Merchant Archive
Thread: Merchant: Wasting my time
Liakhara wrote:
If most of your items AREN'T selling... don't put so much up for sale?
In reply to your statement, I'm a tailor.
Out of all the professions, tailors have to list alot of items on their vendors. We have the most schematicsavailable to us,and to have a good boutique you need to have each and every item in a range of colours. Also we sell BE items and large amounts of crates containing components that are needed by armorsmiths and chefs. So as any tailor will tell you, we have no choice but to list large amounts of items on our vendors.
Jaell wrote:
Liakhara wrote:
If most of your items AREN'T selling... don't put so much up for sale?
In reply to your statement, I'm a tailor.
Out of all the professions, tailors have to list alot of items on their vendors. We have the most schematicsavailable to us,and to have a good boutique you need to have each and every item in a range of colours. Also we sell BE items and large amounts of crates containing components that are needed by armorsmiths and chefs. So as any tailor will tell you, we have no choice but to list large amounts of items on our vendors.
No actually any Tailor won't 
Many specialize, most do not offer crates, to some BE doesn't matter
and I know several extremely successful Tailors who only make outfits and costumes..they do not even carry 'normal clothes'
Jaell wrote:
Liakhara wrote:
If most of your items AREN'T selling... don't put so much up for sale?
In reply to your statement, I'm a tailor.
Out of all the professions, tailors have to list alot of items on their vendors. We have the most schematicsavailable to us,and to have a good boutique you need to have each and every item in a range of colours. Also we sell BE items and large amounts of crates containing components that are needed by armorsmiths and chefs. So as any tailor will tell you, we have no choice but to list large amounts of items on our vendors.
I'm also a tailor. And an architect. And I have been for almost two years now, I'm quite aware of the amount of schematics and colours 
I didn't mean to offend you, but what I mean is, I used to have a very very large shop selling just about everything in just about any colour someone would want. I sold perhaps 10% of my stock each month, and it wasn't worth it to me. It eventually led to my dropping the merchant profession entirely.
Then when I set up my second shop about three months ago (after a long time of only doing orders) I did things differently. I keep my clothing vendor at about 500 items, those items that sell the most, and I have a BE vendor which I can't keep stocked, people buy so much, a costume vendor which at most has 45 packs on it, and a four-socket vendor. Not to mention my two furniture vendors... But I watch sales, keep track of what does and doesn't sell, and stock only what I know will move. It saves me time, and I post a notice to all customers that I would be happy to do private fittings and orders, if they do not find what they want on my vendor.
Oftentimes if someone is looking for an "odd" or "unpopular" item, they know exactly what they want, and welcome the chance to have someone make it for them, rather than looking all over the galaxy to find it.
Now my business is booming, my stock is flying off the vendor, and I can devote my in-game time to helping customers rather than being a slave to my stockroom.
Floor models, pre-matched outfits, women love this. My gf was making me look at a damn magazine today saying that.
Its a chore to have to redo it but it keeps vendors that no one is ever on cleared out since once the stuff goes to the stockroom they get so much time before vendor goes poof. I hate going to empty vendors cause someone does restock it!
Cuerv0 wrote:
Why not offer at least some of your merchandise as outfits put together (in a backpack or whatever).
Floor models, pre-matched outfits, women love this. My gf was making me look at a damn magazine today saying that.
This is precisely the path I am going to take. I will have the more popular items available on my vendors, but I am currently building various costumes from the movies and putting display models of the outfits out for viewing. I will then sell the complete outfit in a backpack on my vendors for one lump sum. I am hoping this will work because it lets folks adopt a complete outfit that they may recall from the movies. There are a number of websites in the tailor forums that list suggestions for designing these outfits.
I am using the new Mustafarian Bunker and the bottom floor gallery (long room with a bar in the center) as it seems the best suited for such displays. I am only starting up at the moment so its hard to say if it will work effectively.
I agree that relisting items needs to be improved, its a long standing frustration of all crafters and I cannot think why they don't make a more friendly relisting UI for us. Relisting != Crafting content
Sneev wrote:
Relisting != Crafting content
