Merchant Archive
Thread: UPDATE NOTES : September 24, 2004
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Domandred
Fri Sep 24, 2004 4:20 pm
#27
Malitevv wrote:
I hadn't thought of that. That would work. In terms of finding out who the owner is: you can find out by looking at the details window for one of the items currently for sale on the vendor. And if there is nothing for sale on the vendor... well, that means it is empty and it will be deleted in 14 days anyway.
EnigmaBSc wrote:
Good post Malitevv. One comment on the segment I quoted. The game does provide a mechanism for mall owners to fix the above-mentioned problem. Send the player responsible an ultimatum - remove your vendor or in one weeks time I will ban you from the mall and you will no longer be able to access it and all your items will eventually be lost. The only problem then is if you do not know who the vendor belongs to, but if you own the mall then I suspect a CSR would be able to help you find out.
EnigmaBSc
Message Edited by EnigmaBSc on 09-24-2004 12:02 PM
This is my stated mall policy. All crafters that have vendors in my mall are given the same rules when they place a vendor. I know all the the merchants. They are not allowed to place a vendor until they have confirmed that they did in fact read the email. That being said if a CSR wants to ban me from the game for banning someone from mybuilding on my lot spacethat CSR can take a flying leap and I'm gonna ban that user anyway.
Banned vendor owners have 1 week to respond and the ban will be lifted for them to clear out or restock vendors. If they don't respond the banis permenant until the vendor(s) have deleted themselves, in which case the ban is lifted and the player can then shop again, but is not allowed to place vendors again.
My mall also has a stated policy that vendors will not be used for personal storage, though I cannot police the stockrooms of vendors but every item on the vendor itself must be listed at fair market value, no price gouging and no price cutting. The only exeption are special order packs and buying announcements listed at 99999999. Again same policy. Violators are asked to remove the item, if they don't comply in 7 days, they are banned from the mall until arrangements made to remove items or restock the vendor.
The idea is to have a well stocked mall that customers know they can come into and not find empty vendors and overpriced crappy goods. Customers come first in my mall, crafters/vendors second. And yes I follow the rules to with the Mayor of the city I am in being the check on my vendors.
Not one person yet has said sorry not going to place a vendor in your mall after I told them the rules. There is more rules, these two are just the *don't do this* rules.
Now all that being said, I feel for those that think that 14 days is too short for stocked vendors that get little traffic. 100 days for traffic fine. 14 days for empty vendors...kill em, I don't care if stuff is in the stock room or on offer, vendors are not meant to be used as storage.
Another issue is that those vendors I mentioned with the crap harvesters on them. The person hasn't logged in for about 2 weeks anyway very shortly after placing the vendors...grrrr so like I said I'm stuck with them unless I enact the mall policy that all vendor owners knew about before placing vendors.
But STILL nonetheless merchants need a control on this issue, or as I mentioned before a real consignment system so that we don't have to worry about it.
Message Edited by Domandred on 09-24-2004 04:22 PM
EnigmaBSc
Sat Sep 25, 2004 12:01 am
#28
Malitevv wrote:If you've got vendors in your shop that are being used to sell useless items or are only being used for storage, and you aren't able to convince the owner of the vendor to vacate, then I sympathize, but putting a draconian deletion policy in place to help you with that problem does not help this profession one bit. In the end, it was the mall owner's mistake to give a player like that admin rights to place a vendor in the first place. It would be nice if the game gave him some mechanism to fix the problem, but if that mechanism hurts other players who are running legitimate vendors, it is a bad solution.
Good post Malitevv. One comment on the segment I quoted. The game does provide a mechanism for mall owners to fix the above-mentioned problem. Send the player responsible an ultimatum - remove your vendor or in one weeks time I will ban you from the mall and you will no longer be able to access it and all your items will eventually be lost. The only problem then is if you do not know who the vendor belongs to, but if you own the mall then I suspect a CSR would be able to help you find out.
EnigmaBSc
Message Edited by EnigmaBSc on 09-24-2004 12:02 PM
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