Shop Help

[Hace Fresco]

Any insight into the goods store and baseline prices? Do employees automatically set profitable prices for items in the cabinet or break-even prices?

I've owned a blacksmith and goods store for >2 in-game weeks, but proficiencies for employees haven't increased - does that go year/year?

Thanks!

[Balrogix]

Proficiency is currently bugged, but all stores can still net you a pretty nice profit.

My suggestion: Forget about setting prices, and items, let the employee handle that. What you should do is either: Flood the stock with cheap and easy to acquire items, or put crafted items inside.
From what I could see, employees always put the items at the "base price" that they would be sold, then they barter with the clients.

[CoffeePot?]

The goods store is, from my experience, a touch and go sort of thing. I had to rely on customer feedback to find good prices and then base my prices off of that depending on what I wanted to focus on (brass gain or rep).

For example. I sold a few 4 star zinc swords that I made. I charged 15 brass each. When someone purchased one, I found that I got something like 30 rep from that one item, telling me that I could probably charge a good deal more for it.

12 hour days usually net me an average of 200 brass.

As far as employees go? I have no idea. The Goods Store is my only shop, and I run it by myself.

[Kalanthony]

i havn't had good luck with the good stores i bought a bunch of stuff and the employee set it way low causing like 400 brass loss also they like to sell things in 4 and 10s at a loss. My blacksmith shop has been very profitable, but im tired of the mini game as well.

[Hace Fresco]

Thanks for all the replies!

[FDru]

I pay my employees 1 brass per hour and make big money. It seems bugged cause giving them the wages they want just pisses them off in my case.

[Tom the Human]

It seems like their skills make a huge difference.

Both Ned Scrumpy and Hazel Nutt work for me, right now on alternating 9 hour days. I don't do much at the store at all, just popping in occasionally to check on stock. The days Ned works I'm profiting like 15-20 brass, but the days Hazel works I profit around 70-80 brass, just based on 1 week so far. I pay them both the 3 br/hr that is the default.

Thinking of hiring Ichabod Moon for the mornings. He seems to still go into the shop every morning like he owns the place anyway and his stats are awesome.

Side note, is there any way to rename shops? Mine is still called Moon & Sons (which I just got ).

[Son of Crom]

Originally posted by major tom:

It seems like their skills make a huge difference.

Both Ned Scrumpy and Hazel Nutt work for me, right now on alternating 9 hour days. I don't do much at the store at all, just popping in occasionally to check on stock. The days Ned works I'm profiting like 15-20 brass, but the days Hazel works I profit around 70-80 brass, just based on 1 week so far. I pay them both the 3 br/hr that is the default.

Thinking of hiring Ichabod Moon for the mornings. He seems to still go into the shop every morning like he owns the place anyway and his stats are awesome.

Side note, is there any way to rename shops? Mine is still called Moon & Sons (which I just got :lunar2020thinkingtiger:).

Activate ledger > All Ledgers > Click On Shop > Rename Shop

[Tom the Human]

Originally posted by Son of Crom:

Originally posted by major tom:

It seems like their skills make a huge difference.

Both Ned Scrumpy and Hazel Nutt work for me, right now on alternating 9 hour days. I don't do much at the store at all, just popping in occasionally to check on stock. The days Ned works I'm profiting like 15-20 brass, but the days Hazel works I profit around 70-80 brass, just based on 1 week so far. I pay them both the 3 br/hr that is the default.

Thinking of hiring Ichabod Moon for the mornings. He seems to still go into the shop every morning like he owns the place anyway and his stats are awesome.

Side note, is there any way to rename shops? Mine is still called Moon & Sons (which I just got ).

Activate ledger > All Ledgers > Click On Shop > Rename Shop

Thanks!

[torer]

And what about reputation? Why my sells give me negative reputation?

[Swimming Rock]

Originally posted by torer:

And what about reputation? Why my sells give me negative reputation?

That means you're overcharging and people are unhappy spending so much on the item. If you undercharge, you get positive reputation. I don't really need money, so I sell everything for a couple brass. Selling a GummyYum Pie for 5 bucks gets me like 50 Rep each time to level up my store :)

[Niwoh]

Yes, employees set decent prices, so you can just dump your items into the box and leave.
If you have a big stack of an item though it's worth fiddling with the price, as that stack will stay there and keep the price for a long time.

The real secret to high profits, especially for the goods store, is to get the skill in the ledger that makes named npcs pay more for items depending on how many hearts they have.
Obviously for that you also want as many hearts on as many npcs from around the region where your store is as possible, but it's well worth getting the skill even if you don't have that many hearts yet.

[CoffeePot?]

Originally posted by Failzz:

The real secret to high profits, especially for the goods store, is to get the skill in the ledger that makes named npcs pay more for items depending on how many hearts they have.
Obviously for that you also want as many hearts on as many npcs from around the region where your store is as possible, but it's well worth getting the skill even if you don't have that many hearts yet.

Ah, I was considering that one for my next perk point. Its either that or save up for the rare goods order unlock, I think.

[Richard]

ya i swear general shop the cheapest but the lowest income imo. blacksmith good money thou.

Originally posted by CoffeePot?:

The goods store is, from my experience, a touch and go sort of thing. I had to rely on customer feedback to find good prices and then base my prices off of that depending on what I wanted to focus on (brass gain or rep).

For example. I sold a few 4 star zinc swords that I made. I charged 15 brass each. When someone purchased one, I found that I got something like 30 rep from that one item, telling me that I could probably charge a good deal more for it.

12 hour days usually net me an average of 200 brass.

As far as employees go? I have no idea. The Goods Store is my only shop, and I run it by myself.

why sword there?

Originally posted by Kalanthony:

i havn't had good luck with the good stores i bought a bunch of stuff and the employee set it way low causing like 400 brass loss also they like to sell things in 4 and 10s at a loss. My blacksmith shop has been very profitable, but im tired of the mini game as well.

get workers lol.