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Adainae

Mon Jul 12, 2004 8:33 am

Personally I love being a BE, there is nothing I like better than getting those high numbers into my shop. I had my first big big order of nutrients yesterday (50 crates). I needed 25k meat for this and I got my guildies involved, offering 15cpu for everything they gathered. Most were in my group with me while we hunted and one says "I should be collecting the wooly hide here instead of the meat, it's going for 80cpu" I just wanted to cry, I cant compete with 80cpu. I ended up gathering the majority of the meat with my partner. But I detest hunting, and I only do it when I have to... but I cant compete with the high prices other crafters set for animal resources, nor will I sell for the low prices other BE's set for tissues. It's so much easier for me to make tailor tissues that I do.

I do take special orders, but the resources avalable dictate what I can get for those orders. A lot of customers get very angry when told I can only get XX numbers this week after coming to places like this and reading *how easy it is to get XX*. I have pride in my work and I try darn hard to get the best I can on those shelves for my customers, but it isnt *so easy* as a lot of users of BE products like to think it is. For referance my nutrient prices are 1200/1500/1800 plus 20 credits per point over 50/80/110. So a crate of 112's is 46k.

Adainae - Master Bio-Engineer

Cookie - Novice Chef

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Lozareth

Tue Jul 13, 2004 4:59 am

#41

It wasn't my low prices that made me stop selling supplements, I made a ton of profit selling BSN's for 15k a crate. It was the badgering for deliveries and schematics and high chef prices causing low turnaround that made me quit. Even at my extremely low prices, it wouldoften be 1-2 weeks before anything sold. Chefs weren't even buying true additives already mixed with water. The last straw was when one of mymajor buyerstold me she was buying food from another chef and reselling it instead of making her own. It just seemed chefs didn't need pure BEs anymore so I picked it up myself to at least use the 100s of crates I had in stock. Turned out that chef has proven to be extremely easy and there's no going back for me now.

Lozareth is long gone.

Saitek

Tue Jul 13, 2004 6:30 am

#42

Grozurr wrote:

billybudd wrote:

Hehe, thought I'd get a few with that post

Well just to clarify a little, everyone in my guild gets free food and drink from me, so the money the save from having to buy their goods more than makes up for what they could be selling their meat for.

Sry if I came across a little harsh in my post, I just think that this post was showing only one side of spectrum, those that have to pay for everything, when most of the time, if people network and play smart they don't. Thats all I was trying to say.....

to the first- i totally agree. i've been trying to get the "free for guildies" system working in my guild along with some other people, and we've had some success but not tons. i recently had a guild chef come up to me and tell me that he needed some light nutritional additives. i told him that is i could get ahold of the resources, and if he helped me collect them, i'd make the stuff for him at virtually no profit to myself. needless to say he was very happy.

for me, it hasn't been an issue of "being smart" about it- it's simply that no every guild is as ready or able to help meat situations, so i've found myself coming up short on meat (i blame it on the good wolly hide spawn on my server, everyone found it better to get that...:smileymad.

on another note- MNHawkfan, what i ment when i said that be items are only needed by a select group of people is that only chefs and tailors can actually use the consumables we make in their products. everyone else reaps the benefits, but very few will ask when buying their brandy and canape, "who made the tissues that went into this stuff?" in short, everyone inadvertantly uses them, however only a very few will actually buy them for use, so our market is limited to those who use them to create something else-such as brandy, bivoli, canape, ect.

Grozzer

Message Edited by Grozurr on 07-11-2004 02:08 PM

I have been using the "Free for Guildies" system a long time. It works out really well for everyone. All I ask is that they bring me meat so that way I can make additives for the food (I'm both M.Chef/M. BE) , since that's the hardest thing to get. This week they brought me over 400k of meat. This also insipires guild events and hunts which people enjoy doing.

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