Tailor Archive

6) Do you do custom orders, vendor sales or both? Which do you prefer?

Wow, long poll.. but what the heck, I'm waiting for a shuttle.

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1) What level tailor are you? Master

2) How long have you been a tailor? Since early July.

3) What made you decide to be a tailor? The variety of items that could be made, and the colors.

4) What keeps you interested in being a tailor? Hard to say, rather burned out on it right now.

5) Have you ever quit tailoring for a while, or are you thinking about quitting? If so, why? Have never quit, although fantasize about closing up shop and retiring to a cantina on the beach.

6) Do you do custom orders, vendor sales or both? Which do you prefer?

7) How do you normally handle custom orders? E-mail? Distribution by custom order backpack? In person, on the spot? Used to do both in person and via email. Don't do many custom orders these days.

8) Do you buy resources or do your own mining? Do my own.

9) If you have a vendor, where is it located? Player city? Mall? Style of house? Not in a player city, large generic on Naboo near Keren.

10) Do you own your own vendor or contract with a merchant? Own my own.

11) How many vendors do you have? How do you organize the clothes? 3 clothes vendors. One for unisex, one for ladies, and one for BE.

12) How many items do you keep on your vendor? At the highest point, 500 total. Now maybe 300.

13) Do you specialize in certain types of clothes? Certain colors? Don't specialize.

14) How do you name your clothes? With your name on it? Color? With my name, and with named colors.

15) Do you do bioengineered clothing? Do you deal with multiple bioengineers? I sell BE clothes, but I am my own supplier.

16) How do you deal with bioengineered clothing? Custom orders? Vendor sales? Which “stock items” sell out? Vendor sales only, hate custom orders. Everything sells usually, except one lonely +6 cover item which I think will never sell.

17) Compared to others on your server, are your prices low, high, or mid-level? Not sure, I'd say middle to high.

18) Do you use the bazaar ever? Not any more.

19) How do you advertise your shop? On the world map, but not sure that's worth anything these days.

20) How do you perceive your workload? Right now pretty light because I play my other two chars most of the time. When I was a full-time tailor I often felt over-worked and stressed out.

21) Is there too little competition? Too much? Hard to say. Most shops I visit have little stock at all. Some have much more than I do. I think the market is just plain saturated at this point. I sell more BE clothes than regular, and more food than both put together.

22) Have you limited your customer base? If so, how? Not limited.

23) What is your returns policy? I'll buy back my own stuff within a reasonable period of time. Custom orders are always 100% satisfaction guaranteed.

24) What is your discount policy?I discount custom orders.

25) Do you take large custom orders? If so, what is the pricing? Haven't done many, maybe 20% off at most.

26) Do you take rush jobs? If so, what is the pricing? Hasn't really come up.

27) Are you “off duty” at specified times? Not really. If I'm on my tailor, I'm usually available to do tailor work.

28) If you’re not taking orders from the general public, do you make exceptions for friends/guildmates? I would.

29) Do you take orders “on the fly” at starports? No.

30) When do you put your tailor tag up? Alternate between chef & tailor. Don't go into cities much so it's not an issue.

31) What other professions do you have with your tailor character? Why did you pick this particular combo? Chef for something more challenging. Will be getting Master Artisan for better artisan level foods. Merchant cause you have to.

32) Do you have an alt? Same server or different server? Which profession(s)? See sig. Same server.

33) What do you consider to be your primary profession (including alts)? Is your tailor your main? My tailor isn't my main any more. I'd consider my CH my main, with the BE 2nd.

34) How much of your time is spent tailoring or otherwise dealing with tailoring business (as opposed to doing other activities with your tailor character or an alt). A few hours a week now.

35) Do you take part in the GCW with your tailor character? No.

36) Do you live in a player city? Are you in a guild? Are these beneficial? No and No. I think they would be.

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On a scale of 1-10, with 1 being not bothersome, and 10 as something that annoys you intensely, rate the following:

(10 ) the white-secondary-color bug
(10 ) Lack of new schematics
(10 ) Lack of schematics of items that exist in game
(10 ) Tell hell
(99 ) The upcoming vendor limits
(10 ) The lack of a feature that would make you invisible on friends lists
(2 ) The male clothing selection
(2 ) The outfits are too revealing
(2) Lack of classic Star Wars garb – such as hood-up Obi Wan cloak
(5 ) Headgear choices
(9 ) Leather palette limitations
(99 ) Necklace bug
(10 ) Corellian house design
(1 ) Merchant tent size
(8 ) Lack of lighting options
(1 ) Inability to customize vendors
(3 ) The display “model” is always female –both in the vendor and on the walls
(8 ) Items which have restrictions do not have warning labels (i.e. female-only)
(1 ) Sockets on backpacks non-functional
(1 ) Certain gloves don’t work with jackets
(3 ) Dresses can’t be worn with cloaks or jackets
(1 ) There are no tank tops
(1 ) Non-socketing of certain items
(9 ) Crit fails entirely too often
(5 ) BE crated tissues in the same slot don’t stack
(9 ) Lack of reinforced fiber panels in most items and no item with 2 rfp slots
(6 ) Limited wookiee clothing colors and selection
(6 ) Limited wookiee options for reinforced fiber panels
(9 ) Male twi’lek underpants head
(5 ) Female twi’lek twitch with certain headdresses
(5 ) Customer elitism – only dealing with masters for non-master items or components
(9 ) Holo grinding
(10 ) The increased bazaar limit
(6 ) Undercutting the market
(6 ) Footwear selection
(0 ) No after-the-fact colorization
(2 ) The fact that sometimes colors are in 2 columns and sometimes in 3, depending on the item, no matter how you tweak the crafting window
(2 ) No grid or numbering system for the colors
(1 ) Pressure to grind through the profession
(3 ) Training other tailors
(5 ) Customers who can’t follow instructions, such as “send me an e-mail”
(9 ) Stalkers who don’t understand that you’re busy!
(1 ) People who ask for free clothes
(5 ) People who want you to travel
(2 ) Decay
(2 ) Lack of respect by players who live in armor

Feel free to add to this list!

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1) What level tailor are you? Master Tailor

2) How long have you been a tailor? About a week at master ... 1 month working on it

3) What made you decide to be a tailor? I love clothes, and i felt i would be good at it

4) What keeps you interested in being a tailor?possibilities of new things

5) Have you ever quit tailoring for a while, or are you thinking about quitting? If so, why?Nope
6) Do you do custom orders, vendor sales or both? Which do you prefer?both, but like custom orders

7) How do you normally handle custom orders? E-mail? Distribution by custom order backpack? In person, on the spot? depends on the person

8) Do you buy resources or do your own mining? My guild helps me out

9) If you have a vendor, where is it located? Player city? Mall? Style of house? i have 4 vendors in my tent in MOS VEGAS

10) Do you own your own vendor or contract with a merchant? Own

11) How many vendors do you have? How do you organize the clothes?4, bio/wedding/clothing/and 1 for random items

12) How many items do you keep on your vendor? atm, about 50-100

13) Do you specialize in certain types of clothes? Certain colors?no

14) How do you name your clothes? With your name on it? Color? atm, i don't name it... but will tell color

15) Do you do bioengineered clothing? Do you deal with multiple bioengineers? yes, yes

16) How do you deal with bioengineered clothing? Custom orders? Vendor sales? Which “stock items” sell out? try to have items available daily and will try to have orders within a limited time

17) Compared to others on your server, are your prices low, high, or mid-level? average

18) Do you use the bazaar ever? yes

19) How do you advertise your shop? vendor, sorry to say some spamming, thank you emails

20) How do you perceive your workload?

21) Is there too little competition? Too much? some ways to much

22) Have you limited your customer base? If so, how? somewhat... i had many image design customers so i passed word onto them about my tailor shop

23) What is your returns policy? haven't really thought about it

24) What is your discount policy? depends on person

25) Do you take large custom orders? If so, what is the pricing? yes... just about same depends on item

26) Do you take rush jobs? If so, what is the pricing? yes, may be a little higher due to rush

27) Are you “off duty” at specified times? no

28) If you’re not taking orders from the general public, do you make exceptions for friends/guildmates? yes

29) Do you take orders “on the fly” at starports? yes

30) When do you put your tailor tag up? atm, most times... trying to form customer base

31) What other professions do you have with your tailor character? Why did you pick this particular combo? image design, since most people may be looking for a new look... outfit and image all in one

32) Do you have an alt? Same server or different server? Which profession(s)? yes, bloodfin pistol/smug

33) What do you consider to be your primary profession (including alts)? Is your tailor your main? tailor and image

34) How much of your time is spent tailoring or otherwise dealing with tailoring business (as opposed to doing other activities with your tailor character or an alt). about half

35) Do you take part in the GCW with your tailor character? no

36) Do you live in a player city? Are you in a guild? Are these beneficial? yes, MOS VEGAS, yes BEG yes they are

Servers are down...so here goes

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NJ62 wrote:

Tailoring Poll

I thought it would be interesting to see the business practices and thoughts of the posters on this forum:

1) What level tailor are you? Master

2) How long have you been a tailor? 3 months

3) What made you decide to be a tailor? didn't like the clothes I was finding

4) What keeps you interested in being a tailor? Dealing with people

5) Have you ever quit tailoring for a while, or are you thinking about quitting? No

6) Do you do custom orders, vendor sales or both? Which do you prefer? Mostly vendor sales, I do do customs, though

7) How do you normally handle custom orders? E-mail? Distribution by custom order backpack? In person, on the spot? I have a special orders vendor in which I place all orders in a travel pack with owner's name

8) Do you buy resources or do your own mining? Own mining

9) If you have a vendor, where is it located? Player city? Mall? Style of house? Player city and Mall

10) Do you own your own vendor or contract with a merchant? Own vendors

11) How many vendors do you have? How do you organize the clothes? 3...1 for BE clothes, 1 for normal clothes and 1 for special orders

12) How many items do you keep on your vendor? over 150 on the 2 main ones

13) Do you specialize in certain types of clothes? Certain colors? BE clothes

14) How do you name your clothes? With your name on it? Color? with a tag...{Uur-Ban}

15) Do you do bioengineered clothing? Do you deal with multiple bioengineers? yes...2 bio-engineers

16) How do you deal with bioengineered clothing? Custom orders? Vendor sales? Which “stock items” sell out? Mostly vendor, but that sometimes leads to customs. Sell out items are anything with Melee & Stun defence and Medical healing

17) Compared to others on your server, are your prices low, high, or mid-level? Mid-level

18) Do you use the bazaar ever? not anymore

19) How do you advertise your shop? Throught the forums and g-mail customers

20) How do you perceive your workload? not very taxing

21) Is there too little competition? Too much? there are 3 master tailor that I know of in my city...I think we all do OK

22) Have you limited your customer base? If so, how? No

23) What is your returns policy? Item must be undamaged and I subtract 1000 from the purchase price at buy-back

24) What is your discount policy? 15% for citizens of my city

25) Do you take large custom orders? If so, what is the pricing? yes...same as normal orders but must wait accordingly

26) Do you take rush jobs? If so, what is the pricing? No

27) Are you “off duty” at specified times? No...if I'm out, I don't answer tells

28) If you’re not taking orders from the general public, do you make exceptions for friends/guildmates? N/A

29) Do you take orders “on the fly” at starports? Never

30) When do you put your tailor tag up? Not very often...maybe once a week to advertise

31) What other professions do you have with your tailor character? Why did you pick this particular combo? TKA...Holo told me, but I think I'll keep it

32) Do you have an alt? Same server or different server? Which profession(s)? No

33) What do you consider to be your primary profession (including alts)? Is your tailor your main? Tailor

34) How much of your time is spent tailoring or otherwise dealing with tailoring business (as opposed to doing other activities with your tailor character or an alt). More than half my game play

35) Do you take part in the GCW with your tailor character? yes

36) Do you live in a player city? Are you in a guild? Are these beneficial? yes, yes and yes

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On a scale of 1-10, with 1 being not bothersome, and 10 as something that annoys you intensely, rate the following:

(2 ) the white-secondary-color bug
(10) Lack of new schematics
(10) Lack of schematics of items that exist in game
(7 ) Tell hell
(7 ) The upcoming vendor limits
(3 ) The lack of a feature that would make you invisible on friends lists
(7 ) The male clothing selection
(1 ) The outfits are too revealing
(8 ) Lack of classic Star Wars garb – such as hood-up Obi Wan cloak
(10) Headgear choices
(7 ) Leather palette limitations
(9 ) Necklace bug
(1 ) Corellian house design
(1 ) Merchant tent size
(4 ) Lack of lighting options
(7 ) Inability to customize vendors
(7 ) The display “model” is always female –both in the vendor and on the walls
(8 ) Items which have restrictions do not have warning labels (i.e. female-only)
(1 ) Sockets on backpacks non-functional
(6 ) Certain gloves don’t work with jackets
(2 ) Dresses can’t be worn with cloaks or jackets
(3 ) There are no tank tops
(1 ) Non-socketing of certain items
(4 ) Crit fails entirely too often
(1 ) BE crated tissues in the same slot don’t stack
(10) Lack of reinforced fiber panels in most items and no item with 2 rfp slots
(10) Limited wookiee clothing colors and selection
(10) Limited wookiee options for reinforced fiber panels
(1 ) Male twi’lek underpants head
(1 ) Female twi’lek twitch with certain headdresses
(1 ) Customer elitism – only dealing with masters for non-master items or components
(1 ) Holo grinding
(1 ) The increased bazaar limit
(5 ) Undercutting the market
(6 ) Footwear selection
(1 ) No after-the-fact colorization
(1 ) The fact that sometimes colors are in 2 columns and sometimes in 3, depending on the item, no matter how you tweak the crafting window
(8 ) No grid or numbering system for the colors
(4 ) Pressure to grind through the profession
(1 ) Training other tailors
(3 ) Customers who can’t follow instructions, such as “send me an e-mail”
(1 ) Stalkers who don’t understand that you’re busy!
(2 ) People who ask for free clothes
(4 ) People who want you to travel
(1 ) Decay
(1 ) Lack of respect by players who live in armor

Feel free to add to this list!

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6) Do you do custom orders, vendor sales or both? Which do you prefer? Mostly vendor sales. I spend alot of time running around different planets, just exploring.I usually leave my tailor title off.

Great idea!

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NJ62 wrote:

Tailoring Poll

1) What level tailor are you? Master Tailor

2) How long have you been a tailor? I started working towards Tailor on day one (yes that day one that it was almost impossible to get in on)

3) What made you decide to be a tailor? Tried it out for a time in beta and loved it.

4) What keeps you interested in being a tailor? The creativity involved.

5) Have you ever quit tailoring for a while, or are you thinking about quitting? If so, why? I sometimes think of quitting because of the lack of dev attention paid to our profession, but even if I retired from selling I'd keep my skills.

6) Do you do custom orders, vendor sales or both? Which
do you prefer? I prefer vendor sales at the moment, but I do both and wouldn't be surprised if I eventually went back to mostly custom orders.

7) How do you normally handle custom orders? E-mail? Distribution by custom order backpack? In person, on the spot? Depends on the customer's needs. I only do email and custom order backpacks if I'm sure the person knows exactly what they want (or if they're not super picky).

8) Do you buy resources or do your own mining? I buy all my metal, and drop a heavy harvester to pull up chemicals as I need them, but I don't keep it placed constantly. I get hides from my PA in exchange for clothing.

9) If you have a vendor, where is it located? Player city? Mall? Style of house? My vendor is in a small player city on Rori. It's currently in a merchant tent though I'm thinking about switching back to a Medium Naboo house.

10) Do you own your own vendor or contract with a merchant? I'm a Master Merchant, so I handle my own vendors.

11) How many vendors do you have? How do you organize the clothes? I have 5 vendors, but only 3 are clothing related. I currently have one for most of my clothes, one for BE goods, and one for sale items, but will probably change that when I move my shop.

12) How many items do you keep on your vendor? I normally try to stock at least 1,000 items, that number is significantly down because I've mostly stopped stocking while waiting for the vendor nerf.

13) Do you specialize in certain types of clothes? Certain colors? I try and stock a little of everything, while I always try to keep the most popular colors in stock I'll rotate other shades in and out.

14) How do you name your clothes? With your name on it? Color? I keep the original item name at the start of the item to help those who know exactly what they're looking for, after the item name I put the color in parentheses and my name. For example: "Cloak (white) by Kara"

15) Do you do bioengineered clothing? Do you deal with multiple bioengineers?
I do make BE clothing, and usually shop at the vendors of several BEs.

16) How do you deal with bioengineered clothing? Custom orders? Vendor sales? Which “stock items” sell out? I sell most of my BE clothing through vendor sales. My biggest sellers are probably anything in a Lined Workshirt (I stick to mostly neutral colors though the blue ones sell pretty well also).

17) Compared to others on your server, are your prices low, high, or mid-level?
My prices are mid-level on some items and high on others. Most of my prices that are more mid-level are on low level garments.

18) Do you use the bazaar ever? I use the bazaar occasionally if I am in a city and notice that it's got few clothes listed. But it's usually only if it's convenient, I don't go out of my way to go list things.

19) How do you advertise your shop? My main vendor is map-registered but I mostly seem to get word-of-mouth customers.

20) How do you perceive your workload? My workload is average to light I'd guess. I raised my prices until I reached a point where I was happy with how often I needed to restock.

21) Is there too little competition? Too much? There is very little competition on my planet, but I wouldn't say it was too little.

22) Have you limited your customer base? If so, how? I haven't, but I don't go out of my way to find new customers. I have a large amount of repeat customers.

23) What is your returns policy? I only take returns on items that are in perfect condition, and even then only in exceptional circumstances, such as if someone accidentally bought something they couldn't equip. If a customer isn't sure what color they'd like, I expect them to schedule a custom fitting, not buy 5 items, try them on, and return 4 of them.

24) What is your discount policy? I craft for free for members of my very small guild, in exchange for hides, cool loot, or items they've crafted. Rebels get a discount but I rarely inform them because they always try and tip extra then. Other than that I discount for brand new characters and low level entertainers. Discounts only apply to custom orders.

25) Do you take large custom orders? If so, what is the pricing? I do large custom orders, but don't discount them as they take much more time, resources, and effort than smaller orders.

26) Do you take rush jobs? If so, what is the pricing? I'd only consider doing a rush job if they were willing to include a sizeable extra fee.

27) Are you “off duty” at specified times? I'm off duty a lot, but it's not on a schedule.

28) If you’re not taking orders from the general public, do you make exceptions for friends/guildmates? Nope. Not unless I'm hanging out with the person already and it's a very quick order.

29) Do you take orders “on the fly” at starports? Not usually, not unless it's something very quick and easy and there's lots of time left.

30) When do you put your tailor tag up? Never. I have enough customers who already know who I am.

31) What other professions do you have with your tailor character? Why did you pick this particular combo? Master Merchant and Politician. I chose Master Merchant so I could run other stores. I am giving up Politician as soon as I can find someone else to mayor our town though.

32) Do you have an alt? Same server or different server? Which profession(s)?
I have an alt on the same server who is working on smuggler/pistoleer.

33) What do you consider to be your primary profession (including alts)? Is your tailor your main? Tailor is my main profession.

34) How much of your time is spent tailoring or otherwise dealing with tailoring business (as opposed to doing other activities with your tailor character or an alt). I probably spend between 1/3 and 1/2 of my game time tailoring, but it's sometimes more or less depending on what else is going on.

35) Do you take part in the GCW with your tailor character? Yes, I'm rebel, though I never fight anymore..

36) Do you live in a player city? Are you in a guild? Are these beneficial?
I am in a city and a guild, both have been extremely beneficial.

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On a scale of 1-10, with 1 being not bothersome, and 10 as something that annoys you intensely, rate the following:

(7) the white-secondary-color
bug
(10) Lack of new schematics
(10) Lack of schematics of items
that exist in game
(8) Tell hell
(7 ) The upcoming vendor limits
(7) The lack of a feature that
would make you invisible on friends lists
(3) The male clothing selection
(1) The outfits are too revealing
(10) Lack of classic Star Wars garb – such as hood-up Obi Wan cloak
(7) Headgear choices
(10) Leather palette limitations
(9) Necklace bug
(2) Corellian house design
(1) Merchant tent size
(8) Lack of lighting options
(6) Inability to customize vendors
(6) The display “model” is always female –both in the vendor and on the walls
(9) Items which have restrictions do not have warning labels (i.e. female-only)
(5) Sockets on backpacks non-functional
(6) Certain gloves don’t work with jackets
(8) Dresses can’t be worn with cloaks or jackets
(9) There are no tank tops
(6) Non-socketing of certain items
(8) Crit fails entirely too often
(6) BE crated tissues in the same slot don’t stack
(8) Lack of reinforced fiber panels in most items and no item with 2 rfp slots
(7) Limited wookiee clothing colors and selection
(7) Limited wookiee options for reinforced fiber panels
(7) Male twi’lek underpants head
(9) Female twi’lek twitch with certain headdresses
(7) Customer elitism – only dealing with masters for non-master items or components
(11) Holo grinding
(8) The increased bazaar limit
(8) Undercutting the market
(8) Footwear selection
(4) No after-the-fact colorization
(6) The fact that sometimes colors are in 2 columns and sometimes in 3, depending on the item, no matter how you tweak the crafting window
(3) No grid or numbering system for the colors
(9) Pressure to grind through the profession
(1) Training other tailors
(6) Customers who can’t follow instructions, such as “send me an e-mail”
(6) Stalkers who don’t understand that you’re busy!
(9) People who ask for free clothes
(9) People who want you to travel
(11) Decay
(8) Lack of respect by players who live in armor

Feel free to add to this list!

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NJ62 wrote:

Tailoring Poll

I thought it would be interesting to see the business practices and thoughts of the posters on this forum:

1) What level tailor are you Master

2) How long have you been a tailor? since beta...

3) What made you decide to be a tailor? the creativity

4) What keeps you interested in being a tailor? the creativity

5) Have you ever quit tailoring for a while, or are you thinking about quitting? If so, why? I'll quit the game before I quit Tailoring and I'm seriously comtemplating quitting the game...

6) Do you do custom orders, vendor sales or both?both Which do you prefer?

7) How do you normally handle custom orders? E-mail? Distribution by custom order backpack? In person, on the spot?

8) Do you buy resources or do your own mining? I mine my own but do buy resources if I run across a good deal...

9) If you have a vendor, where is it located? I have several located on Naboo and Dantooine... Player city? yes Mall? Style of houses? 1 vendor -small generic style 2 in Theed,

1 vendor -merchant tent in my player city on Dantooine,

and 2 or 3 vendors in my medium Tat house on Dantooine in my city...

10) Do you own your own vendor or contract with a merchant? I'm Master Merchant

11) How many vendors do you have? How do you organize the clothes?

4 or 5 depending on my mood:

1 general all purpose in Theed,

1 Budgetwear in the Merchant tent on Dantooine,

1 accessories in my house (shop) on Dantooine, 1 general all purpose in my house (shop) on Dantooine,

and just took down the vendor that I keep at less than 100 items that are all matching outfits... if my ambition comes back I'll put it back up and re-stock it...

12) How many items do you keep on your vendor? all together well over 1000.. haven't really added them all up lately...

13) Do you specialize in certain types of clothes? nope Certain colors? nope

14) How do you name your clothes? With your name on it? Color? bleh, never put my name on anything, I love to shop myself and really hate the confusion of seeing someone's name plastered all over the item names.. it makes it a lot harder to shop IMNSHO... I do put the color... like Cloak Black, Small Bustier Vivid Red, etc...

15) Do you do bioengineered clothing?nope, not interested in it... Do you deal with multiple bioengineers? one of my guildmates is Master BE so when and if I ever get the urge I'll have a BE of my very own to partner with.. *smile* Chloe if you read this he's not taking orders from outside the PA, that's why I didn't give you his name the other night when you asked... I do plan to give him your name as a potential Tailor to contact when he decides to start getting in the BE tissues biz on a full time basis...

16) How do you deal with bioengineered clothing? I make them free for PA membersand that's onlywhen they slip me a micky of passive tranquilizers, tie me down with constrictor cloths and beat me with toughened fibers... Custom orders? none Vendor sales?none Which “stock items” sell out?

17) Compared to others on your server, are your prices low, high, or mid-level? mid level I'd say.. I've seen higher, I've seen lower.. my customers seem happy with my pricing structure...

18) Do you use the bazaar ever? I love the bazaar... It's a game in itself to me..

19) How do you advertise your shop? I don't advertise... I am, however, listed on the planetary map and I make sure to list only one vendor at time so the vendor name isn't a big fat ugly unreadable blob when someone has the overhead map turned on...

20) How do you perceive your workload?

21) Is there too little competition? Too much? dunno.. I've never been concerned with competition.. I just do my own thang...

22) Have you limited your customer base? If so, how?

23) What is your returns policy? I'll take back anything I crafted... I'llexchange it, refund it, whatever anybody wants to do...

24) What is your discount policy? whim... I try to give something free with every custom order... and if I happen to be in the shop when someone buys from the vendor I'll give them something free to wear with whatever they bought... I give away a lotof Emerald Pendants and Uniform Boots and Gloves,sometimes a shirt depending on what they purchased... again, this is whim, not a set policy... if they're a pain in the azzI don't go out of my way to give them anything...

25) Do you take large custom orders? sure, if they can catch me... If so, what is the pricing? I'd discount it

26) Do you take rush jobs? I don't like to be rushed but it would depend on how well I knew the person... If so, what is the pricing? depends on who it is...

27) Are you “off duty” at specified times? yes

28) If you’re not taking orders from the general public, do you make exceptions for friends/guildmates? yes, and all guildmates and city residents get all their clothing for no charge...

29) Do you take orders “on the fly” at starports? yes, if they know what they want and if I think I have time (if I'm waiting for a shuttle).. if they don't know what they want I ask them to email me with their order... (never hear from them again of course...)

30) When do you put your tailor tag up? I take spells... lately I've been keeping it on all the time but I alternate with the Master Merchant title...

31) What other professions do you have with your tailor character? Master Merchant and dabbler in some of the other basic professions...

Why did you pick this particular combo? seemed like a natural progression...

32) Do you have an alt? yes Same server or different server?same server and Test Center Which profession(s)? on the same server my alt is Master Architect, Master Artisan, Master Merchant, Politician

33) What do you consider to be your primary profession (including alts)? Tailor Is your tailor your main? yes

34) How much of your time is spent tailoring or otherwise dealing with tailoring business (as opposed to doing other activities with your tailor character or an alt).

35) Do you take part in the GCW with your tailor character? no, not interested in it...

36) Do you live in a player city?yes, I'm the co-founder of my city Are you in a guild?yes Are these beneficial? sure...

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On a scale of 1-10, with 1 being not bothersome, and 10 as something that annoys you intensely, rate the following:

(10 ) the white-secondary-color bug
( 1) Lack of new schematics
( 10) Lack of schematics of items that exist in game
(5 ) Tell hell
( 999) The upcoming vendor limits
(10 ) The lack of a feature that would make you invisible on friends lists
(1 ) The male clothing selection
(0 ) The outfits are too revealing
( 1) Lack of classic Star Wars garb – such as hood-up Obi Wan cloak
( 10) Headgear choices
( 10) Leather palette limitations
(10 ) Necklace bug
(1 ) Corellian house design
(1 ) Merchant tent size
(10 ) Lack of lighting options
(10 ) Inability to customize vendors
(10 ) The display “model” is always female –both in the vendor and on the walls
(10 ) Items which have restrictions do not have warning labels (i.e. female-only)
(1 ) Sockets on backpacks non-functional
( 10) Certain gloves don’t work with jackets
(5 ) Dresses can’t be worn with cloaks or jackets
(10 ) There are no tank tops
(1 ) Non-socketing of certain items
(1 ) Crit fails entirely too often
(10 ) BE crated tissues in the same slot don’t stack
(10 ) Lack of reinforced fiber panels in most items and no item with 2 rfp slots
(1 ) Limited wookiee clothing colors and selection
(1 ) Limited wookiee options for reinforced fiber panels
(10 ) Male twi’lek underpants head
(999 ) Female twi’lek twitch with certain headdresses
(1 ) Customer elitism – only dealing with masters for non-master items or components
(10 ) Holo grinding
(1 ) The increased bazaar limit
(1 ) Undercutting the market
(10) Footwear selection
(1 ) No after-the-fact colorization
(1 ) The fact that sometimes colors are in 2 columns and sometimes in 3, depending on the item, no matter how you tweak the crafting window
(10 ) No grid or numbering system for the colors
(1 ) Pressure to grind through the profession
(1 ) Training other tailors
(10 Customers who can’t follow instructions, such as “send me an e-mail”
(10 ) Stalkers who don’t understand that you’re busy!
(1 ) People who ask for free clothes
(1 ) People who want you to travel
(1 ) Decay
(1 ) Lack of respect by players who live in armor

Feel free to add to this list!

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Message Edited by Sunikka on 02-12-2004 12:49 PM

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NJ62 wrote:

Tailoring Poll

I thought it would be interesting to see the business practices and thoughts of the posters on this forum:

1) What level tailor are you
master

2) How long have you been a tailor?
since early days, august probably I think...

3) What made you decide to be a tailor?
I liked the idea of designing whole "looks"

4) What keeps you interested in being a tailor?
I still love putting together any outfit I like at any time

5) Have you ever quit tailoring for a while, or are you thinking about quitting? If so, why?
I've been kinda burnt out for a while, I stopped doing cutom orders at all, all I do now is keep my vendor stocked. I've been thinking about quiting for a while now for a number of reasons. #1 is the lack of new tailor content, you can only make the same shirt/pants/boots/gloves/jacket outfits so many times before it gets old. #2 I think may be the low profits. I know some of you make good money but it's still nowhere near what an armorsmith or weaponsmith can pull in. I want enough money to be able to buy what I want when I want any time. (skill tapes, pvp armor, ect)

6) Do you do custom orders, vendor sales or both? Which do you prefer?
I used to not mind custom oerders... but now I find they just take up too much time. Too many people have no clue and need to be lead through the whole process, which slows everything down a lot. I much prefer my vendor now, I keep it well stocked and people can come and find what they want.

7) How do you normally handle custom orders? E-mail? Distribution by custom order backpack? In person, on the spot?
When I was still doing custom orders I ususally did them face to face. E-mail worked if the person knows what they want generally, but face to face is always better.

8) Do you buy resources or do your own mining?
Mine my own. (usually, sometimes if I'm short I'll buy the 16k of fiberplast for a synth run)

9) If you have a vendor, where is it located? Player city? Mall? Style of house?
My vendors are located in my shop all on it's lonesome west of kor vella. No city's, few other players, just the way I like it. It's the medium generic style (I think), with 1 big room, then a little round room, then another big room, then another little round room.

10) Do you own your own vendor or contract with a merchant?
master merchant, own my own vendors.

11) How many vendors do you have? How do you organize the clothes?
2 clothing vendors, Normal clothing and a Wookiee vendor. I used to have a seperate BE vendor when I still did BE clothing.

12) How many items do you keep on your vendor?
my main vendor has 850 items or so... might be up to 900+ now.

13) Do you specialize in certain types of clothes? Certain colors?
nope, I stock EVERYTHING

14) How do you name your clothes? With your name on it? Color?
I leave the clothing article name untouched, and then on the end put the colors in brackets, and then on the veyr end I include my makers mark "sv"

15) Do you do bioengineered clothing? Do you deal with multiple bioengineers?
I used to, but I lost my BE tissue dealer and it became more hassle then it was worth trying to find a new supply.

16) How do you deal with bioengineered clothing? Custom orders? Vendor sales? Which “stock items” sell out?
I no longer deal in BE clothing. But when I did I had a vendor with BE clothing,I stocked 1 basic shirt type in black in the different types of enhancements (melee/stun, maskscent, intim/warcry, bleed), 1 basic pants in black, 1 basic jacket in black, and 1 basic bandoleer. I did doc BE and entertainer BE by custom order.

17) Compared to others on your server, are your prices low, high, or mid-level?
Mid to high.

18) Do you use the bazaar ever?
off and on. I can't stand the bazaar because of the lag and bugs, but if I'm passing through I'll stock it with 25 items each with a blurb describing my shop.

19) How do you advertise your shop?
occasionally bazaar items with info blurbs. And I have my vendors registered.

20) How do you perceive your workload?
mid to high. too much work I'm finding.

21) Is there too little competition? Too much?
I don't really pay attention to other tailors, so I'd guess the competition is just fine.

22) Have you limited your customer base? If so, how?
I limited my customer base by putting my shop away from most people. West of kor vella isn't really that far from civilization, but it sure does cut down on traffic to not by near coronet.

23) What is your returns policy?
if someone e-mails or messages me explaining they bought the wrong item, or it doesn't look good now that they've tried it on, then I'm happy to take returns. If someone just offeres some clothing to one of my vendors I ignore it.

24) What is your discount policy?
I don't generally grant discounts.

25) Do you take large custom orders? If so, what is the pricing?
I've never been aproached for a large custom order, but if I ever was I think I'd offer a 15-20% discount.

26) Do you take rush jobs? If so, what is the pricing?
I wouldn't take a rush job, to be honest I don't keep enough components stocked most of the time to fullfill large custom orders in a rush.

27) Are you “off duty” at specified times?
I'm always off duty now. no longer accept custom orders.

28) If you’re not taking orders from the general public, do you make exceptions for friends/guildmates?
oh definately. I still love playing dress up with all the pretty clothing , and I like helping out friends.

29) Do you take orders “on the fly” at starports?
if I have the time sure.

30) When do you put your tailor tag up?
never

31) What other professions do you have with your tailor character? Why did you pick this particular combo?
Master Artisan... kinda useless to be honest, keeping it for nostalgia so far. Master Merchant, I like the benifits you get from merchant, tho they certainly arn't worth the skill points, and I'll be dropping bits of merchant for armorsmith. Expert Armorsmith 4,2,0,4 I want to make oodles of cash! oodles! grinding it slowly but steadily.

32) Do you have an alt? Same server or different server? Which profession(s)?
yep, same server. My combat character, right now he's CM/Pistoleer. dropping pistoleer soon I think and gonna go carbineer.

33) What do you consider to be your primary profession (including alts)? Is your tailor your main?
yes my tailor is my main.

34) How much of your time is spent tailoring or otherwise dealing with tailoring business (as opposed to doing other activities with your tailor character or an alt).
a lot of my time is taken up with tailoring. But I'd say most of my time these days is split between armorsmith and my combat alt.

35) Do you take part in the GCW with your tailor character?
good lord no... tho I have toyed with the idea of putting a minefield up in front of my shop

36) Do you live in a player city? Are you in a guild? Are these beneficial?
nope, and nope. I'm not in a city mostly cause I don't want a lot traffic at my shop, plus I couldn't be bothered to move my 800+ item vendor. And I've avoided joining a guild cause mostly I've found in mmporgs that crafters get a lot less from a guild then they contribute.

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On a scale of 1-10, with 1 being not bothersome, and 10 as something that annoys you intensely, rate the following:

(7 the white-secondary-color bug
( 10+ ) Lack of new schematics
( 10 ) Lack of schematics of items that exist in game
(3 ) Tell hell
( 10 ) The upcoming vendor limits
(3 ) The lack of a feature that would make you invisible on friends lists
(6 ) The male clothing selection
(1 ) The outfits are too revealing
(10 ) Lack of classic Star Wars garb – such as hood-up Obi Wan cloak
(8 ) Headgear choices
(9 ) Leather palette limitations
(7 ) Necklace bug
(1 ) Corellian house design
(8 ) Merchant tent size
(8 ) Lack of lighting options
(10 ) Inability to customize vendors
(4 ) The display “model” is always female –both in the vendor and on the walls
(8 ) Items which have restrictions do not have warning labels (i.e. female-only)
(5 ) Sockets on backpacks non-functional
(7 ) Certain gloves don’t work with jackets
(8 ) Dresses can’t be worn with cloaks or jackets
(3 ) There are no tank tops
(3 ) Non-socketing of certain items
(1 ) Crit fails entirely too often
(8 ) BE crated tissues in the same slot don’t stack
(10 ) Lack of reinforced fiber panels in most items and no item with 2 rfp slots
(8 ) Limited wookiee clothing colors and selection
(8 ) Limited wookiee options for reinforced fiber panels
(4 ) Male twi’lek underpants head
(4 ) Female twi’lek twitch with certain headdresses
(5 ) Customer elitism – only dealing with masters for non-master items or components
(10 ) Holo grinding
(5 ) The increased bazaar limit
(2 ) Undercutting the market
(7 ) Footwear selection
(4 ) No after-the-fact colorization
(7 ) The fact that sometimes colors are in 2 columns and sometimes in 3, depending on the item, no matter how you tweak the crafting window
(9 ) No grid or numbering system for the colors
(8 ) Pressure to grind through the profession
(1 ) Training other tailors
(5 ) Customers who can’t follow instructions, such as “send me an e-mail”
(5 ) Stalkers who don’t understand that you’re busy!
(8 ) People who ask for free clothes
(8 ) People who want you to travel
(3 ) Decay
(3 ) Lack of respect by players who live in armor

Feel free to add to this list!

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