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Thread: Highway Robbery?

MrJango
Tue Jan 27, 2004 10:23 am
#1

I'm selling Swoops for 32K. Considering the resources would sell for 24K @ 3cpu, the danger and time it take to harvest these resources (on Endor), the possibility of critical failure, and they have 60% experimental durability, is this too much?

I was accused of being a 'robbing b-a-s-t-a-r-d' today, but I thought my prices where pretty reasonable:


32K - Swoop, 28K - Speeder, 15K - Landspeeder.


any thoughts?



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NJ62
Tue Jan 27, 2004 10:33 am
#2

I sell all bikes for 5 cpu. But it depends on your server economy. So that puts my swoops at 40k. I don't think that's unfair considering the harvesting costs.



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LadyGrey
Tue Jan 27, 2004 11:20 am
#3

My prices are similar to yours. If someone complains about them, I offer to buy them a ticket to Moenia "because I've heard there's someone down there who sells them much cheaper." That's when they start calling me names.



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stryfex03
Tue Jan 27, 2004 11:35 am
#4

Meh. They can always buy it from someone else. This is why I don't sell vehicles. I'm much better off selling the resources.
ImpKleaner
Tue Jan 27, 2004 11:43 am
#5

Hope this comes out correctly.


Landspeeders Speederbikes Swoops


50%-69% 15k 25k 30k


70%-89% 20k 30k 40k


90%+ 30k 40k50k


This is what I charge.



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Bluude
Tue Jan 27, 2004 12:51 pm
#6

overcharging is not a crime. It is our duty to other crafters.


We all do it all the time to different degrees. If they do not want to buy they will go elsewhere. If they get upset at you just put them on ignore and move on.


It is not your job to be a slave to the PVP L33t boys that want everything for free and not work for any of it.


If people will pay 80k for a swoop on my server I will charge 80k.


Overchargeing hurts nobody, undercharginghurts all the other crafters of your type in your area.





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Areva
Tue Jan 27, 2004 2:16 pm
#7

Results of the last five inquiries I have had to make vehicles:


1) Can you give me a free speeder bike?

2) Can you give me a free swoop?

3) Can I a buy a vehicle for 4K?

4) My friend needs a bike and all I have is 4k. Can you make one for that?

5) I'm a newbie, can't you just give me one for free.


I no longer waste my time and energy and resourses on vehicles.


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WildmanHT
Tue Jan 27, 2004 2:44 pm
#8

Howdy


Your prices seem fine based upon that there 60%


I charge the following:

94% Swoops 40K

91% Speeders 30K

89% Lands 20K


I really dont even sell them anymore...I have em crated so i just give a /yell and if no one responds in a few minutes then I just move on.



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Tsuruchi
Tue Jan 27, 2004 3:27 pm
#9

Chilastra server.

Landspeeders 16k

Speeder Bikes 19k

Swoops 26k.

I experiment usually about 85%. (metals have been crappy lately)

I made most of my fortune on this. I usually sell all my stock on the weekends (fine with me, i can only play for about an hour or two a day during the weekday anyway)

I played with the prices, and this was what sells best and makes me the most profit. There are crafters that sell for more, and less, but people tend to come to me..But that might be because I spout jokes while hawking them in the starport.



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Velisimner
Tue Jan 27, 2004 4:34 pm
#10

what do you mean "the dangers of harvesting on Endor"? FYI endor isnt the only planet where metals hell even good metals can be found. personally yer prices are way high. i harvest my own resources so i sell me vehicles as follows;


Swoop bike - 24k


Speeder Bike - 18k


X34 Landspeeder - 13k


yea with my resources i made over a million on the day of the patch. thats fine by me. i laugh at people when they say they've got a certain resource and want 10/unit, i have even seen a resource go for 30/unit. this is down right disgusting. "hey its a rare resource" or "it has uber stats" so what it still costs the same to pull outta the ground, so why do you insist on gouging people? i friggin hate gougers. GAH!




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Tsuruchi
Tue Jan 27, 2004 4:49 pm
#11

Chilastra hasn't had anything with SR over 750 or so lately, but what ever. The product still Moves.



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stryfex03
Tue Jan 27, 2004 6:27 pm
#12






Velisimner wrote:

yea with my resources i made over a million on the day of the patch. thats fine by me. i laugh at people when they say they've got a certain resource and want 10/unit, i have even seen a resource go for 30/unit. this is down right disgusting. "hey its a rare resource" or "it has uber stats" so what it still costs the same to pull outta the ground, so why do you insist on gouging people? i friggin hate gougers. GAH!



What if it IS a rare resource? Duralloy Steel that hasn't spawned in over a month and a half, and happens to have stats in 850-950 range.. If I happen to have 200k of it, put it up for auction, and people keep outbidding each other until it goes to the 15-20 cpu range.. how is that gouging? I mean, I didn't set the price


Sure, it costs the same to pull out of the ground, but to the crafters, the good stuff is worth more. It's simple economics, really. More demand for the good stuff increases the price for it.
Kutan
Tue Jan 27, 2004 7:51 pm
#13

I sell 70 percent and higher Swoops For 15k. I still make good money and am not ripping people off





Thats why I sell one hundred a week


Kutan


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