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Mastamind: Hey kana

Mastamind: hehehehe

Mastamind: can u make cloaks?

Kana: Hi... sure!

Mastamind: in black?

Kana: Yep! If we tailors didn't have black we'd be out of business!

Mastamind: hahas true ok how much?

Kana: 1980 credits

Mastamind: ok howz bouts no sockets then it's cheaper right?

Kana: I don't charge for sockets, they just happen, life's little miracles

Mastamind: well u sell cheaper quality cloak for same price that's a rip off

Mastamind: no offense

Kana: Well first of all, that is offensive and second I don't charge anything for sockets, which is not a rip off, it's my pricing grid.

Mastamind: well I'll go find some1 with better pricing grid then

Kana: good luck

Mastamind then /tells me that...

"another tailor charges 1.8k with 4 sockets lol haha wut up now?"

I reply that that my prices are what I have decided are reasonable and affordable... and that if he can't accept that I dont always have 4 sockets, he doesn't understand tailoring.

His reply? "No u homo I do u just bad at business."

Kana (another lovely day as a tailor)

(Insert Scream Here) I feel your pain.

people are idiots, dont let it get to you. if hes that poor that hes stressing over 180 credits and then go gloat about finding a better deal, then hes not worth your energy to even think about it. immature people need to grow up

OMG! I get that at least twice a week! Then I get other people who tell me I do not charge enough. I had a guy come in the other day and tell me that he was there to find out my prices so that he could charge less too lolol. HUGS shrug it off and know we understand .

Trulee of Tyrena Corellia (kettemoor)

/nods solemnly

At least once a day.

Yeah, I get stuff like this all the time. I hate when people ask me for stuff with sockets, as if I had some sort of control over it. Bleah.

Haha, send that guy to me next time, my cloaks are 3k. With sockets or without. I've had a couple of folks say that's too high, but I usually sell about 4 or 5 of them a day just on the bazaar. I know it's frustrating when customers give you a hard time about prices. But I usually think that the kind of customers who'd be jerks to you over pricing aren't the kind of people I want to spend my time working with anyway.

I must admit: when people ask me for garments with sockets in them, I do charge them extra per socket achieved. I do this purely to discourage them from doing it again in the future, for the very reason that Jyron mentioned.. *coughs*

lol yep, happens all the time. I explain it that I do not charge EXTRA when it comes out with sockets, not that I am cheaper if it doesnt. which is true. once they start name calling, they reach that lovely thing called /adignore

Well, my pricing scheme DOES include sockets - but it's also setup to add additional charges on bio bonuses as well - sockets are the smallest part of it.

My general answer to questions about pricing is that's just what they are. The surest way to NOT get any kind of discount is tell a craftsman they are wrong, stupid or trying to make them somehow feel guilty because YOU are poor. Some folks just don't get it. I've been lucky - only had one customer so far cross the line and think he could get a better price by argueing and bullying me, hahaha - I don't intimidate very well and I'm quite confident in my pricing scheme.

I made a fatal mistake of doing a tradein the other day. Customer had purchased a lot from me, I thought she was trading in my own work - till I saw it and it was someone elses. Ok, my bad - I'll deal, but then she starts telling OTHER people I do this. That wasn't fun trying to explain no - I made an exception for YOU, please don't tell other folks I have a revolving door on my sales.

Sorry - my sales floor isn't your personal closet.

when someone askes me specificly for sockets, i always tell them that sockets are random. however, if they're ordering a tailor item (as oppose to DA), there's a good chance they the item will come out with 3-4 sockets. if they want 4 sockets on a popular item (say a black shirt), i would charge them regular price and put the other attempts on vendor. else (if they want something completely random, like a crested vest) i tell them i don't guarantee sockets. if they want to pay me for extra attempts that's fine, but what am i gonna do with 5 crested vests?

as for people critizing prices... most people who've read my posts knows how i feel about that let them go, these people aren't worth your time (i just feel sorry for the other tailor... unless they're mean also)

welcome to the club

i have yet to run into this kind of customer on eclipse which is pretty impressive considering how busy that server is (when its not down haha)

however the clue to how they behave is in their name and i know what to expect

Actually, I can't say anyone has ever mentioned sockets to me *shrug* I'm at tailor 3 now, so usually get 2-3 sockets on average, but nobody has ever hassled me over them one way or the other (demanding them, or wanting a discount from lack of them).

That guy was rude, but sockets do have some value, so I dunno. I think if someone bemoaned the lack of sockets on something I made I would probably be inclined to either remake it until I got 2-3 sockets, or offer a discount, and give them the choice. But someone wanting something without sockets and then discounted? pffft, no way. It's a lot harder for me (fortunately) to make something without sockets than with.

I tell you, I've read all these horror stories on this board about "problem customers" and maybe I've just been blessed. 99% of the customers I've dealt with have been awesome.