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I'm still surprised by some of the people who play this game. I have come to expect (and forgive) a lot of things, but the _whining_ still dumbfounds me some times.
Here's a little background. I have a character sitting in the bazaar most evenings and nights (But not mornings -- strangely EQ crashes on me every day at exactly 8:27 AM. Don't ask me why). Mostly I keep her there so I can buy tailoring supplies when they come on the market, but I also do a fair business selling robes, spells, armour and various odds and ends.
I have been holding onto a copy of 'Everlasting Breath', the level 51 version of Enduring Breath which doesn't require fish scales, for a while now. Eventually I'm going to give it to my sweetie's shaman when we both find time to play more seriously but until then it is sitting in my trader bag, priced at 12,000 platinum.
That's higher than some other traders will sell it for (there were two other copies in the bazaar that day, priced at 7k and 10k), and maybe twice what it would cost to buy the research components and make it yourself (if you can find them -- they have been a bit scarce lately), but that's fine with me. I don't really want to sell it now, but if there is enough demand then I'll happily let it go for that price and worry about replacing it later.
Yesterday evening I came home and found a couple stored tells that gave me a bit of a chuckle. It seems that a more budget concious customer was trying to gently persuade me to lower my price for him. (Names changed to protect the, well, wanker)
Wanker tells you, 'Ill give you 500 for everlasting breath'
You tell Wanker, 'AFK Message: All of my goods can be found in the /bazaar window. I am standing on the south side of the row of traders just north of the central building. No trades, please.'
Wanker tells you, 'If it saves me that much money ill be suprised 12k is outrages i dont know what your trying to pull'
Clearly, I was dealing with a master negotiator. I promptly collapsed under the overwhelming weight of his well crafted, logical argument. After all, if he as the buyer didn't feel that my goods were worth more than 4% of my asking price, then I was required by the laws of supply and demand to lower my price immediately. Adam Smith wrote about this extensively in his landmark work "Giving Away The Wealth of Nations For Free". Who was I to argue?
I composed a reply to Wanker, begging his forgiveness for trying to cheat him the way I had and offering to give him not only the spell he wanted but also a free lizard on a stick to make up for my heinous misdeeds, but, sadly, he had already left the game without his shiny new spell. Neither of the other two vendors had sold their copies to him either.
Now I guess I'll just have to try and live with the shame of trying to pull something on this guy. Somehow. *sob*
Minuit
Brell Serilis
Yada yada yada
Here's a little background. I have a character sitting in the bazaar most evenings and nights (But not mornings -- strangely EQ crashes on me every day at exactly 8:27 AM. Don't ask me why). Mostly I keep her there so I can buy tailoring supplies when they come on the market, but I also do a fair business selling robes, spells, armour and various odds and ends.
I have been holding onto a copy of 'Everlasting Breath', the level 51 version of Enduring Breath which doesn't require fish scales, for a while now. Eventually I'm going to give it to my sweetie's shaman when we both find time to play more seriously but until then it is sitting in my trader bag, priced at 12,000 platinum.
That's higher than some other traders will sell it for (there were two other copies in the bazaar that day, priced at 7k and 10k), and maybe twice what it would cost to buy the research components and make it yourself (if you can find them -- they have been a bit scarce lately), but that's fine with me. I don't really want to sell it now, but if there is enough demand then I'll happily let it go for that price and worry about replacing it later.
Yesterday evening I came home and found a couple stored tells that gave me a bit of a chuckle. It seems that a more budget concious customer was trying to gently persuade me to lower my price for him. (Names changed to protect the, well, wanker)
Wanker tells you, 'Ill give you 500 for everlasting breath'
You tell Wanker, 'AFK Message: All of my goods can be found in the /bazaar window. I am standing on the south side of the row of traders just north of the central building. No trades, please.'
Wanker tells you, 'If it saves me that much money ill be suprised 12k is outrages i dont know what your trying to pull'
Clearly, I was dealing with a master negotiator. I promptly collapsed under the overwhelming weight of his well crafted, logical argument. After all, if he as the buyer didn't feel that my goods were worth more than 4% of my asking price, then I was required by the laws of supply and demand to lower my price immediately. Adam Smith wrote about this extensively in his landmark work "Giving Away The Wealth of Nations For Free". Who was I to argue?
I composed a reply to Wanker, begging his forgiveness for trying to cheat him the way I had and offering to give him not only the spell he wanted but also a free lizard on a stick to make up for my heinous misdeeds, but, sadly, he had already left the game without his shiny new spell. Neither of the other two vendors had sold their copies to him either.
Now I guess I'll just have to try and live with the shame of trying to pull something on this guy. Somehow. *sob*
Minuit
Brell Serilis
Yada yada yada
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