Tailor Archive
Thread: Tailors need to unite and charge more
/agree but people are free to change what they want. If you were to search through the messages in this forum over the last few months you'd see a message very much like this one every few weeks. It's kind of something we just have to live with.
The change to Jedi (no more holo grinders) will help, but this has always been an issue as long as there have been tailors willing to charge little or nothing for their time.
The other night a guy asked me about a robe of honor. I told him I'd be happy to make him one for 12k, he bitched at me, so now he's on ignore. No biggie.
The increase in bazar pricing to 6k may make this issue moot anyway, since we're likely to see a whole new level of undercutting, and you won't even need a vendor to do it.
Honestly though, the one encouraging thing that I can say is that the master level items only make up a real small percentage of sales anyway. They are way overrated in that regard. I would venture to say that none of the master level items would break into my top 20 sellers either on an volume basis or on a revenue basis, so in reality I'm probably more likely to get upset at a tailor who charges 250 for a muscle shirt than I am for a tailor who charges 5k for a leotard.
My comment:
1. First you dont identify a rock-bottom price, and without that being identified its hard to even understand the depth of the problem, let alone a possible course of action.
Bluude wrote:look at what armorsmiths and weaponsmiths charge for their master items.
Well, as any fighter will tell you, they need the best weapons and armor. They don't "need" clothes. If I'm not mistaken, Master armor & weapons need quality and/or rare resources. I'm not defending anyone here, just getting the facts out.
We can use any quality materials we want, it all comes out the same. How many Tailor items do you actually sell that need specific and/or hard to find resources? Aside from enhanced clothing?
You can bet if I had to scour the galaxy to make a quality exotic leotard, I'd be charging more than 10k for it.
Oh no! Ugh! Not this argument again 
Look, for most classes, their challenge is in their harvesting. For tailors, our challenge is in coming up with something aestheticly pleasing. One is not more difficult than the other.
Guns are necessary to complete missions, PVP, GCW, and other aspects of the game.Clothing is necessary for immersion, roleplay, and in the development of a character persona. Also as luxury items/status symbols. Neither are more or less "necessary" than the other.
And I'm *really* surprised that a tailor would not understand this and use this as justification for charging less.
I'm happy to say that my customers pay more for an exotic leotard (obviously with no biotissues)than I've ever paid for a gun, lol. Take that weaponsmiths!
Dex1138 wrote:
Well, as any fighter will tell you, they need the best weapons and armor. They don't "need" clothes. If I'm not mistaken, Master armor & weapons need quality and/or rare resources. I'm not defending anyone here, just getting the facts out.
We can use any quality materials we want, it all comes out the same. How many Tailor items do you actually sell that need specific and/or hard to find resources? Aside from enhanced clothing?
You can bet if I had to scour the galaxy to make a quality exotic leotard, I'd be charging more than 10k for it.
Well, as any fighter will tell you, they need the best weapons and armor. They don't "need" clothes.
Yeah I am on Bria as well. so maybe it is just us.
I am the ghost master tailor out in ghosttown. So I am quite busy. 
I do sell discount uniform stuff to guild members but I try to charge the going rates for everything else.
We do give away free enhanced stuff to guild members, but that is a perk for joining and I get free tissues for that. Plus it is only one uniform per member so it doesn't ruin the market or anything. in fact all of it says Ghost somewhere in the title so i can see if anybody is trying to resell it on the bazzars after we give it to them.
Hey bluude, just wanted to say hi and to stick in there!!! If you make a pleasing product, with good customer service, and good communication and turn-around on custom orders, people will be more likely to stick with you, even if they can get it cheaper somewhere else. And knowing you, I'd say you more than likely have all those qualities!! Just keep up the good work and people will notice!!! As a tailor since day one i've had my up and down periods as well, but I've found that alot of the time when you get people who complain, if you stick to your guns, more often than not they will be back anyways!! And I can relate, I sell robes of honor for 12k, and I had someone who said he'd give me 5k for it. I just said my prices are not up for negotiation, either you pay or go somewhere else. I think he thought that if he walked I would suddenly change my mind....guess what....I didn't.
I miss you buying out all my stock lol!! Best of luck to you sir!!! I'm sure you will succeed, you are in a busy town!!!
It is based on an old prototype I asked you to make for me once a long time ago. I think I still got the origional in my bank actually. I know that on Wanderhome, I'm one of the cheaper tailors around. Sometimes I feel bad about this. Normally I don't. Why?
Because I calculated what it costs for me to get my resources, including harvesters for fiberplast and polymer, a fusion generator to keep my big harvesters going, the credits to run the harvesters, and the things I buy in smaller quantities as I don't need as much, and I factored in what it cost to grind my way up, and training. I also run two stores, so I factor in that amount, as well.
What have I discovered? I charge 10 cpu for what it takes to go into an item, with 20 cpu for specific resources (like tatooine wooly hide, etc), and slightly more for each component if it requires identical components from a factory crate. And you know what? In the end, as I am a career tailor and such things will even out, I'm STILL making a rather hefty profit, even though my most expensive non-enhanced item is 4440 creds retail. And sometimes I feel bad that I'm overcharging my customers.
I could probably double my prices and still be the cheapest tailor on Wanderhome. *shrug*
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