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#1
21 Aug 2007 08:17
 
 
Sales channel is dead, obviously. Maybe we should create a marketplace where
each person could post 3-5 items for a certain amount of gold, the marketplace
would take the cash and send the receiver the gold whenever it sells. Maybe
even set is so only highcoins are accepted for certain items and the owner
gets send X amount of coins when they log on.
I know this will put a damper on merchant carts but I think this might help
for selling things, trying to buy equipment these days is near impossible and
for people with little time to do eq it would be easier to look in the
marketplace for certain things they are looking for.

++ Dutois

 
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Dutois
1y, 216d, 2h, 30m, 37s old
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#2
21 Aug 2007 09:12
 
 
Dutois wrote:
Sales channel is dead, obviously. Maybe we should create a marketplace where
each person could post 3-5 items for a certain amount of gold, the marketplace
would take the cash and send the receiver the gold whenever it sells. Maybe
even set is so only highcoins are accepted for certain items and the owner
gets send X amount of coins when they log on.
I know this will put a damper on merchant carts but I think this might help
for selling things, trying to buy equipment these days is near impossible and
for people with little time to do eq it would be easier to look in the
marketplace for certain things they are looking for.
Let me tell you a little story about a newbie merchant from over a decade ago.
Let's cunningly call him Latuh. What he did was as follows; he took peoples'
equipment, agreed on a price the person wanted for the item, fixed it and sold
it in his merchant cart and on sales. More often than not, the price the owner
wanted plus the material price for repairing was a LOT smaller than the price
he eventually got for the item. Strange thing, commerce.
Rgds, Ulath

 
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Ulath
W i z a r d
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#3
22 Aug 2007 03:16
 
 
Ulath wrote:
Dutois wrote:
Sales channel is dead, obviously. Maybe we should create a marketplace where
each person could post 3-5 items for a certain amount of gold, the marketplace
would take the cash and send the receiver the gold whenever it sells. Maybe
even set is so only highcoins are accepted for certain items and the owner
gets send X amount of coins when they log on.
I know this will put a damper on merchant carts but I think this might help
for selling things, trying to buy equipment these days is near impossible and
for people with little time to do eq it would be easier to look in the
marketplace for certain things they are looking for.
Let me tell you a little story about a newbie merchant from over a decade ago.
Let's cunningly call him Latuh. What he did was as follows; he took peoples'
equipment, agreed on a price the person wanted for the item, fixed it and sold
it in his merchant cart and on sales. More often than not, the price the owner
wanted plus the material price for repairing was a LOT smaller than the price
he eventually got for the item. Strange thing, commerce.
Rgds, Ulath
I'm sure my (insert item worth 2-5m) will sell in a cart for anywhere near
what I want it to, and I'm sure I want a pile of 5m gold too.

++ Dutois

 
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Dutois
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#4
22 Aug 2007 09:26
 
 
Hmm. If selling equipment of that magnitude is a problem, I don't think a
marketplace would solve your issue.
But, hey, that's just my opinion, other wizards might and probably will feel
differently.
Rgds, Ulath

 
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Ulath
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#5
22 Aug 2007 09:29
 
 
Ulath wrote:
Hmm. If selling equipment of that magnitude is a problem, I don't think a
marketplace would solve your issue.
But, hey, that's just my opinion, other wizards might and probably will feel
differently.
Rgds, Ulath
Hey! There is nothing wrong with sales-channel... Just prices are wrong :P You
can't get 100k from Hammer of Might anymore!

 
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Maximus
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