Merchant Archive

As a master doctor/master pistoleer I am into pure combat and I occassionally sell my stims and buffs on the Bizaar and through a merchant friend.

One idea I think for the merchant profession should be the ability to Sell Vendors to people. You, the merchant, trained your bothan slave to sell wares. Why can you not take that trained individual and sell him to someone else. I think this would make the merchant in a higher demand, other thoughts would be that a merchant could not sell/have more than his alloted number and would still receive merchant XP.

If this is not able, the other obviously choice should be for a merchant to place a vendor in some elses name. This would allow the merchant to gain the merchant XP and the doctor/weapon/armor/DE/BE would pay the maintence and receive the profits directly. Of cource a % of sales should go back to the vendor.

Currently I have to sell my items to a merchant and then have him resell the items. These are just thoughts from a guy that knows nothing of your profession. No insults are intented, just ideas.

Haywood' <CLONE>
Master Doctor/Master Pistoleer
Imperium's Fist LOK

I se one problem with thise ideas. Both variants make the merchant someone that place a vendor and that is the end of it. Then the merchant can log off and will not be needed online until a vendor needs to be moved.
That would create game play for the profession (would be like if a doctor could rent his healing and crafting abilities to a BH or commando, logout and do nothing).

However, I have one question for you. Why do you not wand to sell your products to merchant, and then let the merchant sell them in his shop?
My guess is that you would feel cheated out of some profit, because you do not se what the merchant do as added value to your products.

The whole point of merchant is that we have the ability to manage and hire vendors. I support tools to make it easier for you to offer items for resale to a merchant vendor. Including giving you the ability to set a MSRP (Suggested price) and ways to pay you automatically when the sale happens.

I don't like the idea of non mechants operating the vendors withtout a Merchant involved. It seems to me it makes the merchant unnecessary in the equation.