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Thread: Shipwrights, how are sales? (etc.)
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Little-Green-Guy
Fri Dec 03, 2004 9:25 am
#1
What do you guys find you need to keep in stock most on the vendors? etc.
Lobes
Fri Dec 03, 2004 10:28 am
#2
Lets see.. maybe I price my stuff too high (3credits per resource used) , but I have only sold one ship so far. I had thought It was an ok spot to sell since I am only 1500m away from naboo on chilastra. So I guess I have the starving artist syndrom. Not sure how everyone else is doing on my server as I make my own ships. But I think sales may be slowing since there is no need to upgrade to certain ships if the lower tiers are usually better.
Zotiss of Chilastra
BlammStarr
Fri Dec 03, 2004 10:33 am
#3
Well for me, Chassis sales have certainly slowed down the last week or so.
I am constantly having to restock my Texture and Paint kits, people love customizing their ships. I also sell Unprogrammed Droid Command Modules by the crate, these sell out very frequently. Thank god my alt is a master DE
As for the other components, I sell a lot of my RE'd loot. Lately I have also been selling a lot of Mark IV and V components as more people get to master or close to it.
I am constantly having to restock my Texture and Paint kits, people love customizing their ships. I also sell Unprogrammed Droid Command Modules by the crate, these sell out very frequently. Thank god my alt is a master DE
As for the other components, I sell a lot of my RE'd loot. Lately I have also been selling a lot of Mark IV and V components as more people get to master or close to it.
00over0
Fri Dec 03, 2004 10:42 am
#4
Lobes wrote:
Lets see.. maybe I price my stuff too high (3credits per resource used) , but I have only sold one ship so far. I had thought It was an ok spot to sell since I am only 1500m away from naboo on chilastra. So I guess I have the starving artist syndrom. Not sure how everyone else is doing on my server as I make my own ships. But I think sales may be slowing since there is no need to upgrade to certain ships if the lower tiers are usually better.
Zotiss of Chilastra
Try making armor, missiles, and chaff packs--those all sell very well. Chassis sales have been slow for a while except for custom orders.
Bastilaa
Fri Dec 03, 2004 11:21 am
#5
Sales vary day to day but this is a typical day
5 chassis
30 Crates of Missile Packs
30 Assorted Components
Enough to keep me busy without keeping me tied to my crafting station 24/7 like I was for the first 2 weeks of JTL
Funkbacca
Fri Dec 03, 2004 11:24 am
#6
I pretty much only sell ships face to face. Haven't sold a one off any of my 3 vendors.
Missiles, counter-measures, paint and textures are keeping my harvestors fed and fly off the shelves.
RE'd stuff does sell okay.
Missiles, counter-measures, paint and textures are keeping my harvestors fed and fly off the shelves.
RE'd stuff does sell okay.
4Bidden
Sat Dec 04, 2004 12:18 am
#7
Sales this week have slowed.. I was averaging 2.5 mill a day, now Im down to about half that.. Things normally slow down after an update, and pick up again after a couple weeks.. I havent checked todays sales cause I'm away from home till tomorrow.
BlkHwkDwn
Sat Dec 04, 2004 1:26 am
#8
I do about half a mil a day just north of moenia, which is a pretty terrible location, but my customers dont seem t mind the trip. So far I have been selling everything, chassis, components, and paint and texture kits. Though I would give missles and counter measure packs the edge in pure numbers. I still sell at least one chassis a day.
Gorantoth
Sat Dec 04, 2004 4:01 am
#9
Sales? What are sales? I took the weekend off and havn't really sold anything since. I maintain a fully stocked set of ships (KSE the exception as I'm still trying to track down an 8/8 despite having 20+ fragments).
WranglerDekar
Sat Dec 04, 2004 9:07 am
#10
I have a pretty healthy sales drive. I sell about 500k a day which is plenty to keep me going but not keep me glued to the grind keeping vendors stocked...I might sell 5 chassis a week but mostly im' selling alot of RE'd stuff, and man do my Chaff packs fly off the shelves, even masters use them. Just made a batch of Mark 4 Protons with some dmg like 9200 or something...hoping to sell those...but hey....REPAIR KITS!!!! people are sending me orders for repair kits like crazy anymore and its kinda neat cuz they're easy to make and havea LARGE profit margin on them. *i've found my new gold mine! * haha
BlkHwkDwn
Sat Dec 04, 2004 9:29 am
#11
Gorantoth wrote:
Sales? What are sales? I took the weekend off and havn't really sold anything since. I maintain a fully stocked set of ships (KSE the exception as I'm still trying to track down an 8/8 despite having 20+ fragments).
You don't mention if you are selling components, but you can find chassis anywhere, most people grind out Chassis 4 right off. What I am finding, is that most people want to go to one place and buy everything they need. What I have seen a lot of is people coming in and buying a fully decked out ship with componenets, they'll do this more than once. When they finally figure out what they want to do they switch to buying primarily consumables, missles and countermeasure packs.
A Note on Countermeasures: make a small number of hig level expensive ones, they dont sell a lot but they do occasionally sell.
Scythe
Sat Dec 04, 2004 10:01 am
#12
What I generally see is a lot of the same names. As such, my chassis sales have slowed, since most of them are at 4/x/x/x. People have already found their "spot" that they go to, in my experience SWG-players are very brand loyal as far as who they buy from. My sales have slowly slid lately, I attribute much of this to the popularity of EQ2 and college students studying for and taking finals, but should pick back up after Xmas. I've been in a league that played the lucasarts games (XvT, JK etc.) for over 8 years, and this is a continuous trend, active active active during the school year (late aug through early dec and mid jan through june) and then dead for winter and summer.
As far as stuff I"m selling, I sell 2 tier IV weaps a day, countless missile and CM packs, usually an IV reactor or engine, and if I'm lucky a chassis. Weekends are usually a bit hotter, and I can expect to double that. Then again, just sold out of advanced and aggressors, so maybe some things do change :-p
Gorantoth
Sat Dec 04, 2004 11:37 am
#13
BlkHwkDwn wrote:
You don't mention if you are selling components, but you can find chassis anywhere, most people grind out Chassis 4 right off. What I am finding, is that most people want to go to one place and buy everything they need. What I have seen a lot of is people coming in and buying a fully decked out ship with componenets, they'll do this more than once. When they finally figure out what they want to do they switch to buying primarily consumables, missles and countermeasure packs.
A Note on Countermeasures: make a small number of hig level expensive ones, they dont sell a lot but they do occasionally sell.
Yeah, I'm selling components. Mostly RE stuff that I put together looking for the KSE fragments. But yeah, I'm going to have to work a little more on missiles and countermeasures.
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