Merchant Archive

Hello,

My name Is Je'CY Dax, Im a struggling merchant in a galaxie called radaint. I was traped in this galaxie over a year ago when my space craft had an unfortunate run in with a wormwhole and ive been stuck in this bassakwards place ever since. When i landed i began a trade and worked armor. I lived week to week struggling to make ends meet but i surrvived. I built up a good fleet of harvesters, gathered with a group of other like minded get in and dirty and do it yourself and began work on an empire.

Things went well for the most part.. up a mill,,down a mill, run a delivery to corrent just to make shipfair to go check some miners on dantooine. LIfe was good, not many worries. But the grind of pounding on armor every day and unhappy customers do to the fact you can never work fast enough i had my fill and left the armor bussiness.

With some brand new means of mineral extraction just been invented buy obviously some extremly smart scientist, for the rebellion of coarse i decided to help mass produce these miners. Revived in how fresh and exciting it was to get into something new. I excelled and sold to this day the highest volume minerrs around. 125k hopper heavies , 14 rate mineral extractors, floral farms with 65k hoppers. I now used the merchant skills i learned as a struggling armor to make quite a few million, expand my factory base, and builds, establish a fleet of stationary harvesters by renting from combat people that have little use for them.

After months of making miners and feeling i had my fill of manufarcturing, i decided to go and get into electronics and began to study droid blueprints. I study long hours and got the hang of it and finally created my first droid, a binary load lifter. They are big and bulky and complicated to make but after makeing a huge run by hand for the dyno corp foundation i figured i had enough expericance to open my new store.. I moved from the one room abobe i had into a cantina !

Quarks was opened in feburary, I sold a wide variety of things, Insilations, housing, resroce, armor, power ups, droids, food, fireworks and tons of other things. Im in a huge player city with 100's of vendors but i still manage to do about 300-400k a week + my one day only sales to boost sales. Business is good, people come to my place to find things that lots dont carry. the odd crafting tool, repair kits, maybe they just want a snack and grab some kiwi swirl for the road (food single)Bussiness was soo good i decided to open up a new store in an area that was lacking, Weapons, meds, power ups, some mics droids, and clothing, (aka adventurer mart)

Tashi station was born on tat and is a nice one stop shop for those on the go.. it does a nice bussness but in no way a strain on the economy.. all was soo great i was thining on opening a lok store..

STOP...

VENDOR LIMITS....

all my slow move stuff is gone, all my back up stock,, aka i have more proticiol with a data+storage and 5 R2's Doc's pal.. fireworks are a thing of the past,, small reosrce packs.. I catered to the peple that dont have money.. that only can afford one drink not a crate. that wanted afordable droid batteris,, I sell um at 50 credtis per not per use,, Im not raping my customers on something that takes all of 5 credits my cost to make. I sell random items, odd power ups there are 12-14 types that i stock 10-15 crates of each type cuase they wont sell for weeks and in one day someone will come in and buy 8 of one type.. I have tons of stuff like this.. I work in a huge shoping city with tons of vendors.. i found my nitch and it works for me. People love the decore of my cantina,. Love the varriety on my vendors. and love the hard to find stuff that they cant find.. Have you ever gone shoping for a droid customizaation kit and wanted to pick up a advanced proticol with a surgical and data,, and you want it now?? hehe good luck with that : )

My place was one you could. I got by with having a wide seclition and knowing the others around me and sold what they didnt.. it worked.. Now my entire bussiness is screwed,. No longer can i be a reseller of weapons and food, and clothing.. My total sales are about 1 million a week on a good one.. i run a cantina and 70 lots, buildins factorries, harvesters..I supply a doc resorces and work with 5 craters total.. soo this is not huge money..

My neihbor who this will help that doesnt need it.. A great freind, and partner in a way. He is a fellow Drod engineer. He has been since day one. His name is well know n and he gets lots of bussiness for custom droids.. something i dont do and i send him my bussiness. They want to pick up a standard droid,, one of about 60 differnt modles i keep in stock they come to me.. they want custom they goto him. One would think that a droid shop with 60 modles on a vendor would kill the custom guy. nope he has more work than he can handle and he still sends people my way. I do crates of bomb droids too.

Most of his bussniss is all pick up by the customer.

mine is all off a vendor..

His bussiness, people know what they want when they go to him

Mine is people come and look for one thing, and end up with another.

his bussiness is in one place,1 planet 2 buildings 2 facotries,

mine is all acorss the galaxie, 3 planets,6 buildings, 6 factories,

We both make around the same money aweek, though i make a bit more, my maintance is higher, but i also resell so that is included in costs.

If this merchant nerf hits..His bussiness will triple cuase i will no longer to keep up this type of bussniess and with no other droid alternative they will have to wait for a custom droid from yod..it will take 1-2 weeks but when they get it it will be exacly what they want and it will be of the best quality..

I will be finishing on dantooine in a lake side house.. dreaming of the one day i can find a wormhole to get the hell out of this crazzy backwards world

Je'Cy Dax, a being lost in time...

Come stop by my place on naboo,, Im listed on global, just look under cantina's and Come to "Quark's" The cantina will be there long after the vendors are all gone

the point of my story, is to show how i changed with the times....

Merchant should be a vibale prof,

merchant should cost skill points

merchants with more skill points should have an advantage over those that dont

being a resellers should be something a master merchant CAN do, by suppliing a wide varriey of items.

In my nerf i would favor a slightly larger point gain with novice merchant and then a bounus for each box taken.. all eqaul value in item count and a bounus at master. Say 400 items per vendor at master

Je'Cy

1st I am not flaming you.. you spent alot of time explaining your view very well and I appricate it and all the other players who have done the same.

Here is the thing... I like many have worked hard for well over a year to get where we are.... the truth is I dont need to stock the best dam resource vendor on my server.... I sure dont need the cr... Last Dec I had 3mil cr... I used that to get into the Armorsmith field.... I worked hard and long and turned that 3 mil into a whole hell of alot more.... I did this all with one account... not 2 not 4...

I currently maintain my resource vendor because I enjoy helping other players/crafters get high end items they need to be better in their crafts... old players and newbs alike... I have helped get many other ASstarted with the best resources to have spawned on my server and hours of time explaining the craft...no one ever did that for me.... I have help Chefs, WS, Arch and every other proffession because I could.

If the limits go through I will not retain my merchant skills or my vendors..period... Ill pack everythign up and move it into structures. There is no reason to waste my skillpoints on such absurd numbers...

The thing is I dont have to change with the times..... I dont need the cr and I dont need the hassle... its too late in the game now to make this change.

I am not the only "big" merchant that will close up shop over this... most I know have already quit over this or will quit if it goes live.

Varnax Despin