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Since you have to travel to the planet where the stuff is at to buy it, selling hides and bone where you get it may not be the thing to do. Are there any planets where hides and bone are rare? I am on Talus in Intrepid and the demand for bones and hide there seems to be zero. I have a lot of both, what is the best planet to go sell a large qty of bones and hide because of rarity or demand? It looks like I have to go to Corellia from Talus but can get anywhere from Corellia.

Resource quality fluxuates over time, so the best place to sell them will as well. Also, the larger a planet's population, the more likely you will find buyers.

Your largest base of buyers will be armorers. If you know you have good quality materials, you might want to randomly pick a planet and go kill a few creatures to see how they compare. If yours are significantly better, you can sell yours on the bazaar and ask a higher price.

If you do not feel like randomly travelling, go to a bazaar, click entire galaxy and see what resources are for sale, where, and at what price.

Leathery seems to be the most common type of hide. If you have large quantities of wool, scaley or bristly, you may be able to ask a little more due to their rarity. To my knowledge there are no schematics that require one type of bone over the other.

There are also two kinds of buyers. One just wants materials for getting skills while the other is look for the best quality hide available for experimentation purposes. The latter will become much more important as people's skills increase.

Come to Coronet, Corellia!!! LOL. I'm on Intrepid, and the only bones and hide I've seen on the bazaar are at quantities lower than 30 units per sale or so. Saw 100 bone up *once*. That, or a few may be on 7 day auctions... but I have no idea what I'll need a week from now, so soon in the game.

Improvisar

Lazarus Long, Intrepid

How do you tell what the quality is and how do you get better quality?

If you examine hides and bones (or any resource container for that matter), it will give detailed stats on quality. This ranges from 1 to 1000, with 1000 being the best.

The only way to get better quality is to move to another planet or wait for the resources to reset. I am not sure what the time period is on this as it was altered a lot during beta. My guess is a week or two.

Improvisar, I am a scout on Tarquinas. The only thing I will part with is meat (because I don't use too much of it, except occasionally for traps). I build lots of camps and traps that use my resources. I do have a Tailor friend who I sometimes share with but that may be the reason you don't ever see it up for sale on the Bazaar.

However, maybe I should check my local Bazaar and see how much harvested resources are selling for... I might be missing out on a big source of income!

Also don't forget that Artisans would prefer to get their hands on any resources you put up on the bazaar NOW, rather than having to wait however many days for the auction to end. As a scout if I have a choice of the Instant sale item or the Auction item with similar stats.. even if the Instant one is less, I'll go for that so I can use it NOW.

i just run into the crafting area right next to the star port, and ask if anyone wants some hides, that always works for me...imagine my surprise when i furst realized that those hides were worth something, i actaully had someone pay me 1000 credits for 100 hides

I am on the bloodfin server at Mos Espa: Tatooine and currently have about 2000 bone and 2000 hide up for sale in lots of 100 for the low price of 1000 credits. It has taken alot of killing to get this stuff but hey I need the credits.

In lower quantities you can sell on the bazzar (under 500). The price I have seen on the bazzar are totally insane, I sell lots of 500 for 3000 credits, and are usually sold before i get back to hunting .

As a side note for those of you crafters on Starsider, I am mostly now only selling lots of 1000 hides/bone for 6k. Will take 'pre-orders' for lots of up to 3000 hide/bone on a first come first served basis. My hides/bone are all OQ 500+ ofcourse (leather is 935)


Kar'Landi
Ranger/CH/Pistoleer
Tyrena, Corellia (SS)

The Market is determined by the amount of Artisens in your area. Some have more and some have less.Another option is to be proactive and message some artisens in your area and see if they want any. A Fair price seems to be 4-5 credits a unit. BUt again, that will be based on your location. I'm on Talus/Bria and there aren't many scouts so Hides to fast.

The problem is that the tsuff on the bazaar is either a) in too small a quantity or b) horribly overpriced.

Don't sell anything in sets less than 100.

The reason that bones and hide are so expensive right now is because everyone is gathering as many as possible for crafting purposes - those bone chests alone take 54 bone and 105 hides, plus a wide assortment of other things. Once the mad rush to level ends for the powergamers (and they are fully leveled up in artisan) the crazy prices will stabilize.

Too many people are looking for 10 credits per unit of material. This price is unreasonable to say the least. At this price a bone chest is worth 2500 in materials alone (takes a total of just 242 materials to make). This doesn't include labour costs. And it takes a fair bit of time and knowledge to make a good piece of armour...

A fair price is about 2-3 credits per unit of material. This goes for metals, chemicals, or organics (bones/hides). At these prices your average user can afford to craft things. And average users can also afford to buy the end products...

Oh, and please stop selling hides in units of 1-99. It's a real pain sorting through the bazaar (I'm not the only one who thinks it needs a filter...) to find real quantities of goods.

I am a scout on Gorath, and I get about 12k per day just in sales of bones. I sell bundles of 500 bones on the bazaar for 3k in Theed, Naboo. People buy it up so quick it is insane, I can barely walk away from the terminal before I get the email that it is bought. Probably because lots of idiots in theed try to charge 10 credits per unit. However the demand for bones is much higher in theed than it is for hides. I buy bones in Correllia for 2 credits per unit, then go back to naboo and sell it for 6 credits per unit. The profit is insane.