Doctor Archive
Thread: Bivoli to expensive?
Roustabout wrote:
I think it's all about supply and demand. On Tempest you can get anywhere from 175k to 250k depending on where you shop. I don't think 220k is that bad at all, especially considering the service it provides. If you can charge that much and make a good profit, and sell quickly then I think that's great. If the market supports it then that's probably a pretty fair price. personally I buy all my stuff in my guild's city and it's less expensive since 1. We have lots of vendors competing against each other and 2. It's on Dantooine so the prices have to be lower to attract repeat customers because of the inconvenience and the cost.
Berardi wrote:
lol.... I am both a Doc and a chef with one of my toons. I make a ton of money off both. Even before Iw as a chef and paying 300k a crate for that good of bivoli.
Let me break down what is in each bivoli and stats needed to make. Hopefully you will see it is accuratley priced.
1 unit Protato (5 organic, 20 Vegetables stats don't matter)
1 unit Carbo Syrup (6 flora stats don't matter)
30 Carnivore Meat (Stats matter a ton, need 3 stats over 900 for some good stuff, recent spawn on Ahazi cost me 60 cpu)
40 Vegetables (Need real high PE and OQ, usually can find for around 15 - 20 cpu)
1 Heavy additive (some water and main component only a BE can make, crates usually run around 70k for decent stuff, the additive requires 55 units of high quality meat and i think 20 units of high quality veggies)
Keep in mind thats just for 1 bivoli, not a crate. Now I charge 220k per crate for my stuff. I don't think this is ridiculous after taking all in account. Let me know your thoughts.
Well hopefully your not paying 175k for stuff in Sin City. 
Also a correction the heavy additives. They don't take 55 meat. They take 20 meat and 90 flora. Still a large amount of resources, but flora is a lot cheaper than meat. 50 meat and about 150 flora go into Bivoli. At 50cpu for the meat that is 2500c, and at 5cpu for the flora that is 750c. So a chef needs to charges about 90k just to break even assuming they are a chef and a BE. It would be about 125k just to break even if they are buying the tissues. Obviously resource costs can go up and down from those. Thats just an average IMO.
100% markup isn't bad at all considering the markup on a lot of other crafts. I don't charge anywhere near 200k, but I can see why someone might. +25 3 charges isn't the easiest thing to make.