Merchant Archive

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DocSavag wrote:

Excerpt from a list provided to the devs in April/2004

4 Game Play Vendor Interface Enhancements

The Vendor interface is clunky and inefficient. The search features need to be enhanced to allow more robust searching, the offers and stock room interfaces need fewer clicks and batch processing support to allow large scale sales and re-pricing efforts to be done with a minimum number of clicks. The offers system itself needs to be enhanced as well giving the supplier more slots to offer merchandise and more information to be captured (Suggested Retail Price etc)

5 New Feature Consignment Sales Support

Wholesale purchases for Retail sales is only one method of merchant-supplier collaboration. Another is consignment sales. Consignment sales is defined, for the purpose of this feature request, as items purchased by the merchant with little or no up front cost with the understanding that a split of the sales revenue will take place upon the sale of the merchandise. This relationship is desirable because it removes the financial burden

6 New Feature Directed Sales

Both for customer orders, PA or Factional specials etc the vendors should be able to allow a merchant to place an item up for sale that can only be purchased by the indicated party or group. (e.g. guld:WAH, faction:Imperial, Chataka)

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You ever get any feedback on this stuff? I'd be happy with just 4 and 5. Being able to have a 'sale' and discount all of your stock by x% would be pretty cool too.