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The Main Problem With Reforge Shops ?
I am on Alexina, trying to set up a personal shop on Alexina, and I have come to accept Reforge Shops as a legitimate venture, but I have to ask... "Why cannot you all just use kiosks if your main shop is to sell goods normally prices under 1 million gold?" I do not understand why. Kiosks have a lower rate of sales taxes at 1%. You can use the Search Board to quickly find goods. Kiosks saves money on shop licenses. Kiosks have no limits. Their only flaws being that "you cannot price a good over 1 million gold (With reforges averaging a steady 400k, with special reforges usually being under the price limit as well) and space,which does not seem to matter when you can just put a new good in or make more alternate characters.
I never sold reforges before, so I have to wonder why everyone sells reforges in the Belvast Market Space, which is already more tightly packed thana can of Sardines, versus the relatively empty back wall of Dunbarton. (You can say no one goes there, but the search board hugely mitigates the actual need)
Am I missing something, because I am frustrated at not being able to sell relatively expensive goods that are well worth over 1 million in gold.
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Thank you impulse buyers. You make us very rich.
Even I've formed the habit, with how much I tend to have. Things I'm often after are expensive and only appear in Belvast.
More people around, especially those with a lot of gold, will always mean more potential customers.
Even with the presence of taxes, this can be a smart tactic for faster sales.
Even when my shop has items of low value, I still find myself setting up in Belvast for more potential customers.
That being said, potential customers would seem to die down through the arduous checking of every shop versus the ease of access for the board. When I go search for holy water, I do not go for Belvast, I go to Belvast for expensive clothing and goods. Dyes when shops are clearly labeled as such or when I am desperate, but then I am relatively angered they did not just set up a kiosk.
It seems to be an inefficient method of selling stuff that continues due to the cycling existence of the status quo despite the presence of better options. I think I understand now, but I just think it is stupid.
I mean, why would not anyone want to search up the search board? It is because reforges are sold in Belvast. Why? Because people do not use the search board.
SHEER LUNACY.
I would use the search board more if 90% of the items I'm after were ever placed on it.
That, and not everyone is able to get a house for the board, so it is typically far less reliable.
I meant kiosks, which also use the same board, but a different tab, to which there is clearly room on the backside of Dunbarton and Belvast, which would greatly mitigate the need for good shop placement with the board doing the work for you. It is only used for goods not worth over 1 million gold individually.
In terms of gold, I think I make the same amount selling in Belvast, if not more. Depends on the day. Some days are good for sales, some days not lol.
That is true, though this post mainly refers to Alexina, as every server cannot seem to fill Belvast in their respective market channels (Ruari and Tarlach can fill about half). Not sure about you Marians.
To me kiosks make more sense for massive numbers of small items, and I've never had trouble with that.
Yeah, but funny thing... I can (and do) check kiosks from Belvast using the board. They may not be great for browsing anymore, but they're perfect for large numbers of smaller items.
That is the point of this thread. Kiosks can sell anything under 1 mil and be restocked endlessly, on top of space on Alexina being available.
Reforge shops are just being 24/7 space hogs when none of their goods needs to be sold at Belvast, due to the recurring cycle that neither side is willing to break.
In any case, would you not have to refill the bags in general?
If you have a 10x10 dev cat bag you can basically sell all of your reforges at once using a merchant licence. Where kiosks are only like 1/4 of the space?
Sorry making alot of guesses here.
If you sell reforges for 325k you can sell 61 of them in a belvast shop before needing to switch out your licence. So basically your entire stock in one go. But a 100 slot bag can only hold 25 slots of hammers. Which forces you to either put them in stacks or hide the rest of your stock.
Kiosks have a space of 50 slots and also can only hold 10 hammers at one time. Idk my math might be off but you basically get 2.5x more space to sell reforges in a shop than you do in a kiosk. So i can see why they are using the shops instead. Unfortunately i couldn't find a shop with single reforge it to test my theory at all, however it seems that all the reforge shops are using item bags that can only hold 12 hammers at a time. So basically they are using shops to sell an additional 2 hammers.
I personally think that no one even knows about kiosks in Belvast and that's why people don't use them. You could go with the whole bots are selling the hammers thing so they don't know about kiosks, but it could be players selling them that don't know about kiosks as well.
TLDR; I think people have bags that sell more hammers per time or that they don't know about kiosks in Belvast.
(Where are these when you need them? wiki.mabinogiworld.com/view/Belvast_Kiosk)