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Thread: REAL THREAD SORRY I took up a dare to from the Chefs to post this thread on pricing BE components
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SomeUser
Mon Mar 29, 2004 1:06 am
#40
GreenStok wrote:
Take these words from someone who was wealthy long long ago
Ultimately Supply and demand will determine the price of things. Fighting that is a waist of time. If you sell too cheap, you will have no money in your pocket and if you charge too much.. you will have no money in your pocket. Their is a sweet spot to find there. Cooperate with nature and find it and you willl not only enjoy the game more, but life also, by learning Economics 101.
If you try to beat it by charging less than your competition, everyone will make less and your piers won't like you much.
You are much better off finding your nitch market and run off your repetition of quality in that market.
Some people are repulsed by wealth, sad but true, so keep low profile on this.
GreenStok,
It is amazing how many people fail to grasp this basic concept.
While I respect each BE to set their own prices I always ask BE that have Wal-Mart prices the same question:
Do you think ArmorSmiths, WeaponSmiths, Chefs, Doctors, sell their goods at cost **or** near cost? Do you think that ArmorSmith will sell you a full suit of composite for under 200k because he is busting his balls harvesting all his own stuff???
NO is the simple answer. So why are you?
I tell people over and over and over again that other crafters are far richer then most BEs... Moreover, even many pure combat professions are richer then most BE (due to loot).
Even at 25k/50k/60k for additives chefs are still making a nice profit even if they are selling as low as 200k a crate.
Tailors take your finish product, put it in a piece of cloth, and then mark the price from 1k for a pair of slacks to 30k for a pair of slacks.... Yet some BEs want to charge the cost of that tissue it took them to make LoL If tailors did that the slacks should only be 2-3kish on vendor!!!
Maybe the problem is BE are too nice...maybe naive...maybe a bit of both. But I do think that BE who wish to sell at Wal-Mart prices consider that the person they are selling it to is likely not going to return the favor.
Bottom line:
Charge what the economy allows because you're **not** just selling your resources you are selling your skills and your time.
I'm not saying price gouge, just find that sweet spot like GreenStok said 
Vezek
NikkiDial
Mon Mar 29, 2004 9:57 pm
#41
Before anyone chops off my head again let me explain my post in American so you peoples can understand.
My prices arent over inflated, Eclipse is just huge with HUGE compitition.
If you think 50-100cpu is high then you should be a doc on our server and be paying 200-467cpu on meat like I often see.
I never stated my prices on my brandy so why do people assume I am charging so much?
I have a special on all my cases that nothing is over 150k and I barely make money, but I am building traffic.
Soon I will bump it back to normal prices of 200-250k for a case of brandy.
I never said there wasnt a market for mid range food. I clearly stated if you wanted to be in the good brandy range
you needed to spend a little more cash and charge a little bit more. Not because you you are greedy, but because
your volume dictates you buy larger amounts of inshift items, so you can keep constant supplies for the majority
of players that DONT want crappy brandy.
During my special I do notice that there are people buying large amounts of my stuff, which is why I am forced to
charge more for my product. That way the normal people can get my awesome brandy
Stars/Sandy
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