Tailor Archive
Thread: *hides out in the Tailor forums*
I currently manage a 2000+ item vendor and I'm pretty sane....don't know how I do it though! LoL
As for necklaces, I'm currently in the process of making one of each, choosing 2 very different colours, dropping them in my boutique then examining them. Because they now show up in the examine window I can screenshot them, print out the pictures and have them to hand when I make necklaces in future 
Kel
but nothing wrong with a touch of insanity here and there. (if you want insane i also run a 1000+ item furniture vendor, BE creatures vendor, and a few armour vendors)
Vendor max limit. /cry Yeah, I've been keeping my stock hovering around 2k in anticipation of that limit. It's coming soon and I really wish they'd tell us what the limits are going to be so we could plan ahead. Only thing they've tentatively promised is that stock currently on the vendors that goes over the limit will not be deleted. But you won't be able to restock again until the stock rolls over or sells to meet the new limit. /sigh Which will mean manually pulling off everything that doesn't sell like hot cakes or you could end up waiting a long time before the stock reduces. And all that variety stuff and mix and match color sets so anyone can easily put together an outfit... gone. Back to doing tons of custom orders for anything not in basic black.
Even with Master merchant, I fear it's going to be rough. The day that patch goes in will be known as Tailor Insanity Day.
Heh, as for keeping sanity? I lost mine last week. Over a little thing, but a last straw thing. I took a week off from tailoring, sent a plea for mercy to mywell-intentioned but a bit too overdemanding guild,and played only my combat char and my MID char. I didn't actually flip my lid over compulsive vendor stocking; I lost it over the deluge of custom orders that people wanted made right now, drop whatever you are doing, you aren't doing anything anyway, right? and oh yeah, deliver it too. /scream
I killed hundreds of beasties, collected tons of POI badges (many places I've never seen on any char and I've been playing since Beta!), annoyed tons of people in Bestine playing with the holoemotes and my rainbow Mohawk (different color every time I ran past the starport), played "Roar! I'm scary!" with a Trandoshan who was in love with his new ridges - I called him Ruffles - tore up two perfectly good non-CH pets and am halfway to Novice Fencer on one char and halfway to Master Marksman on the other...
And bathed in blood and glory, I returned to my crafter char calm, cool and collected. And what did I do my first day back? Restocked the vendor. Heh. 
Qitu
When I moved to TC I decided it was a good time to rethink my business model. I used to keep about 1200 items in stock, and that was just about perfect - the way I knew it was perfect was that I'd direct someone to my vendor, and I'd never hear a peep again. It anticipated all sorts of custom orders.
But the reality of it was that I did the same amount of business with 500 items. The 1200 item vendor was mostly to appease my guildmates who hated to put in custom orders, so I made all sorts of different colors and styles for them, because they had already bought all the staples.
I have a guide on vendor stocking. You can't resist the power of the clicky.
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