Tailor Archive

Nuber one reason for a shop --- displays. I have easily 15 - 20 displays in my shop. This hands downs keeps my shop overflowing with customers. People can come in anytime of day or night and see various outfits and get an idea of what they wish to purchase. Now due to the 250 item limit, I cant keep my vendor stocked, so most of my orders are in store custom fittings. That is the joy of the business to me. I as a tailor am not Kmart, I like to do custom fittings. I like having the customer try on a few differnt colors to get the right one. I do not sell my items cheap - I do not mass produce.

A medium Naboo House allows me the freedom of a tailor shop. The main ciruclar room is the perfect show room. The left side room is my custom fitting room. In there i have a crafting machine a couple of chairs and my Special Order vendor that i put the items i just made for the cutomer (prevents someone from snapping it up before the buyer gets it).

If your a sweat shop type tailor then the bazaar might be for you. If your a true custom tailor, then a shop is the only way to go.

Omek's Custom Tailoring

Moenia, Naboo just north of the city

4860, -4044


Wanderhome

IMO, a better (and time-tested in real life) way is to make the prices on bazaar 1 credit less than in your store - 499 instead of 500, for example.) Achieves the same objective, while taking advantage of the irrational-but-true fact that people are significantly more likely to buy something priced at $1.99 than $2.00.

Why is it irrational to buy something for less money?

I just opened my shop recently, and I've noticed the displays in other shops. How do you set one of those up? Do you need to buy some kind of display dummy from someone or what?

Just stand where you want and drop all the items without moving. Then you can rotate them so they look good.

Buying something for less money isn't irrational, but what *is* irrational is implicitly valuing a one cent discount at far more than a penny. If you were running a real-life produce store, for instance, and lowered all your prices 1 cent, you'd see a much bigger spike in apple sales when the price was reduced from $1.00 to $0.99 than you would in orange sales when the price was reduced from $1.15 to $1.14. Basically, because that first digit changes, a lot of people act almost as if the price reduction was a dollar, not a penny.

Doh! Of course it was something simple that I didn't even try.

Hehe, it's the gasoline principle...why the heck do you think they list gas at 1.299 per gallon instead of 1.30?

the BEST part of owning a shop is that you can display clothes. Put out a few good setups of your best combat gear, casual wear, formal wear, and people will ask you to make it for them. Wookiee's like to see their stuff also, don't forget the walking carpets.

It's much nicer to show people what a dress looks like than them asking for it, and then they say they don't like it.

Also you can charge more, as stated above, and it puts a good name out for you. You can also show off your cool colors, and floating clothes just look neat.