Merchant Archive

I recently encountered a variation on:

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DocSavag wrote:

3. Many people are experiencing situations where it appears they are losing items but those items are really there just not showing up on there interface. Some evidence suggests that the vendor is not really "showing all' and is stuck on some other category.

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This was as a customer, at someone else's vendor. It (actually a few vendors)showed empty to me but the merchant claimed all were stocked. The conversation occured in email, some time later, so I couldn't try changing catagories or whatever. The guy sounded believable, but I have no proof.

This is even more pernicious than my stock being invisible to me. It costs sales, and the customer is unlikly to come back. I don't even know it happened, and the customer isn't going to see it as a bug, so it is unlikely to ever get fixed without some work on our part.

Please check your friends vendors frequently, so we have a chance of documenting this.

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DarkProspero wrote:

Doc - you have listed my current issue. I have two vendors with problems...the first does not even show up in the tent though it is listed as one of my vendors. The second is there but it says I can't see it...I have already initialized it so it can't be moved or removed.

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Regarding the "I can't see it" vendor:

Have you placed any large furniture items in the building? I discovered that the little blue Statues have a HUGE invisible footprint that makes it impossible to maintain a vendor nearby, though people can use that vendor just fine. This "You cannot see that object" message appear when trying to pay maintenance or check status.

Other large furniture items might have a similar effect. Just start picking up the big furniture near the vendor and try again.

I have no idea about the first vendor, except that in timeit will starve out and go away... A CSR might be able to helpyou.

I created a new vendor, my second.

I withdrew10 items frommy first vendor andretrievedthem.

I loaded these 10items from my inventory into my new vendor.

My new vendor displayedall 130items that are on my first vendor rather than only the 10 I had entered.

I attempted to rectify this bywithdrawing from sale all of the items that were in my first vendor, thinking that if it displayed blank then my new vendor would display just the 10 items. My new vendornow displays the 130 items that are in the stockroom of the old vendor and displaysnone of the 10items I placed in it .

So there seems to be a bug wherein the server is not recognising these as separate vendors. Is there a workaround?

You are looking in the regional screen, which shows all items on vendors in the area. Click on the vendor button in the upper left.

BUG: My vendors show me no items when I "use" them.

ei: I was in my Merchant Tent with 2 customers. I opened a vendor to withdraw an item for them. The view says "no items". ? I tab to the different locations, regional, and actual vendor, etc. I even tried pushing the different catagories within clothing to see if some items would appear to no avail. I also pressed "Refresh" several time. I asked my customers if they could see the items on the vendor. They could! I had my customers wait. I relogged. No success. I had them wait again. I logged out. I waited the magical 15 minutes too. I rebooted computer. I did a "Full Scan" on startup of SWG. Finally asked the customer to come back another time.Yesterday one of them sent me a Tell. But guess what??? Iwas still bugged yesturday. I still can't see anything in my vendors as of today! This is now day 3. Oh yeah!!! "Such fun!"

Nice bonus: My tailor items that I craft are not showing up in my inventory. So I can't sew for them either. "yeah!" lol

Weird thing: 3 of the items I did craft that first day, showed up today in my inventory?

The only things I can remember doing just before going the first day to my vendors was checking my wearables factories, riding a shuttle, riding my swoop and parking it outside the tent. ???

Help please? (by the way, I think I may be growing horns?) - Juzia

Did you try clicking on the All catergory?

In the last three weeks, my vendors and bazaar purchases have been giving me free money. For the bazaar I would purchase a number of items (or purchase offered items to my vendors), then go collect a day or so later. Next day I log in and the items are back in the Available Items tab. Since I need to use those slots to put my stuff on other vendors I have to go clear these out. When I retrieve them, I get a message about the item no longer being valid and that I will get a refund of the purchase price (which I do). The items are already in my inventory, or have been used to make other products, so it's not like I've had them vanish and be refunded - I have the items and I get a refund. So far I have gotten close to a million creds worth of "free" stuff due to this bug. Lodged CSR tickets for them to remove the money from my account, but they don't want to show up to do it. I have a RL job and cannot play during the daytime. As I need the items I can't just destroy them, yet I have no way of "destroying" the free cash in my bank account. Most frustrating.

ummm... yeh... I tried the All Catagories tab. - Juzia

Ok here is my current vendor bug that is bugging the hell out of me. We have started a new city layout and I moved my shop to the new area. I set my deeds and such vendor out no problem. My husband set his spice out no problem our friend sets his droids vendor out no problem. Well I go and set up my Weapons and powerups vendor BIG PROBLEM. Will not let me place more then one thing on it. When I go and remove it I get a email saying that the item did not sell. Well no kidding but it stays in there. I have removed the vendor and tried again and again. But still have this problem. Placed a new tent still having it. If there is someone out that can give me help to this problem please do so. This bug is really bugging me.

Sliro

Mayor of River Run

Master Weaponsmith

Master Artisan

Master Merchant