Labor prices

[JustPlainLucas]

I'm thinking of just opening up a PF shop and start selling things directly instead of dealing with MB undercutters and waiting for things to sell. My question to shop owners is what do you usually charge for your labor? Do you charge a certain percentage of what current MB price is? What about batch orders? How much do you charge per item? Melds? Do you give discount prices to people who have their own mats?

[Shneibel]

2 stars with your own mats is flat 30k fee/piece -> but now I only take tips = pay w/e you want
Meld before is 5k , some ppl sharge 2k/meld (tht mean if you need 2 meld on an item that ll be 4k) -> but now I only take tips

End of the day : only take tips, I dont sell anymore

[JustPlainLucas]

2 stars with your own mats is flat 30k fee/piece -> but now I only take tips = pay w/e you want
Meld before is 5k , some ppl sharge 2k/meld (tht mean if you need 2 meld on an item that ll be 4k) -> but now I only take tips

End of the day : only take tips, I dont sell anymore

You know, the funny thing about this is it seems no one tips for melds anymore. The past several times someone wanted melds, I offered to help, meld and then wait for tips and boom, they left. Feels weird asking for tips, though. Seems like I should just straight up charge people so there's an understanding upfront that I expect gil for my services.

[Estellios]

You know, the funny thing about this is it seems no one tips for melds anymore. The past several times someone wanted melds, I offered to help, meld and then wait for tips and boom, they left. Feels weird asking for tips, though. Seems like I should just straight up charge people so there's an understanding upfront that I expect gil for my services.

Doesn't the request meld window allow them to add a tip that you can see before melding? If i get melding tips it's usually through that. If you do expect gil then yes you should mention that so there are no hard feelings and there is nothing wrong with asking for money in return for your time.

For selling things, I just charge what I normally would if I put it up on the boards (so a bit of an undercut) as getting rid of an item that way means you can avoid a price war and you don't have to wait for the item to sell so I think it's fair as they are helping you out just as much as you are helping them.

When people want crafts or melds, I don't ask for anything if they supply their own mats including crystals/carbonized matter but people on my server are usually very insistent on giving me money as a thank you.

[monochromicorn]

i dont have all my crafting up, but i have 2 lv 50s, and for what i can make, if the mats are provided, its always free. there are some things i offer, like the madmans whispering rod, for free, if i can gather all the mats and its easy to make, but i ask people that look like they need it( no 50s, close to the lv that can equip it).

if i can gather the mats, its a low price, but it varies depending on the lv of item and HQ/NQ. if i cant gather the mats, i either charge the price for the mats and the labor.

essentially, if all the mats are provided, shards/crystals included, its free, if i have to gather something to make it, its a relatively low price, i say it like that because im not going to charge 1k for a HQ lv 40 item when i have to collect half the mats. if i have to pay for anything, its the price of the item i bought and the price for labor.

[Riepah]

Kindly keep your "shop" out of the PF. The Party Finder is supposed, as the name implies, to help people find parties. It is not an advertising board.

[Failia]

Kindly keep your "shop" out of the PF. The Party Finder is supposed, as the name implies, to help people find parties. It is not an advertising board.

I wasn't aware that his advertisement was impeding your game play. Does that also mean that FC recruitment should be kept out of PF as well? And your post implies that there's a certain limit to how many parties can show up in PF. If so, what is it?

[Azure_dragon-]

I wasn't aware that his advertisement was impeding your game play. Does that also mean that FC recruitment should be kept out of PF as well? And your post implies that there's a certain limit to how many parties can show up in PF. If so, what is it?

Don’t forget primal sells and win trading

[JustPlainLucas]

Kindly keep your "shop" out of the PF. The Party Finder is supposed, as the name implies, to help people find parties. It is not an advertising board.

Tell you what. You find me where in the ToS that says I can't advertise my services in the Party Finder, and I won't.

[Xystic]

Tell you what. You find me where in the ToS that says I can't advertise my services in the Party Finder, and I won't.

Its fine with 1 or 2 people but if you get 5,000 people to do it, whether its in the ToS or not, PF will be the new MB.

Most the times, if your advertising on the PF, your also on my Black list.

Sorry~ Don't want to promote turning PF to a MB.