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Hello fellow musicians,

We are opening a Vendor soon at our player city and I spent most of friday night making instruments to sell, but I'm not sure what prices I should put on them, these are the prices I had in mind:

Slitherhorn - 200 credits

Fizzz - 450 credits

Fanfare - 600 credits

Kloo horn - 750 credits

Mandoviol - 850 credits

Traz - 950 credits

Bandfill - 1100 credits

Chidunkalu horn - 1250 credits

Ommni Box - 1500 credits

Nalagorn - 2500 credits

Are my prices too highor too low ?

I've based them roughly on resource cost and travelling costs to get the resources needed, like I had to travel quite some distance to find the only available stack of soft wood for the mandoviols.

Thank you's in advancefor your feedback

Looks good. I'd put the slither at 100cr, it's newbies that start out with 250cr that need one

A Mandaviol might be worth 1000cr, just because it's so cool

Yes, I was considering lowering the Slitherhorn to 150 or 100 even.

I saw Mando's at the bazaar this weekend around 1300 credits, heh, I'm not doing this to get rich just so people can get instruments at near resource cost price. Some people put Kloo Horns for sale for 1500 credits. And me, well, I paid 2500 at the time for my Mando...

Prices seem very fair.

Bump the Mandi up mebe

Here's the scale I worked up last night while figuring out what to price things for on the Bazzar. It's based on the idea that someone new who didn't start as an Entertainer might want a Slitherhorn, and someone who wants to buya Narlagon should be able to afford the 3,000 credit maximum you can sell instantly for on the Bazzar. I think your scale is very good for a private vendor in a player Cantina.

Slitherhorn.....100
Fizzz~~~~~~~~~~~400
Fanfar..........700
Kloo Horn~~~~~~~1,000
Traz............1,500
Mandoviol~~~~~~~1,500
Bandfill........2,000
Chidinkalu Horn~ 2,500
Ommni Box....... 2,800
Narlagon~~~~~~~~ 3,000

Egad, spacing things without tabling sucks. So, okay, not too many mandoviols are gonna sell. I love 'em, but even I dropped Master Entertainer (again!...and Image Design 4) so I could Master Musician and still keep my Master Bio-Engineer title to check out the changes to that profession when they go live. (If the changes aren't enough to make me want to keep the profession, I might just toast it all, get my Master Entertainer back and do something weird like Fencing for the heck of it.)

I like your prices, esp if the Slither gets lowered.

Good luck with your vendor! I hope it does well!

I must be way undercharging on the higher end items.

My current pricing lists are:

(prices in parentheses are for periods of wood shortage)

Bazaar:

Slitherhorn     -  315
Fizz            -  455 (650)
Fanfar          -  735
Kloo Horn       -  735 (1050)
Mandoviol       -  910 (1300)
Traz            -  910
Bandfill        - 1085
Chidinkalu Horn -  910
Ommni Box       - 1015
Nalargon        - 2205

Vendor:

Slitherhorn     -  270
Fizz            -  390
Fanfar          -  630
Kloo Horn       -  630
Mandoviol       -  780
Traz            -  780
Bandfill        -  930
Chidinkalu Horn -  780
Ommni Box       -  870
Nalargon        - 1890

Vendor prices aren't affected by wood shortages.

These prices are actually calculated by this formula:
((difficulty level * 10) + resources) * multiplier
where the multiplier is 7 for the Bazaar and 6 for my vendor. Perhaps I should change that (difficulty level * 10) to some fixed amount... I do know that I undersell all my competiton on the Bazaar, though....

I don't know why I'm playing this game anymore, for me...

I just lost all my fun.

I was invited to play at a guild city's opening party tomorrow, I went there tonight to scout the location and I found a vendor with everything upto and including a Chi horn for 100 credits. So I decide I won't play there and take a spaceship back to homeplanet corellia...

Yay, I can buy a shuttle ticket to our player city, I arrive there check out clone center, medic center, cantina, bank, we are going good

I walk into the Birds of Paradise cantina, I see a male AFK dancer.

Seriously, sometimes I ask myself why I keep playing, my entertainer friends are hardly ever there anymore.

Let me just say that pricing, in any universe, should be based on supply and demand.

Having said that I feel that the instrument economy on Chilastra is seriously messed up. I know instrument makers who charge large sums for everything, and I have even started asking if the person is looking for an instrument to persue music or just a holoquest,

I try not to undercut my friends and succeed in that, but my lowest base price is 1K, and highest is 3K

Let me try to do this from memory...

Slitherhorn (Uberhorn) -1K cr

Fizzz (UberFizzz) - 1K cr

Fanfar (Uberfar) -1.5K cr

Kloo horn (UberKloo) -1.5K cr

Mandoviol (UberMandoviol) -2K cr

Traz (UberTraz) - 2K cr

Bandfill (Uberfill) - 2K cr

Chidunkalu horn ( UberChidinkalu) -2K cr

Ommni Box(UberOmmni) -2.5K cr

Nalagorn (UberNal Basic) - 3K cr

I do sell instruments very differently from most. Every instrument I make, and have made since the September patch, is either a custom name or sequentially numbered (or both). I never sell on the Bazzar anymore (and buy mine off the bazz when I see them),but dosell Nal's and Ommni's through player vendors selling furniture. I will note though that Ialso sell a Limited Edition "UberNalargon", and Limited Edition Instrument "Sets". Both of these are far above base prices. I recently sold my #15 of 50 UberNalagon for 7500 cr and as I'm getting higher in numbers, I may raise that. I think I will once I've sold #20. The set isall 10 instruments and I put them all in a named numbered pack as well. It is limited to 25 in the first edition, and I sell them for 30K.

Having said all that...I give away many instruments, and extend credit often rarely collecting. And I've been know to charge holotainers more, or give deep discounts for a serious musicain.

Fragpuppie Uber

Master Musician

Band Leader/Booking Agent - Frag's Puppies

President & CEO- Fragpuppie Enterprises and Uber Instruments

Coronet, Corellia, Chilastra

Here are the prices I usually charge, always selling on the bazzar. They were higher a few months ago, but I've dropped them a few times since then

Slitherhorn - 100 credits

Fizz - 350 credits

Fanfar - 450 credits

Kloo Horn - 500 credits

Mandoviol - 1000 credits

Traz - 750 credits

Bandfill - 500 credits

Chidinkalu Horn - 1000 credits

Ommni Box - 1250 credits

Nalargon - 2350 credits

Of course, no charge for instruments for anyone I happen to be grouped with heehee