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Shop keepers have to be knowledgeable in many things.
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That is important, not only in game, but in real life. If you want to be successful, you need to do your homework and really know your business well.
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Yes, we store people must:
Be so alert to the everchanging prices. <font color="red">
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We must not hide or go afk even to go to the bathroom or answer the phone.
We must greet every visitor and be understanding when they do not respond.
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We must feed ourselves hundreds of simoleans a day of food when not hiding so we are not accused of cheating. We must take this in stride since it is expected what we are superhuman.
We must be understanding of the customer who accuses us of cheating them when we tell them that one bookcase that used to cost $475 is now over $8000 because the customer cannot see the catalog.
We must not copy or resell custom content or any images on the internet.
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We must be perfect.
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Gee, sarcastic much? Only three of those are even close to correct, as noted by the red asterisks.
Yes, as a customer service agent (as is anybody who works in a store in RL or in-game) you have to be
somewhat understanding of people who do not respond to greetings, and yes you must be
somewhat understanding of those who are leary of the fluxuating prices, for just the reason you stated. They can't see the catalog, and scammers abound, so can you blame people for being caught off guard if those prices really fluctuat from day to day as much as you say they do in EA Land? If you went to Best Buy and a DVD player was $150 and you went in the next day, or even a couple weeks later and that same DVD player was now $500 when the previous price had not been advertised as a special sale would you not at least have this expression on your face
if not
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You might not scream from the rooftop that Best Buy was scamming people on DVD players, but if it were me I'd at least be interrogating that salesclerk or store manager pretty hard. Putting players names on profiles as scammers is a violation of both the RoC here and the ToS of the game, so other than putting up with a bit of rudeness, and given the option to boot, ban and ignore that player, what is the big deal except a few minutes of aggrivation plus however much time it takes you to get over it?
As for being alert, yep, with prices fluctuating like they do every shop owner should go over the catalog, at least the popular selling stuff, to know what the current going rate for it is. That's just part of the duties.
And for the 50th time, afk'ing for bathroom breaks is not, nor never has been an issue, but why would you NEED to hide your sim if it was just going to be for that 5-10 minutes. If I landed at a store lot I'd be a whole lot more inclined to believe that the owner or roomie had just gone on a standard brief AFK rather than an extended one if he/she was out in the open and not hiding...I dunno if anybody else has that thought process or not, but that's the way I'd view it.
As for the food thing......seriously, do you realize how long you'd have to be sitting on that store lot to consume
hundreds of dollars of food? One buffet set at the beginning of the day and then put into inventory when you finish so you could continue to use it when you needed to green would give you 6 greening cycles. If somebody's trying to keep a store open longer than that per day with no roomies there to keep it open while you take a breather, then its no wonder people get burned out so quickly and resort to cheating to keep up the pace.
I'm beginning to wonder if there's not a reason to set a time limit on the number of hours a day a store can be open. It seems that doing so would serve to 'level' the playing field some, in spite of the cheaters. Say, I dunno, somewhere like 4-6 RL hours. Then when that time limit was up you'd get a notice that would allow all the sims who were not hidden and actually shopping to allow them to complete their last minute purchases (just like would happen in a regular store....at closing time they usually don't kick late shoppers completely out before they've had a chance to go to the checkout counter), and then after an additional 10 minutes has gone by the store automatically shuts down and can't be reopened till the next morning's maintenance. Those 4-6 hours can be taken at any point in the day.....the choice being the owner's or the roomie's whoever, but by doing this those lots that are currently unseen would not remain unseen, they'd have a chance to cycle in and at least get into the top 50 if not higher up on the list. Without the afk cheating being such an unfair advantage, players might not get in such an uproar about it, which would then in turn cause alot less drama here on the boards and in the game. It would still be somewhat of an advantage, but not as much of one because players could only do it for 6 hours a day instead of 22. Maybe it could also be said that no more than 2 sims can be hiding on ANY lot simultaneously to avoid somebody putting 10-20 sims in for that 6 hours RL, which would decrease the unfair advantage even more.
Anyway, there's really no reason to go to the opposite extreme to make it seem like people are encompassing cheating to include stuff that it so obviously doesn't include like having to take care of RL greening needs. Going that far with it doesn't make the actual points that *were* made look any more ridiculous, it just undermines your own credibility further, IMO.
