Tailor Archive
Thread: How many items do you sell?
Give your vendor some time.
At 2 weeks, a vendor is still relatively unknown in the galaxy. Ive found the best way to get customers to your vendor is simply word of mouth from other customers. Great customer service goes a LONG way too. If the customers you get like your service, they recommendyou to their friends, who then tell their friends about it, until eventually youhave 5 people, who've never heard of in your life before, sending you tells the instant you sign in-game asking about clothing everyday. Run around the big NPC cities with your Tailor tag up. That way if you run into someone in a city that needs clothes, you can easily refer them to your vendors afterwards for future reference. Put your vendor waypoint in your biography. Frequent the cantinas alot, even if just to hang out and socialize with the patrons and entertainers. You'll find a lot of people who need clothes.
Location means a lot too. When I put my first clothing vendor down, it was in a lone house about 1kmoutside of Coronet. It got the occassional hits once it was on the map, but sales were pretty slow. I attribute that to being new to the market at the time and having a location that required a bit of a bike trek to. I eventually moved my vendors into player cities, with shops near a shuttleport. It took a couple months to start to build up enough of a reputation to start getting some regular sales. I dont have any exact numbers of how much I sell a day. I usually receive about 3-6 custom orders a day, and probably have about 50-150 sales a day (a mix of Clothing and BioClothing).
Have a well stocked vendor. You know how irritating it is when you're shopping for yourself, for something or another, and you just cant seem to finda vendor that really has a good supply of what you need? Try not to getone of those vendors yourself. A large varity of clothing items and colors goes a long way and will draw in a lot of returning customers. And think in terms of outfits sometimes when you restock. If you have some "Dark Blue" colored shirts, keep in mind that someone may be more likely to buy one if you also had a pair of "Dark Blue" colored pants (or something with Dark Blue Trim perhaps) to go with it. So make sure the vendor is evenly stocked in its colors and combinations.
Ive also found that Outfit vendors in general do reallly well.I had put up a vendor with pre-created outfit combinations in backpacks for sale, just to see how it would sell. I got so much positive feedback about it from my customers that I was really surprised. So something like that may do well for you, if you like doing that type of thing.
You could also send "Thank you" emails to people who purchase items on your vendor...thanking them for stopping by..and just happen to include a waypoint to your vendor (in case they had forgotten to waypoint it themselves). Sometimes that personal thank you can help too. 
Message Edited by Aori on 08-29-2005 04:02 AM
OsoLobo wrote:
I was wondering about how many tailor made items that you sell in a day?
I have had my vendor up for 2 weeks and have only had three sales, my prices are in line with others listed on the vendor search. Accepting ideas on how to get more business but I hate spamming so I will not do that.
Thanks OsoLobo
Message Edited by Atlantiss on 08-31-2005 03:56 PM
Jevinoser wrote:
after a long fustrating grind i now become Master of the tailoring profession. I made my self sweet looking clothes at first and then started my macro at the mining outpost about business. I got some business there and there. For about 2 weeks now i only made about 500k. Is this normal because this is nothing i was hoping for alot more. I am now thinking of dumping the master tailor for shipwright i hope to make alot more money. o ya and i have now 4 vendors at my guild hall and grinding merachant now. nobody goes to my vendors except my guild mates and some customers i'm friends with buts thats it. There fully stocked! My question is should i dump this profession because i'm not making enough money. And 500k is nothing i read the replys above this one and the guy says gets150 orders a day thats fOKinG crazy i get rarly atmost 7! What am i doing wrong, should i hang out at TAT mos easly i or some place differant, where did you hang out for customersGAP lol dude show me the place to make the BIG BUCKS!
Probably not the best idea to go Tailor just for the money, but to each their own. I mean..out of all of the crafting professions you could have chosen to grind out just for the money making aspect of it, it's rather ironic you'd choose Tailor. Most Tailors, it seems, take up the profession for the creativity, social, or customer service aspects of it. In general..for the fun of the profession.
Like mentioned here in this thread, it's really all about location, supply, customer service, and reputation, that brings in the customers.