Home Business - Customers wont buy anything
J. M. Pescado:
Quote from: Millikat on 2007 April 29, 01:31:26
I have just opened a home business (florist) but the customers wont actually buy anything.
They walk in, start to browse, get the buy bar above their heads briefly (lasts a second or two), and then either leave or just stand around.
Maxis's business spawner tends not to bother fixing the motives of sims, so they tend to show up and immediately leave again. Try using the complete business set for making businesses that function and attract relevant customers: Get Business Runs You, the Customer Selector, and all the macro tools.
Quote from: ZiggyDoodle on 2007 April 29, 12:34:36
Have you tried directing your Sim to show an item to a customer? Or reducing your prices to cheap?
My new businesses always use reduced pricing on opening day to build business perks and customer loyalty.
This is a lousy idea, really. You don't make enough money to even make it worth your time, and if customers just grab your stuff, they won't gain much loyalty since you can't sales them properly. You should instead crank prices way up so that customers will be pinned and can be salesed.
TaWanda:
I make sure there is always food and entertainment available at my home businesses, so that the customers don't wander off because of hunger or boredom. If I don't already have a decent relationship score I also do some chatting or joking before I go for the sell, it sems to work for me.
angelyne:
If the customers wander off because of an unfilled need they will have a bubble over their head indicating their displeasure.
Seems to me that your problem screams of hack conflict. Have you tried removing all your hacks to see if the problem still occurs??
Millikat:
Thanks for your replies everyone.
Ziggy Doodle - I have tried the sales interation, which works fine, they then just either leave or stand around. Sometimes they do start browsing again, but the buy bar only lasts a second or two and they still dont buy anything.
JM - I have your directors cut, so I do have all of the suggested hacks (I wouldn't run a business any other way). I don't use the customer selector though. I might give that a try
angelyne - The customers never have thought bubbles indicating low needs. I will try taking out each of my hack folders one by one now to see if their is a conflict. As mentioned before, I had already done this with my "miscellaneous" hacks which I presumed would be the source of the problem, but it wasn't.
UPDATE
Well, I have just removed my entire downloads folder and I still have the same problem. Could it be that something esle on the lot is advertising so strongly that it drops the browse action from the cue? I'm off to try removing things to see if this is it. The entire lot is locked off aside from the actual shop and I do have a pool and spa on the lot also.
Millikat:
OK, new post as the last one would have been way too long.
I just removed the pool and spa, didn't change anything.
I also went and opened a community lot business, which worked fine with no problems.
I then went and opened a business on another home lot (different sim) which also worked fine.
So it seems to be this lot specifically. This is incredibly annoying as it is my first legacy lot.
I think I have exhausted all options. Does anyone else have any ideas?
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