Merchant Archive
Thread: How to Improve the Merchant Profession
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AriesMercwar
Fri Jan 28, 2005 6:05 am
#1
1. We Merchants do not like wasting our time restocking our vendors one Item at a time. While we are allowed to highlight many Items by using Ctrl and selecting through the re-stocklist in our stockroom, we are forced tore-stock all those items one at a time.
How to Improve this.
We want to be able to sell multiple Items at one time instead of restocking our vendors one Item at a time, because restocking a vendor one item at a time is very time consuming. Let us select multiple Items at one time, price them all at the same price, and sell them at the same time. Just like how we are allowed to withdraw multiple Items at one time, we should be allowed to list multiple items at one time. If we list something at the wrong price then shame on us and what a bargain for our customers, we do have the intelligence to view our items details before we re-list them and we would like to select multiple items of the same type and price them all the same price and relist them all at the same time because this restocking one item at a time is a huge drag and waste of time, especially whenwe have hundreds ( sometimes thousands ) of items to re-list.
All other merchants feel free to add your suggestions as well.
Cafa
Fri Jan 28, 2005 9:14 am
#2
Rgr that mate.
This suggestion has been around for the past 18 months. But please feel free to continue to drive the point home.
Content does not equal 1 items posted for sell per click.
Fivo Asia
DocSavag
Fri Jan 28, 2005 9:25 am
#3
If you are buying the items from the stock room you are talkin at least 5 clicks at times to get it up for sale.
LaurnaRose
Sat Jan 29, 2005 8:46 am
#5
1. Customer side multiple like item sales from crates- Allow customers to break crates into the number THEY want to purchase. Merchant can place a 25 or 50 item crate on the vendor and then the customer could buy 5, 10, 25, 32, 50 of that item. Do away with the "factory crate" function on the sales markets. If something is being sold in a factory crate, then when a bid is placed a function box of "How many of this item would you like to bid for?" come up.
2. Customer side multiple item sales - Allow customers the ability to highlight several items at one time and purchase all of them at once. Using shift would highlight EVERY item between themouse's firstclick and last click, using ctrl would highlight only individual items. As long as you have the bank/cash funds, you will be allowed to purchase any item that you have highlighted all at one time.
3. Merchant side multiple item sales - Allow the merchant the ability to highlight several items in the "sell item" screen in the same shift/ctrl functionality as the customer side multiple item sales. If I have 4 pair of pants ive crafted and they are all going to cost the same on the vendor, allow me to just sell all 4 of them at the same time rather than being forced to enter each one individually.
4. Merchant side resell/restock button - Due to the fact that they kinda HAVE to have some sort of purge for the items, they need to allow a "restock button" for merchants. Of course, it would work best with the same shift/ctrl functionality as in 2 and 3.
5. Merchant side sales withdraw - Add a shift/ctrl functionality to the withdraw ability for merchants on vendors.
AriesMercwar
Tue Feb 01, 2005 6:52 am
#7
Allow us to stock any vendor in the galaxywith stockroom inventory located from any vendor we own within the galaxy, so we don't have to travel from planet to planet to re-locate stockroom inventory on our vendors. This way we can do all of our stocking by visiting any given vendor that we own.
Ikooga
Tue Feb 01, 2005 7:22 am
#8
LaurnaRose wrote:1. Customer side multiple like item sales from crates - Allow customers to break crates into the number THEY want to purchase. Merchant can place a 25 or 50 item crate on the vendor and then the customer could buy 5, 10, 25, 32, 50 of that item. Do away with the "factory crate" function on the sales markets. If something is being sold in a factory crate, then when a bid is placed a function box of "How many of this item would you like to bid for?" come up.2. Customer side multiple item sales - Allow customers the ability to highlight several items at one time and purchase all of them at once. Using shift would highlight EVERY item between the mouse's first click and last click, using ctrl would highlight only individual items. As long as you have the bank/cash funds, you will be allowed to purchase any item that you have highlighted all at one time.3. Merchant side multiple item sales - Allow the merchant the ability to highlight several items in the "sell item" screen in the same shift/ctrl functionality as the customer side multiple item sales. If I have 4 pair of pants ive crafted and they are all going to cost the same on the vendor, allow me to just sell all 4 of them at the same time rather than being forced to enter each one individually.4. Merchant side resell/restock button - Due to the fact that they kinda HAVE to have some sort of purge for the items, they need to allow a "restock button" for merchants. Of course, it would work best with the same shift/ctrl functionality as in 2 and 3.5. Merchant side sales withdraw - Add a shift/ctrl functionality to the withdraw ability for merchants on vendors.
1. I'm not sure. IF - and ONLY then - all my 20 crates of Brandy from the same factory run show up as ONE item in the sell screen, and the amount is 490 bottles (or whatever number there is actually) then yes. Please.
But if i have to list all my 20 crates seperately, and they show up seperately, and my customer just thinks "Oh... 12 is a nice number", that would leave me with a crate of 13 on my vendor, the next one comes and breaks another crate up and I end with 10 crates with 3 bottles in them each. No thanks to that.
2. Not sure either. Customers like now are sometimes to stupid already, just imagine they accidently buy something they didn't want. They's scream at us merchants for cheating them and demanding money back and all.
3. YES PLEASE !
4. YES PLEASE !
5. Uhm... I always can withdraw and retrieve multiple items at once already. Mark them with shift or control, and click "Withdraw sale" then go to the stockroom, mark them again, and click retrieve. So thats already in the game, unless i misunderstood what you want.
LaurnaRose
Tue Feb 01, 2005 9:43 am
#9
Ikooga wrote:
5. Uhm... I always can withdraw and retrieve multiple items at once already. Mark them with shift or control, and click "Withdraw sale" then go to the stockroom, mark them again, and click retrieve. So thats already in the game, unless i misunderstood what you want.
well i know the shift function works, but ive never been able to get the ctrl function to work. is my prog borked ... does selecting items using ctrl actually allow you to select individual items?????
Elyssa
Tue Feb 01, 2005 10:01 am
#10
Yes, it does.
LaurnaRose wrote:
well i know the shift function works, but ive never been able to get the ctrl function to work. is my prog borked ... does selecting items using ctrl actually allow you to select individual items?????
Ahnlida
Tue Feb 01, 2005 11:37 pm
#11
Darn... Ikooga already answered with the same replies I was going to rant about almost word for word... and in a much more calm and less degrading manner than I'd have. No rant for me.
But yeah, if customers are allowed to choose how much they want to take out of crates (or even resource containers) absolute havoc would ensue.
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