Becomming your own merchant!!!Follow

ok me and a couple of my friends decided that were gonna make basicaly our own store that sells all kinds of the medium to low lvl items used for profesions(example Leathers, Cloths, Herbs and others)and so we were wondering if any of you had any good ideas on how we should do it. Will to take all critisim. PLZ RESPAWN.[quote][/quote]

There are lots of empty shops in all the major cities - actually setting up a player store in one would be pretty cool! It would be tough to get started - spamming the trade channels and general chat - but if there was always someone manning the store, the word would get around.

Good luck and I hope it works - I'd love to see it on Smolderthorn!

I like the idea of a shop but I think the AH provided a good shop for items as herbs, cloth and ingredients...

So I would say, turn the idea a little around..

Here is my version of the idea. In the mayor cities (later on, also in small cities) you have specialized shops that work as a real guild. (not guild like a clan but as a reallife gild)

guild also gild 
n.  
 
An association of persons of the same trade or pursuits, formed to protect mutual interests and maintain standards.  
A similar association, as of merchants or artisans, in medieval times.

In example, you have a gild/guild of leatherworking. The gild of leatherworking is a small group of people that is really putting some effort for leatherworking.

At the gild of leatherworking you can place a order. I.E. You can place an order for Devilsour Legging for XXg and if you want the complete set, it's for sell for XXg...

Within a week or so, you can come back and the set is finished.


The big difference with the AH is that these kind of specialized items don't always are for sale in the AH. If you have gild of professions, you simply can place an order so you don't have to wait for the spawn in the AH..

Plz give me your thought on this...

Edited, Fri Dec 23 09:48:32 2005 by tudclub

It would probably be a good idea for the merchant to have macros that list the materials needed for the most commonly asked-for items. That way, you could have two prices: one for the requestor supplying the mats, and another one for you having to go out and farm them.