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Some guy came up to me tonight and asked how much I wanted for my Bagerset. Now, I had never even thought of selling him. Right now, he is my main exp pet. But the guy persisted. I have no idea what a fair price would be. Anyone have any suggestions on how to price pets? Do you charge by HAM or by CL, or just by the "cool" factor? Thanks.

lol, good question...how much IS a bageraset??

I sell pets all the time, I classify them in 3 level, low 1K-4K HAM,medium 4500K-9K HAM and high 9K+

Low is 5-10K, medium 15-20K, high 30-50K, cool factor and demand add cost to the higher end of the price scale

With the amount of money people should have, these prices seem fair.

So I didn't sell him. I thought about asking 5K. He is 950 HAM with a ranged attack. So this woudn't have be out of line?

I add up all the resists; multiply them by the CL and add the total HAM stats.... for babies...

For adults I like to auction them peeps will pay tons more for a trained creature.... but that is gonna change so... who knows now.

That's not a very good scale, what about something with a lopsided HAM like a Dire Cat with only 450 HAM, but 130 dmg (and not the easiest to tame). Then you have a mutant Baz with 9k HAM that is non aggro and child's play to tame.

Seems to work for me... As I have seen no other scale besides the BE vedors I just picked that. People don't have problem with my prices so far. I have only sold 12 pets or so... Two adult sludge panthers went for 45k each and I sold a baby cupa for 3.2 k

Yes I tamed them all myself...

My prices are almost random. I sell the high end stuff for 20-35k depending on what it is, low end stuff could be anywhere from 4k to 10k. Just depends on cool factor and demand for the pet.

If you are into selling pets then coming up with a pricing scheme seems reasonable. If someone asks for your personal pet (rather than ones you tamed specificly to sell) then feel free to raise the price above reasonable. By my logic, if you are asking to take my xp pet, or one of the pets thatI had no intention of selling (which at the moment is ALL of my pets hehe) then you had best be prepared to make it worth my while.

Cash is easy to make, and many established players have nothing to spend it on anyways. Consider these points when working out pricing:

- Take the amount of time it takes to go find another baby and tame it, and multiply it by how many creds someone could do by running missions in that amount of time, and then add a reasonable mark up for it to be worth you taking your time to do it.

-If they are asking to buy an adult (which they probably are) then add a little more for the week that you are saving them.

- If you have lots of commands trained to that baby (say both tricks, group, stay and guard), consider adding just a little more for those as well.

- If the pet is highly desirable because of stats or special abilities or armor, add a bit more.

Pets shouldn't be cheap.

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SetthaDelight wrote:
I find what everyone else sells ceertain pets for, then cuts it in half!

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Wow, so you do as much work for half the pay? Good system /snicker

Want to come work for me in real life?

/sarcasm off

I highly doubt you are getting more business this way. Unless you have a CH in every city on every corner trying to sell creatures then the demand is most likely good enough to not need to resort to undercutting. All you are doing is selling yourself short, and maybe lowering the average price people think they should pay. The reality of the situation is people have waaaay more creds then they know what to do with in this game. 2k and 10k are virtually the same price. For example I bought a VERY noce pistol in the bazaar for 2k. I later found a pistol slightly better for 10k and upgraded. What does this mean? It means the first guy could have gotten 10k too lol! If it's the best pistol I could find I would just as easily pay 30k. Hell, what else is the creds for if they are just piling up?

I always include the travel cost to the planet I got the pet from. Round trip of course! Just a thought. Once the Nerf hits, how many Rancors will be available? Lol. That is why I've been non-stop selling all high level pets now. I am still getting great cash. I do however tell all of my customers about the up coming nerf. Many don't care and buy pets anyway. I don't understand this. Just to have a Rancor (I can't stand them) for a few days more has cost them 45K. This tells me people have way to many credits. Good luck to all my fellow CH's.

Im doing the same thing, everyone wants the rancors, Frenz Grauls and Webmasters...even knowing they will have no chance of controlling them in a week. Oh well, I figure all this cash can go towards all the buildings in our player city

-Fazen

I just don't understand how you manage to sell those lower level pets.

I have a Giant Sand Beetle, Full Grown trained with all the basic comands plus Stay, and Trick 1 that I have been trying for 2 days to give away for free cause I wanted to free up a training slot. (only 4 slots at my level).

I thought it a waste to just release him or destroy him in the datapad (and cruel too), so I figured I will just give him to someone but no luck at all.

I am giving a 9300 HAM AR2 pet away for free and the only interested person was a guy that didn't realize you had to be a CH to own him.

Taragin