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I posted this on the tech support forum. Has anyone seen this?

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I've posted several times that I have had problems with my vendors disappearing for extended periods of time. I decided that it might be my store location so I moved to a different house, a few feet away. I'm located @ approximately -699, -4236 southeast of Bestine, Tatooine.

I'm now having different vendor failures. I initially placed 4 vendors and stocked them with various items. A while later, when I tried to access them, I double click the vendor and the "Initializing the Vendor" pop-up appears. Almost immediately afterwards, the pop-up disappears and nothing happens. This happens to all 4 vendors. After about 15-20 minutes, the vendors start working normally for another 5 minutes, then go back to the non-working state.

I subsequentally place 2 more vendors and, while the other 4 aren't working, these 2 are. Again, about after 30 minutes, those 2 vendors stop working as well, but the other 4 ARE working.

All 6 vendors seem to work for a few minutes, then stop working for a long time. The original 4 seem to be in sync when it comes to working/not working as well as the other 2, only on differnt cycles.

Another interesting thing is that, one person tried purchasing and retrieving something, it said that he have to retrieve it from the vendor on Corellia. Since I'm located on Tatooine, these seemed AWFULLY peculiar.

I've also heard a rumor that building around server "node" boundaries caused a lot of weird stuff to happen. At least if someone could tell me if this is a boundary, then I could move, but I just spent all day moving from one store to another trying to resolve this issue and I end up causing another one. I don't want to go around "testing" out places to see whether that too will cause problems.

I think I've given more information than most regarding an issue. Can I please get a response, unlike the other times I have posted?

I did the exact same thing, for the exact same reasons - and had nearly the exact same results.

Not this last weekend, but weekend before last - ALL my vendors were pulling disappearing acts - disappearing then reappearing. The first day I placed them I had initialzation problems as well, well - not initialization exactly - that worked fine - but they ceased working till reboot the next day soon after.

It was observed after awhile that if someone came into the store from town - they'd all of a sudden show up. I even had an item in MY backpack show up when the vendors did.

I also get warped out of my store and to someplace I've been in the last few minutes with fairly great regularity - that comes and goes, one day I thought they'd had it licked completely - then it started again. Happens to my customers as well.

Now, I haven't had problems far as I know with them thinking I'm on another planet.

I HAVE had problems with my customers items disappearing - happens nearly EVERY time. I am SO sick of telling them to submit a ticket, log for 20 min, wait till the next day - yada yada yada. Is it too much to ask that my customers actually can enjoy what they purchase WHEN they purchase it?

I am also located very close to bestine.