Bounty Hunter Archive
Thread: Should start to think about dropping the price of the new loot
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shilo2
Thu Oct 13, 2005 7:38 pm
#1
I have a Master Weaponsmith character, but i am not able to compete with the veteran crafters on my server, because it seems that enhanced weapons are all that sell, and the new BH loot costs so incredibly much that i cannot afford it, but the veteran crafters are willing to pay the outrageous prices that you BH seem to be offering. Screwing the small guy like me.
Leanardo
Thu Oct 13, 2005 8:06 pm
#3
shilo2 wrote:
I have a Master Weaponsmith character, but i am not able to compete with the veteran crafters on my server, because it seems that enhanced weapons are all that sell, and the new BH loot costs so incredibly much that i cannot afford it, but the veteran crafters are willing to pay the outrageous prices that you BH seem to be offering. Screwing the small guy like me.
you have to work your way up. It's like owning a car dealership, all the vettes can buy 50 brand new cars to put on there lot and sell em at 30k each while you only have 12k to spend. So you have to buy 3 cars at 4k and sell em at 6k then buy 3 cars at 6k and sell em for 8k then buy 6 cars for 4k and sell em for 6100 and so on. You can just start out making huge weapons. Ask around in your guild, most guys will give up there "nice" resources to you and only sell there "uber leet 1337" ones. Then you can sell a few of these and adventually have enough to make a few uber guns.
Leo
Skraak
Thu Oct 13, 2005 8:14 pm
#4
Thats economics for you.
shilo2 wrote:
Screwing the small guy like me.
Ryal
Thu Oct 13, 2005 8:14 pm
#5
its got nothing to do with working your way up.
BH wa nts to sell his enhanced cells for 6 million credits but wont pay more than 3million for an 'uber' gun.
You do the math
BH wa nts to sell his enhanced cells for 6 million credits but wont pay more than 3million for an 'uber' gun.
You do the math
Gillik
Thu Oct 13, 2005 9:17 pm
#6
Well even then. My friend used his token respec finally to move out of Wpnsmith into bh cause he has stockpiles of krayted, enhanced n reinforced weapons on his vendor yet they barely sell well anymore. Everyone is using adks for their best wpns now.
Cerosis
Thu Oct 13, 2005 9:55 pm
#7
Gillik wrote:
Well even then. My friend used his token respec finally to move out of Wpnsmith into bh cause he has stockpiles of krayted, enhanced n reinforced weapons on his vendor yet they barely sell well anymore. Everyone is using adks for their best wpns now.
ya, there are a lot of ADK's floating around out there. I know one person on my server has like 100 or so of them in storage(he's got over 4 billion credits, nothing else to spend it on lol)
shilo2
Fri Oct 14, 2005 1:18 pm
#8
Ryal wrote:
its got nothing to do with working your way up.
BH wa nts to sell his enhanced cells for 6 million credits but wont pay more than 3million for an 'uber' gun.
You do the math
Yup, that is another thing. People want as much money for there loot, but they dont want to pay to much for there weapons. So if i buy a cell for 6 million, and the only price that my weapon will sell is at 3million, i am taking a 3 million dollar loss!! whats the point of that!
ocili
Fri Oct 14, 2005 1:25 pm
#9
shilo2 wrote:
Ryal wrote:
its got nothing to do with working your way up.
BH wa nts to sell his enhanced cells for 6 million credits but wont pay more than 3million for an 'uber' gun.
You do the math
Yup, that is another thing. People want as much money for there loot, but they dont want to pay to much for there weapons. So if i buy a cell for 6 million, and the only price that my weapon will sell is at 3million, i am taking a 3 million dollar loss!! whats the point of that!
The point is don't sell it for 3 million!
bmill
Fri Oct 14, 2005 1:36 pm
#10
It's business economics 101: Supply and Demand. It sure sucks, but that's what it is. As the supply is low, the price goes up, when the supply raises, the price comes down.
If you have people offering you items for 6million credits, talk them down. Barter with them. Offer them something they might as partial payment. Offer to make them free weapons if they provide the enhancements.
Anything to get your name out there as a "customs" dealer.
I have a master smuggler alt, and go through the same issues with slicing. When people BRING me the parts, the slice is like 10k for my time, since I am not using anything. When I need to locate or use my aquired parts to say armorbreak slice something, can't charge more than 300k per piece and guess what? 300k is the going rate on shock padding on my server. So I make no money if I have to buy the parts.
What did I do? The most effective thing I did was offer to my guild: free slicing for ANYONE who brings me slicing loot. The guild doesn't need that much slicing, but they bring me more slicing loot than I know what to do with. So I get my parts that way. Now that I have amassed a good number of credits I've started offering flat rates for the loot they bring me. It keeps em coming back.
Maybe you could offer to your guild a bounty on weaponsmithing loot?
Leatherneck_of_Alderaan
Fri Oct 14, 2005 1:37 pm
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shilo2 wrote:
I have a Master Weaponsmith character, but i am not able to compete with the veteran crafters on my server, because it seems that enhanced weapons are all that sell, and the new BH loot costs so incredibly much that i cannot afford it, but the veteran crafters are willing to pay the outrageous prices that you BH seem to be offering. Screwing the small guy like me.
That's the beauty of a free market economy.
Gillik
Fri Oct 14, 2005 4:07 pm
#12
I give a friend of mine all my smuggler loot but I do sell the power cells n reinforced casings. Due to the fact that those can bring in some good money.
KammaRocca
Fri Oct 14, 2005 4:16 pm
#13
shilo2 wrote:
I have a Master Weaponsmith character, but i am not able to compete with the veteran crafters on my server, because it seems that enhanced weapons are all that sell, and the new BH loot costs so incredibly much that i cannot afford it, but the veteran crafters are willing to pay the outrageous prices that you BH seem to be offering. Screwing the small guy like me.
Key words: veteran and willing to pay. Selling loot at lower prices wouldn't increase the supply, so you'd have to be as lucky as I was to find Shock Absorbant Padding on the bazaar for 100 credits. We sell at that price because that's what people are willing to pay us. If someone offered you 100 credits for something and someone else offered a million, who would you sell to?
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