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Cross posteing this here from the tech suport forems. This is why people keep thinking vendors are steeling resources.

Fould a repeatable bug with resources sold through vendors. Inital symtoms were that some people could buy and retrieve resources and would end up retrieveing more than they bought and others were not alowed to retrieve at all.

Here is exactly what is happening. Asume I have 15k even of Solar Energy (Diritastahate). I split the energy into 3 even stacks of 5k each and put them into a vendor for sale. Player A comes along and buys 1 of the stacks of power. When he retrieves he gets 15k of Solar Energy (Diritastahate). He's happy with the bargin he gets (or dosent even notice) and continues on his way. Later Players B and C come along to buy the other 2 crates of power and they find that they can not retrieve their power (and are pissed at the merchant)

Whats happening is when someone buys a resource crate and retrieve they get all of that specific type of resource on the vendor reguardless of how much they bought and the other stacks of the resource become invalid and cant be retrieved (but are still displayed and can bebought just not retrieved by the costomer) they can also be withdrawn from sale but not retrieved by the owner of the vendor. I have found that you can put one of these invalid items back up for sale from the stockroom however.

At this point I only know of this happening on NPC vendors for sure. it seemed like the droid bartender and the bulky and bazarr like terminals dont have this issue as much. (but havent tested on them yet as I havent had one for a week or two)

I've lost twenty grand in the last 2 days to this. Finally heard about it being npc related and switched over to a terminal vendor last night. Hopefully will fix the problem.

One CSR told me to have my customers fill out a ticket. No way, I want their business next time, I have to refund them their cash. I can only hope that if they somehow are able to retrieve the items later they will re-tip me back the cash.

If the terminal vendor doesn't fix it I'll just sell back my merchant and business skills and go back to the bazaar.

I have no vendor now. Was considering one for selling resources in. What is my best bet currently? Ive never setup a vendor so unsure exactly what you mean by terminals or droids.

Thanks