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Thread: Tailor Price Guides
What I have found saves you the most headaches (especially when re-stocking at the end of the month out of the stockroom) is to price everything, or almost everything, the same.
Personally, I do 1000 credits for most items, 3000 for the things that take a lot of cloths/subcomponents, and 500 for jewellery. Then charge double that (on a separate vendor) for 4-sockets.
My prices are a bit low, but you get the general idea... It's often a lot easier to find an average price and charge that for everything, rather than looking up the price of every single item. It's easier for the customer as well, because they know your prices after they have been to your shop once, and would probably rather go back to a place where they know exactly what they will be paying (assuming your prices are reasonable and the shop is well-stocked) than take a gamble and go somewhere else.
I started out pricing by cpu on each item but it drove me insane and I closed down my shop. I find this method MUCH easier.Message Edited by Liakhara on 09-25-2005 08:27 AM
Liakhara wrote:Personally, I do 1000 credits for most items, 3000 for the things that take a lot of cloths/subcomponents, and 500 for jewellery. Then charge double that (on a separate vendor) for 4-sockets.
I tend to do the same thing. However, I try to get customers to sit for private sessions and come up with complete outfits for them ... items on my vendors are just hooks for me to contact them or them to contact me. Even if I mark my prices up 100% for what they buy, I find they tip me tens of thousands of credits more than what I ask almost every time.
Sure, it may be difficult to get those sorts of prices off a vendor, but happy customers are always willing to part with more credits than I ask of them
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btw thanks for posting it I'm not sure if I said thankyou before, been a bit busy in RL.But when looking at it is it stating a credt per unit? so an Emerald Necklace for example would be 135? and I just divide by 10 percent? I mean how is it used exactly
Thanks again btw.