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Hi,

when I started to become a Merchant it was planed to have other peoples using a Merchant-Vendor like a Bazar. It was possible to grant Merchant-Access in houses (you did not need to be Admin) and to grant people the right to list their own items on the Vendor.

For those who choosed to become a Merchant to sell their own stuff the planed changes are great, but for us, who decided to become a Merchant as the main class its still a broken class. I have cooperations with several Crafters and sell their stuff through my vendor. This works quite fine with some products. But the more customizing the products have, the more instant-access is needed by the crafter. If this only works through a merchant its a pain.

The Merchant was planed as the one who enables the crafters to sell their stuff more efficient. So if youre a crafter, watch out for a Merchant-Store in your neighborhood to sell your stuff through. My vendors now have 800 Items listed, if I would try to list the items ffrom my GFs Vendors it would be 1300. But it is simply impossible even as a couple to effectively work together with only one beeing a Merchant.

Will we ever get to this, or is the Merchant lost due all the bugs in the past? I want to let my contract-partners selling their stuff directly through my vendor, as it was intended from the beginning. Cause this is what the Merchant was made for.

Any suggestions or answers about this?

Read ya.

Well as a mostly true merchant (I craft Artisan stuff), I would have a huge sellection if it was not for the 7 day issue. I have enough credits to buy at whole sale and do not mind not always being the lowest price. I do try and have a good margain. It might surprise some of you that I ussually sell for twice what I buy for. Though I have found that most of my money comes from selling power.

Hi,

I dont complain about Pricing, I complain about the uselessness of being a Master Merchant asthe Main Profession.

I cant complain about people who want to sellthrough my vendors, but I dont want to have just standard-Stuff. A Merchant should be able to provide a better way to sell to those who arent a Merchant, if this is not the case its just a skilltree you have to skill until Advertising3 for every crafter.

I dont even need to buy things from some people, they just want me to sell their stuff and I pay them when it is sold. But as said, a Merchant was ment to be the way to go if you sell for more than 3k, it wasnt working, so they removed the accesslists from housing and vendors. I just want to know when those fixes will arrive or if the class is dead meat like the chef. When all vendors, and i think also the Non-Merchant vendors will be at 15credits Maintenance, will have the same Maintenance, the 20% reduction isnt working too, so why making Master? Only to give your vendors clothes which arent working after a few days and have them registered at the map? Thats ridicolous.

I know that Merchants need to work too :-), but that should be advertising and take care of the portfolio as well as supply his contractors with good materials. For example, if I get my hands on good ressources needed my the guy i get my armors from, thenI will give it to him, so the products in my shop will have a better quality and I have a reason to charge for my services.

I have better things to do than using a crappy interface to relist 100 items each day, and this will not change too much if they are listed for 30 days when I list more items.

Read ya.