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I know that calculator is on that site, but I also thought most people use their own system. Just curious what all your costs were on average

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I base everything on the Neutrient Value

At BSN 82 my crates would be

25*82*18 = 36900 per crate (my base price is 18 credits per neutrient.

Thus my BSN at 86 are 38700 per crate.

you may raise the question of Micro and about losing money, well i find it balances out when i sell INT w/ neutrient bonus of 116 or higher (52200 a crate)

I created my own spreadsheet and calculated my cost based on harvester gathered or hand gathered resources. The numbers I used intially were 5 cpu for the former and 15 cpu for the later. That price, plus a charge for the factory costs, put me about 2/3rds of what I saw others selling them for during the chef rush.

I auctioned off a couple of particularily good runs and made contacts with a few chefs who kept me busy for the next few weeks at prices which were about 25% above my spreadsheet. Things have slowed down considerably now and I haven't made a run of BSN for about a week and a half if not two.

Allieria's formula looks surprisingly close to what I sold them for once I hit the stable price (auctions aside), 40k a crate for mid 80s (82-85). Auction prices went as high as 75k a crate for a full run of 85s.

And while it's attractive to consider even 75k a crate good on brandy which costs 250+k a crate you have to remember there are a *lot* more steps for them to run through to make that. Factory run of trim for the casks, factory run on the casks themselves, factory run on your tissue to get it an additive, factory run on the brandy itself (goes off to find the schematic to see what else) ...

Alcohol. Factory run on the alcohol. That's five factory runs for the one of ours.

I've often considered (since I have an alt whose got MA) making my lights into additives and marketing them that way. Price shouldn't rise too much since it would only be any water plus factory costs. Maybe I should get novice chef with him to make medium additives too!

Message Edited by Centurion on 04-14-2004 01:45 PM

Message Edited by SomeUser on 04-14-2004 10:44 PM

Well I just threw my first batch, I run 2 factories at a a time, of 80 crates of +82 up on my vendor for 40k a crate. Its been about 3 hours since I tossed it on the forums and already I am getting great response. But I am also offeringa bulk deal to people, 10+ crates at a time get em for 30k (which is cheap I know). We will see how it turns out. I am guessing I will sell out before I even get home, LOL.

My second run is already cooking and they are 84, will honestly probably charge 40k a crate for them and only cut deals on 20 crates or more.

I think once I get clientel I will be a very busy man. I really like some of these pricing schemes, so far been the best post on any pricing I have seen on these forums.

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c00kie wrote:

So production I would say per crate costs are around maybe 200-300 a crate and materials is about 14k a crate.... so lets just say 14k a crate is my cost. Is it too much for me to charge chefs, which make well over 100k profit a crate of Brandy about 40k-50k a crate?

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There is no problem using Brandy as a comparison, but you need to realize that a majority of chefs sales is not in Brandy anymore unless that is all they sell. Many foods it becomes useless to use a tissue in them because the added 50k a crate just to the regular price is more than people will pay. Drinks have the bonus of being able to be casks. Foods don't have that.

I'm not saying your price is too high. I know many people sell for that, and can't keep up. Realize though that if someone is paying 50k for a crate to put them in foods they are probably not making the profit you stated per crate. I would be getting about 5k profit per crate over a regular crate and it takes twice as long for me to make. Sell for what you want though, it was more the issue of no BE was willing to supply the amounts I needed instead of the price that made me become a BE.