The Consignment Shop in General and its Relation to Experience

[Schipperke]

I think, as Saltypaws said, it is a bug in my game.  When I mouse over the register, the arrow with the flower shape comes up, but I can't click on it.  It can't have anything to do with already having things on consignment, as it has never worked for me.  I am wondering if it is because I am playing a pre-existing neighbourhood with the new venues added.  Will have to try another game and see what happens.  Thanks for all the input.

[Missa]

I had some problems in it in the beginning, but when I switched from painter to sculptor that seems to have helped. I was wondering about if you purchase the store through the real estate option I thought you could upgrade it like you can the library since the top floors are empty, but it says it is already at level 3. I didn't think it would help the profits to randomly add things. Has anyone else purchased it and done anything to it?

[LlamaMama]

I think I'll try to switch to another career and then back to self-employed/Inventing to see if it resets. If it's a fairly random bug, then hopefully  once cleared, it might not recur. There's nothing to lose, since I show zero Simoleons progress in the career. I'll let you know tomorrow if it worked.

That didn't work. I switched to self-employed Fishing and then back to Inventing. Same bug persists.

[Twinmum]

Is there a way to sell items in your sims family inventory at the consignment store? It seems I can only sell things that are in personal inventory, but I'm sure I've seen larger items there that can be bought.

Norma

*oops, I probably should have put this in the consignment store thread.

[Saltypaws]

Larger items that you want to sell that are in your family inventory should show up at the consignment shop.  I did find however that I could not sell household items.

[Pam]

*oops, I probably should have put this in the consignment store thread.

I merged it for you. 

[ik]

I am afraid my consignment store (in Sunset Valley) has gone buggy, too. In the beginning Cornelia Goth was at the register and I was able to put up several things (most of which were sold quickly). Now Holly Alto is at the register, and whenever I click on "Buy Items" (or whatever that menu entry is) my sim walks up to her, then drops the action from her queue, so I can neither buy nor sell anything at the consignment store any longer.

[jayseesee]

I've had the same thing happen, ik.  Try clicking on the register, hit "Cancel Consignment" and re-up them.  You may notice they don't sell right off, unsure what to do there.  Best of luck!

[Branr]

The problem that is causing the bugged consignment shop has been found by Twallan:

Crinrict provided a save-game with a consignment register failure...  That EA error is now being corrected by the latest version.

The issue:  When you travel to foreign lands, consigned items are automatically moved back into each sim's family inventory.  At which point the code promptly deletes the ConsignmentObjects list outright, rather than simply emptying it.
The result:  The next time you try using the register, the game bounces on the missing list.

Total EA bungle on that one...  I'm sure it will be fixed in the next patch.

He has also found a temporary fix, but since it is a mod, I won't mention which and where.

[Metropolis Man]

Branr, thanks for respecting the forum rules on mods. However, it seems to me there's more going on here than the bug resulting from traveling. I had issues with my da Vinci walkthrough character and he never traveled once. But, I'm sure EA's on it as we speak. (fingers crossed)

[Icemink]

I'm wondering if any one's encountered what I think of as the broken hearted bug. I've seen this in two different incarnations of Twinbrook. Basically at first I'm able to consign, but at some later point when I go back and choose the Buy option the clerk shakes his or head no and then a thought bubble of another sim and broken heart appear above their head and they start crying. At that point no matter when I go I can't consign. I did try with a less social Sim to have that Sim console the clerk but they were basically strangers and the clerk got mad.

The really funny thing was the first time this happened the Sim the clerk seemed to be brokenhearted over was my Sims husband who the clerk had never met.

Just curious if anyone else has seen this.

[bshag]

When the one time I was able to get into the official forum at sims3.com, I was looking at a post about the list of bugs ppl were making.  A SimGuru posted that this bug was definitely one that EA was aware of and was "looking into it."  (Unfortunately they really have a mess on their hands over there.)

[Branr]

Ok, upon checking, it turns out the bug Twallan fixed was with the buy window not appearing, nothing else.

[ik]

Ok, upon checking, it turns out the bug Twallan fixed was with the buy window not appearing, nothing else.

Well, it does sound like the bug I see in my game, and now that I think about it I am fairly sure that it started after my sim went to Egypt. Since I do not really care to load mods into my game I guess I will have to wait for EA to fix it and play without the consignment store until then. Thanks for the info, Branr!

[Saltypaws]

I have not been on a vacation yet since I installed Ambitions.  I am able to buy and sell things at the shop.  The only thing that is buggy is the career experience bar not moving when I sell.