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In business terms, the chefs you are competing with have "Economies of Scale" which means that they can afford to charge less are there production costs are much lower than yours. While you pay 55k fore crate of additives, they probably have their own bio-engineer and can produce additives for free, apart from any associated costs in collecting materials and factory runs, but it will be a lot less than you pay. Same for harvesters, they probably run 10 13 BER harvesters on one resource and stockpile it. It's likely to be some sort of group operation though.

It's going to be hard to compete with them, like the real work, you may get forced out of business unless you cut your costs. One way would be to join a guild, It can give you access to many resources that you can take advantage of.

I believe that this sort of thing is also a result of the economy beginning to rebalance itself. As duped and otherwise ill gotten money leaves the economy, there will be less money. Soon the game should have a pretty stable economy, in which the cost of everything is much lower. On my server costs are fairly low (25-30k for a crate of bsn). Try to bring your overhead down as much as possible, make good friends with a ranger or bio engineer.

Woboi - Master Bounty Hunter, Master Pistoleer

jonb17 try looking around for other BEs i am also on SS and have found many BE's that carry BSN's and IN's for cheaper than you mentioned, that could be an idea also that would help cut cost