Restocking costs

[Cragzop]

I buy something at a RL store and return it. I pay maybe a 15% restocking with.

I wish EQ was a bit closer to that - for bow staves at least I see more than a 60% restocking cost. That seems a bit steep to me. Can anyone think of why restocking has such a poor sellback ratio?

[Renjah]

on some trade skill items they need a lower price. Lets say trade skill item X is vendor sold for 200pp. Lets say its also dropped by mobs. To force the average player to sell it to a player rather than back to a vendor they MUST make the vendor offer next to nothing for it. This is why SOME items are like this. Generally they want people to interact with people NOT vendors. If you need to slel it back they want you to sell it to a person.

Not saying all items fall under this reasoning but that may be part of it.

[Thicket Tundrabog]

A poor resale on tradeskilled items has been a boon for me. Recently I vendor mined about 80 opal encrusted steins (yes, they were fired), for a few silver each. I've been selling them for 25 - 40 pp each. They are a nice inventory filler for my bazaar mule.

Low resale on tradeskill products punishes the lazy and profits the thrifty. Sounds fair to me.

Thicket

[Marinoni Oakenshield]

Buy Yarrow from the vendor for 26plat, sell it back to him for about 1gold. Nice restocking fee there.

[eniamn]

jc is prolly the best one for restocking. others are various levels of bad. its ok. i think the finished product should sell for at least 80% of what the component cost is.
would prefer of 80% what they charge but then either peeps macro or they make everything cheap off vendors that has been tradeskilled. neither is good so i choose lesser evil 3.

[Cragzop]

I don't mind the final product selling for say 80% of what the components cost, what I don't like is being forced to finish the combines on a stack to minimize the bllodbath I'd take selling the components themselves back. My most recent example is shadewood bows.

The staff costs 359.0.9.9. A rough recurve bow sells for 244.7.7.1. The staves themselves resell for a little less than 110 (not positive on the exact price).

I was finishing up fletching and had been averaging one skillup per 20 or so tries. I was at 247 so I bought 40 staves. For once the RNG liked me and I was left with 22 staves. I could resell tham at once and take a loss of almost 4500pp or combine them all into bows for a loss of 'only' about 2500. That just seems messed up.

The idea that this restocking fee was to ensure that vendor dropped loot was sold to PCs rather than vendors seems to ignore the existence of the bazaar. There's no more person to person there than with almost any NPC vendor. It may have been valid once but it's not a real driver now.

They're so busy fixing prices to make sure that macroing isn't profitable, maybe they could fix this too.

[Silverfish]

Rstocking Versus Disbursement

Cragzop wrote:

"The staff costs 359.0.9.9. A rough recurve bow sells for 244.7.7.1. The staves themselves resell for a little less than 110 (not positive on the exact price).

I was finishing up fletching and had been averaging one skillup per 20 or so tries. I was at 247 so I bought 40 staves. For once the RNG liked me and I was left with 22 staves. I could resell tham at once and take a loss of almost 4500pp or combine them all into bows for a loss of 'only' about 2500. That just seems messed up."

Well, you could sell them in the Bazaar or through /auction for 300 each. Some other fletcher saves a good bit on his own end run, you get much better resale value than for the bows (and no failures) and you actually interact with another player, which is what SOE has always stated their goal to be. The argument that the Bazaar is no more personal than a merchant is only partly correct, because even if you're not at the keyboard when the purchaser shows up, you know who bought them, and you may actually interact with them, too. I agree with you that there could be more consistency in sellback prices, but still I think that anything that suggests a player-to-player interaction isn't a bad thing.

Silverfish

[Cragzop]

I agree that player to player interaction is a good thing. I just think saying the bazaar is a form of it is a bad thing.

You are right, I could have sold those bows (very slowly) at 300 each in the bazaar, if I'd had 20 open slots.