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Beware the Market Vendor

Uncle John (GB1)Uncle John (GB1) GB1 Posts: 11,004
edited 23.08.2015 in Most Discussed Topics
The organic Market Vendor offered me a ? for $150,000.
I gave him $150,000
He gave me 10 standard pig feed!!!!!!!!!!!!
I was done!!
Last pig in a poke I buy!!!!
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  • Jiesta (NL1)Jiesta (NL1) Posts: 6,557
    edited 11.08.2015
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    Not good Uncle John, can understand your frustration!! Thx for the tip, will beware the guy!!
  • monica1230 (US1)monica1230 (US1) Posts: 370
    edited 11.08.2015
    for my mystery buy I got 250 cabbage for 150,000 no more mystery buys for me
  • cccx5cccx5 Posts: 14
    edited 11.08.2015
    I also having problems with same thing wont let me finish the order
  • Farmer Loki (US1)Farmer Loki (US1) Posts: 125
    edited 11.08.2015
    I wonder if that's a glitch or something...it's weird, tho, because even tho they won't let me finish the order, when I logged on today, I had 2 different people with money for me. Not sure what they paid me for, since I still haven't been able to complete the order and I wouldn't think that I would get paid until I have completed it. I'm confused.... I hope they fix whatever it is--I wonder how many other people are maybe having this problem?

    OH!! Update!! NOW i just got paid a ton of money by another farmer--for almonds and flowers and i didn't give them ANY of those---???? I'm not complaining, but it's weird...
  • Gumbyfoofs (US1)Gumbyfoofs (US1) Posts: 117
    edited 11.08.2015
    We really need some directions and instructions on how all this works. I understand if we click the bubbles we sell stuff for the same price as if we went into farm management and sold it. but that other part... it is like Greek to me.
  • Lesley52 (GB1)Lesley52 (GB1) Posts: 1,590
    edited 11.08.2015
    The organic Market Vendor offered me a ? for $150,000.
    I gave him $150,000
    He gave me 10 standard pig feed!!!!!!!!!!!!
    I was done!!
    Last pig in a poke I buy!!!!

    Yes I gave $150.000 got 10 chicken feed,someone else got WoF token so this part is you pay their price,you take your chance and lady luck may smile on you
  • Ozzie (AU1)Ozzie (AU1) AU1 Posts: 524
    edited 12.08.2015
    I'm not touching the organic market at all. Orders from people want everything of the item that they are asking for from your barn. They don't ask for 50 pigs, they want them all. You can't give them some, it's all or nothing.
    Stay away from the market or it will rob you blind!!! :(:(

    Edit: A customer in line has just robbed me of 664 almonds. I didn't even click on him. I want my almonds back as I'm never going to sell them to him.

    How do I retrieve them from him?

    2nd Edit: Magically the tick over the customer's head for the almonds has itself disappeared just like our gold as compensation for the stuff up.
  • Susan N TreschSusan N Tresch Posts: 2
    edited 12.08.2015
    does anyone know where we can find instructions on this market part? I am totally lost with it So not going to fill any orders or do anything until somebody can explain it to me as to how it works
  • Kamilcom (GB1)Kamilcom (GB1) Posts: 1,499
    edited 12.08.2015
    The organic Market Vendor offered me a ? for $150,000.
    I gave him $150,000
    He gave me 10 standard pig feed!!!!!!!!!!!!
    I was done!!
    Last pig in a poke I buy!!!!

    Bad part of this deal. He does offer some rubbish trades. :)
  • Cookiie4meCookiie4me Posts: 655
    edited 12.08.2015
    does anyone know where we can find instructions on this market part? I am totally lost with it So not going to fill any orders or do anything until somebody can explain it to me as to how it works

    Susan, open the Farm Management tab. On the first new tab, Organic Market, there is a question mark at the bottom right of the tab, next to the transfer truck. Click the question mark and a Help screen comes up which shows you all the steps of the new market. I hope this helps. :)
  • edited 12.08.2015
    Go to the forum for the official announcements for the Aug. 4th update and then the discussion for the same for all the info we have on the Marketplace.

    Here's the link:

    http://en.board.goodgamestudios.com/bigfarm/showthread.php?143288-Update-August-4th-The-Market
  • Farmer Loki (US1)Farmer Loki (US1) Posts: 125
    edited 12.08.2015
    Gumbyfoofs wrote: »
    We really need some directions and instructions on how all this works. I understand if we click the bubbles we sell stuff for the same price as if we went into farm management and sold it. but that other part... it is like Greek to me.

    I just noticed that too--I wanted to see if it was a better deal buying it from the dude with the bubble over his head, and it works out to exactly the same amount. I don't see the point in this unless we're going to make MORE with the other farmers buying our stuff. Wish this was explained better than what I'm able to find so far.
  • Pedantic77 (US1)Pedantic77 (US1) Posts: 3
    edited 12.08.2015
    I agree with you about staying away from the market. Did it for awhile, but not anymore. I wasn't making a significant amount of money and they wanted everything I worked so long to get. Never again!
  • edited 12.08.2015
    Totally staying away from this market too. Wish we could disable those annoying neighbours who are too close for comfort
  • Farmer Loki (US1)Farmer Loki (US1) Posts: 125
    edited 12.08.2015
    Oh wow! Now I have more farmers who want a ton of cherries and stuff I need to make other stuff...would be better if I used them for the fruit pies and I would make more on the pies than selling them--plus they're asking for 2 other items. Don't think I'm doin' this unless they want stuff that I can't use for anything else. Can't see how this is beneficial to anyone...wonder what the reasoning is behind all of this. Still can't get rid of the pigs that they won't take, even though the order is still asking for them.... I already gave them lavender essence; if I decline the contract, I lose that too....GRRRRRRRRRRR! FRUSTRATING!! Plus they seem to always be asking for an amount of products that is the equivelant to how much I need to make a certain thing, i.e. pie, soap, etc., that would be much better used to make said items. Also, said items are always the ones that take the longest to grow--cherries, citrus fruits, etc. Thanks, but no thanks, neighbor....

    The only thing I can think of is that maybe by selling stuff to your "neighbors", they get happier, and then you may sometimes get a bonus if you do this a lot and it gives you a good reputation with your "neighbors" so that you get more business from them, but so far, that remains to be seen.....hmmmm. Wish someone would address all of this.

    UGH!! :cursing: I just accidentally clicked on that stupid neighbor and ended up giving him MOST of my aloe vera gel----that is IT.X( X(X( X( NO MORE!! Takes TOO dang long to produce that stuff compared to what you get for it. Thieves!!! :cursing:

    NOW they want most of my honey.....no WAY!!! OMG---I didn't even click on the stupid thing--I clicked WAAAAY over on the side of the screen just to get the bubble thing to go away and it STILL took it!!! Not even anywhere NEAR the farmer person--I didn't click on it at all. If you don't want to get ripped off, don't go NEAR any of these things or you'll lose anything that they're trying to steal from you.
    Ozzie9 wrote: »
    I'm not touching the organic market at all. Orders from people want everything of the item that they are asking for from your barn. They don't ask for 50 pigs, they want them all. You can't give them some, it's all or nothing.
    Stay away from the market or it will rob you blind!!! :(:(

    Edit: A customer in line has just robbed me of 664 almonds. I didn't even click on him. I want my almonds back as I'm never going to sell them to him.

    How do I retrieve them from him?

    2nd Edit: Magically the tick over the customer's head for the almonds has itself disappeared just like our gold as compensation for the stuff up.

    SAME THING JUST HAPPENED TO ME!!! I didn't even click on the guy either and I got ripped off of honey and two other things. NO WAY. What a ripoff. Too bad our little farm worker guys don't come equipped with pitchforks or something to shoo these thieves off of our farms..
    THE FARMER'S MARKET IS EVIL.EvilSmile.gif.pagespeed.ce.UjKg82nnzE.gif
  • NissePlutt (SKN1)NissePlutt (SKN1) Posts: 48
    edited 12.08.2015
    OH. I never thought about the small guys ... i just clicked them... thought they bought stuff from me...
    Guess i won't click any of them anymore... Will warn all ppl in my coop also about that..
  • Farmer Loki (US1)Farmer Loki (US1) Posts: 125
    edited 12.08.2015
    They do buy stuff from you...but you have to be really careful about clicking on them if you're not sure if you want to sell your stuff to them. I was just checking to see how much they would give me for my products, and if you decide that you really don't want to sell it to them (like I said above, I didn't want to sell my honey to them but accidentally clicked on the screen---not even ON the little person--and it sold my honey to them anyway) don't go near them because it's too easy to click when you're not really wanting to sell your stuff. Now I gotta' spend 2 days making up all the honey I accidentally sold to them/got ripped off by them. They really need to do something about this, because it's just too easy to do this. I wish there was an option to not allow them on your farm if you don't want them there...
  • RunsWivScissors (GB1)RunsWivScissors (GB1) GB1 Posts: 6,633
    edited 12.08.2015
    Gumbyfoofs wrote: »
    We really need some directions and instructions on how all this works. I understand if we click the bubbles we sell stuff for the same price as if we went into farm management and sold it. but that other part... it is like Greek to me.
    I just noticed that too--I wanted to see if it was a better deal buying it from the dude with the bubble over his head, and it works out to exactly the same amount. I don't see the point in this unless we're going to make MORE with the other farmers buying our stuff. Wish this was explained better than what I'm able to find so far.


    When you buy from the neighbours, you also get a bonus of up to 20%, it depends on how fast you fill their order & then they have a smiley face with a tag saying what % you got :thumbup:
  • YanamuzhaChamp2YanamuzhaChamp2 Posts: 55
    edited 12.08.2015
    it's a trap -_- so, i cost 10 pigfeed for $100.000, which i can made it myself???? just realized it now -_-

    it's a trap -_- so, i cost 10 pigfeed for $100.000, which i can made it myself???? just realized it now -_-
    it's a big problem for lower level like me , which i have to work hard to find $ and it made me spent the 100.000 just for the 10 pigfeed

    Edit by PINJO: merged posts, please use edit button
  • edited 12.08.2015
    Latten posted this in the Official Announcements today at 8:50 CEST time.

    Alright, new update: Another rollback yesterday, as you probably noticed, to fix the cooperative issues (hopefully). Today there will probably be one final hotfix, and after that, we should finally be good to go ^^

    I haven't seen a hot fix yet on US1, so hopefully it will come soon and FIX THESE PROBLEMS!!!!! I'm not doing the Market until then.
  • Jiesta (NL1)Jiesta (NL1) Posts: 6,557
    edited 12.08.2015
    When you buy from the neighbours, you also get a bonus of up to 20%, it depends on how fast you fill their order & then they have a smiley face with a tag saying what % you got :thumbup:

    Scissors, don't you mean to say: when you sell to the neighbours ????????? I knew about 'how faster delivered, how better the bonus (from +1% to +20%), but I didn't know that you could buy from your neighbours, too???

    I am getting confused now, please bring some light! THX ^^
  • RunsWivScissors (GB1)RunsWivScissors (GB1) GB1 Posts: 6,633
    edited 12.08.2015
    Jiesta wrote: »
    Scissors, don't you mean to say: when you sell to the neighbours ????????? I knew about 'how faster delivered, how better the bonus (from +1% to +20%), but I didn't know that you could buy from your neighbours, too???

    I am getting confused now, please bring some light! THX ^^



    I have had some that want cash for stuff and others that want stuff for cash, its hard to know what is a good or bad deal till after you have filled it & then find out any bonus, so I am not loving them so far. I will give them a chance & see how it goes, but only a couple have managed to tempt me. ^^
  • Jiesta (NL1)Jiesta (NL1) Posts: 6,557
    edited 12.08.2015
    OK - THX Scissors - I understand now what you meant.....

    And agree with you - up until now I am not that fond of my neighbours as entrepreneurs, either. Much better to just ask them over for drinks and a chat ;) ... but took the same decision to give them a chance....

    So far, I let the majority of them leave again, and sometimes I'm tempted to take the advice of DuffyPoo: send my dog after them!
  • Farmer Loki (US1)Farmer Loki (US1) Posts: 125
    edited 12.08.2015
    Another thing I absolutely HATE about the market is where it's placed. RIGHT next to my fence, which is where everyone usually has a bunch of their stables and other stuff that we normally have to click on when we feed/fertilize/etc. our animals, fields, etc. It makes it WAAAAY too easy to accidentally click on the stupid neighbor who's trying to rip me off of all my produce and stuff that takes forever to harvest when I don't want to sell it.

    WHY can't they put it someplace like where the horse barns are, where, if you WANT to sell them your stuff, you have to purposely go all the way over to that in order to make a transaction?? By putting it where it is right now--where the garage was--it's in your face and impossible not to see it every time you have to harvest something that's next to the fence. I'd rather they move it to the horse stable area. I've already accidentally clicked on the neighbors at least 3 times and sold them stuff that I didn't want to sell because of the location of the market. I HATE this stupid thing. Either move it somewhere that you have to make an effort to get to it, or give us the ability to block the neighbors from coming to our farms.
    Jiesta wrote: »

    So far, I let the majority of them leave again, and sometimes I'm tempted to take the advice of DuffyPoo: send my dog after them!

    EXACTLY!! We need an option where we can chase them off if we don't want them on the property...

    OH---one more thing---WHY can't these stupid farmers ask for things that are easy to grow/produce/etc.? Like pigs, donkeys, eggs, corn, etc.---all they ever want is all my stuff that's expensive and takes either hours or DAYS to grow---cherries, honey, fruit cakes, etc.---whatever is the most costly/takes the longest to produce. I need those things a lot more in cakes, soaps, etc. than I do selling them for a measly price just because these beggars show up on the doorstep looking to rip me off....:cursing:
  • Chinpo ()Chinpo () Posts: 3
    edited 12.08.2015
    I was wondering about this too. I wonder if the vendor has any good deals. Tried him twice. 1 standard humus for 100K, some cabbage for 150K. In the help it says you will "He doesn't always tell you what he has, but you always get a good deal from him." Good deals my behind.
  • Pingo42Pingo42 Posts: 537
    edited 12.08.2015
    I got 30 XP from the vendor this morning for my $150,000. I didn't mind that deal. :)
  • Farmer Loki (US1)Farmer Loki (US1) Posts: 125
    edited 12.08.2015
    Chinpo2 wrote: »
    I was wondering about this too. I wonder if the vendor has any good deals. Tried him twice. 1 standard humus for 100K, some cabbage for 150K. In the help it says you will "He doesn't always tell you what he has, but you always get a good deal from him." Good deals my behind.

    From almost everyone I've heard from on here, his "deals" ain't worth squat. Especially when you're paying good money, i.e. 150K, for cabbage and corn that you could easily grow for FAR less.....
  • monica1230 (US1)monica1230 (US1) Posts: 370
    edited 12.08.2015
    Mystery buys - I have only seen a couple good ones listed here. I can add to the bad ones as someone in coop got 60 corn for 70,000 and another got the 1 humus for 150,000. I can see it is a game of chance but I fear that a buy like this will cripple a lower lvl player, because that is a huge amount of money for a small farm.

    Sells-Most are crazy high #s, will deplete barn stock in no time and leave you working for days to refill the pantrys. Some are things I hate to make, like pasta gift baskets. If the # was smaller it would be better. There is a bonus box on the market page of farm management, I have yet to get any # in it. I did get some bonus from a Neighbor, but I prefer to call the walkers as they are crazy greedy with their huge requests for little to no increase in profits.

    Sells - I have had or heard of a few good ones like selling PIG FEED (can you tell I was exicted?) to get that one, since I make it at a loss more often than not I jumped on that one who cares what the price was, lol. Honeydew is another good one, I gather more than I can use everyday so this too was a welcome sell.

    I think the market has potential it just needs some major tweeking to make it fair, I really really hope the amounts I am seeing are based on my lvl because those new to the game will quickly cripple their farm and their boat order filling.
  • Farmer Loki (US1)Farmer Loki (US1) Posts: 125
    edited 12.08.2015
    monica1230 wrote: »
    Mystery buys - I have only seen a couple good ones listed here. I can add to the bad ones as someone in coop got 60 corn for 70,000 and another got the 1 humus for 150,000. I can see it is a game of chance but I fear that a buy like this will cripple a lower lvl player, because that is a huge amount of money for a small farm.

    Sells-Most are crazy high #s, will deplete barn stock in no time and leave you working for days to refill the pantrys. Some are things I hate to make, like pasta gift baskets. If the # was smaller it would be better. There is a bonus box on the market page of farm management, I have yet to get any # in it. I did get some bonus from a Neighbor, but I prefer to call the walkers as they are crazy greedy with their huge requests for little to no increase in profits.

    SO true. A lower level player could totally be wiped out by this---I'm not at a lower level, but I still had 2/3 of several of my stock wiped out when I accidentally clicked to sell them. NOT GOOD. I have to spend days to make up for that; if I were a lower level, I'd be practically starting all over again. Plus I would much rather use what they're asking for to fill the boat order, too.

    P.S. Instead of "neighbors", I prefer to call them "grifters"....3.gif
  • wkemp (US1)wkemp (US1) Posts: 1
    edited 13.08.2015
    I have hovered over the little man and nothing happens. No offer, no nothing.
    Post edited by wkemp (US1) on
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