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Whats a reasonable price to charge for slicing? I saw a guy the other day charging 3 k per armor item sliced.. that just seems a little high considering chitin goes for about 3 k per piece.

I don't know what everyone else is charging (and i havent gotten to armor slicing yet) but in my opinion slicing should be less then the piece actually cost. I'm charging 500cr for a CDEF lvl weapon, and going up between 250-500cr per level above that. I just can't see myself charging 1K or more for to doa Blaster that someone paid 50cr for.

My estimate of the hardware cost( FAN and Weapon upgrade kit) comes to about 400cr, so doing that CDEF for a newb will pay for your supplies AND get you a customer that will keep coming back with ever more powerful weapons.

Khyron Vradekh

Corellia -- Corbantis --

I tell my customers 7500 to slice and if the % is below 18 I will give 2500 back. Which is how I discovered that Slicing II and IV are reversed. In any case, if it is a cheap weapon just buy a new one. Its better anyway. Plus I slice in conjunction with the PA's weaponsmith so we make a fortune...

Unovis Legesh
--- Sanctuary ---
Slicer - Smuggler - Nauritas

2k and if i fail i still take the money

I charge 1k. if i fail i give you your money back. I might start charging 1.5k. I'm just wondering what's going to happen once the market is flooded with slicers...

Why would you ever take someone's money before the job is done? That is outright.. and stupid on the customer's part.

My prices are:

1000 for 10%-19%

2000 for 20%-29%

3000 for 30%-31%

And I have made over 600k at this point with this service. I am the most well known Smuggler on Eclipse right now, and have tons of repeat customers, and newer ones everyday. I think either this, or charge 100 per 10% is good to. (ie 14% = 1400Cr)

Rudd

Master Smuggler

someone who has slicing 4 can guarantee the weapon will be sliced. big diff between it might slice. imho

Woohoo Rudd,

I go by the exact same system.

1K per 10% improvement.

Slice low, they pay low, Slice high and they get their bang for thier buck.

Now if only Slicing IV wasnt broken.

Very nice Rudd. I've been thinking about doing a scale price like you mention. Seems the fair thing to do.

As for charging less than 1000c to slice...go for it. But, my guess is it won't be worth your time. I know it's not worth mine.

I agree that slicing for under 1k is a waste of time unless you desperately need the xp. However, once you have all the xp to finish that line, it is faster to do missions for 3k or so in 15 minutes than to slice for under 1k. Slicing is fast, but you waste time sitting around announcing your willingness to slice. Nevertheless, it's always great once you get a reputation and people begin to track you down to slice; that's the quickest and best way to do things.

Keep in mind that every slicing attempt costs you 50 copper for the FAN and another3,2 copper for the laser knife charges (16 copper gets you 10 charges). And if you have slicing IV, even more if you use one of those molecular clamps. Unless a smuggler has their own mine, those costs add up. Weapon and Armor upgrades are even worse, since you use an entire upgrade kit every time. So a smuggler has to recoup his costs. For containers, it's minor, but for weapon and armor slicing, at least 1K per slice is necessary.

Bruce

FANs are only 20 copper but you are correct. Generally I buy enough copper for 100 at a time and use other metals for the knife since anything can be used there (has little effect on it). For now I've been charging 1000 credits minimuma slice but also letting customers know that if they are happy with my work I'd certainly take more pay. I've gotten a few repeat customers that way that tend to pay extremely well.

Yep, fans are only 20 copper, but you need 20 other metal too. Just as easy to use all copper.

I have to say I've changed my pricing. Previously I was charging 1K for a successful slice and nothing for a failed one. I was about breaking even when you factor in all the tickets I needed to buy for bouncing from planet to planet. Now I'm charging 100 creds for each point of improvement and it seems to be paying off. People are willing to pay it and I'm at least making some cash off the deal.

Doesn't hurt that I just found someone to sell me crates of WUK's for 2500 creds