No Offer Cheap: Don't Give Away My Store!
Marvin Kosh:
The wholsesale discounts make it easier to make a margin on any goods that have to be supplied, so at that point you could justify dropping a price category if it makes a sale. But, and that's the point of this hack, selling cheap is a call you want to make yourself and not leave to a crappy AI that spams its sales socials without any kind of business sense ;)
witch:
Quote from: TheCheat on 2006 March 26, 15:41:57
This could be useful to me, but oddly enough, it doesn't matter. The "Offer At" Sales interaction never works correctly in my game, no matter who uses it.
If my Owner uses it, the Buy bar on the affected customer will rise and then fall back to its original level about 5 seconds later. Even if the interaction would have made a sale (where you hear the "ding"), the customer never picks the item up and ultimately the bar falls back to near-empty. The same thing happens when any Employees use it on customers.
I noticed that last night in a home business. Given other comments, I wondered if the success of the interaction depended on relationship, but logically 'sell cheaper' should depend least on relationship.
But mine appeared to be malfunctioning, I tried with family members and owner. I didn't have any employed sale staff. The basic sell works fine, so does dazzle, offer at cheap causes a drop in the customer sales indicator, I did not see a successful interaction. Sometimes I even got the gold swirly thing, then the bar would drop down to almost nothing.
Marvin Kosh:
I get that uneasy feeling that we'll find out that the lowering of the buy bar is some kind of feature, not a bug. Selling at a lower price does mean that you're more likely to get a Loyalty star, so perhaps as a means of balancing this positive effect it was decided that there should be the possibility that the customer walks away without filling their buy bar, thus wasting the sales social.
witch:
Thus making the sims illogical again, as IRL you are more likely to buy if offered a cheaper price. That is the basis for the whole marketing industry of course; the lies they tell to make us believe we are paying a cheaper price.
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