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Thread: Meat Prices are out of control
I really have a hard time feeling bad for a doc who charges 10K a buff and then whines about meat prices. Is there anything stopping the doc - oh, that time thing. He could be making 9k profit a buff - yes, it's freaking profit - I know exaclty what goes into a buff and the average costs on my server - 9k is profit. Factories run all by their lonesomes, fill and start. Ruff work. Average doc makes big bucks in no time. My smuggler buddy did doc, made 3 mil in a week, was bored crafting, went back to smuggler.
Food buffs are more fun anyhow. Screw docs. I can harvest different kinds of meat for the chefs, in quantities that don't bore me senseless. 100 units per kill for carni beats 12 units for avian. Chefs are nicer too, and give you free buffs sometimes.
CMs like me too, I get insect meat. BEs need tons of meat.
Hey doctors, forget it, I am talking to the BEs, the chefs and the CMs...cya.
JB
Honestly, for those of you who sell your high quality meats, hides and bones for 4 CPU, you're not doing anyone any favors.
Because if you were on my server, and I heard about this, I'd buy up your entire inventory, and turn around and sell them for 50 CPU and make 1000% profit.
That's what happens when people sell below the market value. I've seen entire armorsmith's inventories bought out by competitors who resell the stuff at their own prices (assuming its similiar quality stuff). That's the nature of the free market beast.
Sell your materials at their market value. Period.
B
DeltaXi65 wrote:
Honestly, for those of you who sell your high quality meats, hides and bones for 4 CPU, you're not doing anyone any favors.
Because if you were on my server, and I heard about this, I'd buy up your entire inventory, and turn around and sell them for 50 CPU and make 1000% profit.
That's what happens when people sell below the market value. I've seen entire armorsmith's inventories bought out by competitors who resell the stuff at their own prices (assuming its similiar quality stuff). That's the nature of the free market beast.
Sell your materials at their market value. Period.
B
The problem we're seeing here is imperfect intelligence.
Many are not aware of what the market rate is. Only a fraction of the playerbase participates in the forums, which constitute the only mass means of communication for the game. What the market will bear is pretty much established in the trade forums, and then only with a subset of the playerbase.
The other problem is that there is very little actual ROI analysis done by those offering goods on the market. For example, how much is your time worth in this game? That should be driving what you charge for a resource, along with how much you had to spend to getto the hunting ground (speeder maintenance, shuttle fare, food for the dewback), how much you spent for weapons, how much you spent for your harvesting droid....etc.
Of course docs are making insane profits. Actually sitting down and caluclating what you've put into a buff pack is work. Most of us are here to get away from that. So a lot of analysis isn't being done to judge what the true costs of a buff are versus what is charged for them.
Let me give you an example. I go out and buy a full set of buff packs from a vendor, at 12k per pack. That's a 72k upfront cost. Each buff pack is good for 25 buffs. At 8ka buff (and that's lowballing the market) buffing at the entrance of the Coronet starport, after the 9th set of buffs, I'm into profit. I've made up my material cost, less the bivoli (probably at 125k cr for a case of 25 two serving portions, eachserving good for 5 buffs or so)that I need to eat to get the most out of these buff packs. If I go to Dantooine, as opposed to just buffing in Coronet or Theed, I'm going to charge 10-12k for the same set of buffs, and people will willingly pay for them. Then there's Endor, where I can charge 15k a set of buffs and get it without too much muss or fuss. For the same set of buffs, mind you. Location, location, location! 
Most players figure that if they've got a positive cash flow, they're doing fine. They aren't carefully tuning their activities to maximize their profit.
I would like the OP to come back, but I guess he took enough lumps. And I aggree with delta, any of you on intrepid i am buying you out if you sell at 4cru