Very odd sales....

[Draggar]

OK, to work on baking, I bought 10 stacks of cheese and 10 stacks of bread to make patty melts.

I farm / buy of a merch the meat.

I put them up while I'm a trader at 4GP each (8PP per stack). They sell very quickly.

Cool, great! More PP for the tradeskill...

Now, I'm in EK a lot getting supplies for leather paddings, griff feathers, spider silks, etc..
I get a lot of halfling parts off the carrion spiders. So, I bought some spices and garnish and make Hot and Spicy Toelings. Meal, Dex+2, Agi+2. I sell these for 5GP each...

Now, for a diff of 2PP per stack, you can have +2 dex and +2 agi, which is very good for low levels etc...

So, the patty melts sell quickly, but the toelings haven't sold in forever.

Whats up with that? Do people just not know about the toelings?

[Cigarskunk]

People recognize patty melts as cheap food to force feed.

Halfling toes are just sub-standard Ohabah truffels.

[Delfontes]

I am constantly amazed at how much name recognition means... I have seen truffels for less than Fish rolls in bazaar, and people buying the fish rolls... because that is what they were looking for.

Nevermind that they could have had a miraculous stat boosting food for cheaper.

[Faedia]

Name recognition is everything. Fish Rolls go faster than Patty Melts in my experience, even.. the rolls have been around for so much longer.

[Ryujin]

The casual gamer does not know the ohabah truffels. As was said people have always used fish rolls as force feeding food and that knowledge has been passed down. Very rarely will you have someone spend time to look at the stats on food. Of course one day i was bored and decided to look at the stats of all foods and saw the ohabah truffels, Longer lasting than fish rolls, has stats, and is cheaper. I bought all i saw and continue to do so today. Maybe a little advertising would help, lol.

[Draggar]

Hmm, but the interesting thing is:

Fish Rolls / Patty Melts at 4-5GP each..

You can buy Iron rations for a little over 1GP...

You know what?

I'll shut up now and jut load all my trader's satchels full of fish rolls and patty melts.

[Ariene]

Re: Very odd sales....

Now, I'm in EK a lot getting supplies for leather paddings, griff feathers, spider silks, etc..
I get a lot of halfling parts off the carrion spiders. So, I bought some spices and garnish and make Hot and Spicy Toelings. Meal, Dex+2, Agi+2. I sell these for 5GP each...

If the toelings are trivial for you, you can make a lot more money just selling the halfling parts uncooked. They are now an alchemy ingrediant. I sold a couple stacks of different racial meat very quickly the other day at 5p each.

[Cyrnan]

I am constantly amazed at how much name recognition means... I have seen truffels for less than Fish rolls in bazaar, and people buying the fish rolls... because that is what they were looking for.

Nevermind that they could have had a miraculous stat boosting food for cheaper.

I agree totally.

Combine this with the fact that most players out there are not (/gasp) die hard tradeskillers, and they don't recognize the benefit of stat enhancing, properly baked tasty-wares. Most just want duration so they don't have to worry about buying food and drink.

How often have you seen random player X link a food item for the stats?

[Clementine]

I haven't had much of a problem with this, but yes people will normally tend to go for the more well-known or even cute sounding baked goodies.

[Faymar]

It's more than that, I think.

People don't want to force feed food with stats, so they have their picnic which they are trying to preserve and they buy fish rolls to force feed to save the picnic. Swapping food around takes time and it's annoying to find you have the wrong food in your topslot, especially if it means a (tiny) negative hit to wis or int when you are expecting the positive hit.

What, in this scenario, is the benefit of the truffle? Yes, you can force-feed it just the same but they aren't as common and you are "wasting" the stats (because all you want is the stat from the picnic).

[Quesci]

Also, people will often buy a few to "fill out" a stack. If I keep a stack of fish rolls as force feed food and I chow down on 18 of them over the course of a few days, I am going to buy more fish rolls to replace them. Even if patty melts were half the cost, I would buy fish rolls for the convenience (and the ability to replace them myself when I am fishing).