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Thread: Annoying Customers you want to throw in the Sarlacc Pit
I have to agree with you there! lol
When WH first came up and I *finally* got to IV in something I was soooo deliriously happy to see "Homemaker" above my head. But after the first three or four tells/strangers accosting me I quickly turned it "off" lol
Ok i have 2
I am a doc and was walking through town and someone had a graul mauler with almost no health and he asked me if i could heal his pet, i said sure and gave him a couple heals (maybe only 1k ham) and i said "i hope i am going to get some tip from this." and he said "ummm no."and i said "well meds aren't free, i have to catch a flight, i get no xp and i don't want to waste my time" then he called me a ::edit:: (derogitory name for a homosexual) at this point my blood was boiling so i said, "what you expect me to do it for free." and he said 'well yea i expect peopel to give me things for free" so then i said "well yea i'm a CH too can i have your Graul Mauler for free since everyone is giving out things for free?" so he called me another gay term and i /ignore
and well this is pretty general cause it happens alot but i also sell resources on corbantis and i was advertising for sale, i got a tell for how much, i give a reasonable price 2-2.5cpu for normal 3cpu for ore and they then say ohhh yea my buddy sells ore for 1cpu. and i always say ohhh really can i have his name i'll stop mining and buy from him. and they never respond. i hate when that happens you know no one sells stuff for that cheap they just make up unrealistic numbers
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SueDenim wrote:
I firmly believe the "Homemaker" tag exists mainly to give people incentive to get their butt in gear and get to Novice Tailor or Novice Chef already!
I wore mine in battle a lot 
Mostly Now I wear my Master Merchant title in battle
But really you are too kind to his spelling. I think it's impossible to intentionally spell that bad cause the first line was 'can you mack amer' and 'lick [friend] amer' 'i lick [friend] amer a lote' or close to that. I had to read the dang thing phonetically to myself before i could figure out what he said
Though in his defense i don't think english was his primary language. Imagine me trying to type German to you
My wife's character is a TK Master..she wears Hairstylist in battle.
Uncle Finn's smart ass answers for dumbass questions.
Any time someone asks, "Well why/why not?"
A) Because it makes the baby Jesus cry, sir/ma'am.
B) Because F you that's why.
"Well so and so has twice as good for half the cost."
A) **edit**, I've been outdone by a competition, I must go commit ritual suicide, now.
B) You're scathing logic has shamed me to the bone. Here. Please. Take all of my goods. Assbag.
C) Do I look like Wal-Mart to you? Do you see a sign that says, "If our competitor has a lower price I'll beat it?" DO YOU? DO YOU WANT TO KNOW WHY YOU DON'T? CAN YOU GUESS?
"Well I don't have any money, so you should give it to me free."
A) Well I think you're a stain in the underwear of the earth, and wish for the cessation of your existence. Looks like we're both gonna be dissappointed huh?
B) Do I look like Salvation Army to you?
C) Hey, look something way more interesting than you over there! Ya know what it is? Everything else. F off.
"Hey can you give me your vendor/best schematic/that which makes you the most money, so I don't have to like, work and stuff, and can make a lot of money really quick at the expense of everyone in your profession?"
A) Yeah sure. And in return you can give me your best gun, all your credits, best armor, and your mother because I'm feeling kind of randy.
B) I have a better idea. How about I set your head on fire and put it out with a ballpine hammer?
"You're stingy/cheap/a random and cliched explitive."
A) And you're a syphalitic s***n stain. In fact, why don't you go do something useful like take a heads on picture of a bullet leaving a gun.
B) Hey don't talk to me like that, I'm one of the 2,678 possibillities of your biological father!
C) Thank you, come again!
D) Lo siento, senior, no hablo englis.
HAHA!
Icome back to this thread and read it again and again after a bad day.
I've had some of these same experiences sorry to say.
Stupid people are everywhere.
This is hilarious! I've got to say that most of my selling experiences have been great, mainly because I sell resources to other crafters, so most of them weren't about to turn around and do stuff like this to someone else. Let me preface this also by saying that I sell a LOT of resources on Kettemoor, I'm running around 70 harvesters, and I move everything I produce, plus some output I buy from a PA at a wholesale rate. I run a chat channel with around 30-50 other independant resource harvesters, so we can help each other fill orders. All of us are very, very busy.
Enter the Holocron craze
my orders for grind materials go through the roof, and I start getting requests in like this:
Hologrinder: Dude, i need 200k steel and fiberplast cheap
Me looking in my pack: I can have that together for you in 2 days
Hologrinder: you don't have it now? How much you charge?
Me: I always charge2cpu for grind materials
Hologrinder: that's too much, sell it for 1.5
Me: I don't have it on me now because I sold it all for 2, why would I lower my prices for you?
Hologrinder: I'll go find it elsewhere
Invariably, several other guys on the channel mention getting tells from him, he ends up waiting for two days and buys it from me anyways.
Or another favorite that happened when I was first getting going in the business:
Customer: Do you sell resources?
Me: Yes my friend, I do, what can I help you find?
Customer: I need 100k units of steel (huge amount at the time) I'm grinding to master weaponsmith. What do you charge.
Me /mood happy: I charge x per unit, I can do that for you, but it will take me at least 2-3 days for the entire amount. Would you like me to deliver it to you in chunks?
Customer: Hmmm, I wanted it all now.
Me: Well I can getx amount to you now, with delivery by the following night. Will that work?
Customer: Sure, that would be fine.
Me: Great! Where can I meet you?
I make delivery of the first amount and hold off sales for the next day and a half to amass this amount of steel, putting a good strain on my finances at the time. I get friends to donate lots to help with dredging up the steel, macro survey, anything short of sacrificing a Durni to the dark Corellian gods to make the deadline.
Delivery day:
Me: Greetings my friend, I have the remaining steel you ordered.
Customer: Oh, well a friend gave me all the steel I need to grind, sorry.
Me: You....don't want the steel?
Customer: Well you shouldn't have sold it to me if you didnt' have it when I wanted it.
Me: (trying not to start spewingcurses that would burn a sailors ears) /addignore
I am constantly amazed at the number of customers who want impossible items, and think that you're being rude/elitist/mean/stupid when you try to explain to them that such items can't be crafted by ANYONE.
"I want VKs faster than 2.0."
"I want purple polka-dotted hot pants."
"I want a long-vibro axes without -55 to hit at all ranges."
"I want composite armor with low encumbrance."
"I want..."
"I want..."
You know what *I* want? I want customers who will listen when I tell them something. I want customers who will understand that I know what I am talking about, and just because your friend says I'm wrong doesn't mean your friend is right either. I've had people tell me that they could get X item with the same stats cheaper from their "friend" who was a master WS. Great, then why are you even talking to me? Go bug HIM.
All I want is a little respect and for people to not treat me like an NPC vendor. Thankfully, I do get this from the majority of my customers. It is the ones that I don't get it from, sadly, that stick out in my memory.
SeaRaptor wrote:
I am constantly amazed at the number of customers who want impossible items, and think that you're being rude/elitist/mean/stupid when you try to explain to them that such items can't be crafted by ANYONE.
"I want VKs faster than 2.0."
"I want purple polka-dotted hot pants."
"I want a long-vibro axes without -55 to hit at all ranges."
"I want composite armor with low encumbrance."
"I want..."
"I want..."
You know what *I* want? I want customers who will listen when I tell them something. I want customers who will understand that I know what I am talking about, and just because your friend says I'm wrong doesn't mean your friend is right either. I've had people tell me that they could get X item with the same stats cheaper from their "friend" who was a master WS. Great, then why are you even talking to me? Go bug HIM.
All I want is a little respect and for people to not treat me like an NPC vendor. Thankfully, I do get this from the majority of my customers. It is the ones that I don't get it from, sadly, that stick out in my memory.
It never ceases to amaze me the people who tell me I don't know what I'm talking about when I tell them that some item they are asking about isn't possible to make. I don't pretend to know everything about crafting. However I have been selling merchandise since before the retail game started and I have a fair understanding. When I tell you something doesn't exist either I"m right and you're wrong or I don't know what I'm talking about and you are wasting your time asking me about it, either way I'm not going to move from a "it isn't possible" position to "..oh yea look I have one sitting here in my shop I forgot about"
And stop telling me you friend can make one. If he can you wouldn't be asking me. Maybe he TOLD you he had one, but if he actually could make this item he would be selling it at a very high price cause no one else is able to do it and you wouldn't be asking me to find one for you.