Tailor Archive
Thread: Do tailors have a good income?
however it is a slow proccess, and really there are many times that you know you are doing it out of enjoyment and not for money. If money is your main concern i would reccomend a different proffession, however if you enjoy making clothes, put in a lot of time and effort you can end up more than rich eventually
Indeed, I didnt become Tailor to get rich as it were, though I do like having money I became a Tailor because I *love* making my own clothes. I like to have tons of different outfits and it was getting hard on mu budget but my Tailor at the time was probably making some nice credits off me
Most of my money comes from resource sales which has been mentioned and I have a very successful collectible vendor (shameless plug: -1367 -4518 Naboo, BHSS city) Its mainly my collectible vendor that provides me with the funds to stock up on the limited schematics and components
My advice to making money off Tailor has already been stated here, use the bazaar, use the bazaar, use the bazaar Tho Its usually full of resources from me, when I do put clothes up, they sell quickly especially because I list them in Theed and Coronet which as we all know has cantinas packed like sardines.
There is also the Merchant Tent, My shop is not in a prime location but I have a nice enough customer base that I wouldnt consider moving. I am thinking of setting up a Merchant Tent in a high profile area and that may be something youd like to try as well.
Advertise =) I dont anymore, but every time I ran through a city, I'd shout a blurb about my shop and its contents, *ONCE*. I personally hate the afk spammers who every theirty seconds repeat the same blurb and they immediately get added to my ignore list so spamming is not good advertising in my opinion. However and this may just be me, If I see someone shout about their shop but not spam, I am more likely to write down that waypoint and go check it out.If I like the place it becomes a permanent wp in my datapad =)
Customer Service - Whenever someone buys my item off the bazaar, I send them a single mail thanking them and describing my shop, inviting them to browse if theyre interested. I get a lot of business this way and many of my repeat customers will refer other people to me, etc.
Basically, if youre just in it to make money, people are right, its tough, BUT, if you become a Tailor because you love the profession and enjoy what you do even on slow days, this attitude reflects in your dealings with people and can lead to great business =)
I have about 30 million credits in the bank right now. However, I have been playing since release so it's not a get rich quick type of deal. Most of the money I make is actually from weddings. I don't charge much for my weddings but normally players end up tipping me from 1 to 5 million credits for the wedding. I also made quite a bit from selling vehicles when they first came out and from selling the aprons (800k each).
I wanted to add in that right now I am burned out from tailoring and took a long break (2 weeks) off. I still feel burned out but it's slowly going away. Having alot of credits in the bank sometimes makes you lazy 
Message Edited by Akaara on 04-15-2004 05:01 AM
My cash flow usually sits at around the 5mill mark and lately i've become a little lazy with my tailoring skillsso yes it is possible.. However, most of my money comes from selling moderate ammounts of high qualityresources 
, then bio-clothing, then regular clothing, then speical loot items.
Planning a business strategy is very important if you want to make goodmoney from tailoring. The most i've made in a day through vendor sales of normal clothing is around 90k, i'm sure better tailors thanme make a lot more than this. If you're going for vendor sales thenlocation is very important as people don't tend togo shopping just for clothing, it's more of an "oh I'll go check out that tailor's vendorsafter I govisit that weaponsmith's tent", so I have my vendors intwo of the most popular 'shopping'cities on my server and each clothing vendor is always stocked with 200+ items, (understocked vendors annoy mesoooo muchwhen i go shopping). Another thing you can do is place clothes on the bazaar for cheap with your name plastered all over it, I've gotten requests to make guild uniforms this way, and I used to email every customer the waypoints to my vendors andthank them. But like I said I've gotten lazy
Bio-Clothing can be veryprofitable,but shopping for tissueshas always beenan issue for me as I think it's more profitable for BE's to supply med and chef components.
Since you have master rifleman you should have no problem soloing nightsisters to get the looted heavy leather/clasps. I went out with a buddy the last two night and we got 9 identical clasps and 2 identical leather, as well as someother very very nice NS loot,if you amassan excessof the clasps/leatheryou could probably make a nice profit on them if they're in-demand on your server.
ViolentMoodswing wrote:
So, back then I would do insane things to make money like invent cool names for items and sell them for outrageous prices on the bazaar, such as making a white with red stripe admin. robe and renaming it Doctor's Robe and getting more money for it
.. I'd sell smocks like crazy by renaming them "ninja outfits".. make black ones with red belts and itbecame "Evil Ninja Outfit".. white ones with blackbelts were "Elite blackbelt Ninja Outfits".. the Administrator robes I'd do black and White and hey presto "Witches Robe"... Desert Command Jackets would sell like crazy too lol...Actually, I might spendthe week stocking the bazaar again lol Realistically though, unless you deal in BE clothing, the majority of the clothing is for dancers/social events and will not decay. Ah well, it's on the list.
all you need is make tons of BE clothes. That means you need starting money to get the tissues 