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Thread: How do you guys make money on brandy?
The real cost saver is having BE myself, really bumps up the profits, and is alot more convientient.
Gemstone should be bought cheap if you cant find it cheap(can be hard to find since it is usually harvested in good quality) get some harvester and do it yourself.
Harvest your own berries and fruit you need alot of it since it is used in canape aswell. If there are no good spawns buy some but not too much at a time.
Most tailors are willing to make schematics for you (thats my experience) for a small fee so you can save some more by buying a factory to that use. the resource can be bought very cheap.
Do not count on making double your cost at first selling alot goes along way. when you get established and you are making really good brandy raise your price if you want to.
This is what I did when starting out chef.
PurpleWarrior wrote:
At those prices you can sell at 100K a crate and double your money
You guys arent stupid, you realise that the BE additives are whats cutting into your profit margins and you could make a lot more money if you take BE yourself.
So the BE/Chef combo has the biggest profit margin and can afford to undercut the solo chef, forcing the average market price down, meaning solo chefs need to pay less and less for BE additives to compete with BE/Chefs, so BE's have to cut their profits to compete with each other over a decreasing market, until both forums explode with chefs and BE's both calling each other greedy
I agree with the other posters though, you're paying WAY too much for trim. you're probably a lot more likely to find a tailor that will make you a schematic than a BE though, Tailors business is making clothes, not subcomponents, the same is not true about BE's. Subcomponents is what we do.
I wouldnt say 50k a crate is an unreasonable amount for BSNs but its definately above average, and you really need to mine your own reasources.
Paying for stuff with food is a great way to start out but its not an arrangement that will last forver, soon your BE will have more brandy than they can drink in a lifetime.
Consider offering more rare delicacies though, some foods are near impossible to find but are very useful to the out and about BE
NancyJ wrote:
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Consider offering more rare delicacies though, some foods are near impossible to find but are very useful to the out and about BE
You know, you might find them on sale more if you mentioned what "rare delicacies" you're looking for. 
Although I'm guessing you're talking about Jawa Beer andmaybe Travel biscuits. Don't you realize those are artisan foods. We chefs don't soil ourselves with such chaff.
Psst, don't tell Guru, he'll get mad
I'm telling Guru different people need different stuff, though not many BE's need help with terrain negotiation (travel biscuits bah!)
I like my bespin port and pyollian cake they can be hard to find but jawa beer is impossible unless I ask for it specially
/sobveghash is yummy too.
Mostly when I'm out shopping I see brandy, ahrisa, synth steak, bivoli and to a lesser extent canapes - and some other stuff I cant spell lol. But mostly its just brandy.
NancyJ wrote:
So the BE/Chef combo has the biggest profit margin and can afford to undercut the solo chef, forcing the average market price down, meaning solo chefs need to pay less and less for BE additives to compete with BE/Chefs, so BE's have to cut their profits to compete with each other over a decreasing market, until both forums explode with chefs and BE's both calling each other greedy
If you can't form a good relationship with a BE or haveboth skills yourself, maybe you should take up another profession, like Doc. Buying enhance packs is easy enough to do and buffing is a solo job. Also the pricing on the chef buffs are far below that of enterianers or docs, so I don't see too much greed from either professions. I feel that those that complain about one or the other really need to do some other profession.
The real problem is that there is a lot of competition in the food market. That competition makes things very tight and very difficult to get into. Add to that the interdependancies and you have a difficult product to make. So it does make things stressful while the buff lines for Docs are very long. Those 125k per crate of brandy sales are very disheartening at times.
If you don't have the means to get cheap trim and brandy, you'll never get the cash for the skill tapes. Without the skill tapes you'll never get to the high end where brandy still goes for 200k a crate. So my advice is to first try to build a good relationship with a tailor and BE. If that doesn't work, get out of the chef market and go Doc. It is sure money and easy enough to do. While you are a Doc, save your money and get the good resources or simply mine what is good and in shift to build up your resource cache. Then get those skill tapes so you can make the high end stuff. 11 points is easy enough to get, only need +5 from the skill tapes. You may even want to concentrate on unlocking a second character with the force quests. You can then do a Chef/BE between the two characters with the resources and skill tapes needed to get into this market. Only then will you be successful at chef.
Any of the highend crafting professions are very competitive and very difficult to break into, so this isn't unique to chef. You really need to do an easier profession and make a good amount of money so you can afford the business start up costs. Chef isn't as pricey as say armorsmith, so it can be worse.
sciguyCO wrote:I thought the Port and Cake weren't working for BE's yet?
I poked Kel till he fixed it
NancyJ wrote:
sciguyCO wrote:
I thought the Port and Cake weren't working for BE's yet?
I poked Kel till he fixed it
Hmm.. Can you teach sciguyCo this trick? I've been after him for months to get /pietoss fixed...so far I have seen ZERO results
/pietoss Kriles
AFAIK Cake and Port work just fine for my BE, everytime I remove the chains and let him upstairs ask him nicely to make me a schem he raves about it.
Kriles: Cake is easy to make, I don't find it a big seller on Chilly though. I am not worried about it too much, I have enough trouble keeping stocked up of the 12-15 or so foods that do move pretty quick.
P.S. No BE's were harmed in the writing of this message. I promise!