Tailor Archive
Thread: Letting Your Shop Go...
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AllyaEcati
Wed Dec 22, 2004 6:58 am
#1
I'm feeling blue. I've decided to give my tailor a mini break, and concentrate on making my main character a padawan, so I can open my extra character slot and make another tailor. I feel so sad letting my shop go, but having 2 characters is rough and I can no longer justify paying for 2 accounts. I have a reputation now,and I'll be able to live off special orders. It just makes me sad, but upkeeping the shop started to feel like a job. I still hope to have the perfect mega store one day, but not until both my girls are on one account. Any suggestions with how to cope? 
NJ62
Wed Dec 22, 2004 7:10 am
#2
I hear you because I really really burnt out on shops, hard core, for the last few months. I had the perfect shop on Scylla. Then the perfect shop on TC. Then I revamped my shop on TC. And one day, I just couldn't bear to logon at all, because I didn't want to face dealing with my vendors. So I spent a few months as a travelling tailor, and then since my retirement as tailor corr, I haven't crafted a single item. Yep. I needed a break after putting everything else of interest on hold for 8 months for the sake of tailoring.
Now, just now, about 4 months after my last shop closed, and 1 month since I "retired" - I'm going to start up a new shop. It will be a fresh start and mindful of my previous shops, I'll try to keep things manageable for my schedule, even if I don't stock the weirdest items. On the one hand, I want to create many options so people don't all look alike, but on the other hand, it will be much easier to just stock the known sellers.
My advice to you is to just give it up for a while. What I did the first time was to have a blowout sale and just sell everything for 1/4 price, and then announced I was closing up shop. The second time I just let the shop go. At that point, it was too much effort to even close up properly, and I needed to reclaim my game time.
You can always get it back again, and in the meantime, enjoy your free time and what the galaxy has to offer.
Now, just now, about 4 months after my last shop closed, and 1 month since I "retired" - I'm going to start up a new shop. It will be a fresh start and mindful of my previous shops, I'll try to keep things manageable for my schedule, even if I don't stock the weirdest items. On the one hand, I want to create many options so people don't all look alike, but on the other hand, it will be much easier to just stock the known sellers.
My advice to you is to just give it up for a while. What I did the first time was to have a blowout sale and just sell everything for 1/4 price, and then announced I was closing up shop. The second time I just let the shop go. At that point, it was too much effort to even close up properly, and I needed to reclaim my game time.
You can always get it back again, and in the meantime, enjoy your free time and what the galaxy has to offer.
Aynianu
Wed Dec 22, 2004 8:25 am
#3
know exactly how you feel 
having a shop is like an addiction, every item sold has to be replaced, and if you get behind you start suffering from withdrawl 
Bunneh
Wed Dec 22, 2004 8:35 am
#4
*goes to Mauve's shop, buys half the stock and watches as she has a break down 
AllyaEcati
Wed Dec 22, 2004 8:42 am
#5
It really depresses me that I have to do this, but basically what I'm going to do is relist what's left until I get my new character. Hopefully that won't take too long and most items will sell. Then when I finally get my new tailor, I'll have to slowly replace vendor by vendor in the shop with my new tailor's vendors. I can't stand the thought of having to transfer over thousands of items.../shudder. Finally I think I'll raise my prices again so restocking won't be such a pain. I could care less about credits...I just have some insane tailor shop ideal that I want to fulfill. lol The shop already has a reputation and I spent hours decorating it, so this way mighttake some extra effort,butI won't lose my hard work and prime location. Not to mention my friend's vendors are in the lobby. I'll just hate not hearing it's the bestany more.
NJ62
Wed Dec 22, 2004 9:36 am
#6
When I redo my shop, I'm definitely rethinking my pricing. I want to hopefully break down all items into 4-5 price groups, and that's it. Period. Done. Kthxbye. Probably something like 1000, 3000, 5000, 8000, and 10000. Seems appealing, right?
AllyaEcati
Wed Dec 22, 2004 12:15 pm
#7
My current spreadsheet has500 credits for artisan items, 1k for novice, and then increased 1k for every level. Master items ended up being 6k, with the exception of a few items that I jacked the price up for because they are a pain.
I really think when I restock, I'd rather hear, "she's exepensive, but has everything you want" than having 1 person come in and buy 20 items in one shot. I want the shop and not the credits,but who knows Icould possibly make more if I raised prices again.
NJ62
Wed Dec 22, 2004 12:45 pm
#8
Hmmm that is an interesting tiering. I never remember what goes in which box. Now that I have Ithorian wearables to worry about, it's a whole new headache.
Pappi
Wed Dec 22, 2004 2:14 pm
#9
NJ62 wrote:
Hmmm that is an interesting tiering. I never remember what goes in which box. Now that I have Ithorian wearables to worry about, it's a whole new headache.
Tiaga took care of all that for me, now I'm borrowing the prices he borrowed from me
NJ62
Wed Dec 22, 2004 2:47 pm
#10
This calculator has all the new clothing. I just finished my list. Basically I put in values that I liked, then sorted by price, and then just manually went down the list and set my cutoffs for my pricing tiers. I'm sure there is some sort of math genius way to do it, but I didn't.
AllyaEcati
Wed Dec 22, 2004 3:18 pm
#11
Those calculators don't do it for me. They seem to price everything too low.
NJ62
Wed Dec 22, 2004 3:22 pm
#12
They won't price too low if you put in an obscene c/p/u value, and charge a premium for master items and for factory panels. /evilcackle
NJ62
Wed Dec 22, 2004 3:24 pm
#13
Aynianu wrote:
NJ62 wrote:
When I redo my shop, I'm definitely rethinking my pricing. I want to hopefully break down all items into 4-5 price groups, and that's it. Period. Done. Kthxbye. Probably something like 1000, 3000, 5000, 8000, and 10000. Seems appealing, right?ive did exactly that Njessi, about 3 months ago i changed my prices on regular clothing to 2k / 5k / 10k / 15krestocking 200 or so vendor emails at once while also looking up the correct price is a no no.
My method is to not wait until they drop to stockroom. I wait until items are ABOUT to delist, then I delist and relist by price group. Delist/relist all the 8000's, rinse repeat. No looking anything up, very easy - once a month hassle.
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