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I have a pretty flat price schem.

Quad Layer = 750k
Quad Layer Faction = 1mil

No layer = 500k
no layer faction = 750k

All my armor selling within 20 minutes of posting.

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Moge_Tira_Tru wrote:
I have a pretty flat price schem.

Quad Layer = 750k
Quad Layer Faction = 1mil

No layer = 500k
no layer faction = 750k

All my armor selling within 20 minutes of posting.

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Is this for a full suit, including gloves and boots... and how do you deal with peeps wanting custom colors?

yes that is a full set. All my orders are custom. What I did to make my life SO much easier was decide on what Armor I would and would not make. I now make only the following: Recon Energy, Assault Kinetic, unlayered Recon, Battle, Assault.

I made a run of 333 (1000segs) of unlayered cores for each. Then I made 333 Energy Recon and 333 Assault Kin Cores.

I post on the trades that I am taking orders and ask them to supply the type of armor, style or armor, layered or given layer for the type and colors they want.

Each order I make is custom, yeah I get a lot of questions and this and that but for 1 million credits I try and give my customers the personal touch. Many people are still getting used to the system so a little explanation is usually in order. Example, people want Assault Quad Energy (which I have actually made for 2 customers on a special order) I try and explain why you wouldnt want to do this etc etc but in the end if they want it Ill make it.

Limiting myself to X and Y armor is really nice. It allows me to work with other Armorsmiths and forward those orders over to them.

Honestly, if you can make high quality parts, I see a small B2B opportunity where one AS sells Armor parts wholesale to others. This way not everyone needs to have a huge inventory of supplies. If you are short on time, just make the parts, sell them wholesale to someone like me who has the time to work with people on a one to one basis. We both win.

Message Edited by AndJusticeForAll on 05-10-2005 02:26 PM

My pricing is as follows:

For unlayered stuff:

Recon goes for 250k a set, Battle for 350k a set and Assault for 450k a set. Again these are unlayered. I did a cost analysis and found that I could make a decent profit at this level for unlayered because I had harvested most of the organic and inorganic pre cu. It was the layers that killed me. I mean, it is 1,296,000 resources to make a full run of 1000 cores.

For layered stuff, It goes for quite a bit more.

For layered recon its 750ka set, for battle is 1 miil and for assault is 1.25 mil. Notes, these are all quad layered armors.

thanks alot for your pricing info ...

i do love the iportant custom ordering has gotten .. no more boring mass producing of composite ..

and man you can make some VERY nice loking armors .. espcially if u start to combine different

armor types parts ... :-) i made some pretty cool looking sets for some guildies with actually rather nice

protection on them.

thx again

CHeers!

S.

Message Edited by Garnax on 05-12-2005 10:53 AM

i charge 235k for unlayered suits, i base the price on 1000x the resource use for one slot on the item... ie a chest requires 50 hide and 50 metal or something so i charge 50k. It adds up to around 52cpu.

unlayered faction armor 1mill a suit
1.2-1.5mill for +180 health faction