Tailor Archive
Thread: What is the worst question you've ever been asked?
Pappi
Tue Feb 24, 2004 12:30 am
#27
hehe, i have plenty of horror stories... but this one comes to mind:
http://forums.station.sony.com/swg/board/message?board.id=tailor&message.id=10041&highlight=customer#M10041
FloridianJen
Tue Feb 24, 2004 1:40 am
#28
RandDarkstar wrote:I get the email saying 2500000 credits have been transfered. Looking closely... I see the email says 2.5 million.
I recheck my balance, and though I can't be sure whether 250k was deposited or not... I am darn sure that 2.5 million was NOT. So I proceed to /report and /addignore him, after warning him that his actions have been reported to the csrs.
I had a girl do this to me before. I was going through me email first thing when I logged in one day and noticed getting a bank tip email saying that she tipped me 1 Million credits. I look at the amount of credits that I had and I ALWAYS know how much I have on me, it wasn't there at all....I would definetly know if I were given an extra million into my account.
I saw her log on later that day and asked her about it - she said that it was something that she typed up because she thought that it would be a funny joke. I don't even really know her and she thought I would think it was funny...bah! Stupid girl should know to never joke about credits like that. I should've reported her, oh well, she's on my /ignore.
You know I honestly thought someone tipped me a million credits because they liked my services
Killer-Spork
Tue Feb 24, 2004 6:02 pm
#29
"Do you make those dark jedi robes?"
/slaphead
/laughatnoob
MoraninGlory
Tue Feb 24, 2004 6:51 pm
#30
Last night in the Coronet cantina, I got a "i'm playing for two days, you need to help me" along with a group invite and a "where will we go hunt" after that. I'm not quite sure how or why he thought a master tailor was a good hunting buddy but it was rather amusing.
The worst tailoring /tells I've gotten are variants on the "I want to look like Han Solo in [insert vague movie scene reference]" or even worse the "I want the outfit Amidala wore on Naboo."
Karmalina
Wed Feb 25, 2004 10:11 am
#31
Pappi wrote:
hehe, i have plenty of horror stories... but this one comes to mind:
http://forums.station.sony.com/swg/board/message?board.id=tailor&message.id=10041&highlight=customer#M10041
That guy was a hoot. And when i stopped taking orders for a while he went to my husband and asked HIM to get me to make BE clothes =D *Groan*
MisTSnow
Wed Feb 25, 2004 10:46 am
#32
Them: "Ok, make me some boots and gloves, BE'd"
Me: "Sorry, can't put BE tissues into boots and gloves"
Them: "Why not??"
I just wanna say...because I decided that you are the one whose day I want to ruin.
I hate the long 20 minute conversations....
"Can you make me {insert whatever clothing type} with {always the wrong type of tissue for the clothing type} Be tissue in it."
But, I still love my profession!!
Mis T-Snow - Master BE
Satavia - Master Tailor
Me: "Sorry, can't put BE tissues into boots and gloves"
Them: "Why not??"
I just wanna say...because I decided that you are the one whose day I want to ruin.
I hate the long 20 minute conversations....
"Can you make me {insert whatever clothing type} with {always the wrong type of tissue for the clothing type} Be tissue in it."
But, I still love my profession!!
Mis T-Snow - Master BE
Satavia - Master Tailor
ImpSlave
Wed Feb 25, 2004 10:54 am
#33
Not so much the worst question, but definately the weirdest -
I'm crafting in my workshop, so I had about four windows open. Over the edge of one of them, I see someone's head. As I begin shrinking the windows to greet someone I thought was a possible customer, I see in spatial: [random guy] proposes unity to you.
He was dressed in newbie clothes and had the Prince Valiant haircut. I turned down his proposal, but offered to make him less newbie-looking 
So, he didn't get a wife, but he did get a nice outfit and better hair.
So, he didn't get a wife, but he did get a nice outfit and better hair.
g0nzo
Wed Feb 25, 2004 11:00 am
#34
When i was working on dancer (pre-hologrinder days) I had a guy say, 'since you're a tailor, you have a lot of money, right?' I corrected him of that notion, but he still thought i had a lot. then he kept asking me to marry him, but said we would get a divorce right away, and he would take half my money.
LOL
mtwtfss71
Wed Feb 25, 2004 11:31 am
#35
It definitely has to be the customer who sat down in my crafting chair (in front of my station in my home) and said, "You're the expert. Make me something I will love Pela Master Tailor Mos Envah
Syzygy-Gorath
Wed Feb 25, 2004 11:50 am
#36
mtwtfss71 wrote:
It definitely has to be the customer who sat down in my crafting chair (in front of my station in my home) and said, "You're the expert. Make me something I will love Pela Master Tailor Mos Envah
I always respond to those sorts of requests the same way. "Pink hot pants are cool, you'll love them…here, let me make you some!" After that they're very quick to actually pick something for fear of what I'll make them look like if they don't.
g0nzo
Wed Feb 25, 2004 12:15 pm
#37
I always ask them how they feel about bright colors, and if they say 'whatever you think is cool', I then ask how they feel about skirts/shorts. If they STILL have no opinion, i randomly pick something i haven't made in a while (but i still like) and make it for them. Oddly enough, this has worked 2 out of 3 times. /shrug
(Still trying to get decorative dresses tobe the latest trendtho...no success so far. 
)
Milarella
Wed Feb 25, 2004 12:36 pm
#38
The other day, as I was standing at the shuttleport waiting on the next shuttle, a guy came up to me and was making small talk about this and that. I had my master tailor title up, and he asked me, "what does a tailor do?" lol. I told him we make clothes, and he replied that he had found a schematic that you have to be a master tailor to use, and asked me if I can make him the item. As the shuttle was just about to arrive, I explained that those schematics require loot drops and referred him to swgtailor.com.
Later the same day, I'm going through the Imperial theme park and get a tell from a guy I had seen in passing the whole time. He asked me if I could look at a schematic for him. I immediately reply back with "the lightweight backpack?", and he said yes. I asked him what he wanted to know and he asked if I can make it (mind you, I still have my master tailor tag up, he obviously searched for me by searching for a tailor, which would also show master, and the schematic says you only have to be novice tailor). I replied that I could, but that it takes heavy duty leather, and explained where he can get that. He was somewhat disappointed, but understood. Later, I get another tell from him asking how good a weapon schematic he had was.
Milarella
Wed Feb 25, 2004 12:48 pm
#39
Another pet peeve is when people ask me for items but don't know the name. This doesn't bother me the first 1 or 2 times they do it, but after I've repeatedly told them where they can look, and they keep doing it, then it gets really annoying.
In particular, I have a guildmate that's a super hard-core gamer. We met in DAoC, where he had 3 accounts (one for him and one for each of his kids, but he mainly just PLed his kids' toons and they rarely played). When part of our guild moved to SWG, he came along, and got 4 accounts (two supposedly for his kids but I have yet to actually see them play their toons in this game). He's mastered tons of professions (both the professions for his many alts and hologrinding). Every time he asks me for something, it's something like "I need the twi'lek headgear, the horned crest" or "I want that multi-colored jester's outfit everyone's wearing", always something along those lines. He knows the websites. He even promised me once he would go to one of them, as I had just posted it on our guild message board. He has several crafters, so he knows swgcraft.com very well. Whenever I try to tell him that an item he asks for doesn't exist, he always insists it does. I'll give him a list of the possible clothing items he's thinking of, and he will still insist that it's the first name he gave. I don't mind it from newer players, for example my RL friend who's not new to the game, but new to the server, and has never had a tailor at his beck and call before (he learns fast though, and has already started asking for things by name), or someone who's new to the game or foreign (or, like recently, both...lol). Heck, I've even answered questions in French before, to help them understand. But this one member...it drives me insane to no end.