Thursday, April 24, 2008

Buying and selling irritations

Today I wanted to discuss an irritation concerning my Fiesta experience, specifically when I have stuff to sell and I set up shop in Fiesta... and then nothing sells, I find that it irritates me and puts me in a somewhat irritable mood. I set up shop earlier today and just left the computer alone pretty much all day. Yet I sold very little. I have actually experienced this in real life when I trading stocks. I found that when my stock was doing poorly I was irritated. This is not something that I alone feel, as from some of the writings I've read about concerning the topic of investing the market can affect people's moods if we let it. I suppose the big thing I'm getting is that something I'm doing isn't working and the Fiesta economy is changing. I have put a lot of focus in selling one thing, Elrue, and I'm noticing that everyone else seems to now be selling Elrue and other such stones as well and are willing to make less of a profit than I, or they play more and gather more resources than I and produce their own. I find I'm more focused on the retail end of things where I look for people selling the product at a price comparable to what it would cost me to make it myself and then sell at a higher price later.
I think it's time to look at some other avenues
This, I find, is not an issue that is limited to just my Fiesta experience. I find when I get into one comfort zone where I know how things work, I don't branch out very much. This very concept is discussed in the short story "Who moved my Cheese?" This discusses two mice who are in search for cheese, they find a big stash and one of them gets comfy and the other enjoys the cheese but is out looking around the area keeping and eye out for more cheese. In a nutshell one day the Cheese is gone and the mouse who had been exploring finds other cheeses and the one that got comfy just sits and stews wondering why his cheese disappeared and when it was coming back. I thought it was a really great read and it's short so I encourage anyone to pick it up and take a look. Again though, the concept I'm working with is that there are other things that I can do to make money in the game and I really ought to be focusing on those things. I suppose one of the reasons I like the Elrue & stones sales is that it tend to be bigger money when all is sold and sometimes it sells quickly, but a lot of the time, especially due to the amount of competition, it seems to be going a lot slower. I'm actually thinking just raw materials would be the better thing to start selling. At least during the day. The bigger sales I'll leave for the night time where I can just set up shop and not worry about it till morning.

I'm feeling that having successes in my sales in this game is important because when people buy and I'm successful it encourages me to sell more and I find it quite exciting. Not only that but as my confidence builds I find I'm much more open to doing stuff in real life like Ebay sales. I've got something I'm planning on selling on Ebay soon and I feel if I can just get the first couple of sales under my belt I'll be in good shape because the initial fear will be over. We'll see :)

Concerning my Excel tool I'm pretty happy with it. Turns out there are still a few bugs to work out and some minor things that I'm adjusting before it works just the way I want it to. I had a chance to use it last night but I'm finding as a calculator it didn't work very well as I'm still getting used to it. I find that my original intent for the the tool is a reference point, which may take a little bit of work getting all the info in.

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