Tailor Archive
Thread: Popularity Contest?
Maybe I can help you some. Go to the bazaar in your favorite city,,,not an advanced planet though,
Scroll thru the clothing section and look for Dusters, Cloaks, Infiltrator suits, Reinforced Jumpsuits, Swoop Helms, Cartridge belts, Infiltrator leggings, Paramilitary pants (red on black, green on black , and all black seel well), Uniform boots, Tipless gloves and any other item you can make that is also popular. If that item is not listed or very few make those items in all black. (very important to be black) (remember the majority of players are male under 25, so appeal to their taste). If a particular item is being oversold, dont make that item, make whats not available,,not what you like to make but what isnt available.
Then go to your next favorite city and repeat. I think if you do this you will start to sell items and when you make a sale ,,send a tell,,saying thanks with a waypoint to your shop and price your shop items a little cheaper than on the bazaar plus add other items not found on the bazaar,,,ieprovide a player a reason to run to your shop,,if there isnt a reason they wont come by.
I find that most players wont switch cities let alone planets for items of clothing unless they are for the master level items that are not usually available on the bazaar. Reserve the master items for sale only in your shop ,,that then provides a reason to visit your shop.
You also dont need to be the cheapest price, if you provide the right color,,and make sure you label your items using the html color code and add the number of sockets in the naming process,,,
BurnaBoy2000 wrote:
Ok guys it seems that i'm have to exact opposite of some of your guys' problems... There are soo mant tailors around that it is hard to get buissness. Its like is if i can't make something NOW they have no problem just finding another tailor right next to me to help their needs. And noone even bothers going into my shop, well occaisionally i'll get a wanderer in. And also i can't get a custom order if my life depended on it.. Sooo what i'm askin is how can i stand out from all the rest of the tailors on my server? P.S. i've already tried goin to other cities and planets
You don't by chance play on Valcyn? One day there were 7 tailors in the Cantina. Yeah. 3 of them were Masters. Ugh.
/laugh
I hear ya there.. Of course I don't count as a real tailor.. I'm on Talus.. /wink...I think there might have been a few more then "7", if you count the lil people on unknown planets..
... You guys should come visit us, Talus is great!.. /grinseki
Master Tailor of Nashal
Valcyln
So far I have had no problem on tempest - of course I am based in Moenia - Corellia is the favorite planet and Anchorhead is a packed city.
I am not a millionaire but I do OK - I also switched to selling bio-enhanced clothing only - doing custom work as needed.
I use the Bazaar to sell anything 3k and below.
The last thing I did wqas set up a showroom in the backroom of my shop ( a generic small house style 2 ) I put combo pieces together to show my sense of style and color selection. This has worked.
The last thing is customer service - sometimes this is the toughest with 8 tells coming at you at once but I do take the time to chat and that has helped as well.
NJ62 wrote:
I'm just tired of the new breed of tailors - the ones who suddenly say - after four months of playing - hey I have money, I'll grind out master tailor. Won't that be fun. Bah to them! Takes more than a master title above your head to be any good.
I am part of the new breed of tailors, and even worse I don't do public orders on a regular basis. So I'm double evil. hehe
I did the grind and it took me less than two weeks. It was the worst 2 weeks in game for me and did not enjoy it but it needed to be done since we merged with a guild and our tailor left the game.
Since then I have opened two shops for my guild, 1 costume shop and 1 tailoring shop.
I have the best of both worlds actually now, I got to be a master tailor which was something I wanted to do from the start and I don't have to deal with horrible customers. *smile*
They get the free clothes through resource donation, and I don't get to deal with the random customers saying "I want a shirt but don't know what it looks like" and "why can't I have a spec ops duster in bright orange and green".
Everyone that grinds isn't bad, I don't brag about how quickly it took me, I am actually a littlejelous because I didn't get to play around with stuff like I wanted to and you all did.
I am doing a website now for my guild so I am making up for my playing around, and if I see another ribbed shirt I'm going to puke. lol
Pick a nice location for the shop, with an easy route from a busy city, and preferably a shop next door selling something combat people want. And stay there. You might only sell an item every few days at first, but for the effort you're putting in to pay off, you mustn't keep moving.
I started out as a tailor after the first masters had appeared on Bria. Simply because of the late arrival of my copy of the game. I become a master a fair time after initially starting to be a tailor, so I didn't get in on the early boat so to speak. My first weeks of business were fairly slow. Mainly I sold a few backpacks to people that had come to buy things in the weapons shop next door. But I kept the vendors heavily stocked regardless of how much sold, and slowly business built up. Custom orders started coming in, with several of those people saying they'd tell their friends. It starts small, but in the end you'll have regular sales every day, and custom orders from strangers coming in. Tailors starting after the initial rush have a harder job building a reputation, but it can be done.
A lot of my initial customers that told their friends came from an advert on the bazaar. Rather than use a renamed ribbed shirt or something, I renamed a black exotic leotard. After I sold out of leotards on my vendor (in about half an hour) I started getting tells citing the bazaar auction, and asking if I could make them. I made silly amounts of leotards that day, but most of the leotard buyers brought other things too, and came back another day. I repeated this later with field wear and a pair of paramilitary camos. I've found a much better response to adverts where the item is very desirable, rather than some casual pants with a description promising nice items. So I'd always recommend using the nicest items you have available to advertise. It makes sense really.... when there's six shop adverts to chose from, the one with the nicest item gets the trade. Not the one with the nicest text description.