Tailor Archive
Thread: ANYONE ELSE HAVING THE PROBLEM OF OTHER TAILORS BUYING UP THEIR INVENTORY FOR RESALE?
Recently had 1 person, obviously a new merchant, start cleaning out my vendors. Now, I do want to sell at the prices posted, but I try to keep my prices fairly low & reasonable so everyone can afford them (and since my server has seen an upswing of new players, I'd like them to afford some nice things), as well as keep my regular customers coming back. Ibanned her from the vendor house andsent her a tell that if shewanted to stock a clothing vendor without doing any of the work herself, or if she's outfitting a guild, to please offer me a business arrangement for me to produce items for her. Of course she ignored me. I was also in the process of moving the vendor house from 1planet to another. That took me a whole afternoon. After it was done & the new one set up, I logged for 2 hours. When I came back on, I had vendor sale email one after another, and guess what? Yes, same person trying to cleanme out again. Once again she was banned and was sent an email this time stating to please not clean me out,my reasons why,and to consider making an arrangement with me to produce for her. No answer (what a shock).
I told a few people about this person, and low and behold got the 1)why did you ban her? she's buying what you're selling or 2) Hey! She did that to me too! responses. I explained to the first set of responses that I don't believe she needs over 400 items of clothing to change into, including 22 pair of identical uniform boots ... it's fairly obvious what she was doing and stocking her own vendors at my expense, not to mention I seldommass factory produce items and hand craftapprox 95% of my stock (exception being things like some boots, gloves, or the cloaks). It's also a matter of pride that I don't overcharge for my clothing, and that I enjoy people looking good and rp'ing through the clothing they wear. I explained to the second set of responses what I had done and they said they would do the same. To date not one of them got an answer from her.
So the long and the short of it is, even though we are selling items and should technically not complain about a huge lot of sales, it's still a real tick off to have to deal with players like the one I dealt with, and to have to start all over restocking vendors, and more of a tick off to not be able to restock our BE vendors at this time. All I can say, thankfully tailoring is a real hoot to me, and time to get crafting!
Cheers!
Sere
Whats the problem? You sold all your stock for the price you wanted, is their money not good enough for ya. However, I agree the standing in the mall spamming wasn't nice, but then business ain't. Just ban them from the shop if you don't like it, then the city.
I've had 2 run ins with to people selling BHer droids moaning 'cause I've brought all their stock to resell it. Thats all I did. I didn't stand outside or inside their shop and spam. If you don't like that, don't have vendors. Your selling the stock for the price you asked, so there should be no problem. The "oh but i don't want to have to keep restocking my vendors or having to craft several sets of boots each week" argument is just poor. If thats the case, don't have a vendor and don't craft.
Its the name of the merchant game I'm affraid. The 2 people that I've run into have done well to stop me buying their stock. 1. One of the crafters has banned me from the shop, which wouldn't stop me as I'd just get loads of friends to buy the stock. 2. They've now named their stock including the price 
this near enough kills be able to resell it. So there ya go. Learn from those to.
But I say again. If you don't like people coming and clearing out your vendors. Don't use vendors and don't craft.
I myself, sell crates of Artisan foods at rock bottom prices on Gorath, in my shop and on the bazaar. I'm sure some people buy it to sell it on. Am I bothered? No. Why? 'cause I keep my vendors well stocked and they are buying them for the price I'm asking so we are both making money
'nough said.
StevieBUKDroidEngineer wrote:
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StevieBUKDroidEngineer wrote:
Whats the problem? You sold all your stock for the price you wanted, is their money not good enough for ya. However, I agree the standing in the mall spamming wasn't nice, but then business ain't. Just ban them from the shop if you don't like it, then the city.
I've had 2 run ins with to people selling BHer droids moaning 'cause I've brought all their stock to resell it. Thats all I did. I didn't stand outside or inside their shop and spam. If you don't like that, don't have vendors. Your selling the stock for the price you asked, so there should be no problem. The "oh but i don't want to have to keep restocking my vendors or having to craft several sets of boots each week" argument is just poor. If thats the case, don't have a vendor and don't craft.
Its the name of the merchant game I'm affraid. The 2 people that I've run into have done well to stop me buying their stock. 1. One of the crafters has banned me from the shop, which wouldn't stop me as I'd just get loads of friends to buy the stock. 2. They've now named their stock including the price
But I say again. If you don't like people coming and clearing out your vendors. Don't use vendors and don't craft.
I myself, sell crates of Artisan foods at rock bottom prices on Gorath, in my shop and on the bazaar. I'm sure some people buy it to sell it on. Am I bothered? No. Why? 'cause I keep my vendors well stocked and they are buying them for the price I'm asking so we are both making money
'nough said.
It's the name of the merchant game? Actually it's not, if you treat your fellow players with respect.
This is not real life, this is a game meant to be relaxing and enjoyed by the people playing. Obviously you're aware that you've negatively impacted the game play of at least two other players... you're even proudof being able to get around one of their solutions. Instead of using friends to enter the shop, why not show some decency and offer the person a contract?
I'm not sure why you feel the need to take advantage of someone on a video game, only you do. I certainly wouldn't be proud of that and post it on forums, though. Sad, sad.
I'd care. Which is why I no longer keep a vendor. I take special orders only, so that I can interact with the customer, set my price, and enjoy my proffession. When I need money I throw things on the bazaar, but my main purpose as a tailor is to enjoy myself. Staring numbly at a vendor doesn't do that for me. Pleasing customers does.
Vernellia Zizzenvica
DBGr Guild Tailor
This kinda sounds like standard business practices foran ever growing portionof real world companies nowadays...
I agree that I don't see what the CSRs could really do about this, as morally wacked as it is. The buyout of your stock for resale seems totally defendable to me, but spamming their vendor coords in your mall is pretty damn cutthroat.
wisp1422 wrote:
A guild mate had a problem with someone doing that to his chef vendor, he turned around and put his vendor location and how much it was on the item itself. Everytime you ate his food the message that flashed was : If you didnt buy this from (location) (for this much) you paid too much for it. That ended the person from clearing the vendor FAST! One option is to put the price of the item on the item itself and your vendor location and/or raise the prices. Have you tried emailing the person to ask them why they think they can wipe your vendor and re-sell the items? If you wanted to be really nasty find out where there vendor is and place a harvester in front of it directing other's to your shop? Placing a harvester down is not griefing as one CSR told me.