Merchant Archive

While you are in the sale screen look just to the top right of the area where you see your items you should see a little triangle thing..click it and it should go back to your inventory.

Sigh.... I've tried everything here, every variation and different method, and nothing works for me. Been working on it for about 3 hours now. HULK SMASH! We're re-opening our guild mall tommorrow with the coming of shuttleports and this is going to seriously tick me off if I cannot have my vendor ready in time. Going to give it a fresh go tommorrow...

just wanted to add that I have been trying for 3 days now to place a bulky vendor....and i have tried everything....our city just got its shuttle port today...and i got no vendor...this really sucks.

I too have been fighting with the vendor initialization bug for the past two days. I have tried the proceedure outlined earlier in this thread to no effect. Well, when I read the one post about the vendor being too close to the door, I thought "what the heck". I'm not sure if this is a bug or not, but I have to destroy my vendors because it will not let me pick them up. So instead of creating yet another incarnation of "Requisition Unit THX-IIEB", I created "ABC" and moved to the back of my house.

So I drop ABC, go through the steps and viola! It was working! I destroy ABC and run to the front to create a new "Requisition Unit THX-IIEB" and follow the steps again. Nothing. So I tried yet another "ABC" vendor and place it in the front by the door like I wanted. Followed the steps and bam! It's working. What the?

This got me to thinking. Maybe it is having trouble with the name? I tried variations on my "Requisition Unit THX-IIEB" and discovered that if I pick a name WITHOUT the "-", it initializes fine. Otherwise it never will (the original THX-IIEB was up for 48hrs and never initialized).

So now "Requisition Unit THX IIEB" is happily minding the store while I wonder how many others may be stuck because of a name that gets past the filter, but cannot be initialized.

Am I on to something? Dunno.

What worked for me:

1) Drop vendor

2) Initialize it

3) Immediatly use mouse to open radial menu

4) While still holding down the mouse button; move the pointer over until you can see if the initialize button is still available

5) Still holding down the button move the mouse pointer over the intialize button and activate it.

It worked for me but this still is a very annoying bug. I have played more stable beta tests.

THIS SUCKS AND IS REDICULOUS

hehehe, didnt even want a vendor before, now that i grinded up artisan i wanted one cause i could, but nooooooooooooooooo!!!

lame bug

Nothing works. Have tried every variation. After I initialize, I open menu again, and initialize vendor is still an option. Keeping mouse key depressed, I move cursor off of radial menu for initializing so that it closes, then wait a few seconds, then move it back onto the menu. Initialize vendor is still an option. Have used all sorts of different names. Have dropped vendor in different places in house.

Turned in a ticket, and just got a form letter back, with various solutions that have nothing to do with my problem. No wonder people go into the combat professions. How the heck can you be a merchant without being able to set up your own vendor?

If I kept trying different guns, and none of them would ever fire, would they fix it? Or would they send a form letter, "We have had a few reports of this happening. Please try holding your axe in your other hand, and that will probably fix your problem."

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LadyGrey wrote:
Nothing works. Have tried every variation. After I initialize, I open menu again, and initialize vendor is still an option. Keeping mouse key depressed, I move cursor off of radial menu for initializing so that it closes, then wait a few seconds, then move it back onto the menu. Initialize vendor is still an option. Have used all sorts of different names. Have dropped vendor in different places in house.

Turned in a ticket, and just got a form letter back, with various solutions that have nothing to do with my problem. No wonder people go into the combat professions. How the heck can you be a merchant without being able to set up your own vendor?

If I kept trying different guns, and none of them would ever fire, would they fix it? Or would they send a form letter, "We have had a few reports of this happening. Please try holding your axe in your other hand, and that will probably fix your problem."

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Are you making sure not to do anything between the time you initialize and the time you bring up the menu again.. don't may maintenance first etc.. just drop.. rotate if necessary.. and initialize. Then do the menu trick. Also are you in a player city?

I'm not doing anything else from the time I first initialize. I initialize, then I open the menu again, just like that. I don't pay maintenance, I don't try to use the vendor, I just open the menu again. I look to see that initialize vendor is still an option, move the cursor so that the menu closes, move the cursor so that the menu opens, and initialize vendor is still an option. I have even tried moving the cursor different ways. The first time I drop the vendor, I move the cursor to the left, and then back. The second time I drop the vendor, I move it to the right, and then back. And then up, and then down.

I am not in a player city. I am in a house outside of Kaadara. I have been trying to put in a vendor for two weeks, and have tried every way posted here numerous times, using a newly created vendor each time.

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LadyGrey wrote:
I'm not doing anything else from the time I first initialize. I initialize, then I open the menu again, just like that. I don't pay maintenance, I don't try to use the vendor, I just open the menu again. I look to see that initialize vendor is still an option, move the cursor so that the menu closes, move the cursor so that the menu opens, and initialize vendor is still an option. I have even tried moving the cursor different ways. The first time I drop the vendor, I move the cursor to the left, and then back. The second time I drop the vendor, I move it to the right, and then back. And then up, and then down.

I am not in a player city. I am in a house outside of Kaadara. I have been trying to put in a vendor for two weeks, and have tried every way posted here numerous times, using a newly created vendor each time.

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What server are you on?

I'm on Kettemoor

I finally got my vendor to work after 30+ attempts. I had tried everything that was stated in this thread multiple times. What worked for me is... I followed all of the steps EXCEPT I DID NOT move or rotate my vendor before I initialized AND I did not move myself. The first time I did that it worked. And just in time, I was about to pull out all of my hair-

When I put down the vendor, I am standing inside the vendor. Do you mean that you don't move from being inside the vendor before you initialize it?