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Thread: Vehicle Pricing ?
Please tell me your server and your expected price for the 3 different vehicles !
The resource costs on live will be:
- X34 Landspeeder - 4250 res
- Swoop Bike - 6000 res
- Speeder Bike - 8000 res
my expected price will be:
- X34 Landspeeder -40k
- Swoop Bike - 60k
- Speeder Bike - 80k
Never mind, found the new info. Thanks for the good news.
I don't know what I'll charge. I'd love to get 10cpu and maybe we will on patch day,but I think things will stablize down around 5cpu. That's more than the usual raw resource cost, and a pretty nice profit if you harvest your own resources. Fortunately I don't think we'll have too many people selling them at or below cost like the architect profession does since there isn't much or a reason to gain a ton of general crafting xp beyond master artisan. We may bet some folks that dump them onto the market while grinding to an elite crafting profession, but even that window of xp is short lived.
The Bottom Line is this...
You can sit there and quote prices all day, but one thing is for sure. If people were selling mounts for 100k easily (in some cases as high as 250k, and now as low as 40k), then its envitable that prices will be sky high. Especially seeing vehicles will be 20x bigger then mounts.
Look at it this way. If you want a vehicle first day your going to get taxed, i'm guessing around 250k-1mil. You might find the one honest guy who's selling them for 60k ea. but as soon as his resources run out, you have to run to the next guy selling them for 250k, then by 9pm at night they r being sold for 1mil- 5mil credits. And once resources are out they will stay out for a day or two.. till peoples harvest fill up again.
Personally, there are mass people out there running around with millions of credits, and i for one will take advantage of this. And one last point, and the biggest one if any:
When cars were first invented many people didn't drive them..mostly because they were very expensive, now-a-days, it is very easy to obtain a car at a low price... ya see my point.. you know they r coming so save up...
PEACE
ok first and second day i will be doing the same as the original poster:
After that here is my price list:
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X34 - 22k -
Swoop - 30k -
Speeder - 40k
this should cover my costs and still be a good profit.
any one else got a list price set up yet? (mind you this is based off resources at current schematics)
Oh don't get me wrong, I'm charging whatever I can get. If someone wants to throw 500K-1mil at me, I'm taking it. This is the one chance my little artisan toon will have to make some big credits for a long time, and it's not going to pass me by.
BlazeHoliday wrote:
Look at it this way. If you want a vehicle first day your going to get taxed, i'm guessing around 250k-1mil. You might find the one honest guy who's selling them for 60k ea. but as soon as his resources run out, you have to run to the next guy selling them for 250k, then by 9pm at night they r being sold for 1mil- 5mil credits. And once resources are out they will stay out for a day or two.. till peoples harvest fill up again.
Personally, there are mass people out there running around with millions of credits, and i for one will take advantage of this...
Mine will be priced at 20 CPU to start. If I am selling them like hotcakes, I'll bump it up to 25-30 CPU to level out the demand. If I can't sell a single one, I'll drop it to 15 CPU.
I fully expect, however, that I will be selling them very quickly at 20 CPU. And no, I don't think it's gouging. Weaponsmiths and armorsmiths can get anywhere from 100-400 CPU if not more for their goods. Vehicles will be one of the most in demand items in the game and if people want to throw millions of credits at me, I'm not going to feel bad about it.
Wala wrote:
Please tell me your server and your expected price for the 3 different vehicles !
The resource costs on live will be:
- X34 Landspeeder - 4250 res
- Swoop Bike - 6000 res
- Speeder Bike - 8000 res
my expected price will be:
- X34 Landspeeder -40k
- Swoop Bike - 60k
- Speeder Bike - 80k
Take these prices and multiply by 5 to 10 and those will be the cost on bloodfin during the first few days.
Exactly.
MrHawat wrote:
I was a MCH when mounts went live. I sold my first mount to a BH for a fair price. He immediately and in front of me resold it for 500k. He also had the nerve to ask for another at the original price. If you do not think this will happen when vehicles go live you are mistaken. You sell a Swoop for 40k to a guy who then resells it for 400k and you are not going to raise your prices?
Knowing how bloodfin is people will be throwing money at you to get their hands on vehicles for the first 3 days before prices start to go down. There area few people on my serverwho have already said they would sell vehicles at 2.5cpr (probably in order to get consumer traffic to their city). I expect that these individuals will not get "customers" but rather merchants who will just buy them out and resell the vehicles elsewhere for 20X the profit. For this very same reasonI won't bother putting my vehicles on my vendors for the first few days. Instead I'll be selling them over in the citites to whomever gives out the winning bids. If someone wants to throw an ungodly amount of cash at me, I'm not going to say no. The people with half a brain will wait a few days when the bloodthirsty clamoring for vehicles dies down along with the prices.