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Thread: Hi! I have absolutely no clue how offering an item to a vendor for credits works.

RogueCloudwalker
Tue Dec 07, 2004 10:43 pm
#1

Hi! Can someone explain to me how offering items to a vendor works? I am totally unfamiliar with this. Does the vendor give me the credits I want for the item or what? I have no clue how this works and someone just ordered a blue rug from me. Do I get paid on putting the item in, or does the owner of the vendor have to buy it off his vendor? Thanks for your help!



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pervel
Tue Dec 07, 2004 11:21 pm
#2






RogueCloudwalker wrote:

Hi! Can someone explain to me how offering items to a vendor works? I am totally unfamiliar with this. Does the vendor give me the credits I want for the item or what? I have no clue how this works and someone just ordered a blue rug from me. Do I get paid on putting the item in, or does the owner of the vendor have to buy it off his vendor? Thanks for your help!






The owner of the vendor has to buy it. Then you get the money.

StarWorker
Wed Dec 08, 2004 3:40 am
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RogueCloudwalker wrote:

Hi! Can someone explain to me how offering items to a vendor works? I am totally unfamiliar with this. Does the vendor give me the credits I want for the item or what? I have no clue how this works and someone just ordered a blue rug from me. Do I get paid on putting the item in, or does the owner of the vendor have to buy it off his vendor? Thanks for your help!





Here is how it works in more detail:


You as a supplier contact a merchant or crafter, and hear if there is anything you can supply him OR, you find a vendor that has signs or barks that tell you what it will buy. If you offer items for sale to a random vendor, there is high chances that the offer will be rejected, as not all merchants are looking to buy stuff from others.


The best way is therefore to arrange a deal with the merchant up front, and get a designated vendor you can deliver the goods to, at an agreed upon price. This way, both you and the merchant get less hassle.


The merchant can buy the offered items when he checks the vendor for offered items. He can also choose to reject an offer. If this is the case, you will get an email about it, and will have to go and pick the item up from the vendor. It is smart to pick up rejected offers as soon as possible, because if the merchant for some reason destroys the vendor, your items are lost (and there is no way for the merchant to know if you have picked up the rejected items or not).





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DingoBoi
Wed Dec 08, 2004 6:19 am
#4

I usually have people offering me ship components to my vendors that I didn't even make. I really can't fathom why they would think I'd pay full price for another shipwrights crap. REJECTED!


Now if it was a mistaken buy, I'll buy my item back.



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Ani_cul
Wed Dec 08, 2004 7:49 am
#5

Side note when offering to any merchant's vendor, whether arranged or not :

Email the owner of the vendor with what you have placed.

We only recieve a system message of 'suchandsuch has offered an item at your vendor' if we are online.

No clue what item is.

And if we are not on when it is offered, we have no idea it was evenoffered.

{not all merchant's have the habit of a daily offer check}




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Happymob
Wed Dec 08, 2004 7:50 am
#6

A few more notes -


Any offer to a vendor counts against your 25 sale limit (the same pool used or bazaar sales).


Things in packs count as 1 sale against the sale limit. So if you and a merchant have a good relationship and trust each other, you can offer multiple items ina pack efficiently.


Once offerred, you can get your item back, even if the merchant has rejected it yet. It's not obvious like the bazaar, and I can't remember exactly how to do it. But if you really need to cancel, it can be done.



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Ikooga
Thu Dec 09, 2004 5:54 am
#7

I sometimes have people offering Powerups to my powerup vendor.
I usually sell a crate at 2k which is pretty cheap, but i'm not in that buisness to get reach its more like a hobby

But either its some crappy SINGLE powerup (like 2% max damage, no second stat) asking for the full 2k I sell my crates of 33%/16% stuff
Or its a crate that I did not make myself, and therefor can't sell. And sometimes it's even a crate of my own, but with one or two are missing and priced at the full 2k.
Do they really think I'm to stupid to count and see that they already took one out and want it for free?

Especially since NOONE of them ever send me an email about it.
If someone would offer my own stuff back, in original condition, telling me in an email that it was an accidental buy, then yes, i would buy it back. But not otherwise.
If someone told me "Ack sorry, I bought the "Ranged Powerup XY" but I actually needed "Melee Powerup XY", but only saw it after I bought it", I MIGHT buy it back, just to be nice. Would depend on how nice that person would ask.



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