Weaponsmith Archive

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Siymon wrote:

The only thing that bothers me is when someone comes in and buys all ofa specific set of weapons and leaves my vendors empty. That drives me nuts. If they buy 10 or 20 and re-sell them I don't care just don't clean me out.

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Yes. I've had several instances of some numbskull cleaning out my entire stock of a specific weapon, doing a crappy slice job on it, stick a powerup on it to coverup their crap job, then sell them for double. Not only does it ruin my professional reputation, but it's a real pain when having to explain it to people that I'm not a slicer and that whatever the boughtwas given a crappy slice by someone else.

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Brilyn wrote:

< i dont like it when people exploit my work to make quick cash. >

How is it exploitation?

Did you *give* them the item for free?

Once the item is sold, it's theirs to do with as they wish.

Anyone who wants to buy stuff off my shop, is free to do so. They want to resell, well, that's fine by me: they're paying me to advertise my weaponry. Darn, I hate being exploited so.... no, wait.....

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what he said

however i generaly price all the profit to be made out of most of my items cause i dont have the game time to keep up with anymore volume of sales.

My problem with this is that a friend (armorsmith) was selling his armor fairly cheap to help the newbs get a good set early (he is located near Mos Eisly). Some fool went and bought everything off his vendor to probably sell at outrageous prices and he had to jack his prices way up so it didn't happen again thus ruining his reason for selling the stuff in the first place.

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Siymon wrote:

The only thing that bothers me is when someone comes in and buys all of a specific set of weapons and leaves my vendors empty. That drives me nuts. If they buy 10 or 20 and re-sell them I don't care just don't clean me out.

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I agree with you. My solution to this problem is to contact the bulk reseller and offer to sell them crates for a small discount. That way my vendor stays stocked (well, before I spent my time flying around).

It can actually work out to your advantage sometimes as well...I recently got an email from someone telling me about how he bought a krayt llc that I made off of someone else's vendor and that he was looking for another.

My RL wife ran into this issue about 3 months ago with the chef profession. She made master chef, made some really nice crated runs of brandy and canape and placed them on her public vendor. Someone came along and bought all of them in one shot. She didnt think to much about this at first, but then she found them being resold on somebody else's vendor.

For a while she was a bit upset by this. Mainly because I think the stuff was underpriced, and a merchant came along, saw this and took advantage of it. However, the person who bought all the stuff then contacted her about a week later and asked if they could arrange a "contract" for a certain amount of commodities a week. This has worked out well, and she now has a steady income of about 4 million credits a week. It then becomes the resellers problem to move the items at an inflated rate.

As an aside, several buyers from the resellers vendors have noted who actually made the foodstuffs, and have contacted her to find out where to buy goods directly and skip the middleman.

In the end I guess it is a personal decision about how you want to move your goods. Do you want to be a manufacturer and leave the marketing and selling of your goods to someone else, knowing that they will have to mark it up to cover their expenses and make a profit? Or do you want to be the manufacturer and reseller yourself and sell for a higher price?

Just my thoughts on the matter.

Gorik

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Jerbacca wrote:

I was recently told by a few guildmates that there's a few shops on the server reselling my rifles, including a Gorax Tusken Rifle I made (around 330 max, I think it was 4.something speed).

I made my cool 400k off of it, but I'm kind of irked at someone reselling my wares... But then again, the guy DID buy it...

Thoughts/ideas/opinions?

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I wouldn't worry about this too much, it happens oh well. It actually puts your name out there more, and kinda gets you a little respect if you get enough people reselling your weapons.

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North2Chilastra wrote:
My RL wife ran into this issue about 3 months ago with the chef profession. She made master chef, made some really nice crated runs of brandy and canape and placed them on her public vendor. Someone came along and bought all of them in one shot. She didnt think to much about this at first, but then she found them being resold on somebody else's vendor.

For a while she was a bit upset by this. Mainly because I think the stuff was underpriced, and a merchant came along, saw this and took advantage of it. However, the person who bought all the stuff then contacted her about a week later and asked if they could arrange a "contract" for a certain amount of commodities a week. This has worked out well, and she now has a steady income of about 4 million credits a week. It then becomes the resellers problem to move the items at an inflated rate.

As an aside, several buyers from the resellers vendors have noted who actually made the foodstuffs, and have contacted her to find out where to buy goods directly and skip the middleman.

In the end I guess it is a personal decision about how you want to move your goods. Do you want to be a manufacturer and leave the marketing and selling of your goods to someone else, knowing that they will have to mark it up to cover their expenses and make a profit? Or do you want to be the manufacturer and reseller yourself and sell for a higher price?

Just my thoughts on the matter.

Gorik

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Actually I beleive that was SOE's original intent. Crafter's craft the items and merchants buy from the crafter's then sell on their vendors.