Bio Engineer Archive

I just became a Novice Chef last night and I was wondering if someone could tell me what a good rule of thumb for pricing is. I don't want to undercut anyone or charge high prices (just starting with no experimentation yet). Maybe there is a post somewhere or a good guide to pricing.

Thanks for the help ahead of time.

Me personaly I charge 500 credits for any food novice can make that is under 4 in a stack. After that I charge aproximatly 200 per extra item in the stack hence 8-9 in stack I charge around 2k.

But that is just me.

Check out http://www.ralloszek.net/swg/ChefPricing.htm for some pricing information.

While I am not here to say any one method is better then another. But I personally do not agree with the charging "per use" method. To see what prices I charge, you can visit. http://galaxygrub.bcgt.net/buffs.asp

Dove,

I personally price by the charge/use, but I dorefer to resource numbers if I've decided (or have been requested)to create items with maximized effectivity and/or duration to ensure that I do not drop below a threshold of profitability.

As I don't play for extended periods of time during the week nights (or at least I shouldn't), I'm often forced to buy some of the nicer resources and the higher quality meats/hides.Ipay market rate of 3-4 cr per resource (or more for higher quality) and at the very least my mark up would be x2. If I get lucky and a friend offers somthing for free or at a discount, all the better - but in turn I often give him/her freebies in exchange. In order to cover factory costs and other incidentals (travel, clone fees, entertainers, bazaar fees, etc. - none of this is free), I am often forced to further raise my floor level pricing to a min of 8-10 cr per resource.

You don't have to follow my plan, or that of any of the other players, but I hope this helps to give you a better idea of how to set up your ideal pricing structure.

Part of my reward for busting my tail and finding good resources is that I get to charge more for the larger stacks and better quality food they produce. I don't seeany logic or sense at all in ignoring stack size whenestablishing pricesformy products.

My personal prefence on charging is resource cost... like meat is 3 or 4cr and water is 4cr... you know depending on how much the resource (avg price) cost.

Thank you for the responce, this will better give me an idea of how to "do right" to my fellow chefs.

I find it is best to charge based on the usefulness of the stat/duration. And YES charge per use, since you get paid ONCE for something they get to use several times. Why hassle your way to master to make great stack sizes if you are not going to charge people for getting more?!? If you do a set charge per resource you will sooon find out we have many things on a chef menu that have SUCKY stats compared to that resource cost. Just MHO tho :0)

How about this pricing chart...

Flat resource fee of 4 credits per resource + 50 Credits Labor + 30 Credits/Per Charge??

So for example:

Tatooine Sunburn -

20 Gases * 4 Credits = 80 credits for resources needed then 50 credits for my time so we are up to 130 credits. Now we also have to make 2 Starshine Surprises... So lets calc that out:

15 cereal * 4 = 60
15 reactive gas * 4 = 60
10 mineral * 4 = 40
(Due to number of charges for this doesn't matter we wont add the charge cost)...

So we have 130 + 160 = 290

Now I am hearing that the charge is like 8 or so... so I will use for this example 8 charges... So 8 * 30 = 240...

So the total charge for an 8 charge Tatooine Sunburn is 290 + 240 = 530

Not sure if this is a good method but hey it sounds reasonable to me...

I charge 50 credits * uses -1 = total price on all foods/drinks except for Tats and BoH.

The two most popular drinks I charge 100 credits * uses -1.

My 16 uses BoH's sell for 1599.

My 10 use Tats sell for 999.

My 6 use Vercuptis sell for 299 and so on.

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I charge 10 cr/resource used to make the item. My prices (as far as what I usually carry) you can find:

http://boards.stratics.com/php-bin/swg/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=swgwanderhome&Number=162317&page=0&view=collapsed&sb=5&o=31&what2=postlist&fpart=

I don't charge per use. As I advance in skill my customers benefit from better items and more uses on my foods, but I don't charge them more, which I think balances out when I don't do as well with some items, but do better with others. /me shrugs. I can't see charging more as well since things move fine at the prices I have set- not too fast, not to slow. It may be different on other servers.

Generally, I gain skill as I make items to fill my vendors with, I rarely "grind"; my customers get the fruits of this labor because everything that is under my "best" I simply destroy, while keeping the best. Only the best gets my trademark