Merchant Archive
Thread: Annoying Customers you want to throw in the Sarlacc Pit
Ke_la
Thu Jun 17, 2004 11:23 pm
#275
costumer: hey, i thought you sold armor!
me: Yes i do i just put up 5 sets of ubese 15 min ago
costumer: thats not armor!
me:??????
costumer: comp yes, padded maybe, ubese chitn mabri and bone No
What spice was this guy on!!!
I totaly agree as Ubese is the only thing I ware, To cheap/Impationt to get a Buff
nefarious
Fri Jun 18, 2004 6:18 am
#276
Ok, Standing in my house crafting, I have several vendors as I'm also trying to get merchant XP.
Customer: Can I borrow 200k?
Me: What For?
Customer: I want to buy "Imperial Things". (I placed a pack on one of the vendors called "Imperial Things" that someone gave me, I had it priced high just so there was something on the vendor for XP, but I forgot about it at this point in the story)
Me: What type of Imperial Things.
Customer: Imperial Things on your vendor. (realizes what he was talking about).
Me: You want a pack named Imperial things?
Customer: Yes
Me: Ok. (Grabs a pack out of a crate and proceeds to name it "Imperial Things")
Customer: I want what is in it too. (he couldn't see what was in it, it was the stocks from the imperial theme park)
Me: Those are weapon componants that only a weaponsmith can use.
Customer: I can make weapons.
Me: I didn't know you were a weaponsmith. (I did know him for a while)
Customer: I'm not a weaponsmith.
Me: Then you can't use them.
Customer: But I can make Rifles, Pistols and Carbines.
Me: CDEF?
Customer: Yeah
/setperm ban <name>
Still good for a laugh everytime.
royalewitcheez
Tue Jun 29, 2004 10:24 am
#277
(Stocking my vendor, in my house.)
Him: rooyal
Me: hello
Him: can u make me some great comp armor
Me: check my red vendor, what kind are you looking for ?
Him: the best lol
Him: the high % on all
Me: check my vendors, see if you like anything
Me: be sure to click "next items"
Him: lol im so lazy can u pick me out the best plz
Me: the best i have is the 80Kin 80Ener 66Base
Him: how much is that
Me: 498k a suit
(few minutes pause...)
Him: lol hell no
Him: my guild said it's worth 200k
Me: then buy it from your guild
Him: k peace
Hmmm, it feels so good to rip into the occational customer.
Him: rooyal
Me: hello
Him: can u make me some great comp armor
Me: check my red vendor, what kind are you looking for ?
Him: the best lol
Him: the high % on all
Me: check my vendors, see if you like anything
Me: be sure to click "next items"
Him: lol im so lazy can u pick me out the best plz
Me: the best i have is the 80Kin 80Ener 66Base
Him: how much is that
Me: 498k a suit
(few minutes pause...)
Him: lol hell no
Him: my guild said it's worth 200k
Me: then buy it from your guild
Him: k peace
Hmmm, it feels so good to rip into the occational customer.
Ainwyn
Tue Jun 29, 2004 3:21 pm
#278
The other day I was doing some crafting in the work room (the room off to the side in a medium Naboo) and someone was in the shop looking at armor.
I pop out for a moment to grab something and he says somethign to the effect, "This armor sucks. I was told there was some really good armor here but this stuff is crap. I can get better from thus and so."
His tone really put me off but I was trying to be nice, "Have you looked at the suits in bags? When I put up pieces, the tend to sell out fast and sometimes all that is left is the dregs" (the older stuff and the not quite perfect hand-builds that I didn't want to toss out but put up at a discount, older stuff is discounted, too).
He continues to say how much my armor sucks. And I again ask if he looked at the suits in bags... and then tell him exactly how to search for them (look on the left, click on "misc", now scroll down and click on "wearable container") since he obviously doesn't know what a Next Button is either.
5 min later (he was perusing my armor the entire time)... "Dang, this armor is great! I can't believe you make such good armor! I didn't realise you were the armor maker when I said that before" (I always have my Master Armorsmith title on).
He bought 2 of my most expensive suits....
I pop out for a moment to grab something and he says somethign to the effect, "This armor sucks. I was told there was some really good armor here but this stuff is crap. I can get better from thus and so."
His tone really put me off but I was trying to be nice, "Have you looked at the suits in bags? When I put up pieces, the tend to sell out fast and sometimes all that is left is the dregs" (the older stuff and the not quite perfect hand-builds that I didn't want to toss out but put up at a discount, older stuff is discounted, too).
He continues to say how much my armor sucks. And I again ask if he looked at the suits in bags... and then tell him exactly how to search for them (look on the left, click on "misc", now scroll down and click on "wearable container") since he obviously doesn't know what a Next Button is either.
5 min later (he was perusing my armor the entire time)... "Dang, this armor is great! I can't believe you make such good armor! I didn't realise you were the armor maker when I said that before" (I always have my Master Armorsmith title on).
He bought 2 of my most expensive suits....
ShirkiRed
Tue Jun 29, 2004 8:22 pm
#279
Im just working my way up the DE tree, first crafting profession I've ever tried. I've had some annoying experiences in the last month since I've started crafting. This happened last night right outside my shop (the idea of what happened, not quoted):
Customer: I need batteries and repair packs
Me: ok, i have some on my vendor inside
Customer: which ones do i need to buy (here im thinking: you just told me what you wanted - its obvious)
Me: the crates labeled repair kit - b and batteries (i tell him anyway)
Customer: ok
(he proceeds to buy 3 crates of repair kits and 2 crates of batteries. goes outside my shop, calls his probot)
Customer: do you like my droid
Me: yeah its nice (im trying to be nice here)
Customer: how u make it work
Me: I'll send you an email with an explanation (so many have asked me i have an email made with explanation, and soe help id # if they want to check the holocron. its pointless, i always have to try to explain to them myself. worst part is that half the time they didnt get there droid from me)
Customer: how you make it work, does it need battery (upon examination battery power = 100%)
Me: no, you just need to program it (on with the explanation, try for about 5 min. customer doesnt get programming/commanding at all)
Customer: i not luv this thing. you give me back my credits
Me: ok go offer the stuff to my vendor (this part sucks, i have to tell him how much he spent on each of the items. but im nice so i take the stuff back)
Customer: you want to buy my droid? (first off i make droids, i dont need to buy them. had he bought it from me and was not satisfied i would take back the droid probably, but he didnt buy the droid from me)
Me: no
Customer: 4000!
Me: sorry, i dont need it
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The explaining droid part makes me mad, most just ignore the email explanation i give them. Its not hard, just program the damn thing from the radial menu!
Some people seem to be so thick headed, and evidently some think the droid profession tag above my head means im looking to buy used droids, i get that way too much.
phelixcubed
Tue Jun 29, 2004 11:35 pm
#280
I run an armor shop outside of Anchorhead, and I've noticed my business is comprised of mostly new players who've found their way from Mos Eisley to elsewhere. With this situation, you'd think Ibe receiving a lot of the same situations you all have been experiencing, but for the most part people I've dealt with have been courteous, to say the least. Maybe because Radiant is the unofficial Spanish-speaking server, and a good majority of our players have English as a second language. 
I have had one good experience in the last couple of months of running my shop, though. I logged in one night to check my armor stock, and plan what segments and suits I was going to run on my factories that night, when I found a young lady clad in a set of bone armor sitting on my shop floor, admiring my vendors. I said hi to her, checked my inventory and got the following tell from her:
"Hi, I just started the game recently and am an aspiring bounty hunter. Is there any way that I can buy a suit of composite from you in installments? Pay you 30k now, and 20k a day until I fully pay it off?"
I thought about it for a while, and told her, "Well... these suits of composite are pretty expensive, and it's not too hard to run missions for money. How about you save for a bit, and then come back and buy a suit?"
"I did think about it, and you know - if I had a good suit of armor, I could run harder missions and pay you back sooner, I promise."
I was really tempted to ignore this customer, but then I did something I've never done before, in my time playing SWG or the 6 years I ran a blacksmith in Ultima Online - I agreed to her plan. 
I repriced a suit on my vendor to 30k, she bought it, and I thought I'd never hear from her again.
I repriced a suit on my vendor to 30k, she bought it, and I thought I'd never hear from her again.But it didn't work that way. For the next several days, she sent me payments, in 30k and 60k chunks, until the armor was repaid. Then she started to direct business my way - I started getting a lot of tells and emails from people saying she had recommended them to me, and they bought armor too. And just recently, I inked a deal to supply a PA of 120+ members with custom suits of armor because their mayor heard of me through - guess who? - the customer I had helped out earlier. All over a suit of composite that I took a chance on selling on a payment plan to a customer I really wasn'ty really sure would pay me back.
I guess my point is - you never know when that one random act of kindness will pay you back, but it's worth taking a chance every now and then. 
And maybe that not all new customers are bad - after all, we were all new to this game once.
And maybe that not all new customers are bad - after all, we were all new to this game once.
Dronayus
Thu Jul 08, 2004 5:39 pm
#281
phelixcubed wrote:
I run an armor shop outside of Anchorhead, and I've noticed my business is comprised of mostly new players who've found their way from Mos Eisley to elsewhere. With this situation, you'd think Ibe receiving a lot of the same situations you all have been experiencing, but for the most part people I've dealt with have been courteous, to say the least. Maybe because Radiant is the unofficial Spanish-speaking server, and a good majority of our players have English as a second language.
I have had one good experience in the last couple of months of running my shop, though. I logged in one night to check my armor stock, and plan what segments and suits I was going to run on my factories that night, when I found a young lady clad in a set of bone armor sitting on my shop floor, admiring my vendors. I said hi to her, checked my inventory and got the following tell from her:
"Hi, I just started the game recently and am an aspiring bounty hunter. Is there any way that I can buy a suit of composite from you in installments? Pay you 30k now, and 20k a day until I fully pay it off?"
I thought about it for a while, and told her, "Well... these suits of composite are pretty expensive, and it's not too hard to run missions for money. How about you save for a bit, and then come back and buy a suit?"
"I did think about it, and you know - if I had a good suit of armor, I could run harder missions and pay you back sooner, I promise."
I was really tempted to ignore this customer, but then I did something I've never done before, in my time playing SWG or the 6 years I ran a blacksmith in Ultima Online - I agreed to her plan.
But it didn't work that way. For the next several days, she sent me payments, in 30k and 60k chunks, until the armor was repaid. Then she started to direct business my way - I started getting a lot of tells and emails from people saying she had recommended them to me, and they bought armor too. And just recently, I inked a deal to supply a PA of 120+ members with custom suits of armor because their mayor heard of me through - guess who? - the customer I had helped out earlier. All over a suit of composite that I took a chance on selling on a payment plan to a customer I really wasn'ty really sure would pay me back.
I guess my point is - you never know when that one random act of kindness will pay you back, but it's worth taking a chance every now and then.
...sniff.... so heart warming
mhal9000
Mon Aug 02, 2004 2:26 am
#282
Ok, we've had our one good story, lets get back to the nightmares!
I haven't had many lately, and I attribute that to the fact that the hologrind is for all intents and purposes, over. I'm not getting dozens of "do u sell recourses" /tells anymore. I'm back to dealing with professional crafters instead of the unwashed masses who were just looking to knock out that next profession in their quest to unlock.
Oh yeah, and /bump...
Message Edited by mhal9000 on 08-02-2004 02:26 AM
Elyssa
Mon Aug 02, 2004 2:42 am
#283
There are two types of customersthat I want to get rid of.
#1 comes to my store and offers my vendors lots of worthless junk for thousands of credits.
#2 offers my vendors items that I sell for more than I charge for them.
Every now and then I'll have friends drop things off tome by offering them for 1cr, but that's pretty much all I'm interested in.
For the most part, I don't want to accept offers.
There should be a way to lock this function out on a per vendor basis.
Just add it to the menu options "enable offers" "disable offers"
Tarnak_Archvold
Mon Aug 02, 2004 6:57 pm
#285
Elyssa wrote:#1 comes to my store and offers my vendors lots of worthless junk for thousands of credits.#2 offers my vendors items that I sell for more than I charge for them.
I would like to add to that:
#3 offer you your own, but used, items back at full price.
I would like to know what they are thinking.
Elyssa
Mon Aug 02, 2004 10:10 pm
#286
Well that should be obvious.
If that's what you're selling it for, clearly that's what it's worth!
Either that, or they're trying to ask for a refund.
Either way, it ain't happening.