

Dude2: 4, he'd like 4

Umm... okay. I whip up the four torches. In the meantime a guy who I'd been avoiding (the last time he was here, I had to explain to him four times that his order was on Lila and that no, I can't make hooded cloaks with the hood up) comes in. Great. Now I have to pay attention to him, too. He starts asking an endless line of questions that only end when I tell him three times that I'm busy.

I finish the torches and put them on the vendor.

Me: Okay, they're on the vendor.

Dude1: (buys the torches)

Dude2: see if there's anything else you want

Dude1 (to Dude2): i kind of wanted a bed

Dude2: Well, tell her and she'll make it.

I will? Yeesh. Now, I'm beginning to wonder. I figure it's probably a guy who's playing with his kid, and the kid is asking 'dad' if it's okay if he buys things. Either that, or ... well, I don't want to know.

Dude1 (to me): I'd like a bed.

Me: Small beds are XXX, Large beds are XXXX.

Dude1 (turns back to Dude2): i'd like to get two small ones

Dude2: If you can afford it, go ahead.

Dude1 (turns back to me): I'd like two small beds, plz.

Good grief. Will this never end? I whip up two small beds, apologize for the short list of furniture, as I've been working on Master Architect, and put them on the vendor.

Dude1 (buys the beds).

Dude2: thanks for the help

Me: No problem.

Dude2 kneels.

Dude2: At your leave, my Lord, I am ready to depart.

Okay, so that wipes out the kid theory ... I ... don't want to know ... really. After giving Mr. Annoying a few more special orders, I head back downstairs and decide I'll just remain in my basement next time.

That may not go under the 'annoying' list so well, but it sure was just plain strange.

I thought I was the only one with rude customers...

Dude: make we a swoop

Me: I am out ofmetal ATM

Dude: I need a swoop now

Me: If you bring me the resources, I can make u one (as a favour I normally do not make things for free)

Dude: u find the resources, that is your job

Me: /ignore

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ASHRID wrote:
Indigo, it _sounds_ like they might have been RPing a slave and its master - just a thought

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I repeat. I ... don't want to know ....

You gUyz shouldn't diss all these l33t dUdez.

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Tavtrin wrote:
You gUyz shouldn't diss all these l33t dUdez.

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We're just jealous of them so we strike out.

With the vendor cap all but the masters of us may have to restock twice a day(im a master).

I especially love going to a Starport and overhearing someone ask for money. My response:

Two words: M-i-s-s-i-o-n T-e-r-m-i-n-a-l

Usually gets a few laughs.

Greyspar - Ahazi

Indigo: Your story was so bizarre! I guess to each his own....but I hope they don't come to my shop.

Indigo, it _sounds_ like they might have been RPing a slave and its master - just a thought

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(then he buys my 10k cdef pistol i use as a message/information holder and leaves)

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I had a guy once buy a Nemoidian Birdcage off my bait and pole vendor that I used to give waypointsto all the Tatooine fishingholes for 100,000. Never said anything,never asked for a refund.I raised it to 1,000,000 after that, hoping he'd come back.

Some peoplethink high prices means really usefull and cool.