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Well this is a huge topic of debate. I think your biggest response would come from the weekday crew don't know how much they get on during the weekend here. Think they spend much of their time playing.

Personally I don't do much in the way of pricing. I am just a harvester. Sell to Frederick Skinner. He would definately give you his thoughts on pricing.

Unfortunately there are a few things to consider with the pricing of organics.

• The Economies are Screwy


• The current hologrinders are demanding


• The new chef foods make organics more demanding

Simply put the demand for organics keep rising a lot faster than there are harvesters. And with publish 7 how many will drop scout all together?

Sorry I don't have an answer but be prepared for a wide variety. I can't wait to read Skinner's if he sees this.

Caiden Appentice

Master Ranger/ Master Swordsman

Antarian Ranger Militia Commander of Hunter's Hollow on Rori

I agree that the economy is ....."interesting" to say the least. Agonthalia (Draknev) and myself work a lot on a barter basis, and if we don't barter we try to keep our prices reasonable. A lot of Ranger's figure their time and effort in to this, and I do as well to a small extent. Mainly when the resources only drop in very small quantities, i.e. Corellian anything. Just because it takes so long to gather.

I try to keep my prices right around 20-25 cpu for high quality resources. If it's off the hook ridiculously good quality I'll go up some but not much. Average quality resources on my server I sell for 5-10 cpu, depending on demand.

Now in my travels I have learned that I am in the minority when it comes to pricing like this. Most other folk sell high end resources for considerably more on Lowca, mostly because people will pay it.

My "two cents".

Respectfully,

Ok, here is what I find interesting -

Igo to one doc and offermeat at 40cpu. This is 995 OQ, all stats except flavor over 850.He can't afford to pay "me" that. Read that as I been giftinghim with stuff forhis hologrinding. Ok, no sweat. Tho JB knows she got 10 million forhis freaking holos.

A week later another meat is the same. He approaches me, wants a load - at 60-80 cpu. Except load 2 is Dath avian, way harder to get, especially in quantity. That and the universe is all on Dath, hitting the fliers.

It's not us making the prices insane. If a tailor sold a shirt for what it cost, plus 10%, LEAVING OUT THE PRICE OF THE FREAKING FACTORY IN EVERY BATCH, then prices would drop 1000%. But every artisan I know figures in the price of the factory in every load, like the freaking thing needs to be replaced daily. Reckon not many have taken Econ 100 and 101 yet.

Oh well -

gonna go charge 60 CPU and make people happy, specially me.

JB

I and others have said it before.

There aren't many rangers. People pay 60-100cpu, and you can't expect us not to take that just like JB said. Do I offer friends huge discounts? Am I trying to form a group that sells at a fair rate? Yes yes yes. So far we have SIX people. We haven't even gone on a single group hunt yet.

Ranger is not a desireable class to play for most. I'm not flaming you for your question, but simply telling you this: help us get the devs to let us either harvest more or make the class more desireable and then you'll see prices go down.

Currently there are two ways to get cheap organics. Become good friends with a ranger, or harvest yourself. Thats it.

Another issue is availability. Non-hunters want the moon when it comes to stats. I can't blame them there, but we can only work with what's available. Right now Dathomir Insect is a hot ticket, but consider the accompanying risk factor. Considering the amount of stims, foods, and pet stims, not to mention insuring my equipment every time I get capped bya Nightsisteron Dathomir, there's no way I can see selling that meat for 20cpu.

Also, I have had an issue with cooperation. Non-hunters want top-notch stats, often refusing to accept amounts in less than 1-5k bundles, and even wanting me to track them down for a face-to-face transfer because they either don't have or don't want to use a vendor. I suppose if you go out with a big hunting party and torch every nest to the ground, you can rake in big numbers, but for me and my lone pet, it's a costly proposition. Don't believe me, Doc? I'll provide you the biggest pet you can handle and let you have a go at it. I'm sure it won't be long before you're back in the spaceport charging people in advance through the nose for buffs.

Frankly, you're lucky that there are those of us who love this profession enough to go out and put it all on the line so you can have material to work with.

thank you for your kind responses

Gracchus,

The biggest problem with your question, and one I'm surprised I've not seen specifically mentioned, is servers. These 60-100cpu prices that people talk about are quite literally unheard of on my server. I sold decent-but-not-great quality leathery hide for about 12cpu on the bazaar, and not only did I fail to sell all of it (one stack failed) but it was almost a week before any of it was bought. I'd used the fairly reasonable prices provided in the price-guide devised by Volsted, and had trouble.

So whatever responses you get on here will be highly colored based on the server of the speaking Ranger. The economy of one server may be such that selling quality resources for 20cpu wouldn't be worth the Ranger's time, as he's paying notably more for his weapons, armor, clothes, buffs, etc. than 20cpu is worth, whereas on another server, 20cpu would be considered pretty pricey.

ic

..Ditto...

For Farstar devide all prices read on other forums by at least 10...!

I'm selling wooly with OQ of 975 for 30cpu at the moment, which is 200% more than I would normally get, i'm in wooly heaven,,,,