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Hi,

I've been selling a fair few resources on the bazaar, but I've had a couple of players come to me trying to buy in bulk.

Is there a guideline on pricing resources? On the bazaar I usually stickwith prices similar to what's already on sale, but how about when selling directly to players? I've seen one for organics, but I was thinking more about minerals, chemicals, gases, water...

I have never sold on the bazar, one reason it is to impersonel. but as far as the pricing. Average resources (stat) wise 2.5 to 3 cpu is a good price.. but if you find a resource that is really high quality all 900's or somthing like that .. or one that is great for a particular profession i would go maybe 5 cpu at the most.. these are just my prices.. i dont like charging alot because then in turn they have to charge alot fot the items that they are making..

plus i found that suppling one person or one profession is the easiest. I stick with suppling Padre and what he does not take i sell to other people.. but he gets first dibs. so i try and get the resources that he needs..

I hope this helps

CPU = cost per unit.

3cpu is the standard price, but it really depends on the quality of a resource. The lowest I have sold anything for is 2.5cpu. If you're patient, someone will buy it. An experienced player is a bit more savvy. They'll only pay the minimum they have to.

But, it's a supply and demand thing. If a resource is in demand, people will pay for it. Ask around to find out what's in demand. I recently shifted some steel for 5cpu, but others were selling it for 7-8cpu. It also depends on what u want to do. If u need quick cash, flog it cheap. If you've got plenty of cash, hold out for a fair price. But, I do get a lot of repeat customers, so try to get a good name for yourself.

Appro

One thing to bear in mind when pricing resources is the value of the credit. Right now there are way too many credits in game which means for the quality resources people should be paying a bit more. Quality would mean a resource with a majority of stats in the 900 range. Grinding material should go for about 3 cr per unit, 2.5 is too low unless you're selling in bulk.

Remember they're not just buying your goods they're buying your time is well so place a value on it.

This issue has always frustrated me. Im an Architect and have always harvested my own resources. With an Ion Fussion Gen and 7 BER10 mediums my costs for harvest are about .2 cpu. I do agree that extremly high quality resources or very rare resources could have a market value of 2-3 cpu. But for the average stuff thats way too high. It just inflates the economy and makes things harder on newbies.

Surveyor is not a profession, just a skill

I have been selling stuff at 3-6 CPU. Lower quality gets 3cpu, higher goes higher. It just depends. I also have found that I can go all week with out a sale, but come weekend, no matter what, everything WILL SELL. it almost doesn't matter what I charge.

Steel with 850-950 SR/OQ/unit toughness is good. I did amazing sale of that this weekend.

Ore is always good to sell at 3-4cpu. architechs love it.

hig

i sell based on the quality of the resource and its demand. for example, i sold 180k of 15 oq gemstones for 1.5cpu the other day but sold 370k of 800ish oq steel for 3.2 cpu last week.

Remember your cost and aim for a decent profit without killing your customer. i produce my resources below .5cpu so anything beyond that is profit.

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Jedur wrote:

I have heard a few different ways to price our goods (cpu) but that was long ago. I was wondering if anyone had some advice on that?

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At the current point in time, it is easiest to just check your galaxy trade forum for people offering money for the resource. Around now, anything you ask for will be construed as highway robbery (even if you could get 10 times that by walking a couple of k to a vendor and dropping it off). As an example, Fred_Skinner offered to sell someone a recent Naboo Avian on Eclipse at 17cpu. They thought he was nuts asking that much. The going price on the galaxy trade forums for that same meat was 200cpu. Go figure.

Did I mention that all the people on the Eclipse forum keep saying how greedy the harvesters are for asking 200cpu? Most of them forget that the price was set by a couple of Doctors within a day or two of the resource shifting in. But that's a personal rant.

Lythender Nirou
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