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I'm finally at a point 2/2/3/3 where i can start to sell some basic droids that are worth something, but i was wondering if lowca has current pricing levels setup? any help would be appreciated!

I've been very succesful with my pricing. For full blown top of the line Surgical droids (110 med raiting, with Chem/food PCS) I get 20k, and for Probots with the armor cap (med 40% resits) I also get 20k. I have weekly specials ranging from free coloring (I normally charge 2k for a droid coloring, no charge if it doesn't stick) and somtimes 10-30% off certain droids. these are the droids I keep on my vendor and the ones I by far sell the most of. I do make custom droids and with flat fees. 3k for crafting modules (always fully experimented and use good material on) and 2k for any other modules. You can get as many modules as can hold, I throw in free personality chips with the droids that allow it. then I have base prices for each droid type 5k for R5s 6k for R4s 10k for R2s and 25k for R3s (I don't like making them personally so thats the reason for the much larger fee) I sell BLLs for 15-18k depending if they want armor in it. and anything else I usually follow the module rules plus 1-3k (like Med MSE I charge 3k for etc.)

If you have any questions about my pricing structure or comments, I'm always interested in feedback, just reply here or send me an in-game email or a forum PM.

I seem to sell alot of Seekers. The BH community still provides for my grinding.

currently I am 0/0/0/4 and I still sell stuff. I figure since the experimentation is bugged I can get away with it.

So shoot me...

I have a house on Lok east of Nim's, I haven't memorized the coords but I think it is the only house on Lok.

Look me up in game as well, I will need you help in training.....

Rawbee Rawb

Lowca.Lok.in the middle of nowhere.

thanks thats a great place to start off...

how many droids do you usually keep stocked in your vendor?

Well short answer is as many as it takes without you running out. The absolute worst thing is having someone come by your vendor and you losing a sale because you where out of that product. I personally try to keep 5-10 top lvl Probots/Surgicals on my vendor at all times (-2200 -4900 Tatooine, Mos Coran, Land in Bestine [sorry couldn't help myself =þ]) now you might have droids other than these on yours, I place these because they're the only ones I've found that are both 1. In Demand fairly constantly and 2. rarely vary in the types of modules the consumers want. as far as BH droids, for the longest time I practically refused to make them because BHs wouldn't pay enough for me to more than break even (I don't harvest my own resources and build my pricing normally based on 4-8 cpu + profit I desire) right now I charge 2k for seekers and 2.2k for probes (havn't made factory crates yet so don't have prices for those, prolly price X # in case rounded down to nearest 1k). Hope this helps you farther. Key thing is treat your customer right, get refferals from them (ask for them), and make sure you gaurd your reputation (this can be exceptionally hard if you PvE sometimes or are one particular faction). I beleive I've done a good job at this that, while being the Leader of one of the largest and most well known Imperial PAs on Lowca, I've found that I have just as many rebel customers as Imperial ones, not only that but get referrals from them. This is one thing I've learned to prize very highly, as all crafters should, your reputation is everything in game, one bad sell can ruin you. Just use some common sense and real world business practices and you'll be alright.

Hey Acend,

would you teach a Reb if you were asked. I am going reb soon and I feel that I will loose alot of DE buddies when I do. But all of my business is with rebs so I must go where the creds are.

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FragN8Tr wrote:

Hey Acend,

would you teach a Reb if you were asked. I am going reb soon and I feel that I will loose alot of DE buddies when I do. But all of my business is with rebs so I must go where the creds are.

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Well for one thing, just because all your business is with Rebels does not mean you yourself must become Reb. Like I said I think I have a pretty high repore with rebels even though I'm an Imperial (one of the "elite" ones as well so to speak) but if you WANT to become rebel then have fun (I always say do what you want not what other want of you...ok maybe I don't ALWAYS say it) But I wouldn't penalize you for that. I will say though I DO charge for my training (50% trainer cost) I charge this to anyone except guild mates on Elite profession skills. My main reason for doing this? Well every DE I train is possible competition, now while I have no problem with that I do have a problem with equiping him to compete with me for free

That said, if you have no problems with that look me up. I'm not always available as I go out hunting, RPing, whatever, but if you can come to me I'd train you, regardless of faction.

You sure the 100 will be a max? I had an armorsmith friend claim he had his upto 140 with skill tapes. While I believed him and never asked him to prove it, it seems like this could be a vaible option. Anyone out there tried a skill tape on somthing you already had 100 in? it work/not work?