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Thread: Yesterday I Was Insulted for Asking 12k for Buffs
On the rare occasions I buff I have a strict policy. Anyone who goes on the ignore list of either of my characters gets added to the other. If I can't hear you ask that means at some point in the past you have p1ssed me off by either AFK spamming, smack talking or just offending me in some way.
I don't care if I buff 5 of a 6 person group and leave the last one buffless. People are coming to learn that Docs are the people you don't want to upset. Every other transaction in game can be done via a third party. Be it via character to character sales or a shop you are banned in. When you buy a buff set you are paying a fee forthe actual product AND a fee for that person's time levelling and sat there waiting to help you do your thing.
If someone is there selling for 6k fine let them, go somewhere else if business is slow. Try an advanced planet, put in your message you are using BE clothing and food to enhance the buff and charge 15k. Do this at the same time each day as often as possible and you will get people sending you online check /tells to see if you are on station.
If you use the high end packs go to where the high end players are, then give them a chance to notice you are usually there at a certain time. I'ts easy to make 150k an hour doing missions on Dantooine for example so 15k for 2.5-3.5+ hours of that is easily worth 15k. Good thing is with brandy being so good you don't need a mind buff except for PvP so people can come straight to you.
Same as in the real world, you want the same as average Joe you get it at a cheap price, you want something that little bit better you're gonna pay for it. Cater to that higher end crowd and you will find them very appreciative as they know what you enable them to achieve in their game time.
rsnyc wrote:
why are you overcharging or even buffing at all when you 45 million credits? 12k is too much i think. has the cost of making buffs really doubled?
We are trying to emulate a real economy, so show some professional curtesy to your colleagues by not undercutting toan extreme.
This is fine if you're trying to emulate a socialist economy... A capitalist economy is driven soley on the fact that there are people willing to undercut as much as their cost/benefit analysis will allow. While I agree that making more on buffs is great, and hope to do it soon myself. If I'm less profitable because other docs are charging less then I need to re-evaluate my expectations.
Take a look at any Econ 101 supply/demand curve for proof... It clearly shows people willing to buy/sell above and below the equilibrium price... that's what capitalism is all about.
Yamadaman hit the nail on the head.
look at my responses to other posts on buff price fixing.
nuf said i still stand on my 8k price for 902/11908/27 packs.
using 110 droid +25 clothes and +25 bivoli i hit for 2500.
and making the packs and comps is easy make schem pop it in go hunt or buff or whatever.
easy as pie the pain in the but is waiting for spawns of good resources.
being a doc is not as hard as a lot of you docs would like to make it out to be.
Ihave never been quarantined but the more i look around the better it looks.
Cailid010 wrote:
ooBoBoo wrote:
We are trying to emulate a real economy, so show some professional curtesy to your colleagues by not undercutting toan extreme.
I never tried to be in charge ofdeciding your buff's worth. That's pretty silly comment. I am asking that we all raise the rates. Of course it's it's always been your choice.
Make up your mind. Which way do you want it?
How about you show someprofessional courtesyto other doctors and not denigrate them for charging what they feel is a fair price.
Whynot include my apologyin the quote?
And asking doctors not to under cut to an extreme and raise their rates is still not setting a single rate for all.
Asking them to show professional curtesy is not denigrating them.
Ok lets put another taint on this......Buffs are priced on the doctors time NOT the cost of the resources.
Iam a MST DOc and MST TKM.....I buff myself i takeGiant baz nitchmissions on Dath for 11k a time. I do mission in less than 1 minute (i ignore baz's smash lair leave) and do 22k in approx2-3 minutes, I have made 150k-200k per hour before nowusing a buff i bought from another doc and applied myself.
fresh1 wrote:
i charge 18k per buff, tell them to kiss your ass if they dont like it. all they have to do is master doc and make them themselves lol
amen to that. I freaking tired of doctors saying 8k and 6k is what everyone should charge and is a fair price. Well all i got to say is kiss my behind, if you value your time that cheap then you need to get a life were your time is worth a little bit more. As for the rest who feel charging 12k is fair, than all I got to say is GOOD FOR YOU.
Start playing the game guys and stop freaking pasting your stupid fairnessprespective on the rest of us.
/cheer VTmoon
VTmoon wrote:
fresh1 wrote:
i charge 18k per buff, tell them to kiss your ass if they dont like it. all they have to do is master doc and make them themselves lol
amen to that. I freaking tired of doctors saying 8k and 6k is what everyone should charge and is a fair price. Well all i got to say is kiss my behind, if you value your time that cheap then you need to get a life were your time is worth a little bit more. As for the rest who feel charging 12k is fair, than all I got to say is GOOD FOR YOU.
Start playing the game guys and stop freaking pasting your stupid fairnessprespective on the rest of us.