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Thread: What do you think the new POB components will sell for?
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jason67
Fri Sep 23, 2005 12:56 am
#14
TheChipmunkSlayer wrote:
At 1 million your just being greedy as hell. These things should actually be cheaper than they were before (taking less to make them) or at the very least the same price. But if you do wanna charge a million, that's cool; know why? The miners will just start selling youasteroids at 500 cpu. Now, does that sound fair?
Message Edited by TheChipmunkSlayer on 09-21-2005 08:17 AM
While your point of view has some points it is not 100% inclusive or accurate.
Reasons to lower prices
1. Resources used reduced
2. Supply will likely increase slightly
3. More asteroid resources per chunk blasted/tractored
Reasons to increase prices
1. All POB parts as well as vehicle repair kits use asteroids
2. All asteroids must be manually mined, there are no harvestors or macro's that can do it for you and realistically you have to land every 1550 resources collected.
3. While supply will likely go up, it will not go up enough to counter balance the extreme demand that will occur at first.
4. Having to mine resources your self takes away your crafting time or time to do other things you enjoy, ultimately costing you more, not less to craft.
5. Drastic increase in performance for all POB parts.
So while the resources used per item will be reduced, and supply will likely improve for a short while, we are still looking at items that we will not be able to keep in stock. It will simply, fall to the generic rules of supply and demand. When this patch comes out the Demand will so drastically overwhelm our supply that the only way to limit or restrict mass clearings of our vendors is to charge a higher price for the merchandise so that it doesn't instantly fly off the shelves and you then have empty vendors for however many days it takes you to replace everything(which also gets cleared out almost instantly).
Just an FYI the general rule of thumb is as follows...
If you can not keep your vendors stocked then your prices are too low, if your merchandise is not moving off the shelves then your prices are too high.
That's obviously a simplified statement and there are many other factors that can play a part in the overall outcome, but the general rule still applies.
WingZero890
Sun Sep 25, 2005 3:42 pm
#15
I will sell mine for 200-300k, sameasI sold the old ones,maybe higher if they sell well. I will also sell backpacks with the POB ships and a full set of parts (not including launchers) for around 1.5mil.
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