Merchant Archive
Thread: Annoying Customers you want to throw in the Sarlacc Pit
Xarche
Mon Sep 13, 2004 11:43 am
#326
These humor threads are always so much better reading then the typical flame/whine posts. Keep em coming.
Irishbear99
Thu Sep 30, 2004 10:32 pm
#328
I know this post is as old as the forums, but I have to bump it....I haven't laughed so hard in so long.......
Here are two stories to add for your amusement....
Standing in the starport with my alt waiting in line for buffs...was a BE at the time and accidentally had my tag up....
DUMB TARD: Hey, I need a pet.
ME: um...what do you need?
DUMB TARD: I need a something to hunt with.
ME: ok, send me an email with what you'd like and I'll have it ready in a couple of days for you.
DUMB TARD: I need it now.
ME: I'm not crafting now....I'm getting buffed to go hunt.
DUMB TARD: But I need it now.
ME: see above.
DUMB TARD: so, it'll take about 20 min or so?
ME: I'm not crafting right now
DUMB TARD: But I need it now...you suck
ME: /addignore
And the second one, when I was trying to auction off a ridiculously oustanding dot weapon I looted....
ME (in auction channel): selling outstanding NS loot....xxxpoison....xxxpotency....unlimited uses
SLIMEBALL: How much u want for it.
ME: Make me an offer
SLIMEBALL: 12K
ME: LMAO...I don't think so....min for a weapon like this is 1 mil
SLIMBALL: !#$%^&!!!???? That's bull....I got one with similar stats for 12k off a vendor
ME: Then you got really lucky.
---------30 min pause----------
SLIMEBALL: I just talked to my friend, he says that weapons with dots like those never go for more than 150k
ME: Actually, I've seen weapons like these go for as much as 2.5 mil
SLIMEBALL: That's BS
ME: /addignore
These are the reasons why, when I made my master tailor/merchant, she doesn't take special orders and is always afk. 
SeaRaptor
Fri Oct 01, 2004 7:25 am
#329
This is a cut-and-paste job from the Weaponsmith boards, but it's simply too good not to share:
This happened while i was standing somewhere in coro,and yes..i had forgotten to take of my mws tag
Dude:hey man..can you repair my weapon?
me:i believe the system is bugged you got as much chance on a good repair as i do.
Dude:aren't you a master weaponsmith?
Me:yes i am.
Dude:so..repair my weapon.
Me:i can..but as i said you have as much chance of a good repair as i do.
Dude:so you are telling me you are a master,but you cannot repair my weapon any better than i can?
Me:yeah.
Dude:Why is that?
Me:*getting edgy* dude...i don't fooking know!... ask sony!
Nothing happens for a couple of minutes after this..untill.
Dude:hey man....he's not online!
Hellshock
guild-Doomcraft[www.doomcraft.co.uk]
master weaponsmith[12pt]in league with Herms'[12pt armour]
vendors for both..dantooine mining----shuttle doomsville@-5052 4459 chimaera.
Just priceless.
Sepen
Fri Oct 01, 2004 8:27 am
#330
SeaRaptor wrote:
me:i believe the system is bugged you got as much chance on a good repair as i do.
Well, that particular point continues to be debated. There doesn't seem to be a definitive answer, so why take chances (on an expensive weapon)? Even the recent The Ultimate Decay and Repair Guide v1.0 has debate on that issue.
Cheers,
Martek
B_Delacroix
Fri Oct 01, 2004 4:49 pm
#331
Not so much an annoying customer as a sociological experiment to see how greedy and/or gullible people are.
I'm a master architect on Starsider, and I've noticed in the past that when I have surplus resources and items I need to get rid of, I can always throw them in a backpack and offer them on the Bazaar as a "grab bag". Since I always try to be scrupulously honest in my seller's descriptions, they usually get snapped up within 30 minutes.
This got me to thinking: would people buy something that was labeled as junk, possibly thinking it was something good?
So I made 25 backpacks, and named each one "Junk - Do not buy me". Into each one I placed 5 survivial knives. Then I made a tour of some of the more populated cities on the three core worlds: Theed, Coronet, Mos Eisley, Bestine and Ancorhead. In each city, I placed 5 packs on the bazaar for 6,000 each, and in the seller's comments wrote things like the following:
You do not want to buy this. It's junk.
Please do not buy this.
This is not worth 6,000 credits.
And so forth. Then I sat back and waited for the emails to come in.
After the week was up, 23 of the 25 packs had sold. One person gets the runner-up award for gullibility by buying two of them. Two people (including a well-known master merchant) share first prize by buying three each.
Surprisingly, only one person of the 18 actually wrote to me upon finding their "treasure". I refunded his 6,000 credits for doing so, and thanked him for taking part in the experiement.
Total cost of the project (materials, bazaar and shuttle fees): about 3,500 credits.
Total income: 132,000 credits.
Nice return on some grind materials.
I may try this again in the future. Just remember to always read the seller's descriptions and buy accordingly.
I'm a master architect on Starsider, and I've noticed in the past that when I have surplus resources and items I need to get rid of, I can always throw them in a backpack and offer them on the Bazaar as a "grab bag". Since I always try to be scrupulously honest in my seller's descriptions, they usually get snapped up within 30 minutes.
This got me to thinking: would people buy something that was labeled as junk, possibly thinking it was something good?
So I made 25 backpacks, and named each one "Junk - Do not buy me". Into each one I placed 5 survivial knives. Then I made a tour of some of the more populated cities on the three core worlds: Theed, Coronet, Mos Eisley, Bestine and Ancorhead. In each city, I placed 5 packs on the bazaar for 6,000 each, and in the seller's comments wrote things like the following:
You do not want to buy this. It's junk.
Please do not buy this.
This is not worth 6,000 credits.
And so forth. Then I sat back and waited for the emails to come in.
After the week was up, 23 of the 25 packs had sold. One person gets the runner-up award for gullibility by buying two of them. Two people (including a well-known master merchant) share first prize by buying three each.
Surprisingly, only one person of the 18 actually wrote to me upon finding their "treasure". I refunded his 6,000 credits for doing so, and thanked him for taking part in the experiement.
Total cost of the project (materials, bazaar and shuttle fees): about 3,500 credits.
Total income: 132,000 credits.
Nice return on some grind materials.
I may try this again in the future. Just remember to always read the seller's descriptions and buy accordingly.
Elyssa
Fri Oct 01, 2004 5:02 pm
#332
Heh... I am SO gonna try this.
I'm much less likely to offer refunds, tho.
B_Delacroix
Fri Oct 01, 2004 11:15 pm
#333
The only reason I gave him a refund was because he was so great about the experience. If he'd acted like some of the other people posted about in this thread, not only would he have gotten no refund, I probably would have mocked him, too.
passion555
Sat Oct 02, 2004 12:58 pm
#334
I am beta testing JTL and was minding my own bussiness at the bank. I am tagged with Master Ship Wright. For those who have never been on a test server, there is something that is lovingly called the "Blue Frog", real name something like Character Builder. You can level skill blocks byjust selecting them until you have Master in a profession.
slow person: Can you make ships
me: No sorry, I a master cup caker maker, I can only make cup cakes (Borrowed from a really good story on the forums)
me: But I make really good cup cakes!
slow person: * blink *
Last I heard from them. I really hate when people ask stupid questions
voydangel
Wed Oct 20, 2004 1:18 am
#336
/bump
This is great stuff....
My 2 cents:
(yes, i forgot to remove my MWS tag)
Random Idiot: Can you make me a VK?
Me: I dont have any on me to sell you, nor do i have any resources to make one on me, however I do have vendors at the following Locations: blah blah blah
((I have 8 different vedor locations.))
Random Idiot: ok. But can you make me one?
Me: Sure, if you dont like any of the ones on my vendors. My coronet shop near here has some of my best VK's in it. If none of those will work for you, I'll custom make one for you. But I dont have anything on me to make any right now.
Random Idiot: ok. I dont think I want any of those. Can you make me one right now?
Me: I dont have any resources on me...
Random Idiot: ok. how long till you get them? Im kinda in a hurry.
Me: Well, It will probably be about 3.5 hours...I'm getting buffed right now. It would be faster if you just went to my vendor and looked.
((I was actually being buffed right that second.))
Random Idiot: What kind of WS are you? you cant even make a VK? You suck.
Me: ......If you absolutely have to have a custom one, I can make you one later, but I would recommend looking on my vendors first, I have about 20 different VKs there right now.
((trying to be nice one last time.))
Random Idiot: Cant you just make me one now?
Me: /addignore
This is great stuff....
My 2 cents:
(yes, i forgot to remove my MWS tag)
Random Idiot: Can you make me a VK?
Me: I dont have any on me to sell you, nor do i have any resources to make one on me, however I do have vendors at the following Locations: blah blah blah
((I have 8 different vedor locations.))
Random Idiot: ok. But can you make me one?
Me: Sure, if you dont like any of the ones on my vendors. My coronet shop near here has some of my best VK's in it. If none of those will work for you, I'll custom make one for you. But I dont have anything on me to make any right now.
Random Idiot: ok. I dont think I want any of those. Can you make me one right now?
Me: I dont have any resources on me...
Random Idiot: ok. how long till you get them? Im kinda in a hurry.
Me: Well, It will probably be about 3.5 hours...I'm getting buffed right now. It would be faster if you just went to my vendor and looked.
((I was actually being buffed right that second.))
Random Idiot: What kind of WS are you? you cant even make a VK? You suck.
Me: ......If you absolutely have to have a custom one, I can make you one later, but I would recommend looking on my vendors first, I have about 20 different VKs there right now.
((trying to be nice one last time.))
Random Idiot: Cant you just make me one now?
Me: /addignore
Trance750
Tue Nov 09, 2004 6:08 pm
#337
Elyssa wrote:
OMG I nearly spit root beer on my keyboard!
You went much farther than I would have for that guy.
I'd have probably stopped right around "hows your city coming along?"
Exactly. I would have said "You're the idiot who purchased the wrong deed" and left it at that.