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Thread: Harvesters delivery difficulties
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OIWatson
Thu Jan 06, 2005 5:00 pm
#1
I just want to sharemy luxury problem frustration to all my fellow architect colleges.
Beingan architect now for1 1/2 month on theFarStarserver with focus selling heavy and medium harvesters from my vendors. This period has been really lucratve with a really high income.
My problem is that I cant keep up delivering this high amount of havesters in a long term.
Need to stay online almost everyday to supply the vendors enough stock to cover the demand.
I once restocked 25 Heavys, the next day i wasnt able to go online so got online 2 days after. Then my heavy harvester vendor was empty. Everything sold.
There are almost no other good resocked architect vendors, having all harvie types fully stocked, on the server. But its really taking alot of time and energy to keep up supplying what the marked demands.
Ashalph Freelight, FarStar
OIWatson
Thu Jan 06, 2005 5:04 pm
#2
btw, here are my prices:
- BER13 Mineral, Chemical, Flora, Gas - 130K
- BER13 Moisture Vaporator - 100K
- BER14 Fusion 135K
- BER10 40-55K
amI to cheap??
Message Edited by OIWatson on 01-07-2005 01:05 AM
Elyssa
Thu Jan 06, 2005 5:13 pm
#3
I've always found that the best way to deal with such a problem is to keep raising your prices until you hit a point where your items are selling at a rate that you are happy with.
They should sell fast enough to make you money but not so fast that you can't keep up with demand.
If things start selling a little too slowly, odds are that you've passed the point of equilibrium and you need to bring prices down just a bit.
It took me about3 months to find this point with furniture and I still adjust a little bit here and there as economic conditions vary.
Pawlin
Thu Jan 06, 2005 7:06 pm
#4
I've said before:
OIWatson wrote:
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amI to cheap??
No price is too high if your customers will gladly pay it and no price is too low if you make a good enough profit.
Guess I might add:
If you can't sell anything your prices might be too high and if you can't keep anything in stock then your prices might be too low.
I'd recommend raising prices until things balance out some and you can settle down to a pace of production and sales that suits your personal fun level.
While back over a year ago my prices were fairly low and my sales via orders were so good that I had a week backlog and had to turn away customers. I worked all the time to fill orders and I couldn't think of keeping my vendor stocked. So I raised prices 10%. That price hike and the combination of the economy cooling off gradually put me into a situation that was more confortable and still reasonably good sales volume.It was just the thing I needed and I'm glad I did it in hindsight.
So try knocking up the prices around 10% and see what happens.
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