Merchant Archive
Thread: vendor item transfer button, restock button, and same serial stackers
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JeCy
Thu Dec 16, 2004 5:47 am
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I have a vendor i want to take down and its across down, and another thats acorss the planet, and another on another planet,..
This is about 700 items that i need to tranfer its gonna take forever to run back and forth transfering items,, Couldnt there be an option to transfer an item from one vendor to another? yea maybe this shouldnt work across planets,, but what about a vnedor right next to it. I like to change vendors for different sales, rename vendors. I use names, not whats in them to add flavor to my cantinasoo its like there is a new customer there or something. but some times taking 300-400 items outta one just to put up a new vendor is a real pain in the ass just to add flavor,, some tiems it takes an hour for the task, just to add some new blood to my place.. anyway it cant be that hard to implement could it?
And while they are at it, a restock button would be nice,. Its the main reason why i dont do creative desriptions on things cuase to retype it on every item, and then have to do it again when i repost is just not happening..
One last thing, why cant items with the same serial stack, aka you dont have 30 crates of XXX power up,, it shows up as one, and when it sells one in the stock room takes its place. This would make it much easier to find stuff with out sorting through 10+ pages and 100's of items,,
Je'Cy
Ani_cul
Thu Dec 16, 2004 7:29 am
#2
And while they are at it, a restock button would be nice,. Its the main reason why i dont do creative desriptions on things cuase to retype it on every item, and then have to do it again when i repost is just not happening..
Je'Cy
about this part...
Once you Set copy and paste ingame (options, interface, keymap-select-rebind-apply)
and take a minute to use /note (or email it to yourself) to form what you want to say,
multiple listing are extremly simple.
I myself sell outfits in a bag, each style is in my note with what it contains (1 shoetype, 1 pants type etc)
then as I stock these,I just highlight copy paste add color it is.
I have several lines made for order pick (do not buy what is not for you to you must have so many empty inventory slots to retrieve)
the 10minutes it took to type this all into my notepad(I type freakishly slow) has saved me days of stocking time.
my /note may be huge but the labling that is in there, won't ever have to be typed out by word again.
I even have a shortcut on my desk to /note so that as I am on web if there are links I want to share or threads somone was looking for I just copy it into there and its ready ingame.
LaurnaRose
Thu Dec 16, 2004 7:33 am
#3
you think this is a good idea and you rag on me for wanting to be able to give other ppl "management" admin to vendors. you are lazy, get over it. just be sure you have one extra vendor slot at all times. then you can set up the new vendor right next to the old one, remove all the items from the old one, close vendor, open new vendor, go to "available items", "regional", "all", highlight amoutn you can carry, "retrieve", and then sell on the new vendor. repeat as needed until your new vendor is stocked, your old vendors available items is empty, then destroy the old vendor. not that hard. pain in the butt, yes, but this is part of being a merchant.
JeCy
Thu Dec 16, 2004 11:00 am
#4
I have a bunch of empty vendor slots open.. soo thats not the big deal. its just the fact the moving stuff from one to another is a pain in the arse.. Tons of my stuff is Low sell stuff but i stock it just because my customers want it.. or well many 1 or 2 a month, like my uber 100 damage CDEF's,or paint kits, or the rare merchant+bomb proticol droid,, yea im not selling high move stuff but thats not my store people come to my vendors cuase i have what 90% dont. I have altered my sales strats many many times, i have been a merchant since the permissions have been fixed on houses,, that was what 3 weeks after launch? I sell crates of fire works, pre bult droids, grenades, power ups, food, bio clohtings, you name it its its craftable i sell it or have.. i dont do loot though..
But in this type of sales i find myself restocking tons of stuff weekly which i dont mind soo much sure its a pain in the arse to repost 300 things every week but i get e-mails alot with customers saying i love your store. I dont advertise, and 90% of my bussiness is repeat customers. I have great deals and things you cant find in the entire galaxie... soo lazy is not really a good description. moving 400 items from one vendor to another is just not fun if you want to change a vendor and could be done very easliy with some simple coding.
and lauren as for raggin on your idea about vendor persmissions, sorry if you feel that way.. but if you look up my posts you will see the 100's of others i have said the same thing too, dont take it personally please. Merchant is one of the few true RP profs in the game and there are soo very few good merchants out there.. and that have played the profession honeralbly, im not pointing any fingers but cleaning out a vendor and reposting is not what i would call honerable. I have made deals with crafters, sold there goods at a slight profit, and have run many stores.. when people talk about premisisons, and saying off 33 skill points is a waste just soo i can sell my loot, yea i take offence.. its my prof and i love it. It need work like all professions. But you never here some combat guy saying sure you should beable tto use a scout blaster you dont need marksmen,, lets uncert it.. Well why should you beable to use my vendors.
i have 400 crates of 3 and 4 stat power ups on a vendor across town that i need to move. and another 300 across the planet,, it has nothing to do with being lazzy,, i cant just open interfaces and pop open another vendor,, i still have to run the 300m or the 2k meters to do it.. yea swamping the ones next to each other is easy,, step 1 dump inventory, step 2 yank everything, step 3 repost,, with all seperate prices,, sure it takes an hour or soo,, i do it. but a simple repost command and what vendor to repost on isnt to much to ask. Im a merchant not a figgin stock boy
Je'Cy
Message Edited by JeCy on 12-16-2004 10:04 AM
LaurnaRose
Fri Dec 17, 2004 1:21 am
#5
JeCy wrote:
when people talk about premisisons, and saying off 33 skill points is a waste just soo i can sell my loot, yea i take offence.. its my prof and i love it. It need work like all professions. But you never here some combat guy saying sure you should beable tto use a scout blaster you dont need marksmen,, lets uncert it.. Well why should you beable to use my vendors.
Je'Cy
Message Edited by JeCy on 12-16-2004 10:04 AM
please re-read my proposal jecy. i too would be offended if someone said that my merchant skill points was a waste. and im not suggestiong letting ANY non business III be able to use my vendors for sell purposes. that is why we have the bazaar, and that is why everyone has the ability to get their own vendors. please re-read my post again, i believe you have mistaken my idea. i dont want to fight about it, and im not irate with you over anything.
as for this post, part of being a business owner is taking the time to be sure all your "stores" are properly stocked. if you want to move your "store" from one location to another, it SHOULD be a pain in the arse ... just as it is in real life. not to bust your bubble on this, but that is the way things work in the real business world. as for the idea of a "restock" button ... i love that idea. if items come off the vendor (since we need that to keep ppl who arent playing anymore from stealing active player's business) we should be able to simply access the stockroom, highlight all the items, and click a "restock" button ... which would place all the items highlighted back into the active purchasing area of the vendor along with any "seller's description" that was attached to it upon placement.
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