Merchant Archive

The skills merchants are given is just rediculous....

Everyone knows SWG needs merchants to aid in the selling of goods from player to player. There will always have to be ways for money to be eaten up by sales.. because frankly there is just too much money in the game as is ( as per a SOE anyway ).

What pisses me off is i sell over 400 items in my shop. When i have to change prices.. it takes me over 1 hour just to change 100 items prices. Remove sale, Sell Item... TOO LONG. Make it change price.. and voila.

Redoing the planetary ad everyday.. come-on.

Spending 3 points to get the 3rd skill to obtain new vendors ... and noticing only after i cleared a vendor of over 60 items, deleting him and go to creat a new one.. and THERE ARE NO NEW NPC VENDORS..... ( 2 hour waste of time )

Getting back on after 2 days... and noticing that most of my stock was removed 5 mins after i left... due to the 1 WEEK AVAILABILTY IN PERSONEL VENDOR OPTION. How can the bazaar have a timer,.. and we dont.. At least if i could tell what was about to get removed , i could fix it right away and not lose sales.

The COUNTLESS TIMES my vendors disapear.... and i lose hours worth of OPTIMAL sales time.. Meaning they always disapear on saturdays and sundays.. which is the best time to sell now that school is back on.

My shop sigh.. which is as big as a baby chubba.... WOW.. THATS WORTH SPENDING 15 POINTS FOR !!!

The only good thing i like so far is the vendors.. I can get 6 of em.. and place all 6 on diffrent lists because i carry everything... and thats about it.

Ive dropped sooo many skills to get this dam profession... i cant fight... i cant do anything except get on.. clear my harvs, check my vendors.. , make a few sales.. and then log off.. Id love to open a bar.. and have everything in there.. but with player cities only about 2 years away in the making.. its just not worth it either.

Pls let everyone know how you feel about your skills.. something has to be done.. and soon !!!

Me having to pay for EVERY skill due to the fact no merchants are ever on..

I feel your pain. This should be a very much needed and sought after class, but the skills are such a joke that I usually don't even like to admit I am a Merchant. I only took up merchant to help guildmates by hosting vendors for them. I worked up to Propagandist so that I can sit and reset my vendors to show up on the planetary map each day. If I can't log on close to server up, there is that much less business potential. The vendor barking had to be reset daily also, but I eventually turned it off because the vendors always turn toward someone as they come close, even if that is outside the building. It doesn't look very professional to have your vendors always facing the wrong way because of this.

I haven't even tried gaining any boxes in the middle two lines. Saving money on listings on the Bazaar? That seems like a joke. Its only 20 credits to begin with. And whereas it might be nice to have more interesting vendor types, I really don't want to waste the skill points to increase that line either. This is an ELITE profession, but it has become more of an embarrassment and a waste of skill points.

Panatlee Thillik'arzk

Master Droid Engineer/Sniper/Master Artisan

Lowca, Naboo -- South of Theed at -4283, 3379

Oh yeah, Propagandist too... blah

/agree

a merchant should at least be able to sell item on the bazaar for a bigger amount

3k cap is insane make the cap like 20k for a master merchant.

weaponsmiths/armoursmiths will sell you the items to sell for them on the bazaar

give a merchant more to do that is fun!

Vendor admin lists as per my proposal (and subsequent suggestions by others):

http://forums.station.sony.com/swg/board/message?board.id=merchant&message.id=8203

If we are easy for crafters to use... then crafters will use us.

I would like to see more stuff for Merchants too - but I must respectfully disagree with the poster who suggested raising the 3K bazaar price limit for skilled Merchants.

That would totally destroy player shops, which are an important part of the game for crafting merchants. Many crafters (myself included) enjoy the process of owning and operating a nice shop, and making stuff for our customers. There is plenty of business, because expensive items (deeds, armor, weapons, etc) are available only at player stores. Allow merchants to sell such things on bazaar, however, and the majority of the market will move there, leaving empty shops and malls.

The Merchant profession is basically designed for shop owners. I realize that merchants who don't won shops are pretty disappointed with the profession - but nerfing player shops will not improve the situation, it will just create a lot MORE unhappy merchants.

Suze

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I can't agree more, everything in this profession is broken.

problem is we have 100 of these threads saying the same thing, everyone wanting their thread to be the longest one to get attention. IF we could all just post in one thread it could get big enough to get some attention.

I agree with alot of postings.. And i dont agree with the allowance of placing items on bazaar for more then 3k.

Some good points ive seen or wish to re-annouce:

NPC VENDORS : Fix thevendors so as you can see a pic or something of the character your trying to make BEFORE you actually make the NPC vendor.

AD BARKING : Fix the fact that they always end up backwards, .. they should only go off when a player is close enough to actually access the vendor.

GALAXY SEARCH : Fix it so as we dont need to restart it everyday...

VENDOR TIME ALLOWANCE : Fix the fact that #1 we can only hold goods on our own vendor for 7 days.. OR fix the fact that we cant see how long they have been on for... make it like bazaar.. or make it so as they never fall into stockroom.

VENDOR LOOKS : Fat bald girls.. Pink shirted , yellow pants Zabraks.. HELLOOOOOO !!!!!!!!

HOUSEHOLD ALLOWANCE : I run my shop in a medium house.. I have 5 vendors.. and only 2 rooms filled with furniture. And the rest of my house is empty.. Seems like im always at the limit. All because they changed the amount you can physically hold, so i had to drop a backpack in my house with 40 materials.. and that takes 40 item spots.. VERY GAY.

VENDOR FEES : I know, getting taxed or fixing when they can.

SHOP SIGNS, NAMES : Let us at least write a decnt name on sign, something longer then 15 letters... I loved it before when i could write a nice little sale of the day quote. And the signs.. LOLOLOL , Smaller then a chubba.. These things are only good at night, but in the day.. Forget it. We should be able to pick from like 20-50 signs.. Hang em off of house on whatever side we like.. and make it customary to ourselfs.

PLS PEOPLE ADD YOUR COMMENTS.. WE HAVE TO GET THIS STUFF FIXED SOON..

I have posted on this issue before -- multiple times.

Merchant is a fine occupation, the the skills in the profession don't help significantly.

Add some meat, or at least offer a badge for "Retired master" so it is worth mastering before dropping.

I agree with pretty much all of this, but seriously, Merchants get no love at all. The fact that Artistans can make vendors only makes the problem worse. Now not only do we have a screwed over profession, but we've got hords of Artistans (and mainly Weaponsmiths/Armorsmiths) who can have their own shop with less than 10K general crafting XP. With that comes an increase in the number of shops, which overwhelms some of our businesses. We just need more attention. If the smiths had to rely on us, that alone would make our profession worth it. And if that change came about, easier setup of such merchant-to-smith services would be nice as well.