Merchant Archive
Thread: Annoying Customers you want to throw in the Sarlacc Pit
Latest fave tells:
"Can u make me a TKA skirt? u know what its called" (suddenly men are wearing skirts...go figure)
"Can u make me a pimp suit?" (yes, an actual request)
"I want a samurai skirt, look badass"
"can u make me a black shirt? ('yes, flex form shirt would be 200 credits, the cheapest one') Oh u can't give it 2 me 4 free?" meanwhile they are wearing about 120k of composite *grumble*
And now when anyone starts to talk to me in dewd speak I tell them I am without my Protocol Droid and unalbe to interpret thier language---and could they please speak common english? They either laugh and spell things out proper, or they get added to my ignore list after they pitch a temper tantrum LOL.
And I have a second character now who is an architect, and starting to field a whole new brand of stupid questions....gotta love non-crafters!! 
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.
revisoHT wrote:
m "Sorry, can only sell my worst one until SOE fixes the best pistol bug"
ROFLMAO Brilliant!
Were they the pre-nerf 3 stack.
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.
Always buy the melons. They are a rare comodity now you know!
A regular customer I'll buy low priced trade in stuff from. Someone I don't know gets that crap returned to them.
I had a funny story selling a house once. The conversation went like this...
Customer: Hey you sell houses?
Me: Yes I do. Are you interested in one?
Customer: Yea I want the middle one
Me: You mean a Medium?
Customer: No the middle one
Me: Um... Ok that one is called the Medium and yes I have one to sell you.
Customer: cool how much?
Me: 60k
Customer: WHAT! you are a &^%$
Me: Sorry you feel that way but it takes alot of resources to build a house you know.
Customer: I can buy it from (name withheld) for 30k
Me: Ok well thats fine. It's his choice. Go enjoy your house from him.
Customer: How bout 10k for the house then?
Me: Um sir... that makes no sense.
Customer: You sux.
Me: Thats fine thank you.
After about an hour later guess who comes back to see me? Oh yes he's back.
Customer: Hey you still selling houses?
Me: Yes I still am. Did you get your from the other guy?
Customer: No he's to expensive
Me: Really? So he was not selling them for 30k huh?
Customer: ..... no but he did.u still sellin yours?
Me: Yes I am for 65K
Customer: ok but you sux
In the end he bought it and for 5k more than originally asked. Yes the mentallity we get to deal with everyday. I'm sure we could all write a book.
65k you greedy backstabbing pirate! .. oh..wait I slipped into customer mode. sorry.
JTGAlpha wrote:
Ya know, stupid customer stories are always entertaining. Always. No matter if it's on the merchant forum, the smuggler forum, a lawyer, or a minimum wage monkey, stupid customer stories are always funny.
Then you're going to love this: http://www.stainedapron.com/
As someone who long ago worked in the food service industry (in many capacaties, from dishwasher in an interstate truck stopto manager/trainer in some VERY high end internationally known places) I find most of these stories hilarious. Some of them are just whining, and I can't condone the actions of the servers all the time...but generally good laughs!
Ah, the eternal, plaguing question of the master weaponsmith profession:
"Is that the best you can make?"
Now besides being borderline insulting, this question makes my blood boil. I want to grab these little idiots by the collar and scream at them:
"No, it isn't! You caught me! I confess! I purposely list sub-standard weapons on my vendors and only sell the *really* good stuff to clever little twits like yourself who think to ask!"
I am continually amazed by the number of people who cannot understand what the button on their vendor interfaced labeled "Next Items" does, as they have clearly never discovered it before browsing my vendors. How the hell do they find anything on the bazaar? If I had my way, Q-3PO would write an entire freaking weekly column about how to use a vendor.
I'll never forget a conversation I had on like the 4th day Tempest went live. I was a novice WS, grinding out Firearms 1, but I was still making bone armor to generate cash and selling it on the bazaar all over Tatooine. So I'm in Bestine and Ihave this conversation via tells:
Random.loser: Hey, let me market your weps 4 u
(He's clearly seen my title, as I've never spoken to him before.)
Me: No thanks, I want to go it on my own for a while, have my own shop and stuff.
Random.loser: I can mak u lots of salez
Me: Nah. I appreciate the offer, but I want to do it all myself until I think I can't handle it.
Random.loser:K, just don't ever faction up then
Me: Pardon?
Random.loser: You'll hav a bounty on ur hed
Me: Do you treat all your potential business partners this way? You threaten them when they turn you down? Seems like a moronic way to try and attract partners.
/addignore
I'm leaving parts out, but that was the gist of it. Where do these people come from? Funny, I'm now one of the oldest masters on the server and I've never seen him again. I wonder who got the better end of the deal.
The endless stat requests get old. Why are people too **edit** lazy to go to look at my vendors? I have them on Tatooine and Corellia, and soon, Naboo. I stock nearly 40 different kinds of weapons, and you expect me to remember them all off the top of my head? Andwhy is your time so much more valuable than mine that I have to stop what I'm doing to answer your inane questions?
The best part of being successful is that you don't have to have every single sale. If someone annoys you, blow them off and move on, it won't hurt your sales or your reputation a bit. Why? Because the people who know you, buy from you often, and refer you to others also know that the world is full of idiots. As such, they discount the badmouthing you get from said idiots.
I have to add my DOH incident to the thread
Yesterday I was on Corellia running an errand (my shop is on Tatooine) and had forgotten to turn my MT flag off. I ineveitably got the tells, asking if I could make something for them.
I told them I was just running an errand, work from Tatooine, and would be happy to reccomend a local tailor to them or send them the wp to my store if they wished to travel to my shop. They sent me about 10 more stupid tells, ending with "can u go to ur shop and then come back and deliver?"
I then felt the need to vent and told my guild "Arg...I am getting some freaking idiot who is so freaking cheap and lazy he won't even go to a tailor near here I reccomended to him, but wants me to go back to tat, make his item, and then run back to him!! What an idiot!!!"
oops....accidentally typed that in /reply instead of /gu LOL
Guess that shut him up tho
LOL these are quite funny!
Gotta love it though when you get spammed with /tells from the same personwhen you are in the middle of hunting.
Customer: U on?
(me: performing stopping shot on Fambaa outside of Theed) - no response
Customer: U there?
(Me: still shooting same Fambaa) - no response
Customer: can you make me a (insert weapon of your choice)?
(me: still shooting same Fambaa) - no response
Customer: Hello?
(me: still shooting same Fambaa) - no response
Customer: Why are you ignoring me?
Me: Fambaa
Customer: Huh?
and about 30 more /tells from this same customer before I FINALLY...
Me: Sorry I was in the middle of getting my ass handed to me by a Fambaa.
Customer: Oh can you meet me in Bestine.. I need a Flamethrower.
*SIGH*
An ACTUAL conversation verbatim:
Customer: "Hey, how much for a small house?"
Me (thinking, huh?): "I paid 8k for mine."
Customer: "Great! Can Ione?"
Me: "Uh... sure, go find an architect."
Customer: "What? Why won't you make me a house? You're tag saysHomemaker."
Me (thinking: 'crap!'): Uh... Homemakers bake stuff. I can make you somefood or something.
Customer: Nevermind.