Tailor Archive
Thread: What is the worst question you've ever been asked?
somehow we get the weirdest guys
Karmalina wrote:
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*
Well, I don't do many orders but when I do get one it usually goes something like this....
"Can you make me look Cool?"
AHHHHHHHH, NOOOOOO, please god no, I hate doing these ones, maybe the first few times but after that I just hate this.
most weird, strange ridiculous question i've been asked yet:
"xyz dropped me your name. can you come over to dantooine and repair my clothes?"
huh?
"yeah sweety, of course. i love to travel round the galaxy in order to sew the holes in your socks."
ha! this heap of irony will show him his sillyness!
"huh? i dont wear socks. i only wear botts. can you repair botts?"
argh...! darn. his dumpness Pwned my irony. what now?
"aye honey. 100k and i come along."
"okies"
okies? OKIES???
okay, now you know why i traveled this day to dantooine in order to repair some boots (smelly uniform boots), some camos and a undershirt. what a day...
greetz, tricia
Hi! Got a minute?
Him: Hi. Got a minute?
Me: (Not really, but...) Hello? Kinda busy but okay?
Okay, first off, the guy's name sorta seemed familiar when I got the tell, but hell if I can remember why it's familiar (I get a lotta tells like that. They talk like I should know who they are, where they are, what they look like and also everything they ever bought from me or ever told me. Umm yah uh huh. I am that good. I wish). He chats it up a bit, I finally tell him I am busy doing city business stuff (I was) and juggling a lot of other tells (people always assume they are your only tell, I dunno why) and I asked him to please email me his order and I would get to it soon. So he did that.
I get done juggling things and read his mail. It seemed simple enough, not too much stuff, and only a couple things that simply didn't exist, or not in the colors he wanted. It's clear he has little knowledge what styles are available or in what colors. Chat, chat, chat... He's too busy to come to my shop, too busy to go look for style ideas, names and colors by browsing my or any other tailor's vendors I suggest so...
So after a bit of discussion, I agree to go to Theed, where he is being busy at (partly to escape regulars who annoy me in my home city by stopping by just to chat, even after I tell them I am really, really busy right now) and because I did not want to go to his home planet to do this thing as well as waste who knows how much time getting the tour of his city. I was postponing things I had intended to do when I logged on to go take care of his order, but I wasn't prepared to give up my whole play session to it, so I was trying to accomodate both of us by hopping to Theed. Best laid plans and all...
I run about gathering my scattered hither and yon tailoring supplies, (I had moved my shop just the day before and was not unpacked again yet.) load up the droids with some crates and such, all the while still fielding tells from 8 people at once, one who had been MIA since before Xmas and happened to return just that hour and was being super "oh hi let's get all caught up!" chatty. Gah!
AND the repetitive "are you coming?" tells from the customer I was travelling to see.
So I get to Theed starport and wince as the spatial spam insults my eyes. I /t a request to meet and do this thing somewhere not so busy and spammed. Med center? Bah. We meet. He sends me a group invite. Hmm. Okay, whatever. I join. Still spam central there. It is Theed after all. So I drag an IM only window over to the corner and tab to the customer's group in the main so I can ignore spatial, etc.
Well into an hour spent on this now.
Get this: He begins the conversation by saying "Nice outift. It has that "I just had sex" look."
Me : *glare*
By now I am very irritated and wondering why I let myself be cajoled into doing this. I remain ever so polite though. (When I am super polite, that is when people should worry. Me, ever so polite, is the warning bell before the nuclear detonation.) So, I tell him (ever so politely) that a couple things on his list just aren't gonna happen. He wants a samurai look. (Check. Jedi. I cannot tell you how many times I have been asked for a Jedi, Samurai, Dojo, Matrix, Neo, Rambo, Arnold, etc., -- you get the picture -- kind of "look." Invariably "in black.") He says to just make something I think will look Samurai, based on his emailed list. "Surely you have some ideas?" he says. Oh yeah bud, I have some ideas. I have the idea this was a bad idea. Here is where he goes AFK the first time.
Hour two:
He gets back, finally. So I say to him that there are 4 skirts that might be what he'd like. So he says make all 4 so he can see. Grrr. So I say, what colors? Well glory be, he doesn't want all black or black and red, but what he does want... I'm thinking Uck! But okay. So I make him 4 different skirts all in one of his color combinations. I tell him I made only 4 in one color set so he can decide which skirt he does want, since he has no idea what any of them look like. Oh yeah, and also, he wanted them all renamed Samurai something. (I won't resell anything renamed; this is pertinent later on... So they were all renamed Samurai yada yada. I did not brand anything with my usual tag after the item name. Renaming just causes confusion with the average customer and gets me tells from pissy-attitude people about why can't I make a Jedi Robe or a Combat Robe or a Neo Coat, and they tell me I am a liar if I say there ain't no sucha thing.)
So he tries all those on. Willy nilly he says two-tone and refined, tells me what all colors and which on the main and which on the trim or secondary. What the...? He uses the right lingo, but doesn't know what things are named or colors they can come in? *brain hurts* Don't think about it... Okay. I make those. 6 skirts. Trade them to him, he likes. (Meanwhile I still have not received back the ones he did not want nor have I received a single credit. Next time I go to the customer, I think I will ask for round trip fare up front. Whaddaya think? And yah, I know, why did I trade without cash up front or via the vendor or bazaar? One, I've never been burned on a try it on, pay me after choosing trade. Two, I was nowhere near one of my vendors. Three, it was Theed bazaar. Would've taken far too long to transact business that way and this was already taking far-far-far too long.)
Then we go to the next thing on his list. Tunic. Long loose sleeves. I tell him no sucha thing. I suggest he could use a vest worn over a long sleeved shirt to achieve that effect. He does not want a long sleeved shirt. Okay. I suggest a few vest styles. He says, "I trust your judgment, just make something that looks Samurai. Like Luke..." -- and he names a scene I of course couldn't pull out of my a$$ even if I'd just seen the damned movie. Then he goes AFK again.
Me: *screams*
I wait a while. I see another past customer I don't want to see again so I go hide in another room and put up my afk. Time ticks on. And on. I get bored, and I'm yakking in tells with a friend that went to Theed with me because we thought this was going to take only a few minutes, and I just go ahead and make 6 different vests in one of his color sets. Then I go on to make 5 flex form shirts, some in 2 colors, some in 1. (For he who does not want any long sleeve shirts but keeps asking about a long sleeved shirt) Uck.
Hour three:
He returns.
RL hits me just then. My son can't get his boots and gloves on and he is hollering about going out to play in the snow. I go AFK. Ha! I bundle boy in snow clothes. Husband comes to the door his arms full of groceries. I take care of that. Husband starts making New York Strip steaks. I return to Theed and my indecisive "got a minute?" customer.
I give him all I made while he was AFK. He tries it all on. (Oh yeah, and in between all this, he is still making the occasional sexual innuendo remarks that I am flat out ignoring he even said to me AND I am juggling multi tells in that other IMs only window in the corner over there.)
Okay. He likes the shirts. Especially the solid color ones. But... (I cringe in horror) he'd like the green on everything to be a darker green. I say there are some, but in olive and gray greens, not the FOREST GREEN he said he wanted. He wants gray green then, darkest it can be. Not olive though. GRRRR! Oh and he wants a darker brown too. AND he wants a long loose sleeved shirt. (Him that doesn't want a long-sleeved shirt, but does want a long-loose-sleeved shirt. *insert several bad words* Didn't I already tell him there wasn't one? And noooo, he did not like the trim lined shirt. Loose sleeves, like the Grim Reaper's Robe loose.) I tell him there are no shirts like that.
Him: "What kind of long sleeve shirts are there then?"
Okay, here I got a bit riled up. I got terse, yet still, ever so polite. I said, "Look here, for one thing, we need to narrow down just what style of each clothing item you want, THEN what color you want it in, before I keep making any samples for you to decide amongst. For two, I am running out of crates making all these samples while you decide what you do want, and in what colors, then for you to change your mind on the colors AFTER I have already made complete sets of each entire outfit in all your chosen color combinations. For three, I can't resell these things because you wanted them all renamed, so anything you do not choose to buy, I will end up having to destroy.... wasting my resources and both our time. For four, if we keep going through my entire list of schematics like this, I will run out of whatt few crates I brought with me and I am not going to run back to my home planet and shop to go fetch more crates, then back to here to keep doing this.You must decide what you want, and in what colors. Or I can send you a link to some tailor websites so you can see what is available and in what colors. And then you can email me a detailed order that I can do later. AFTER I do some factory runs because I am now too low on crates to make anything else. OR we can finish doing this later. OR if you have time, we can go to Corellia where you can look at what is on my vendor, and then choose what styles you want and colors too." *gasp, pant, huff 'n' puff*
So he says, "I got plenty of time. 45 minutes before I need to log. Let's go!" *he says happily*
Me: *screams*
We go to Corellia. He looks at the vendor. He is still telling me what he wants now, instead of what he has already gotten, while he is at the same time, buying stuff off the vendor, oh my god and most of it is the same things I JUST MADE HIM! But certainly not in the colors he had me make them in. I know what is on that vendor. Black. Black and white. Black and Red. White. And Brights. No dark green and dark brown. Maybe a few dark blue. (and all the while, still fielding tells and trying to hide behind the wookiee vendor so no one else sees me in the mall)
Okay. I repeat that I can't keep making samples till he finally makes a decision. Just to please mail me once he thinks he has a better idea what he does want. And that I cannot resell his renamed items. He says, "Well, you do realize don't you, that I am going to pay for all you made, including your samples?"
(Hmm, I think. No. I did not realize that *very bad word*. So far I have not seen one credit, nor have any of the things he said he wanted then said he did not want, been traded back to me, even before I told him I could not resell them... so no, why would I feel certain he would pay for my time and trouble and travel and wasted supplies since he never said so previously?)
So I say, "Thank you, I appreciate that, although I did not insist on it, nor do I expect it (yes I do) however, I cannot keep making samples. I am out of crates. I have to run my factories to get more, that will take time. You do not know what you want or what colors you really want. And I am out of time. I am sorry, I have to log now."
And I logged out. Four hours. That "got a minute?" took four hours.
I came back after midnight. I get back to my shop. I piddle around a bit, take care of the business with the city planner and some merchant tents I couldn't do before because I couldn't get away from Customer with no idea.... While I am still with the city planner, I get a tell from the guy.
Hello? *I don't answer.* (since he didn't get an afk or a not online.) Are you there? Ah, yes you are. I sent you a mail with my revised order, with more details. *I don't answer.*
He proceeds to tell me what is in his mail. I go read his mail. Lo and behold, I am not at all surprised to see he still wants things that do not exist and in colors they do not come in. He wrote that he bought many things off my vendor, to try on, but that he still wants them in the dark green/almost black and not in the pastels I made him before and that he bought off the vendor for sampling. I'm thinking, Pastels?! He thought those were pastels? I didn't make anything in pastels, especially not what was in the vendor. Oh my god. He's color blind? No. He's just *insert bad word here*.
While still talking with city planner guy, and in guild and in other tells, I finally reply to customer, "I am busy with city business atm. I will not be able to do this till maybe tomorrow or later. (I say this because he still owes me lotsa money for what I already made - I added it up = 50k - and I am not counting on seeing any of it, but may have a chance at compensation for pain and suffering to this point if I just get this thing done.) He says, "That's fine. Whenever you have time."
Whenever I have time? Yah, okay sure. I got a minute.
Shoot me. Please.
LOL! OMG, Some of the people in this game really make me fear what they are like in real life...kinda scary sometimes. I am still working on Master Tailor (3-1-3-3) I got my first of odd question's yesterday
1. Can you make a ubese shirt? Um No it says Tailor not armorsmith
2. Can you make armor? Same rules apply for question #1
My biggest pet peeve and most stupid questionI have goten when I have the title Master Artisan up and people ask me "can you make me a free vehicle or vehicle customization kit ?" Sure yeah let me just blow 20K of my own materials and 3 hours trying to find a Droid Engineer to make the sub component for the vehicle customization kit.
I just dont get people sometimes and where there questions come from.I am open at this point to custom outfits till people start saying 1. They dont know what they want, if there not willing to come to my shop to figure out what they want they can go else where for there clothes 2. If I travel off planet to make a custom outfit they will have a extra charge tacked on for travel cost 3. If you can not speak in a complete sentence in proper english your request will most likely not be filled, this has to be my biggest pet peeve Ex. Can U plz Make ( Blah,blah,blah).
tometaophion wrote:
Im not a tailor but would like to know why cant guys wear the girls stuff, I think it is hilarious.
heh, guys can wear bikini leggings
ChaoKuang wrote:
I wish guys can wear more of it though, like the skirts, tops, and gowns.
guys can wear skirts aswell.
but yes it would be veery funniy to see guys wear the gowns or bikinis
theBearClaw wrote:
ChaoKuang wrote:
I wish guys can wear more of it though, like the skirts, tops, and gowns.
guys can wear skirts aswell.
but yes it would be veery funniy to see guys wear the gowns or bikinis
Pappi wrote:
heh, guys can wear bikini leggings
I actually made some nice pink cross-dressing outfits for an entertainer friend who was role playing. We also made up his hair into a long pony tail (he was already tall and thin). He got called 'gay' a lot, but his tips went way up and people kept hitting on him. 