Bio Engineer Archive
Thread: Pricing question
Difinity
Wed Feb 25, 2004 3:43 pm
#14
What's a good price for a city hall. I have various pricing guides, but none of them list city halls.
Thanx
Pawlin
Wed Feb 25, 2004 3:55 pm
#15
I'd recommend asking around the architects on your server.
That will give you the ballpark range for pricing.
Gmidd
Wed Feb 25, 2004 8:19 pm
#17
I typically charge a little over 3 cpu on structures, especially more complex like a City Hall closer to 4 cpu.
poorman
Wed Feb 25, 2004 9:53 pm
#18
..i could always say put it up for auction so someone doesnt say you charge too much...but that never works....I charge 300k ...though .....I'd do what the guy upstairs said "ballpark" take the average of everyones prices or even undercut them if you can afford it.
Bandola
Thu Feb 26, 2004 12:39 am
#19
poorman wrote:
... undercut them if you can afford it.
Argghhhh !
/weeps into his beer
/weeps into his beer
Stalag
Sat Mar 27, 2004 4:37 pm
#20
I sell the museum art for 15k, and I know each server is different. Is this too low? I ask because someone bought 4 of mine, and put them on his vendor not 100m away and sold all 4 for 100k. I think this is pretty unreasonable, but people bought it. What do you think about the pricing of these paintings?
Pawlin
Sat Mar 27, 2004 4:59 pm
#21
I think the value of paintings is purely up to supply and demand. So if someone wants to pay 100k for them then they're worth 100k to those folks. I think its pretty safe to say you could raise your price some if you want. Course if you want to charge 15k then thats cool, but it seems your neighbor might keep buying you out at that price unless you ban them. Or you might offer to just sell him a crate or something.
So charge whatever you want I guess.
ZenDragonMLS
Sat Mar 27, 2004 6:23 pm
#22
On Wanderhome I've seen them on the Bazaar for 2500 - 6000, and on private vendors for more - it just really depends on what the first few people who make them do, I think.
Indene
Sat Mar 27, 2004 7:02 pm
#23
Pawlin wrote:I think the value of paintings is purely up to supply and demand. So if someone wants to pay 100k for them then they're worth 100k to those folks. I think its pretty safe to say you could raise your price some if you want. Course if you want to charge 15k then thats cool, but it seems your neighbor might keep buying you out at that price unless you ban them. Or you might offer to just sell him a crate or something.So charge whatever you want I guess.
Amusing. That is what my RL daughter did. She banned me from her store because I was buying her items and reselling them. Haven't spoken about it since even though it has been a long time since I even delt in the items in question.
-Indene-
BoberFett
Sun Mar 28, 2004 10:54 pm
#24
I've banned people before because they were buying all my 15.0 crafting tools. I made the same amount of money either way, but it bothered me that I was losing out on customers because someone else resold my goods. That kind of defeats the point of having a loss leader also.
We need an NFR option. (Not for resale 
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Indene
Tue Mar 30, 2004 3:57 am
#25
BoberFett wrote:I've banned people before because they were buying all my 15.0 crafting tools. I made the same amount of money either way, but it bothered me that I was losing out on customers because someone else resold my goods. That kind of defeats the point of having a loss leader also.We need an NFR option. (Not for resale
What? You don't like helping other people? And a loss leader is something that you sell a little below cost that is NOT likely to have someone buy lots of and sell somewhere else. Besides the person shopping and buying your "loss leader items did look at the rest of them. Now in RL one of the methods to keep someone from buying out the store is to have a limit 1 per customer or somesuch. Maybe that would help. As to the loosing out on customers maybe the people that bought them from the "middleman" would never have found or even looked for you so likely you would get many more sales thru this marketing channel than direct. I recommend in this world and in RL you place the items for sale at the price you want and if someone can resell them higher either raise your price or accept that you have made a profit. You did make a profit right?
-Indene-
Bandola
Tue Mar 30, 2004 5:31 am
#26
Indene wrote:
Amusing. That is what my RL daughter did. She banned me from her store because I was buying her items and reselling them. Haven't spoken about it since even though it has been a long time since I even delt in the items in question.
-Indene-
Shame on you ripping off your own offspring ! Not only would I have banned you from my store, I would have gone onto your account while you were getting laid and deleted your character !
I think she was generous to you by only banning you 