The information below is for Kyronix and relates to my question about vendor fees. I have a small shop right next to the Zento moongate on one of those Asian shards that has a very, very small population. My shop is, as far as I can tell, the only shop on the shard selling most of these items. (There is another small shop selling a few power scrolls and a few artifacts. The owner for that shop, a very kind Korean player, is who gave me the ML minor artis to sell because I think he was also having trouble selling them at his shop in Luna.)
Below is a list of what I'm selling and their prices, in descending order by price. The only things that sell consistently are the spellbooks, empty rune books, BOD books, and scroll binders, and those at the rate of maybe 1 spellbook every other day and maybe 3 of the other items per week. The clothing bless deed and the PoF have been on a vendor for over a month now without selling. The +10 blacksmithing scroll has been on the vendor for maybe 6 months. I sell single LRC pieces very, very sporadically, maybe 1 or 2 pieces one week and nothing other weeks. Full LRC suits for 80k with decent mods and full resists also sell very sporadically, maybe 1 suit every 2 or 3 months, lately. Everything else just really doesn't sell at all, other than maybe a dye once every two months, a butcher's cleaver once every 3 months, a soulforge deed every 4 months. THP rents a vendor from me to sell holiday and anniversary items, cheap, and I don't think he's had a sale in the last 3 or 4 months, if even that.
I honestly just don't even know whether to bother with keeping the shop open. My whole intent with setting it up was to sell usable items to new and returning players at fairly low prices that were just enough to cover the cost of my time to get or buy materials to make the items or hunt for them. However, the sales have been so terribly slow I wonder if it would just make more sense at this point to mark everything as FREE and see what the heck happens and when everything is gone just close the darn shop, post on the shard's forum that I can provide starter items if someone wants them. Forget trying to be helpful with not only selling cheap usable stuff but also providing corrupted and crystal portals for people to use, a luck statue, lockpicking practice boxes, and dye tubs.
What would you do if you were in my shoes, Kyronix? I'd really like to know. I understand the concept of "supply and demand." However, trying to drum up more demand on a shard that has so few players, especially ones who need such lowly items, is pretty much out of my hands. Most "newcomers" to the shard are transferees from English-speaking shards using shard shields and toting along everything they could possibly need and then some. The population of active players who live in the country the shard was meant to serve also seem to have most everything they could possibly want as well.
So how do you price your items in this situation to make them appealing to an almost non-existent customer base of new/returning players in need of basic items, especially when you have the only shop on the shard selling such items? Would you drop the prices even further or just make the stuff free? Or would you even try to run a shop on a small, dead shard trying to provide some basic necessities to players who come back to play after years gone away or who get talked into playing by a friend or family member but don't have a lot of gold to buy things and don't want to spend RL money to buy gold on Atlantic and then transfer it back to the shard that is in your own local time zone? Honestly, would you even bother? I picked that shard to try the shop on because I saw a need there and figured I could help. Knew I wasn't going to get rich off it. But didn't quite figure it would be as absolutely dead as it's turned out to be.
PRICE / ITEM DESCRIPTION
250,000 clothing bless deed
100,000 powder of fortification
80,000 Human or garg LRC suits with 102% LRC, 32 LMC, 5 MR, 450 Luck, 80+/70/70/70/70+ resists
50,000 +10 blacksmithing power scroll
50,000 +5 mining gloves imbued with MR 1, LMC 5%, 18% LRC, and 12% physical and fire resists
50,000 boomstick
50,000 bronzed armor of the valkyrie
50,000 runed driftwood bow
25,000 aegis of grace
25,000 brightsight lenses
25,000 dungeons 1 marked rune book
25,000 dungeons 2 marked rune book
25,000 fel cities only marked rune book
25,000 fey leggings, elves only
25,000 robe of the eclipse
25,000 robe of the equinox
25,000 talon bite
25,000 tram cities & luna marked rune book
25,000 tram cities only marked rune book
25,000 various shields from shame with soul charge or eater mods
15,000 jewelry with 3 stat incr, 90 luck, SDI or DI
15,000 skill jewelry with various combos of 3 skills; +7 str, dex, or int; 90 luck
10,000 blade dance
10,000 bloodwood spirit
10,000 helm of swiftness
10,000 pads of the cu sidhe
10,000 quiver of rage
10,000 quiver of the elements
10,000 raed's glory
10,000 soulforge
10,000 wildfire bow
10,000 windsong
7,500 full spellbook with FC 1 or MR 1
7,500 natural dyes, regular colors
5,000 butcher's war cleaver
5,000 distillery
3,500 full mysticism spellbook
3,500 full necro spellbook
3,000 runed switch
2,500 50 enhanced bandages
2,500 blackrock stew
2,500 crystal ball of knowledge
2,500 large gargish bed
2,500 pet summoning ball
2,500 tasty treat
2,500 yellowtail barracuda pie
1,500 snake charmer flute, exceptional
1,200 10 enchanted apples
1,200 10 grapes of wrath
1,000 10 orange petals
1,000 10 rose of trinsic petals
1,000 18% LRC hats, masks with at least 10% physical resist
1,000 18% LRC garg earrings or necklaces
1,000 18% LRC verite, dull copper, or gold circlets
1,000 18% LRC barbed, horned, spined armor with at least 10% (human) / 15% (garg) physical
1,000 empty rune books, 20 charges
1,000 frostwood fishing pole, exceptional
900 empty rune books, 18 charges
850 10 resurrection scrolls
800 acid proof rope
800 bone machete
800 empty rune books, 16 charges
750 10 gate scrolls
650 10 mark scrolls
500 aud-char, exceptional
500 bamboo flute, exceptional
500 darkglow poison
500 drum, exceptional
500 exploding tar potion
500 fear essence
500 large forge
500 lute, exceptional
500 parasitic poison
500 scroll binder
500 shatter potion
500 tambourine, exceptional
450 10 recall scrolls
250 anvil
250 arcane bookshelf
250 arcane boots (24 charges)
250 arcane cloak (24 charges)
250 arcane robe (24 charges)
250 cello
250 cowbell
250 elven bed
250 elven dresser
250 elven forge
250 elven loveseat
250 elven oven
250 elven wash basin
250 empty BOD books
250 fancy couch
250 fancy loveseat
250 fancy wooden shelf
250 flour mill
250 gargish couch
250 hardwood table
250 invisibility potion
250 large bed
250 long table
250 long wooden table
250 loom
250 metal table
250 ornate elven chest
250 ornate table
250 plain wooden shelf
250 plant tapestry
250 plush loveseat
250 poppies dust (8 charges)
250 rustic bench
250 short table
250 small bed
250 small forge
250 spell channeling -29 mage weapons (human and gargoyle)
250 spinning wheel
250 stone oven
250 tall elven bed
250 ter mur style dresser
250 trumpet
250 water trough
250 wooden table
100 clippers
100 engraving tools, any type
50 alteration deeds (tailor, tinker, smith, carpenter)
50 bright green barrel cactus seed
50 bright green snake plant seed
50 bright orange bulrushes seed
50 bright orange poppies seed
50 bright red century plant seed
50 bright red ponytail palm seed
50 gargish cloth wing armor
50 plain campion flowers seed
50 repair deeds (tailor, smith, carpenter, tinker, fletcher, glass, masonry)
50 vanilla seed
