Shoegaze
Dec 1, 2006, 07:40 PM
Alright, humor me in this as this is my first post. Having spent some time shopping for items to synth with, it occured to me that there are several faux pas that Players commit running their shops. I want to go over those, in an attempt to improve all of our PSU shopping experiences. If you are guilty of any of the following... for the love of god, change your ways.
1) Research your prices!
If you're item costs more than the NPC vendor, I won't buy it and precious few others will too. Really, if you're charging more than 1,200 meseta for say Marseline, I won't even look at it.
2) Monomate Boards
Come on people, really. We all get them, and nobody needs them. What I do need from time to time is cheap monomates for consumption. Nothing wastes time more than running through shop after shop only to find more boards. This really can apply to all common healing boards be it monomate, dimate, trimate, agtaride, zodiaride, antimate, moon atomiser etc... remember, the materials cost more than the items (ie. Hustle Berry) so there is no value in the boards... just wasted time
3) "Elite" items. GTFO.
I don't care. I don't care if you have a piece of Mot Ash, that isn't special or interesting. Do not price items for 99999999999 or 13371337, because obviously nobody wants it at that price, and nobody cares. Guess what? I don't even care if you have a Crea Saber... do not put it up for some ridiculous multi million meseta price. You're just wasting time, and I won't shop from you.
4) Common dropped weapons
Dual Pallasch, 23% Ice Daggers... don't even bother, again just wasting our time. Weapons that are common drops show up when we search for these things, and there is nothing more frustrating when your shopping for a pair of say Light Dual Pallash, only to find 100 regular varieties at full cost. If you are going to put these up, consider that tonnes of people are selling these junk items. Put them up for a dirt cheap price, and at least I can feed it to a striking PM, I dunno.
5) Lastly, be reasonable.
If and item costs 800 meseta at the NPC shop, and you sell it for 799 - guess what, you can go f%&k yourself cause the NPC vendor will get my business. Try to be at LEAST 10% of vendor costs. People that regularly get my hard earned meseta are generally in the 25 - 75% range depending on supply availability and demand. Anything more has to be justified by say a high element on weapons, or grinds etc... stuff that sets it aside from NPC vendor prices.
Anyway... rant off. You get the idea. Flame me all you want if you feel that I'm being unduly fair, but realize that we've all had these frustrations while using player shops. Let's try to be fair and equitable with one other, and not waste each others play time with the some of the nonesense above that occurs.
Take it easy.
1) Research your prices!
If you're item costs more than the NPC vendor, I won't buy it and precious few others will too. Really, if you're charging more than 1,200 meseta for say Marseline, I won't even look at it.
2) Monomate Boards
Come on people, really. We all get them, and nobody needs them. What I do need from time to time is cheap monomates for consumption. Nothing wastes time more than running through shop after shop only to find more boards. This really can apply to all common healing boards be it monomate, dimate, trimate, agtaride, zodiaride, antimate, moon atomiser etc... remember, the materials cost more than the items (ie. Hustle Berry) so there is no value in the boards... just wasted time
3) "Elite" items. GTFO.
I don't care. I don't care if you have a piece of Mot Ash, that isn't special or interesting. Do not price items for 99999999999 or 13371337, because obviously nobody wants it at that price, and nobody cares. Guess what? I don't even care if you have a Crea Saber... do not put it up for some ridiculous multi million meseta price. You're just wasting time, and I won't shop from you.
4) Common dropped weapons
Dual Pallasch, 23% Ice Daggers... don't even bother, again just wasting our time. Weapons that are common drops show up when we search for these things, and there is nothing more frustrating when your shopping for a pair of say Light Dual Pallash, only to find 100 regular varieties at full cost. If you are going to put these up, consider that tonnes of people are selling these junk items. Put them up for a dirt cheap price, and at least I can feed it to a striking PM, I dunno.
5) Lastly, be reasonable.
If and item costs 800 meseta at the NPC shop, and you sell it for 799 - guess what, you can go f%&k yourself cause the NPC vendor will get my business. Try to be at LEAST 10% of vendor costs. People that regularly get my hard earned meseta are generally in the 25 - 75% range depending on supply availability and demand. Anything more has to be justified by say a high element on weapons, or grinds etc... stuff that sets it aside from NPC vendor prices.
Anyway... rant off. You get the idea. Flame me all you want if you feel that I'm being unduly fair, but realize that we've all had these frustrations while using player shops. Let's try to be fair and equitable with one other, and not waste each others play time with the some of the nonesense above that occurs.
Take it easy.