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Aleriel

Tue Jan 13, 2004 10:05 pm

ASHRID wrote:
Spinner I had the same problem during act 1 or COA.
I saw one of the encoded disks on the bazaar for 1 credit, not being one to pass up a bargain I bagged it (actually I needed that one but even if I hadnt I'd have bought it just to re sell it)
Within seconds I had the selling /tell'ing me how it was for a friend and I had to give it back, and then the friend /tell'ing me how he'd give me x credits for it if I sold it to him
Needless to say I wasnt going to sell (this was early in the act before they became commonplace)
The funniest part was that, when quizzed with why they hadn't just traded the disks, it turned out they were opposing factions!!!!
A rebel/imperial knowingly selling something of military value to the enemy, how very RP.......... (I'm a RP'er so this kind of thing really gets my goat)

The smart way to do that was to put items up for auction instead of instant sale. =)

Oriad Ackoto
~ The Quintessential Dabbler ~
Current Professions: Artisan, Carbineer, Creature Handler, Marksman, Medic, Merchant, Scout

DocSavag

Thu Jan 15, 2004 2:51 pm

#158

Tavtrin wrote:
Some peoplethink high prices means really usefull and cool.

Works in real life too

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Chataka Windae
Rifleman/Combat Medic
CEO, Windae Enterprises
Mesric Sanctuary Founder

Artistan

Fri Jan 16, 2004 1:26 am

#159

hmm....I'll go whip up a couple 100k chance cubes to try that out

- I support keeping & balancing the current combat system You can too

Octover

Fri Jan 23, 2004 2:07 am

#160

Okay, I got a pretty good one today. But I'll start with a rant.

I get an email for every single one of the following events:

1. When a customer buys one of my items off the bazaar or a vendor.

2. When an item I have up for sale isn't sold within the time limit.

3. When I buy an item from the bazaar or vendor(as if I didn't know already).

4. When I withdraw a sale from the bazaar (as if I didn't know already).

5. When I withdraw a sale from a vendor (as if I didn't know already).

6. When I accept an offer placed on my vendor (as if I didn't know already).

I get a freakin' email practically every time I walk past a vendor or bazaar terminal. But I DON"T get an email for one of the most important events I have as a vendor, when someone PLACES an offer on my vendor. No, no email for that. Just a system message, if I happen to be online at the time. What am I supposed to do, check all my vendors every day to see if anyone offered me anything? I'd like to have artisans feel free to drop a crate of whatever on my vendor offered at a bulk rate so I can sell at retail. Anyway...

So, I was pretty excited today when about 15 system messages came scrolling up that someone was making me offers. Now, I know from reading this forum that people often offer a bunch of junk, but was intrigued nonetheless.

So I ran over to my vendor to see what presents I had been given. I laughed when I saw several vid terminals and other worthless junk appear in the list. Mr. Noob had offered me everything for 5 credits each. Then I saw... A locked container... And an armor attachment for +1 defense vs. posture change. All for 5 credits each.

I bought those two items and a few other things like weapon components that I usually sell for 50 credits each. Now, being a smuggler, I know that containers usually contain junk and that I could sell the container for far more than its contents were worth, but sometimes I can't resist the temptation. I sliced it, and found... 1 steel. LOL!

But it doesn't end there. A few minutes later I'm sitting at the edge of my tent, semi-afk while I take care of stuff in real life. Mr. Noob sees me and asks me a question.

Mr. Noob: Hi. Can you fix my clothes?

Me: Yes, but anyone can. All you need is a clothing repair kit. You can usually find them on the bazaar.

Mr. Noob: Oh, ok. What about weapons and vehicles?

Me: Same deal with weapons. You need a weapon repair kit. With vehicles, you can go to a garage at a major NPC city.

Mr. Noob: Great, thanks!

I'm an honest merchant, so to take advantage of his low offer for those items goes against my normal tendencies. But,I got a kick out of that.If it weren't for my (mostly) honest nature and the fact thatI wasbusy IRL, I would have repaired the guy's clothes and charged him 10k for it.

Octover Sarious - Ahazi

mawgspawn

Fri Jan 23, 2004 4:04 am

#161

last night

Coronet on bria

I accidentally left my Master Armorsmith title on from a Player city meeting i had attended, and forgot to make myself non searchable. Waiting for shuttle at the starport.

I get up to use the rest room.

I get back. Havent been gone more than 2 minutes

This is what i see:

Can You Make me a composite suit for 40k. I hear your stuff is good from XXX

(time stamp shows 7 seconds passed from this one to the next tell)

Yo B can you make me a complosite suit right now? I need it

(the following comes in every second for the 2 minutes i was in the bathroom):

Bi-atch make me composite f***er

I /addignore, shaking my head.

2 minutes later, his 9 guild mates all send me the following identical message about 500 times

"You is a loozer and we will blacklist u Faxxot from bria we know everyone and your sales will die NEWB"

etc

i hate my title

love the job

People suck sometimes.

Mawg Marmont

My Charachter was Destroyed by NGE.

Wondering why I ever believed anything I was told on these boards.

Dafushpu

Fri Jan 23, 2004 5:59 am

#162

im a brawler grinding through a holocron, so money isnt the easiest thing to come by. or is it???

day one with brawler, went to theed and stood on the outskirts of town killing chubas. 1 hour later i am 1/1/1/1. run 2 imperial missions and buy basic brawler items off of the bazarr. go kill more chubas. 90 mins later i am 2/2/2/2. log out and go to work.

day two with brawler, start doing imp missions like a mad man. 3 hours later i am 3/3/3/3 and 45k richer. that is net after buying stimps and new weapons while fighting.

day three with brawler 4/4/3/3 and i have 80k in the bank after 2 hours

granted this was with a friend of mine who grouped with me, but as you can see it took me about 6 hours, including screw around in the cantina and hospital time to get enough cash to buy pretty much anything a novice brawler would need. now i am at the point to where i can run 2 imp missions and make about 4k in 10 minutes.

money is easy to earn if you just work. i hate people that beg me for it so they can go buy their new dingleberry pie pistol.

tomorrow when i play, i will be a master brawler with decent scout skills and i will start TKA, if i cant make 20k an hour then im retarded and need to leave the game.

yes vendors can be expensive. yes it may take hours and hours to earn enough for your eleventy billion ham bio engeneered rancor. yes you can finaly save up enough and some other turd already bought it. but merchants have to make money too.

i dread the day i pull a holocron that says merchant. i cant stand the thought of all the rancor turds im gonna have to deal with.

if you are jedi and you complain, i have one question for you. how many remember permadeth, kenetic damage lightsabers, and lightsaber TEFs?

djibxav

Fri Jan 23, 2004 2:05 pm

#163

My home sign is: Karedas' House - Architect shop inside

My vendors are named "Deeds" and "Furniture".

I'm crafting in my living room when a customer enters:

Customer: Hi do you sell Stim Packs

Me: No sorry.

(the best part here is that my neighbour is tatooine's stims best-seller, she has 12 food factories with her name on it around the place and her house is 50 meters from mine with vendor registered as "Medicine", you can't come in my house without seeing her stim specialised shop)

Customer: Do you sell Armors

Me: No.

Customer: And any weapons

Me: No, actuallyI only have architect items in my vendors (that he didn't even browse to see what I could have,according to merchant xp not earned)

Customer: Ok bye.

He leaves.

Karedas Alt'Hor
Kauri

ZamOceanjogger

Fri Jan 23, 2004 11:54 pm

#164

I advertise on my trade forum that I have restocked my powerup vendor witha/b/c ranged andd/e/f melee powerups in the hundreds...located at x/y

I get a PM here... "saw your post, do you have any melee powerups."

*uh oh* - Yes d/e/f melee's are on the vendor

2nd PM - "Great, where is your vendor?"

*this can't be happening to me !*

Zam Oceanjogger Mistress Architect

"Drake, help I just burnt 1mil ore in a day! "-
"Dude, you have some SERIOUS Issues" - Drakeous
Prices can be found at http://swg.ordo.cc/zam
Vendor in Altus Vista Mall, near Kaadara on Naboo, 6828,3612

SunLao

Sat Jan 24, 2004 1:00 am

#165

Artistan wrote:
Then there are us poor politicans who have to explain how cities work....sigh

I'm a Politician/Merchant...who gets in PvP battles...pity me.

"Wait for the Combat Balance."- random red name since Nov. 2003
Diogenes Noslen - The Meatshield Mayor!
- Shooting pistols in SWG since June 26 27, 2003 -
House Paladin

Safyre_Whysperwynd

Sat Jan 24, 2004 2:15 pm

#166

Hehe, I haven't read everything here but I've read most... that's a lot of pages! I'll admit the only reason I started Merchant was for my first holo and I have ran into a few of the bugs listed. Actually, the only reason I came to the forum was to try to find out how experience was earned since even when my friends 'browse and buy' from my vendors I see no increase. Although I do see the lump experience increase every so often from just having my vendors up.

I do feel your pain with a lot of the customers you've had.. I've had them in real life! Just work retail at any department store... you don't have to play a game to get the same idiots.

I think I do have one saving grace to the tells and browsers (but this has given me ideas of my own to advertise), I am an RPer and thus do NOT have a title under my name. When you meet me, if you can't tell my professions by looking at me, just ask... and I'm sure you'd never guess I was a merchant.

What I am asking is for those of us who are a bit clueless... not idiots... a little credit. Truthfully, I still don't know what good armor is or what makes a good weapon in the game. I recently went into an armor shop to look at armor since trying to fix mine on my own ruined it ( I have a feeling that higher level armor repair tools or even coupled with a high level armorer would have less chance of ruining an expensive Composite chest piece). The merchant who ran the shop happened to be there. The vendors were named correctly but some had mixmatched things.. probably put on them by accident.

Anyway, their armor vendor had a mixmatch of pieces no full suit of the same color or actually not even a full suit of anything. Obviously, other customers bought individual pieces instead of suits and I'll admit, I want to match and technically, I was on the look out for padded because I like the look of it better than composite.. as for stats? They were an after thought.

I visit each vendor and start to leave. The merchant then pipes up wandering if there was anything she could help me with.. (yep, her and her big mouth!).. so I tell her I was looking for some padded armor. She then riddles me with questions I am almost completely clueless about.. what will it be used for, what resists do I need, how much am I willing to spend, etc..... Took me a little bit to sift through all this and finally came up with a suit of armor she could have made for me ( I really appreciate her patience through all this!). Yes, I was roughly 300k short on the cost... which took me all of maybe one week to get. It took her three days to get me the armor and I mentioned her to all my guildmates who said they would need new suits soon.

Just saying there are idiots out there but some of us just aren't sure what we need until someone wakes us up to what we are actually looking for. As for being broke, money is relatively easy to get and gets even easier the higher level you get. I tend to see something I want, then make the money to get it. That might be backwards but it works for me and I don't expect anything free or reduced because I'm clueless or broke or even helped you get something you needed. I'm just here to play.

-Parifey Ailanthus

Wanderhome

Jaxx

Mon Jan 26, 2004 10:49 pm

#167

Ok. I have had alot of these. Been doing my business since release. But you just laugh about them most the time.

Anyways, this evening. I'm doing my harv run on my 2nd character. I have my Merchant in my basement in AFK mode. My msg is simple enough:

Sorry, I am not ignoring you. I am doing my harv run and will be stocking shortly. If you are asking about certain resources, I am currently out if its not on the vendor. I do not do custom orders. Vendors are stocked Mon, Weds, Fri. If you have any other questions, please email me. Thank you.

But it never fails, I still get the same individuals who msg me askng me if I have steel. Or if they can place an order for 200k Ore. Or this or that. Always the same ones.

This one guy tonight, sends me this tell:

gots any grinding iron? quality do not matter. (verbatim)

Well, I'm on my other toon like I said, so I don't pay attn to it. He sends it again 5 mins later according to the time stamp.

Then 15 mins later:

u &#*%# there yet?

And with in 2 mins after that, I get an email:

Title: 115k iron

Msg Body: grind quality...not paying more then 2.5cpu... got it?

Hmmmm.....

Jaxx ~ Talalden::Bounty Hunter:: Sword Wielding Fish ::Ahazi's very own MugShot Site!

NJ62

Tue Jan 27, 2004 10:05 am

#168

This is a repost from the Tailor forums - I thought y'all would find this story amusing. Well I wasn't amused...

Customer: Tailorx recommended you, i need 2 wedding bands, it's an emergency

me: I'm out in BFE, hunting

Customer: You don't understand, I need 2 wedding bands, we're already late, and George Lucas is presiding over the ceremony.

Me: (???) are you serious?

Customer: dead serious, please, it's an emergency

Me: (thinking: well ok, probably not true, but if it is, I don't want to be the smacktard who prevented this monumental event because I wouldn't go back to my shop)

IRL To Fiance: Hey hon, I gotta run back to my **** shop, this girl claims that The George Lucas is presiding over a wedding, and I have to make rings

Fiance: Yeah right, he's coming to Scylla?

Me IRL: yeah I know, but I don't want to ruin this, on the off-chance that it's true. Just keep running missions, I'll be back. *EXPLETIVES ENSUE as I try to make the shuttle*

Me: Ok, here's my shop on dantooine, I'll shuttle there, send me e-mails on what you want the rings to say, and what color, so I can have them made when you get there.

Customer: ok thanks, wear a nice dress - you're invited, of course, the wedding is at xxxx xxxx on Corellia...

Me: no no, I said that I could make the stuff, I can't deliver it (if it's sooo much of a rush it will take longer for me to make it and THEN deliver, instead of having someone travel to me while I'm crafting... besides, no frickin way is the George Lucas showing up on Scylla)

Customer: Ok, Groom is coming over to get the stuff...

Email from Customer: Rings shoudl say "blah blah blah" Oh by the way the groom needs clothes, help him.

Me: (this is getting worse!) no problem on the clothes, I have some floor models, he can just get one of those.

Customer: oh good.

Groom and friend show up. Both are Overt Imperials.

Me: you know that I can't trade with you now.

Friend (to groom): oh well I'll just kill you, is there a cloning...

Discussion about who will kill whom ensues

Me: ack, never mind, this is a rush, I'll just give you admin for a minute - if you rob me I'll kill you

Friend: hehe you have nothing I want in here

Me: (whatever!) Ok, well now pick a groom outfit.

Groom: Ack, alt troubles, Friend, you deal with this, I can't

Me: Ok, upstairs, you, pick outfit, move!

Friend: Ummm, I don't know.

Me: (Oh for the love of god!) Well pick one.

Friend: that one

Me: Ok (I pick up item and put it in a pack with the rings and drop the pack) here it is.

Friend: I don't have inventory space. Groom is out of game.

Me: (oh.. my .. god... just pick it up so I can leave) Total comes to 11k.

Friend: (tips me 11k, and that's it) heehe I got it.

Me: (takes friend off admin) Well I want to make sure you have everything you need before I take off. (AKA when groom comes back I'm expecting a hefty tip for such a rush job but I didn't want to make Friend pay the tip for AWOL Groom)

Friend and I chat it up. He transfers me 120 faction points (for my time). I play the mandeviol to heal him. 20 minutes passes. IRL Fiance is getting grumpy. So am I.

Me (to Customer): you know that the groom is just standing here - he's the one holding up the show.

Customer: <no response>

Me (in spatial): sooo... is it true that George Lucas is coming, I was under the impression that this was a rush job.

Friend: ah, I dunno, Groom is out of game, <some stuff>.... George Lucas?

Me: (yep... as I expected)

Groom: /bow /thank

Me: anything else you need

Friend: he's gone again

Fiance IRL: bah I'm logging

Me IRL: aww hell, these rat bastages ruined my night

Me: Ok, well i'm going to logthen

Me (to Customer): I'm going to log, hope it all works out

Customer: <no response>

Me IRL: George Lucas, my ass!

n'Jessi
former correspondent, former player
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Artistan

Tue Feb 03, 2004 3:52 pm

#169

/bump to return this to page 1

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