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lund0529

Tue Feb 03, 2004 8:41 am

Seems like all was well with my first vendor, but after I placed a second, I noticed that all my asking prices have gone up 10% over the price I set.

When I put up an item at 2500, it gets listed at 2525. 5000 = 5050, etc.

I'm currently 0002 in Merchant. Am I doing something wrong? Is there a way to get all my prices back down without removing hundreds of crates and repricing at 2272?

I am in a player city on Bria.Naboo. I have a 1 cr access fee set on my medium Naboo house.

Tarnak_Archvold

Tue Feb 03, 2004 8:45 am

#2

I bet you house is in a player city... and the city have 10% sales tax.
Note there will be 10% tax on offers as well.

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Korrack

Tue Feb 03, 2004 8:45 am

#3

Your mayor has a 10% sales tax in your player city. It has nothing to do with your merchant skills or your vendor. It's your mayor's fault

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lund0529

Tue Feb 03, 2004 8:51 am

#4

Do customers see the 2500 price at which I want to offer the item, or the 2525 rate? When a cratesells, do I get 2500 for the item? 2525? 2475?

I don't think I like this system... If there are fees, fine, but I know what I want to sell the item for. I don't think we should have to whip out the calculator for all our pricing...

(not that it's that hard, but not a user friendly system...)

Tarnak_Archvold

Tue Feb 03, 2004 9:17 am

#5

If you set the price to 2500 cr, it will sell for 2750 cr to a customer. You will get 2500 cr and the city will get 250 cr.
If you wand to item to sell for 2500 cr to the customer, then offer it up for 2273.. with a 10% sales tax on top that would be 2500,3 cr hopefully rounded down to 2500 cr. Else go for 2272 cr.
Formulary: [Wanted customer sale price] / ( (100 + [tax]) /100) = [Merchant sale price]
In this case: 2500/1.1=2272,727272....

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Jebwa

Tue Feb 03, 2004 9:21 am

#6

I don't think I like this system... If there are fees, fine, but I know what I want to sell the item for. I don't think we should have to whip out the calculator for all our pricing...

Actually, just move to a town that doesn't have sales tax. It is not a requirement for the mayor to have a sales tax and there are a lot of towns that don't have them.

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lund0529

Tue Feb 03, 2004 9:23 am

#7

Okay thanks. One more quick question - can I reprice without withdrawing and re-adding all my sales?

Tarnak_Archvold

Tue Feb 03, 2004 9:35 am

#8

One more quick question - can I reprice without withdrawing and re-adding all my sales?

No.

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DocSavag

Tue Feb 03, 2004 11:00 am

#9

10% is a rather large sales tax for SWG I would talk to the mayor about it. If he is unwilling to modify it your only choice it to relocate.

I dont' think it is fair to deman NO sales tax. It is fair to demand something more reasonable than 10%. You can do math to price your item to an amount that will end up where you want it after taxes. I think it is something like (Item Cost * 100)/(100 + TaxRate) always round the number up No matter what the remainder is.

If that seems like too much work.. you're right it is.. don't do it. In RL you don't adjust your prices like that you put a price on an item and the tax is charged after that.

A tax rate of 2-5% shouldn't be much of a burden to you for the convienience your customers have in getting to you..over that and you will have trouble competing with people outside the city.

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lund0529

Tue Feb 03, 2004 11:16 am

#10

Argh... I can't multiply today. It's only 1%, not 10%.

2500 becomes 2525 and 5000 is 5050. 10% would be very excessive...

I got an email a long time ago saying the tax rate was set to 1%. I figured it wasadded toour house maintenance fees, and never thought about it.

Thanks for all the info - it's good to have a handle on what's going on.

DocSavag

Wed Feb 04, 2004 1:24 am

#11

1% is pretty reasonable and gives a little back to the community. I think that isn't really causing your customers that much pain.

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