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Thread: Hide orders to rangers and prices?????

MaddoDoggiy
Wed Jun 30, 2004 1:38 pm
#14


Here's the issue. Maybe that Lokian leathery wasn't worth 40 cpu based on stats. But maybe at the same time, there's a shift of Dantooine herbivore meat that is selling for 40 cpu. That ranger would have to quit hunting Dant herb to go hunt your Lok leathery and give up the revenue he would have made on the meat. Hence the high price.


My time in the game is somewhat limited, and while I like to hunt for meat and hide, I like to do other things, too. So I usually use my hunting timeonly forhigh-end resources that will sell for 40-50 cpu or more. (The most I ever got was fora big stack ofuber leathery hide thatwas onlyin for a few days—200 cpu.) If somebody asks me for grind resources, unless they're a guildie or I owe them a favor,they're probably going to have to pay through the nose to make it worth my while.





Garb wrote:

a little while ago i asked a ranger for some hide prices, what he sent back nearly gave me a heartattack. for example i asked for a price on 10,000 lokian leathery hides with no oq requirements as they where for practicng and gaining xp and was quoted 400,000 credits. To me this seemed like he was trying to rob me so with a friend i headed off to lok and we spend 3 hours doing gurk missions and harvested the 10k of hides ourselfs while also gaining about 250k weapon xp and about 80,000 credits each.


When i sell resources my price is based on the statistics, when i craft something price is based on the ammount of resources taken to make it. Taking resources for instance, the highest oq,sr and mal steel to make the best armour sells for around 4 cpu so my question to rangers in general is was this price a fair price for what i was asking and if so how do you justify it?





Garb
Wed Jun 30, 2004 5:25 pm
#15

one last thing for any interested on what ogi666 said about armour.


1 complete suit of composite with good resists will cost me about 40,000 credits maximum to make. their seems to be a 30% average fail rate tho so increase price to 52,000 and thats the cost to an armoursmith so yes you arent overcharging, yes armoursmiths charging 2-300,000 for a suit are making lots of money on these suits but i wont be, id like that profit but wouldnt feel right.


now any rangers that would be willing to supply wooly hides at high oq on regular basis please let me know. now i have a grasp on their value thanks to your help id be quite happy to pay your prices



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buzzlo
Wed Jun 30, 2004 8:18 pm
#16

Garb one more thing....


I have been in the HIDE/MEAT buisness for 6-8 months now and I have alot of return customers...so much I oftern have to turn new ones down! So, doing what your doing and building a buisness relationship with certain people will in the long run help you out. I often send emails to my clients Im clearing my vendor and sell stuff cheap to them!!




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SeanBlader
Wed Jun 30, 2004 9:47 pm
#17

I stopped taking orders a long time ago. I was in the first hunting/resource gathering guild on Sunrunner and we about burnt ourselves out busting ass night after night harvesting for orders that we couldn't keep up with. Once we got our team together and before people started logging out we'd have about2 hours to hunt, this was before buffs, but we had a good Combat Medic on our team. Sure we'd bring in fair amounts of resource, but we were always behind the ball with new orders. It got to the point where we were coming home from work, to go to work. It became un fun. Once we started hunting resouce on our schedules itbecameentertaining again.


That being said, and like what was posted earlier there are two factors that go into pricing, one istime the other is supply and demand, and they go in that order.


I also want to thank you for coming and asking what was up with the pricing. It certainly isn't at all like harvesting minerals or energy or other artisan supplies. It's a high maintanence effort, and prices are set to reflect that. It doesn't help that inflation is huge. The last order I did about 4 months ago was for an armorsmith and got 10 cpu for crappywool on Yavin. Prices have been driven up a bit since then it appears.




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-Ferox-
Thu Jul 01, 2004 12:21 am
#18

Ori666 you just obliterated this thread. Checkmate.



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