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I made enough credits to keep my content pre-CU. So, post-CU, I don't care about profit anymore.

I think I am now the cheapest Chef on Starsider now. (atleast, according to the vendor search). Nothing on my vendors hits over 50k a crate, and that's only the Breath of Heaven. Everyone else is still charging 200k+ for all their foods....someone's gotta do the dirty work, hehe.

Why WAS crates of food as expensive as suits of armor pre-CU anyway? For the most part our resources are generic. The only trouble comes from Additives, but those now seem to have little use now, since many of the stats are constant now. Duration-enhancing additives would be nice, but milk is even harder to comeby than meat.

Message Edited by I_Zombi on 06-05-2005 02:42 PM

I won't be lowering my prices significantly. I am new to Chef and therefore my food doesn't fly off the shelves as it were while people still learn where my Mall is. I went into Chef to make credits really and as it happens I rather enjoy being Chef, more than I thought I would, but I am kept quite busy with it all and to sell for less would not make it worth my while. I am already the cheapest Tailor and SMuggler on my Server and I don't intend to be the cheapest Chef, but I do hope to be competitive...

FWI, I still do enhance my foods with additives. On Starsider, 50k for a crate of enhanced foods is actually pretty good. Just goes to show how down the drain the economy is...

Aye, 50k for BoH is just insane, even if your not usin your best resources for the stuff, i cant imagine ure makin too much of a profit. Double your prices my friend, way way undercutting.

I made enough credits to keep my content pre-CU. So, post-CU, I don't care about profit anymore.

I think I am now the cheapest Chef on Starsider now. (atleast, according to the vendor search). Nothing on my vendors hits over 50k a crate, and that's only the Breath of Heaven. Everyone else is still charging 200k+ for all their foods....someone's gotta do the dirty work, hehe.

Why WAS crates of food as expensive as suits of armor pre-CU anyway? For the most part our resources are generic. The only trouble comes from Additives, but those now seem to have little use now, since many of the stats are constant now. Duration-enhancing additives would be nice, but milk is even harder to comeby than meat.

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I dont have an issue with this I mean there's The Fat Duck, Bray, Berkshire, Britain and there is McDonald's hmmm I wonder which this poster is? hmmmmm

nope prices are as normal... and i dont plan on reducing anything, why on earth would I.

Only stuff i put on for cheaper post-cu was the stuff that is of no use like havla/bivoli which i reduced to 50k for a crate of 25, and it sold not long after.

Infact im selling the artisan foods for 100k per crate of 25, i have a nice customer base and the profit is nice from a profession that continues to get shafted like the rest of the crafters.

I still use enhancers for everything i make personally.

Haven't lowered my prices, the stuff still sells. However I have opened up a bulk purchases vendor, in which I sell discounted crates in backpacks of 20. Mainly for guild/bulk use or for resell.

My prices are as they always were. My hunters aren't any cheaper. The resource dealers arent any cheaper. My costs are the same, my prices are the same. Still doing very high volume.

You just keep your prices low if you like. One of two things will happen. You will be at your factories 24 hours a day or you will be out of stock.

Most of my customers have always used me reguardless of what the other Chefs charge. It's because I always charge a fair price and the vendors are always stocked. I hate going all the way to a vendor for something just to find it empty.

Undercut all you like, it cannot last as you will burn out or run out of stock. It is quite selfish IMHO for you to try to "kill" the other chefs on your server just because you "made your cash" pre-cu and don't care anymore. I am always willing to help up-and-coming chefs on Tempest. Why? because there is always enough business to go around.

Message Edited by jadeew on 06-06-2005 06:42 AM

bah, under cutter.. Need to get up to 60k a crate to get inline with me.

*grins* Sheesh...didn't think I would get such harsh replies from this. I'm not intentially trying to undercut the rest of the chefs on the server. Merely trying to make the customer base happy.


I realize that the reason food prices are the way they are is because people are willing to pay that much. What I'm saying is stepping back and taking a look at it....doesn't the price though seem a little bit ridiculous in the first place? That's all I'm trying to say.

And FWI Chefs on Starsider: I'm mostly the private Chef for TIO, Armed, and other Imperial guilds associated with us that don't have their own chefs. Therefore, I don't advertise that much and I'm relatively unknown...especially since Thalnax doesn't receive as many visitors as of late. Hell, if I really wanted to I could set up shop outside Coronet, change my prices, and then you would have some real competition.

I'm sorry if I've upset any of you who see Chef as your main thing to do in SWG. I do it as a hobby, because I like helping people out. It's not totally for my profit. I was like this pre-CU as well. I've had my prices like this since the beginning of the CU, and so far I've had no restock problems.