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Thread: Pricing enhancers

diepa
Tue Oct 18, 2005 1:44 pm
#1

I made about 10 of bacta jab, bacta toss, Duet and neurotoxin..all were 1200 except Dueterium that was 1102. I priced them at 150k and sold most of them. They do not sell real fast as the have about 200 uses. If I were you I would not make a few crates...maybe one crate of each to start.
Ojes
Tue Oct 18, 2005 2:01 pm
#2

I would agree that 1 crate of each is plenty to start out with. You can always make more if they sell faster than expected.


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MasterJedi2003
Tue Oct 18, 2005 2:43 pm
#3



diepa wrote:
I made about 10 of bacta jab, bacta toss, Duet and neurotoxin..all were 1200 except Dueterium that was 1102. I priced them at 150k and sold most of them. They do not sell real fast as the have about 200 uses. If I were you I would not make a few crates...maybe one crate of each to start.





150k a crate? that seams low.



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GothicPoodle
Tue Oct 18, 2005 3:13 pm
#4






MasterJedi2003 wrote:





diepa wrote:
I made about 10 of bacta jab, bacta toss, Duet and neurotoxin..all were 1200 except Dueterium that was 1102. I priced them at 150k and sold most of them. They do not sell real fast as the have about 200 uses. If I were you I would not make a few crates...maybe one crate of each to start.







150k a crate? that seams low.





I am pretty sure Diepa meant 150k EACH. Not per crate.





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MasterJedi2003
Wed Oct 19, 2005 12:41 am
#5

I realize that this will depend on server, but I really cant find any on sunrunner to go by. If I make a few crates of Bacta jab enhancers, about how much do they go for on your server? please list server as well if you could



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Reacer
Wed Oct 19, 2005 1:57 am
#6

On gorath i'm cheapest with 100k per enhancer....


Will soon go up due to lack of class 1 radioactive....



Rest is selling em for 200k each





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Soldyne
Wed Oct 19, 2005 6:32 am
#7

i've had luck with this method for getting my stuff to sell. Currently 1200's go for about 100-125k per item. I made some crappy 800's and priced them for 25k a pop and then put my 1200's on there for 90k a pop. It never fails that when my low pack sells, a day or so later, the same person will come back and buy a high power one. I have noticed that many players are afraid to drop that kinda cash on one item (even if they do have 200+ uses). Just a suggestion and it also helps build your customer base.



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diepa
Wed Oct 19, 2005 7:38 am
#8






GothicPoodle wrote:






MasterJedi2003 wrote:





diepa wrote:
I made about 10 of bacta jab, bacta toss, Duet and neurotoxin..all were 1200 except Dueterium that was 1102. I priced them at 150k and sold most of them. They do not sell real fast as the have about 200 uses. If I were you I would not make a few crates...maybe one crate of each to start.







150k a crate? that seams low.





I am pretty sure Diepa meant 150k EACH. Not per crate.






yup, 150k per enhancer. Collecting all the resources was a royal PIA(and kind of expensive). I priced at 150k as a test, based upon how fast..or slow they sold I would adjust price. If resources are as hard to get on your server as they were on Lowca..selling for less than 100k is not worth it.
WineGuyJr
Wed Oct 19, 2005 9:20 pm
#9

I'm probably cheating myself a bit since my enhancers are (I think) the best on my server and I'm charging 90-100k for them, most of which have 1200+ power and 240+ charges. When I started making enhancers, I had just reactivated my account and had to essentually start my business from scratch. The major med producer on my server was making 1100+ power, 200+ charge enhancers and selling them for 150k. I undercut him to get my business started. That part worked. All too well.


While I was getting ready to raise my prices to match his (and slow down the sales since it has become a 2nd job for me to keep my vendors stocked) he lowered his prices (and improved the stats on his enhancer so that they're closer to mine). He's now selling them for around 80k a pack. So now neither of us can realistically raise our prices and expect to maintain steady sales. I know I'm still making decent money on mine (even though I've paid 20-40cpu for several of the resources) and I imagine the other guy is too. But there's almost no other competition on Valcyn at the high-end (and not much at the low-end). I assume that's due to the low profit margins they'd have to accept if someone wanted to buy the high quality (and old) resources and probably undercut us even further to take business away from us.


Given the rarity of some of the resources and the total # of resources needed for each enhancer (what is it...something around 1000 units) I think 150k for the best on an average server is quite reasonable. That also lets someone new break into the market at 90-100k a pack with fairly high-quality enhancers and start making back some of their (presumably) large investment. I know I spend almost 25 million credits buying resources, a crafting suit, factories, etc before I made my first enhancer. That was pretty much all of the money I had so I needed to make a good return on that investment as quickly as I could in order to buy harvesters, pay hunters for creature resources, and that sort of thing to keep the whole thing running.



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Mr_Desert
Thu Oct 20, 2005 3:43 am
#10

Details in sig, 50K a pop and server best.



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Kivrin
Thu Oct 20, 2005 5:02 am
#11

50k. They don't sell too well. All in the 11-1200+ power / 200+ charges range. If you haven't already, check out cornellius' CU Med Price Calculator spreadsheet.



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Mrgrief
Fri Oct 21, 2005 1:11 pm
#12

Mine are the best on Naritus! 1275+ neurotixins 1295 is my best 100-200k each! Deuterium toss 1115-1132 100-250k! bacta toss 1290+ 100-150k!! most have 170+ uses and I also make trauma,thyroid and other enhacers which all sell well.








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Nimhnoid
Mon Oct 24, 2005 10:47 am
#13

most enhancers that I stock are 100k but some enahncers that are 1290-1299 are listed at 200k each. It all really depends on what resources you use. My mid level enhancers are priced at 100k due to the fact that I have stock piles of the resources to make them. The ubers are priced at 200k each due to the lack of resources to make them.



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