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Thread: What are average prices on your server?
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Okin_Sin
Tue Oct 19, 2004 5:22 am
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On Bria prices seem to be all messed up lately. I think its the biggest server, with tons of money. I think just about everyone on Bria has at least a million laying around, and we have no shortage of billionares there either. The strange thing is, that our Chefs seem to be dirt cheap, I'm trying to figure out if this is just a Bria things, or on all server.
What are some of your normal prices on your servers? I know on Bria the new thing is make every crate of food, even 12 point food between say 50k-100k. Is this normal? Personally when I see +25/15Min+/3Uses bivoli going for 90k it makes me cringe.
Higginsis
Tue Oct 19, 2004 7:04 am
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My +25/16m/3 use goes for 200k a crate, and tbh i'd never dream of selling it for less.
Mayor_Woosh
Tue Oct 19, 2004 7:26 am
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Higginsis wrote:
My +25/16m/3 use goes for 200k a crate, and tbh i'd never dream of selling it for less.
I dont blame you 
If the chefs on Bria are having a price war they are only hurting themselves in the long run. I myself charge what I feel is fair and reasonable for the service I provide on Tarquinas.
That service is a vendor which is always stocked with almost 300 crates of top notch food/drink.
Thats what my customers pay for.
Okin_Sin
Tue Oct 19, 2004 8:57 am
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Yea, unfortunelty on Bria we have tons of people who could care less about anyone but themselves. They try to do these price wars to ruin everyones market but thiers. It all started off with the 15k BSN crates price wars, which ruined BE, made tons of BE's quit, and really hurt the chef/Be relationship.
After that the same person that started the BE price wars, decided to switch to chef, with average prices of around 50k per crate for 12 point foods. Luckily that person moved on to ruin weaponsmith and leave Chef/Be alone ....
Now most chefs on Bria are also BE, and it is kinda a messy situation. We have tons of chefs, and most seem to battle on the boards with their prices.
*NOTE: I have not changed my prices at all, and my sales are still good. I try to just keep my vendor stocked with top quality foods, and I have tons of repeat customers.
Higginsis
Tue Oct 19, 2004 9:00 am
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Its the people who under charge just to screw people that really get me. Luckily on farstar there aren't that many chefs, and the ones that there is the prices are fair in relation to quality.
TheEpigoni
Tue Oct 19, 2004 9:07 am
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Mad Max Ahrisa (+424 Focus, 44 Minutes, 33 Fill) - 150k a Crate
Mad Max Bivoli (+25 Wound Treatment, 3 Uses, 14 Minutes) - 250k a Crate
Mad Max Brandy (+439 Mind/Focus/Will, 39.5 Minutes, 50 Fill, 21 Uses) - 250k a Crate
Mad Max Brandy (+439 Mind/Focus/Will, 39.5 Minutes, 50 Fill, 21 Uses) - 250k a Crate
Mad Max Brandy (+427 Mind/Focus/Will,44 Minutes,49 Fill,18 Uses) - 200k a Crate
Mad Max Canape (+765 Focus/Will, 10 Minutes, 7 Uses, 39 Fill) - 250k a Crate
Mad Max 3 Use Canape (+699, 9.5 Minutes, 7 Uses, 33 Fill) - 175k a Crate
Mad Max Havla (100% Heal Time Reduction, 24 Heals, 33 Fill) - 150k a Crate
Mad Max Thakitillo (+100 Defense Vs. KD, 11.5 Minutes, 45 Fill) - 150k a Crate
Mad Max Veghash (+33 Creature Harvesting, 10 Minutes, 5 Uses) - 200k a Crate
Mad Max Canape (+765 Focus/Will, 10 Minutes, 7 Uses, 39 Fill) - 250k a Crate
Mad Max 3 Use Canape (+699, 9.5 Minutes, 7 Uses, 33 Fill) - 175k a Crate
Mad Max Havla (100% Heal Time Reduction, 24 Heals, 33 Fill) - 150k a Crate
Mad Max Thakitillo (+100 Defense Vs. KD, 11.5 Minutes, 45 Fill) - 150k a Crate
Mad Max Veghash (+33 Creature Harvesting, 10 Minutes, 5 Uses) - 200k a Crate
This is my menu from Starsider. The pricing/quality are 12pt Chef stuff even though I'm only 11 *wink*. But these are the "high end prices" on my server. There is more expensive of course but this is basically the standard for high quality. Except for maybe the 3 Use Canape...hehe...use some bad additives on that one.
As for price wars, we had a guy once who made 3 runs worth of 45k a crate Ahrisa that was about the same quality as my above stuff. But that didn't last for more than a day or two. People on starsider Demand highest quality possible in everything. And will pay the price for it.
In fact, our in-house weaponsmith trippled his sales when he doubled his prices...Hehe
Mayor_Woosh
Tue Oct 19, 2004 9:12 am
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Higginsis wrote:
Its the people who under charge just to screw people that really get me. Luckily on farstar there aren't that many chefs, and the ones that there is the prices are fair in relation to quality.
Well to be honest the underchargers really are pretty stupid. All they are doing is creating more work for themselves. I'm mean dont get me wrong its fun to log on everyday and check your sales emails. But if your prices are to low you will sell out faster thus creating much more work for yourself.
Its better to keep prices fair and reasonable. If one chef is 50k cheaper on one item then the next thats fine. Its when gross price reductions happen the market gets screwy.
Also to mention is the fact that if you sell out to fast what can happen. If 10 customers show up to not find what they were looking for you are only hurting yourself in the long run. The low baller chefs are usually the new dummies looking to make a quick cred. They usually dont last very long.
Message Edited by Mayor_Woosh on 10-19-2004 09:15 AM
Message Edited by Mayor_Woosh on 10-19-2004 09:16 AM
Higginsis
Tue Oct 19, 2004 9:34 am
#9
Thats one of the reason i hate them so much, come in charge alot less, realise they can't keep up and then go ruin another prof's economy.
I have a big enough job keeping stocked as it it (150k for ahirsa, 40 sells out in days) so i can only imagine what the people who charge <100k have to do to keep stocked.
I have a big enough job keeping stocked as it it (150k for ahirsa, 40 sells out in days) so i can only imagine what the people who charge <100k have to do to keep stocked.
RaitaNaan
Tue Oct 19, 2004 1:04 pm
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I'm on Bria. I see the low prices everyone is charging, and it's tempting to drop my prices. I pride myself on having a wide selection and a 99%-never-out stock, so I figure that's worth the extra bit of money.
Prices and customers are weird. I used to hear about 25/3 Bivoli selling for 50k for a crate of FIVE. I finally make 25/3 and put it up for a decent price, and it goes really slowly. /shrug.
Prices and customers are weird. I used to hear about 25/3 Bivoli selling for 50k for a crate of FIVE. I finally make 25/3 and put it up for a decent price, and it goes really slowly. /shrug.
Okin_Sin
Wed Oct 20, 2004 12:43 am
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I really think people get turned off by the cheap people when reseller comes along and buys the entire stock of say Brandy, then the next guy comes to find some brandy and there is none. If there is one key to chef, its keep the vendors stocked. You never want someone come expecting to see a stocked vendor, then have to look around for a new one. That is the type of things that will change your mind next time you go there again.
CJSpangler
Wed Oct 20, 2004 10:39 am
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man i fee bad for u guys
i mad 915k alone yesterday and i only had 10 crates on a vendor that wasnt on overhead map, it was in a new medical mall that primarily sells buff packs, so i made some bivoli, canape and brandy and ahrisa there jsut to see the market and trafic flow, and sold 3/4 of it in a single day
sold everything for like 150-175k crate
definately feel for u guys
SkyMoLekThrane
Wed Oct 20, 2004 1:05 pm
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Usually what I do unless the food takes meat or milk in it.
Lights r 125k Mediums r 150k and Hvy r 175k Bivoli I price at 200k, pikatte pie, 225k, and vercputi at 250k
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