Bulk Goods/Warehouse | Plug Your Shop | Forum

idapotato said
Hey everyone, just throwing out a couple ideas for a shop I could open.

 

The idea would be bulk surplus goods for other shop owners that need to replenish their stock. Prices would be set to half of the going rate, setting bundle size to minimum purchase of 64.

 

"But potato! This sounds like you are trying to undercut everyone else!" 

 

That is what I don't want to get into. Things like that result in price wars, buyouts (hi sasha) and really mess with the economy. So I'm thinking a solution would be to have a door to the shop, and I could add only other store owners with the use flag so they may enter and exit freely, but block access to the general public. Kind of a membership warehouse mentality.

 

"Members" could let me know which items they tend to run short on, and I will have a focus on making these things available to them. I just started within the last week and I am just trying to think of a creative way I can make and fill a niche market.

 

Leave feedback here, for this idea or other voids you know of that I could fit into.

 

-idapotato

In all honesty, I find shops useless.  There's too many of them, too scattered, and often not stocked or up to date pricing.  If I need something, I find chat is the quickest and easiest way to get what I want without taking a half hour to locate shops and see who has it, then go through them again to find the quantity I want, and then again for the price I want.  So to conclude, I doubt many people would utilize your bulk shop as they just unload their spare crap, or product, and forget about it until someone tells them they're out.

Now if there was a web-based application that compiled shop info and listed it in categories, I think shop usage would be greatly expanded.

i th8ink this is a clever idea at least, but billy has a point. i notice that people either just post on the forums if they need bulk of a product or post in chat if they need something else. also, untill the plugin is updated and allows for all of the items that came with 1.2 and up, shops arnt exactly useful in many cases, plus the stuf i usually need in bulk are things no one sells, such as dirt or cobble. and those request ar better done in chat than in

i do use them if i need a diamond block or something like that, but i also find that many places run out when i go to buy from them, i think haveing the shops in the mall-like building off o the plaza is good for small things, but i feel too nmany people are just buying multiple shops and selling individual goods out of them that could easily be put into one shop. as well as with so many shops, some will run out fast. so i feel if people want to hold their shops, this idea would be awesome for helping them keep stock, but you will probably need to hire a few more hands to make this doable.

I think the main problem is that you can't stock shops with the newer stuff. It would be very conviniant to have a shop that sold all the enchanted tools, and another for potion ingredients. Sadly, I think that requires work on frelling's behalf and he is far to busy to focus on this.