Merchant Archive
Thread: Annoying Customers you want to throw in the Sarlacc Pit
LLJK_Griz wrote:
Do you guys get random crap offered to your vendors? I've had junk loot items, 0 damage 1 condition weapons that broke in repair,two month old weapons in 200 condition offered for the same price as a new one, 3 units of metal, and melons offered.
I bought the melons.
Yessss. Its annoying. I'm a Master Tailor, so my vendors all sell clothing. Someone offered their full set of very crappy bone armor to my vendors (What am I going to do with that??) and a plethera of wood staffs (joy!). 
Then theres the conversations with customers...
I was restocking my vendor and someone comes in my tent and starts talking to me.
Customer [Male Humanoid]: Can you make me an undershirt with +25 Injury Healing +25 Wound Healing?
Me: Let me check what types of shirts can be enhanced like that for you.
Customer: I want an undershirt.
Me: Okay, neither the Formfitting Undershirt or the Soft Undershirt can be enhanced with Injury/Wound Healing. But there are many other shirts that you could still wear under your armor, or under jackets and stuff.
I spent the next couple minutes searching through every shirt's ingredient list to find one that takes 2 synthetic cloths.
Me: Okay, I found two shirts that are capable of being enhanced to +25 Injury Treatment +25 Wound Treatment that are wearable by men. They are the Leather Trim Shirt and the Wooly Shirt.
Customer: I want an undershirt with the doctor stuff.
Me: They can be still be worn under armor, vests, and jackets. I explained about the two shirts with "Undershirt" in the name above, in case that's what you were referring to.
Customer: Oh.
Customer: I was AFK during all that.
Keep in mind this person is standing right in front of me, and we aren't just talking in tells, and he never even said he was going AFK. Who asks for something and then immediately goes AFK anyways??
Me: Well, you can scroll up and read all about it. [Slightly frustrated because I've had half a dozen of these types of conversations with this same person in the past]
Customer: I need an undershirt thats for doctors with enhancements.
Me: Yes, I know. We've been talking about this. [Getting frustrated...why can't they just read??]
Customer: Oh I stopped reading after the names
Me: [confused] Ok....take a moment and read the rest then.
Customer: Do I email you?
Me: Yes. Email me your order. This one may take me a couple days as I'm all out of that enhancement at the moment and need to go find more to buy, so please keep that in mind. [Luckily there were no complaints here]
I don't hear from the customer for several minutes. I assumed they were checking my vendors to see what those two shirts I told them about looked like. Meanwhile, I had to leave to pick up more materials from my workshop for my restocking.
I then receive several emails from the customer. One with the shirt he wanted, and then several more, each with an individual question in it.
OR..The reason I won't traveloff planet to meet someone anymore unless I already know them well:
Customer (Via Tell): Can you make me something?
Me: I'm restocking at the moment, if you'd like to place a custom order I can make it and put it up on my Custom Orders Vendor for you to pickup whenever its convinient for you.
Customer: Oh. I want clothes.
Me: That's what I make and sell. 
Customer: Can you come meet me?
Me: I can't at the moment, I'm busy restocking. I suggest the custom order thing.
Customer: Come to Tattooine.
Bearing in mind that I'm on Corellia.
Me: I'm really sorry, but I'm not able to. Are you sure you won't be interested in a custom order?
Customer: I'll pay well if you come. Im gonna buy a bunch of things. Pleazzzz.
Me: Maybe we can set up an appointment to meet each other later.
Customer: K whens the soonest you can come to Tat??
Me: Is there anyway we can meet in Corellia?
Customer: I'm on Tat.
Me: Okay, what is it you are interseting in buying?
Customer: A bunch of things, I'm still thinking.
Me: Ok, I'll be available in about 45 minutes, then I can meet you on Tat.
I meet up with this person. They order 2 items. Where's the "lots of items?". Not even that, but they only pay me 2k because they are short on money, which they never mentioned before. So I end up losing about 3k on the clothes and 2k on the tickets to get there and back, so on one order, I've waisted 30-45 minutes w/ shuttletime to meet this person and I'm out 5k. In the future, I won't be so naive.
1)I refill vendor with about 20 tubs of bait
2)I go off on a hunt
3)5 minutes pass until my screen is spammed with 20 "You've got mail messages"
4)I open up mailbox to discover 1 customer has bought all of the bait and hired 1 fishing rod
5)I now receive messages from customers saying I haven't got bait in my vendor so how can they fish
6)Repeat steps 1-5
Why do people need that much bait??? As soon as you catch 1 fish you get more bait!!!!
I was hunting in a group when I saw that ad:
dude: "selling mind poison geo blaster PST w serious offer"
me: "/tell dude hi what are the stats on the geo blaster, damage and dot please"
dude: "it's (don't remember the correct stats, but it's around that) 50ish strenght, 100ish duration, 60ish potency" (not very good but can be fun)
me: (aware of the market price for those babies, as I frequently sell similar stuff, and also wanting the dude to make a nice deal cause I wasn't broke at that time) "well, the stats are not very good but I'd give you maybe 400k or 500k for it"
dude: "LOOOOOOOOOOL I'll sell it for 2 or 3 millions (random insult, about how noob I was etc...)" (*sigh*)
me: "fine, but know that I'm in the weapons business and I tell you that you won't sell it for 2 or 3M, 500k is a very good price regarding to the stats"
dude: " (random insults, how noob I am etc..."
me: "fine, good luck"
(------------time passes------------ log off, bed time, I go check the boards last time before I go sleep)
trade boards:
(same boards name as ingame name)
AUCTION MIND DOT GEO BLASTER etc...
so I go and check it out, just to see the bidders (a few replies)
then I see....
"AUCTION CANCELLED DUE TO THE LACK OF INTERREST"
on all posts
LMAO !!!
Customer: Hi, how are you?
Me: Fine thanks, how are you?
Customer: Pretty good.
Customer: Are you busy?
Me: No more than usual.
Customer: Could I ask you something about your weapons?
Me: Of course.
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...and so on until they finally get to the point they should have made in their first tell
*grrrooan*
On some occasions, it helps them get to the point a little faster if your first reply is "Hello, what can I do for you?", though.
denedes wrote:
Misunderstood politeness can also be a pain in the neck. When someone makes you go through an exchange of several tells before they get to the point and tell you what they want. It's as if they feel the need to interrogate you for 10 minutes before deciding whether or not this is a good time to ask their actual question.
Customer: Hi, how are you?
Me: Fine thanks, how are you?
Customer: Pretty good.
Customer: Are you busy?
Me: No more than usual.
Customer: Could I ask you something about your weapons?
Me: Of course.
...
...
...
...and so on until they finally get to the point they should have made in their first tell
On some occasions, it helps them get to the point a little faster if your first reply is "Hello, what can I do for you?", though.