I started my trader to help out friends and make a little money. At lower levels, I use to go to the BYs to see if there happened to be anyone willing to tip for a 40-50 wrangle. Of course, most of the time people are asking for the 132. I didn't have a lot of success then. I was originally a fixer. I know how it is to need a wrangle and it be hard to find one.
Now that I'm 100+, its gotten to be a bit of a headache. Well, really a big headache. I'm in that range where I have enough money and I would rather go get the items I need rather than buy them from people.
Don't get the wrong idea, although it does bug me to get AT LEAST 3, up to 10 tells when passing thru populated areas, asking me for a wrangle, I can't be mad at that because I know how bad it is needed sometimes.
But, most of the time I am on my way to go do a mission, get some supplies, talk to a guild member about something they need to discuss or something else. I will reply with "sorry, I'm busy ATM and I can't do that now, sorry again"
More times than not, I will get an "ok", no response, or "it's cool". But sometimes, people will get really nasty or say things like "just another selfish trader".
To those people, I'd like to say- what do I owe you? do you consider that there are quite a few other people asking me the same question at the same time usually? Do you realize that in most cases I can't just turn and hit you with the wrangle you need on the spot? I have to go to divest and plunder, recharge nano, stack more divests, more plunders, recharge nano, wrangle? That isn't a simple favor for someone you don't know and if I did that for every person who asked for it, I'd never get anything done.
I play this game for the same reason that those people do. I enjoy it and have fun playing. I know that it may seem like a simple thing to do, but please, before you make a nasty comment to a trader who doesn't do a wrangle for you, think about it. How would you respond if you just got your 20th tell of the day requesting a wrangle and you had team waiting for you to get there? And on top of that when you try to say no in a nice way, they curse at you? What if you heard that a few times a day? All I'm asking is that those of you who get mean with a trader who doesn't wrangle you, take a minute and think how you'd act if someone was asking for several minutes of your time. Doesn't seem like much to ask? Well times that 20. Then multiply that times the days you play, or will play AO.
BTW, when I can, or do have the time, I do wrangles when requested. And to those of you who reply to a courteous refusal with a courteous response or none at all, thank you.
Xeraseus
