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6 years ago

[GTW] Unable to ring up customers

Product: The Sims 4
Platform:PC
Which language are you playing the game in? English
How often does the bug occur? Often (50% - 99%)
What is your current game version number? Dk
What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? All except SV and IL
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Make a retail store and wait for customers to be ready to buy.
What happens when the bug occurs? I get the notification that customers are ready to ring out but nothing appears above their head.
What do you expect to see? I expect to see the cart icon above their head giving me the option to ring them out.
Have you installed any customization with the game, e.g. Custom Content or Mods? Not now. I've removed them.
Did this issue appear after a specific patch or change you made to your system? Neutral/Not Sure 

I have removed ALL CC and mods to test and it still did the same thing. I get notifications that customers are ready to be rung out but no cart appears above their head. They then just linger around the bakery and never leave while their same notification to ring out pops up over and over for everyone in the store. But, for every four people that it glitches on, one will actually work so not sure why. This is a retail bakery lot with food items being sold. If I'm open for ten hours usually I will only complete about three purchases when normally the amount would be triple that. 

Customers say they are ready to be rung up but then no cart appears above their head and they just linger around the bakery and never leave. 

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  • The customers are ready to buy, but the grocery cart icon does not come up. I have bull dozed the whole lot and waited a few days and added it back. I also started a new game and added the lot and still same issue. I get a message they want to buy, but need the grocery cart icon to ring them up. I talked to EA but they just repeated all the steps I have described. They also wanted to know if the sim lives at home or travels to the retail lot. My sims travels to the lot. Any more ideas, I could try. I have newest version of the game. I had the Get to Work pack for a long time, this is just the first time I bought a retail store.....I read the thread and togged off the items I had for sale in the display frig but shopping cart still does not show up. Anyone have any other solutions? I have never had any CC on my game.

  • It's been a while I'm having this exact same problem and I can't figure out how to fix it. "People want to check out and pay but the icon doesn’t show over their heads and I can’t ring them up. This other icon shows instead which looks like their footing is blocked." Once in a while I can ring up a client or two but 95% complain like the way is blocked (it isn't), even though they are willing to buy already. It's really frustrating, I've been trying every few days to see if it's fixed but nothing so far. I had a fridge for costumers on the lot at some point, not anymore. Selling flower arrangements. Another weird thing that happens when I take too long to replace a sold item is that the sold sign turns to ash. Has anybody figured out what's going on?

  • I was running a successful pie shop fine and this randomly started happening. I didn't add anything, I didn't change anything. I repaired my game and removed my mods and it is still happening. I do not have the lice freezer. Just display cases. I scrapped my whole lot and put in a completely new one, and it was working, I changed some things in build/buy, and then issues again. Waving like they can't reach something that was completely fine before.

  • So I don't know why this worked but it did. I saved my store lot in my library. Bulldozed the entire lot. Re-placed my just saved lot from library save. It seems to have fixed things for now.

  • I also have this issue, how has this not been fixed yet? back after years not playing and wanted to have a store and i get all the notifications for sales but no icon or ability to interact with the customers to sell stuff.

  • TheSimsDirect's avatar
    TheSimsDirect
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    2 years ago

    Hello All,

    If any of you are still encountering this on the latest game version (without mods), would you be willing to share your save file(s)?

    If so, please send me a private message with a link to the file.

    Instructions here: http://x.ea.com/74420

    Thanks!

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