Selling Flower Arrangements Retail (Doesn't Work?)

I'm not sure what your mean with " not-really-there version". If you mean the vase, you can change the color by clicking on it. Are you making sure to set them for sale? By the way I found out you can make more money if you have a "yard sale table". You can sell with 300% markup instead of just 100% in retail stores. I make about 20k form a single flower arrangement! :D

See in the picture how the flowers are just long stick looking things? All of the arrangements look that way (in various colors) but the actual flowers aren’t showing. I appreciate the yard sale tip! I was actually hoping to set the flowers so that my non-flower arranging sims could buy them as gifts, though.

"LaurenLoser16;c-16602592" wrote:

"IceyJ;c-16602468" wrote:
That's weird. I have flowers for sale and they don't look like that; they look normal. So it happens immediately after you set them for sale?

Well, I built my own florist shop in one save, I had my sim create all the arrangements and set them for sale. I then sold the business so that it would be ran by NPCs (the florist is attached to a bakery with the same set up that works fine). The flowers are correct in that save.

I saved the lot to my library and added it to a different save. Flowers no longer look right. I thought maybe I set something up wrong, so I replaced it with a lot from the gallery which is where I got the screenshot. Obviously, it doesn’t work either.

So either something about saving the arrangements to your library/gallery doesn’t work or my save file is broken (somehow)...

Hope this makes sense :)

So, like how artifacts reverted to their unrevealed state after being saved to the library? Sounds like a similar issue.

"elanorbreton;c-16603296" wrote:

"LaurenLoser16;c-16603265" wrote:
Ah, yep. That’s how they look for me. Kind of frustrating Love Day is tomorrow and I’m sort of holding off playing as I was really hoping to buy flower arrangements as gifts. :(

Well, I just went in to test it out, thinking they might change after purchase, but no.

My sim bought a flower arrangement and gave it to his wife as a gift and it still looked the same. I took him back to the store again to see if the reset replacement for the one he bought looked abnormal and it did :(

So... not much point in having a flower shop then.

I’m hoping there is a way they’ll be able to fix it. I love the giving flower arrangements idea but not all of my sims will have that particular hobby. I need to be able to purchase them somewhere.

It looks like a game bug to me. If you like you can report the bug to EA at their bug report forum at https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/bd-p/The-Sims-4-Bugs.

That's weird, I had a sim selling flower arrangements in a shop and everything was normal. Or at least it looked normal to me from what I can remember.

@LaurenLoser16 @elanorbreton Try saving the (original, working) lot to your library without setting the flowers for sale. Don't set them for sale until after you've placed the lot in your new save. Does that work?

"IceyJ;c-16605990" wrote:
@LaurenLoser16 @elanorbreton Try saving the (original, working) lot to your library without setting the flowers for sale. Don't set them for sale until after you've placed the lot in your new save. Does that work?

Excellent idea! I’ll have to try that tonight. I’ll be sure to report back the results. :)

I know this is an older thread, but seeing as this bug still hasn't been fixed, I might as well add the AHQ bug report: https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/OPEN-S-All-Flower-Arrangements-look-the-same/td-p/7527527

Bump just to find out if I’m the only one with this issue or if it’s a known problem :)